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1. Hijrah adalah revolusi sejarah yang sangat penting
Dengan nada pendek tapi tegas, ahli sejarah Inggeris yang ternama dalam abad ke-20 ini, Arnold Toynbee menulis dalam bukunya “An historian’s approach to Religion“, di antaranya:
His hijrah was not only the geographical migration but was also at the same time the counter-transfiguration of a prophet without honour in his own country into the successful president, by invitation of a rival oasis-state.
Bernard Lewis dalam bukunya, “The Arabs in History” dengan menggunakan istilah Hijra menerangkan bahawa:
The Hijra was a turning point and was rightly adopted by later generations as the starting point and was rightly adopted by later generations as the starting point of the Muslim calender. [1]
Selanjutnya beliau juga turut menulis,
The Hijra was preceded by long negotiations and finally took place in the year A.D 622 – the first certain date in Islamic history. It marks the turning point in the career of Muhammad and a revolution in Islam.
In Mecca Muhammad was private citizen, in Medina the chief magistrate of a community.
In Mecca, he had had to limit himself to more or less passive opposition to the existing order, in Medina he governed.
In Mecca, he had preached Islam, in Medina he was able to practise.
The change necessarily affected the character, activities and doctrines of Muhammad and of Islam itself, the records pass from legend to history.
D.G Hogarth dalam bukunya “Arabia” pula mengatakan:
By adopting (half a generation later) this Hijra or Flight for its Era, and neglecting the dates of either its founder’s birth or his first entry upon his apostolic mission, Islam signified that for its purpose, temporal power is essential to spiritual and means to the former are means to the latter. At Yathrib Islam was to become what the world has recognized it to be ever since – a combatant polity, wieldind the word of Allah upon earth. [2]
Such had not been its founder’s original ideal. A Meccan reluctant to shed blood, he had hoped before the Ban to win by peaceful penetration first his city and then the alien Arabs who resorted to it.
Nabi Muhammad S.A.W yang melakukan hijrah bersama-sama segala Muhajirin dari Mekah telah dinamakan oleh mereka sebagai “orang-orang pelarian” sedangkan hijrah itu sendiri mereka namakan sebagai “lari”, “flight” atau “own flight”. Manakala, bagi golongan Ansar yang menyambut orang-orang Muhajirin di Madinah, dikatakan diambil dari perkataan Nazareth di dalam agama Kristian.
Muhammad Redha di dalam bukunya “Muhammad Rasulullah” membantah tohmahan daripada pihak Barat ini yang mana tiada hubungan sama sekali kedua-dua nama yang hampir berdekatan bunyinya itu. Nazareth bagi Kristian adalah nama kampung di Syam (Syria) tempat lahirnya Nabi Isa sedangkan Ansar bererti pembela dan pembantu.
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