Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 30
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa. As the Holy Qur'ān says: sa ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ zaharal fasādu fil barri wal baḥri bima kasabat aidinnāsi. Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what men's hands have wrought. (30:42) (The Excellent Exemplar - Muḥammad, Chaudhri Muḥammad Zafrulla Khan). Arabian Peninsula Before Islām. Arabia is like an island which is surrounded by water on its three sides and land on the fourth side. Towards its West is the Red Sea, towards. East is the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, towards its South is Indian Ocean and towards the North there are Syria and Iraq. In area it is larger than all the other similar islands. According to some scholars the land is called. Arabia because of the language spoken throughout this area which is. Arabic. Other scholars think that since it was uninhabited desert land and the word 'Arab' means a desert, the place came to be known as Arabia. . However, there was a time when the Arabian peninsula was lush green and densely populated. With the passage of time the area dried up and there was not enough water to support the inhabitants of the area. Therefore, groups of people started to migrate to areas where vegetation was plentiful. The migration started around 4,500 BC when some people migrated to Egypt. . Then, some people migrated in 4,000 BC to the area now called Iraq where they lived under Akkadian rule for some time. Later on they established the kingdom of Babylon. Then another group of people migrated there and came to be known as Assyrians. The people who migrated around 2,000. BC were the people who wrote phonetically and were named Phoenicians by the Greeks. Around the same time the Aramites settled near Babylon and established Chaldean civilization. Some immigrants settled in. Abyssinia and established the Abyssinan kingdom. 30