Life-of-Muhammad

Life of Muhammad sa 33
Nations of the East and the West were agog. They
wanted to hear the Last Great Message of God. In those
very days the Kaiser and the Chosroes of Iran went to
war with each other. Chosroes was victorious. Syria and
Palestine were overrun by Iranian armies. Jerusalem
was destroyed. Egypt and Asia Minor were mastered. At
the mouth of the Bosphorus, only ten miles from
Constantinople, Iranian Generals were able to pitch
their tents. Meccans rejoiced over Iranian victories and
said the judgement of God had been delivered—the idolworshippers
of Iran had defeated a People of the Book.
At that time, the Holy Prophet sa received the following
revelation:
The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, and
they, after their defeat, will be victorious in a few years—
Allah's is the command before and after that—and on that
day will the believers rejoice with the help of Allah. He
helps whom He pleases; and He is the Mighty, the
Merciful. Allah has made this promise. Allah breaks not
His promise, but most men know not (30: 3-7).
The prophecy was fulfilled in a few years. The
Romans defeated the Iranians and recovered the
territories they had lost to them. The part of the
prophecy which said, "On that day the believers shall
rejoice with the help of God", was also fulfilled. Islam
began to advance. The Meccans believed they had put
an end to it by persuading people not to listen to
Muslims but to show active hostility instead. Right at
this time the Prophet sa received in his revelations news
of victories for Muslims, and destruction for Meccans.
The Prophet sa announced the following verses:
And they say, "Why does he not bring us a Sign from his
Lord?" Has there not come to them the clear evidence in
what is contained in the former books? And if We had
destroyed them with a punishment before it, they would
have surely said, "Our Lord, wherefore didst Thou not
send to us a Messenger that we might have followed Thy
commandments before we were humbled and disgraced?"