which was chained with desires and lusts. As soon as he had freed the conscience of his Companions  from the burdens and heaps of Al-Jahiliyah and earthly life, he started another battle in another field  or  rather successive battles against the enemy of Allâh’s Call, and against those who conspired against it.
It was a battle against those who conspired against the believers and against those who were so  careful  to tend that pure plant in its implantation before it grew up and stretched its roots in soil and  extended  its branches up into the air and thus dawned upon other areas. No sooner had he finished the battles  in  the Arabian Peninsula than the Byzantines began preparations to destroy this new nation on the  northern borders.
The first battle — i.e. the battle of conscience — was not over yet. It was in fact a perpetual one.
Satan, who was its leader did not spare a moment without exercising his activity in the depth of  human  conscience. Muhammad (Peace be upon him), on the other hand was attending on calling to Allâh’s  religion there and he was keen on fighting that perpetual battle in all fields in spite of their hard  circumstances and the world’s conspiracy against him. He went on calling effectively and actively  surrounded by the believers who were seeking security through ceaseless toil and great patience.
The Companions acted perpetually and patiently by day and they spent the night worshipping their
Lord, reciting and memorizing the Qur’ân glorifying and magnifying Allâh and imploring Him by night;  all that at the behest of their Lord, the All-Mighty.
For over twenty years the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) had been leading that progressive  steady battle, disregarding any other affairs that kept him off that noble goal. He went on that way till  the Islamic Call proved to be successful on a large scale that puzzled all men possessed of good  reason.
The Islamic Call eventually prevailed all over Arabia. It removed all traces of Al-Jahiliyah from the  horizon of the peninsula. The sick minds of Al-Jahiliyah grew healthy in Islam. They did not only get  rid  of idol-worship, but they also knocked them down. The general atmosphere began to echo “there is no  god but Allâh.” The calls to prayers were heard five times a day penetrating space and breaking the  silence of the dead desert and bringing back life through the new belief. Reciters and memorizers of  the
Qur’ân set out northwards and southwards reciting verses of the Qur’ân and carrying out Allâh’s  injunctions.
Scattered people and tribes were united and man moved from man’s worship of man to man’s worship  of Allâh. There were no more oppressors nor oppressed; no masters nor slaves, nor people bound to  other people, nor aggressors that would practise aggression. All people were slaves of Allâh. They  were  beloved brothers obeying Allâh’s rules. Thanks to Allâh they disposed of arrogance and the boastful  spirit:
“An Arab is no better than a non-Arab. In return a non-Arab is no better than an Arab. A red  raced man was not better than a black one except in piety. Mankind are all Adam’s children and
Adam was created from dust.”
Thanks to the Islamic Call, the Arab unity had become a reality, and so was the case with human unity  and social justice as far as their earthly and heavenly affairs were concerned. The time course of  events  had changed, the features on the earth’s surface and the crooked line of history had grown straight  and  the mentality had been rectified.
The spirit and the corrupted conscience of people, the distorted valand measures of Al-Jahiliyah had  overwhelmed the whole world during that period of Al-Jahiliyah. The prevalence of slavery, injustice,  extravagant luxury, adultery, depression, deprivity, disbelief, stray from the straight path and  darkness; all of those were fait accomplis in spite of the existence of the heavenly religions. The  teachings of those religions had grown weak and lost all influence on men’s souls and spirits and  became mere lifeless ritual traditions.
When this Call had accomplished its role in human life, it freed mankind’s spirit of superstitions,  illusions, white slavery, corruption and man’s worship of man. Islam had freed the human society of  filth, dissolution, injustice and tyranny. There were no more social distinctions, nor clergymen’s or