By the middle of the 8th Hijri year, Muslims
controlled the Jews by winning the battle of Khaibar and Bedouin with different sudden
attacks and controlled the Quraysh with the Hudaybia peace agreement.
Now Allah (SWT) wanted the Muslims to control Makkah permanently and take over the most
holiest place, the Kabah.
As you remember the Hudaybia peace agreement had two sides.
One side was Madina which were the Muslims, and the other side was Makkah which were the
Quraysh.
And also any other tribes could join with the Quraysh or Muslims and agree to also bring
peace.
Banu Khuzaa and Banu Bakr used to hate and fight each other for a long time.
They both agreed to the Hudaybia peace agreement.
So Banu Khuzaa joined with the Muslims while Banu Bakr joined with the Quraysh.
The peace agreement made both of the sides promise that they could not attack one another
for ten years.
After Banu Bakr joined with the Quraysh’s group, they thought that it would be the best
opportunity to take revenge and destroy the Muslim’s friend the Banu Khuzaa tribe.
In that situation, the Quraish of Makkah was supposed to stop their friend the Banu Bakr
tribe so they wouldn’t break their promise that they made with the Hudaybia peace agreement.
But unfortunately, the bad Quraysh started to support the Banu Bakr Tribe's evil plan
by giving their men and weapons.
The very bad son of Umayyah, Amr and Abu Jahl's sons joined the Banu Bakr tribe and attacked the
Banu Khuzaa tribe at night and destroyed around 20 to 30 men.
Some of the Banu Khuzaa men tried to escape and took shelter at the house of Allah, the
Kabah.
Everybody knew it was the safest place on the earth.
No one was allowed to destroy anybody in that area.
But the evil Quraysh even broke that law and destroyed some of the Banu Khuzaa men who
took shelter in the Kabah.
That evil attack broke and ruined the Hudaybia Peace agreement.
Some leaders from the Banu Khuzaa tribe came to Prophet Muhammad (saw) and told him about
the attack.
The prophet promised to help them.
By that time the Quraysh started to become scared about doing their evil job and sent
Abu Sufyan to renew the Peace agreement.
At first, Abu Sufiyan went to his daughter Ramla, known as Umm Habiba (r) who was one
of the prophet's wives.
She even did not let her father Abu Sufyan even sit on her bed and completely ignored
him.
Then he went to the Prophet Muhammad (s) but the prophet did not talk to him.
Abu Sufyan then tried to talk to Abu Bakr, Umar, and Ali (R).
But everybody ignored the most powerful leader in Arabia.
When Abu Sufyan did not get any respect from the Madina Muslims, he realized that his time
was over.
To make Abu Sufyan look foolish, Ali (r) told him to go to the Prophet's Mosque and tell
the people that he was keeping the peace agreement.
But what he said made no sense since it was up to Prophet Muhammad(s) to decide if he
wanted to keep the peace agreement not him.
Abu Sufiyan immediately left Madina and told his people what had happened.
They laughed at how Ali (r) made him a look like a fool since what he said didn’t make
any sense.
As soon as Abu Sufyan left the Madina, the Prophet ordered the Muslims to prepare for
a battle against the Quraysh and start their journey immediately.
On Ramadan 11, 8 Hijri, Muslims started their journey with a very big army.
On the way, more Muslim soldiers were joined from different places with the Prophet(saw).
Finally, it became a very big army of ten thousand soldiers.
On the journey, the prophet met Abbas (r), who was moving to Madina with his wife and
children after becoming Muslims.
The prophet took Abbas (r) with him and sent his family to Madina for safety.
Muslim soldiers were moving very fast.
Coming from Medina to Makkah it took them about a week, during the night time, they
reached Marr-az-Zahran to set camp which was only 8 miles away from Makkah and planned
to attack Makkah the next morning.
For safety, the prophet ordered to make ten groups with one thousand people in each group.
He told each group to set a different camp and light their own campfire to show anyone
that saw them that the Muslim army was very big and strong.
