When the opposition of the Quraish began against Islām, it increased day by day and took on a perilous state. Sir William Muir writes that the Quraish had decided:
“The new doctrine must be crushed, and its followers forced to abandon it. By degrees the persecution grew hot.”1
In actuality, the affliction pitched against Islām by its opponents and the tactics employed to annihilate it is a long and grievous story, which extends to the eighth year of migration.
1 Life of ‘Mahomet’, By Sir William Muir, pp 62, Reprint of the 1894 Ed., Published by Voice of India New Delhi