The series of persecutions started late in the 4th year of Prophethood, slowly at first, but steadily accelerated and worsened day by day and month by month until the situation got so extremely grave and no longer tolerable in the middle of the 5th year, that the Muslims began to seriously think of feasible ways liable to avert the painful tortures meted out to them.
The Prophet (pbuh) had already known that Ashamah Negus (al-Najashi), king of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), was a fair ruler who would not wrong any of his subordinates, so he permitted some of his followers to seek asylum there in Ethiopia. Read the rest of this entry »







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