In the beginning, the Holy Prophetsa primarily kept his preaching secret for approximately three years. As such, in this era, there was no specific centre where the Muslims could gather. Rather, the Holy Prophetsa would meet seekers of truth who would come as a result of his own preaching endeavours and other Muslims in his own home or in the outskirts of town. This secrecy was maintained to the extent that, at times, even Muslims themselves remained unaware of the Islām of one another. The reason being that in this era, Muslims generally concealed their religion and news would rarely reach the chieftains of the Quraish. However, if news did in fact reach them, in those days, generally Muslims were not vehemently opposed and their opposition was in fact limited to mockery alone. This is because, they thought of this entire endeavour as child’s play. If on the other hand, someone did oppose severely, this opposition was his own personal action and there was no unified resistance waged against the Muslims by the Quraish.