Life-of-Muhammad

140Life of Muhammad sawith consideration, but did not accept Islam. Still otherstreated them with ordinary courtesy. Still others showedcontempt and pride. But it is true also—and history iswitness to the fact—that the recipients of these letters ortheir peoples met with a fate in accordance with theirtreatment of these letters.FALL OF KHAIBARAs we have said above, the Jews and otheropponents of Islam were now busy inflaming the tribesagainst the Muslims. They were now convinced thatArabia was unable to withstand the rising influence ofIslam and that Arab tribes were unable to attackMedina. The Jews, therefore, began to intrigue with theChristian tribes settled on the southern frontier of theRoman Empire. At the same time they started writingagainst the Prophet sa to their co-religionists in Iraq. Bymalicious propaganda carried on throughcorrespondence they sought to excite the Chosroes ofIran against Islam. As a result of Jewish machinationsthe Chosroes turned against Islam, and even sent ordersto the Governor of Yemen to arrest the Prophet sa . It wasby special divine intervention and divine grace that theProphet sa remained safe, and the foul plan of theEmperor of Iran was brought to nought. It should beobvious that, but for the divine help which attended theProphet sa throughout his career, the tender movement ofearly Islam would have been nipped in the bud underthe hostility and opposition of the Emperors of Romeand Iran. When the Chosroes ordered the arrest of theProphet sa , it so happened that before the orders could becarried out the Emperor was deposed and put to deathby his own son and his orders for the arrest of theProphet sa cancelled by the new ruler. The officials ofYemen were impressed by this miracle; so the provinceof Yemen readily became part of the Muslim Empire. Theintrigues which the Jews kept on hatching against