Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 369
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 369 and shelter me, so I can go to that place and convey my Lord's message? I will give glad tidings of paradise to such a person. " No one would come forward. When people from Yemen and other parts of Arabia used to come for H ajj, their fellow men used to advise them to stay well away from this man who would lead them astray. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa used to go in to the pilgrim's tents and convey his message and people used to point to him with their fingers. After a long time God sent An sa r from Mad i nah, these people used to come individually to H u du r sa and learn the Holy Qur’ a n. They would return to Mad i nah and preach this to their families. Until a time came when there remained no such quarter in Mad i nah in which a group of Muslims was not found. Islam attained stability and strength with increase in numbers. Then a group of seventy people came to Makkah and accepted Islam in She‘b-e-Ab i Ta lib at the occasion of H ajj. 43 Thus God Almighty arranged a place of refuge for the Muslims in Yathrab. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa sent Ma s ‘ab ra bin ‘Umair as the first missionary for the establishment of a centre to unify and consolidate the Muslims. Soon afterwards the Friday prayers were started in Mad i nah.