Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 31
sa. The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa. The Arabian peninsula can be divided into two parts, North and. South, which are separated by a vast desert. The Arabs living in the. Southern area traded with Syria, Iraq and Egypt. Aound 1,200 BC they established the first South Arabian kingdom known as the kingdom of. Mainians. They controlled the trade routes. Mainians were succeeded by the Sabean kingdom. The Sabean kingdom, after achieving great riches from trade, went to ruins. Due to neglect in maintenance one of the large dams, the Dam of Ma'rib, was broken and it flooded and damaged the land to the extent that vegetation was not possible there anymore. Thus, the circumstances forced them to migrate. Some of them migrated in the vicinity of Medina while others migrated close to the borders of Syria and. Iraq and settled there. These people were idol worshippers. Some of them worshipped the Sun, the Moon and the stars. During the first century AD some in the area became Jews and Christians and there was a struggle among the Christians and the Jews for control of the power. When the. Abyssinians overran the kingdom of Yemen, the king of Yemen asked for support from the king of Persia against his enemies. Thus, Yemen became a protectorate of Persia and was governed through the viceroy of the king of Persia. . Mecca, the Birthplace of the Holy Prophetsa as as as. Mecca stood about eighty kilometers from the coast. It was surrounded by mountains and had narrow passes for entry to the valley. . There was no water in the area so there was very little life, if any. It is the place where Hadrat Ibrāhīm" left Ḥadrat Hajirah and their son Ḥadrat. Ismail under Divine Commandment. When water gushed out under the feet of Ḥadrat Ismāīl under Divine intuition, Ḥaḍrat Hājirah saved the water by encircling the fountain with stones. She gave water to the passing tribes. Thus, soon some tribes settled there, and a town developed around the spring. Banu Jurhum was the first tribe to settle there. Hadrat Ismail* married the daughter of the chief of the Jurhum tribe, Muḍād ibn 'Amr. . Twelve sons were born to Hadrat Ismail from this marriage. These were as 31