My Book About God — Page 79
79 this manner the responsibility of their action would be on all clans. God revealed their plan to the Holy Prophet and directed him to migrate to Madinah the same night. As night fell the Quraish besieged the house of the Holy Prophet but he slipped out of the house without being noticed. He passed through the streets of Makkah and soon he was out of the city. There he met Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, who was to accompany him. Both climbed up to the cave of Thaur, a cave high up in the mountain three miles to the south of Makkah and took refuge there. In the morning when the people of Makkah came to know that Muhammad had escaped, they sent several parties in search of him. The Quraish had announced a