Jain Dharma ka Maulik Itihas Part 4

SR No.: 002074
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hastimal Maharaj
Publisher: Jain Itihas Samiti Jaipur
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 880
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & History
File Size: 16 MB

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इस सम्बन्ध में धर्मों एवं मत-मतान्तरों पर विशाल कोष की रचना करने वाले यशस्वी लेखक हेस्टिग्स ने लिखा है :
"For fourty years he lived as a pagan of Macca (which come into history with his enterprise, not having been mentioned previously). At the age of twenty five he married a woman much older than himself, who bore him one or more sons (who died in infancy) and four daughters. In his fortieth year he became the reciplent of revelations, where in the office of prophet was conferred upon him. (2) For three years he carried on private propaganda, winning some adherents in his own family, among his private friends and among the humbler classes in the town. (3) For the years he carried on his mission publicity in Macca. for the greater part of the time under the protection of his uncle Abu Talib, who was not a believer, after his death the mission had for a time to be transferred to Taif, until other protector could be found among the Maccan magnates. Meanwhile a temporary refuge had been obtained for the prophet's persecuted followers in christian Abyssenia. Towards the end of this period the continuance of civil war at yatrib (Madina) suggested to some of the inhabitants the desirability of accuring a prophet to settle their disputes. Muhammad was invited to undertake this task and accepted, but he wisely sent his followers before him to yatrib to serve as a bodyguard when he arrived, he himself escaped with difficulty from Mecca, where danger was antcipated from this move. (4) Once in Madina, he proceeded to organize his followers as an army, ruthlessly suppressed internal opposition, secured the alliance of various Arabian tribes and started raiding the Maccan Carvans. Involved in war with his former fellow citizens, he inflicted on them a series of defeats, culmunating in the capture of the city in the eighth year of his migration. By the end of his life he had imposed his doctrine on the whole of Arabia, exterminating the Jewish Communities, with few exceptions rendering the Christian Communities tributary, and abolishing paganism.
-Encyclopaedia of religion & Ethics, Vol. VIII page 873,