Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 333
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 333 The first centre for preaching, Dar-e- Arqam Hadrat Arqam ra bin Arqam accepted Islam and his number amongst early Muslim was eleventh. His house was on mount S af a. In that early period Muslims needed a centre. Hadrat Arqam ra offered his house and this became the first centre for the Muslims. From this centre the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa secretly invited Quraish to Islam for quite sometime until the number of Muslims increased to forty. Hadrat ‘Umar ra accepted Islam and public preaching and open worship started. 10 When the message of Islam was preached openly, the young and less well off people started to join Islam. In the early preaching, beside the call to unity of God and His worship, people were enjoined to treat their kinsmen kindly. For this reason Quraish did not oppose strongly and were not united in their opposition to Islam. However when theHoly Prophet Muhammad sa passed by a group of Quraish, they would point to him and say that messages from sky descend on this son of Abdul Mu tt alib. Afterwards the time came when the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa started to forbid idol worship along with his message of unity of God. He started to expose the faults and frailty of their deities. This incited idolaters to opposition. The second cause of opposition was