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20 Political System of Islam (A Micro Analysis)
their own women and children. 1 This bay’ah of Muslims of
Medina with their Prophet is a clear indication of the
Prophet’s determination to repel, by war, if necessary, the
aggression of the enemies of the new religion. Obviously
such a move is, and does constitute, political action as
practised by organized communities, or if we may say so,
by political societies.
Thus these three moves of the Prophet clearly
confirm the view that the entire group of Muslims in
Mecca was not a political society and that its leadership by
the Prophet did not amount to political authority. This
political society came into being only after the
development of the Muslim community as a result of its
migration to, and later settlement in Medina, the
community upon which Prophet began to exercise his
political authority. From this emerged the first Islamic
state od Medina. Indeed it was the oldest state in the true
sense of the definition of the word “state” has ever known.