In answer to the video "Muhammad: The Suicidal Messenger (David Wood)"
Muhammad is given the good news that
24:55"God has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient".Muhammad communicated this prophetic vision, along with the fact his enemies will try expelling him along with his followers. In no uncertain terms he publicly proclaimed that these people will be uprooted from the land they had full dominion over, as happenned to nations of rejecters much more powerful than them before 17:103. These statements were made at a time when he and his followers were severely oppressed and brutalized in Mecca, when none could have hoped for such an outcome to be true
6:4-6,16:1,20:133-5,21:18,37-46,109,38:11-17,17:76-7"And surely they purposed to unsettle you from the land that they might expel you from it, and in that case they will not tarry behind you but a little. (This is Our) course with regard to those of Our messengers whom We sent before you, and you shall not find a change in Our course".Those who fled their homes in utter helplessness, fearing for their lives but unwilling to remain in a spiritually oppressive environement, were promised a great future in this very life 16:41 notwithstanding the hard struggle of a powerful nation, united in its determination to exterminate them 24:55. These were not the words of a human being which had all the chances of not coming true. They were the words of God which were spoken by His messenger at a time when the disbelievers were convinced that time itself would prove the prophet wrong and defeat his purpose, that his teachings were false or at best, a delusion 52:30.
These prophecies were made very early on, leading some among the early Muslims to doubt their verracity in the face of adversity
33:12"Allah and His Messenger did not promise us (victory) but only to deceive".The firm in faith on the other hand recognized in the massive forces gathered to exterminate them, the beginning of the fulfillement of prophecies made long before
38:11,54:45,33:22"And when the believers saw the allies, they said: This is what Allah and His Messenger promised us, and Allah and His Messenger spoke the truth; and it only increased them in faith and submission".The Quran addressed the prophet in no uncertain terms, telling him in a prophecy that this city of Mecca ruled by a powerful people who had just expelled him and his followers from it 47:13,50:36 will become the centre to which men will come for pilgrimage and for the devotion of the One God 22:25-7. He and his followers will see the realisation of that prophecy in their lifetime. That powerful nation will be uprooted and cut off from God's mercy although the current state of affairs was indicative of the contrary, that the opponents will instead succeed in cutting him off 108:3.
Prophecies continued coming speaking of their abasement as the rejectors in the nations of old were abased 58:5 while the Believers are exalted 47:1-5,54:45-6 and bound to be victorious 47:35. The prophet is told that such an outcome will be witnessed in his lifetime, with the entering of the people like waves upon waves into the religion 110:1-3.
And above that, Muhammad is told that despite these calumnies he will be dignified 94:4. The elevation of the prophet's remembrance besides having initiated in his own life is an ongoing, virtually unceasing exponential worldwide phenomenon. It occurs when the time of adhan followed by one of the timed prayers arrives, and does so continuously a few minutes later in a close-by location and by a certain point, the cycle starts again for another prayer at the origin.
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