Umar (r) was in charge to manage all of that.
The Makkans did not know the Muslims were coming to attack them.
When the people of Makkah suddenly heard about the very big Muslim army that was waiting
to attack them, they became very scared and did not know what to do.
Abu Sufyan came out to look at the Muslim Army from a distance.
He became very surprised to see, how the prophet collected such a large army in such a short
amount of time.
The prophet told Abbas (r) was to go to Makkah to warn the Quraysh so they could be prepared
and get safety.
On his way to Makkah, he saw and met Abu Sufyan.
Abu Sufyan asked Abbas(r) on what he should do to protect his people.
Abbas (r) let Abu Sufyan ride his donkey and brought him to the prophet.
When Umar (r) saw Abu Sufyan, he wanted to destroy him right away.
But Abbas (r) stopped him and quickly took Abu Sufyan to the prophet Muhammad (s)’
camp.
Umar (r) came behind them and asked permission from the prophet to destroy Abu Sufyan the
most powerful leader and a disbeliever of Makkah.
Abbas (r) said he already gave protection to Abu Sufyan.
Umar (r) again asked permission from the prophet to destroy Abu Sufyan.
But finally, the prophet told Abbas (r) to give Abu Sufyan shelter and keep Abu Sufiyan
in his camp.
In his heart, Abu Sufyan knew that Allah (SWT) was always be one and only God and Muhammad
(s) is the true prophet.
The next morning when Abu Sufyan was brought to the prophet he accepted Islam and became
a Muslim.
To show Abu Sufyan respect and honor the prophet said, whoever entered the house of Allah would
be safe, who entered the house of Abu Sufyan would be safe, who shut their doors would
be safe and whoever would be unarmed without any weapons would be safe.
Abu Sufyan became very happy.
The prophet ordered Abbas (r) to take Abu Sufyan to a hill to show the big Muslim army
who were marching up and down the hills towards Makkah with their heads held high.
Different tribes were moving with their tribal colors.
He was thinking about how Allah (SWT) helped the Muslims and made them so successful.
He quickly went back to Makkah and told all the people the good news that the Muslims
would not harm anybody if they didn't fight.
Hearing the good news everybody went to their houses and closed the door.
When the Prophet Muhammad (s) came close to Makkah, he ordered Khalid bin Waleed (r) and
his soldiers to enter the Makkah through the lower side and wait for the prophet at Mount
Safa.
The prophet also ordered Zubayr (r) and his soldiers to enter through the upper side of
Makkah and wait at the Hajoon area.
The Prophet ordered Abu Ubaydah (r) and his soldiers to go through the valley and enter
Makkah before the Prophet.
One very small group of the bad Quraysh were still waiting to fight with the Muslims.
So the Muslims had to destroy around 12 bad people so the rest escaped.
The Prophet wanted to avoid all kind of fighting and enter Makkah peacefully.
Khalid and Zubayr (r) took control of Makkah and waited at the Safa and Hajoon area.
When the prophet reached there, he took some rest and then moved forward with Abu Bakr
(r).
At last, on Ramadan 17, 8 Hijri, the moment Muslims had been waiting for finally arrived.
After almost 21 years of patience and hard times, Allah (SWT)'s Messenger finally entered
the holiest Mosque without any problem.
At that time he lowered his head to give thanks to Allah (SWT).
Allah (SWT) made the entry very successful with a victorious and glorious feeling of
the Prophet.
After Muhammad(saw) entered the Kabah, he kissed the black stone and went around the
Kabah seven times with his camel.
At that time around the Kabah, there were 360 idols.
The prophet broke each of the idols with a stick by reading some Quranic verses.
And by a miracle, every one of them was broken.
After that, he took the keys of the Kabah from Uthman bin Talha, then ordered to remove
all the idols and pictures from inside.
Finally, he entered the Kaaba with Usama and Bilal (r) and prayed two Rakah to Allah (SWT).
After the prayer, he explored the inside of the kabbah while praising and glorifying Allah
(SWT), the one and only god.