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1 6 Islam
and the idea had seized and held his
The Call imagination. Upon
this idea he now meditated
in his chosen retreat, a cave near
Mecca, until it possessed him ;
he dreamed
dreams and saw visions, and at length
came forth to make them known, being
assured that he had been called to proclaim
the reign of the one only God upon
earth.
Rejection
But the people
of Mecca, custodians of
Flight
Madina
the religious
traditions of Arabia, would
have none of this new doctrine ; they
fiercely opposed the preacher, and very
soon drove him and his little
company of
disciples (of
whom his wife had been the
from first)
the city.
The Hajrat^ or Flight, from which dates
the Muhammadan era, took place on July
i6th, 622 A.D.
A refuge was found in the rival city of
Madina.
At Madina, Muhammad found leisure to
mature and carry out the Idea which had
now possessed him that he should found a