“O you [Muhammad] enveloped (in garments)! Arise and warn.” [74:1-2]
The Phases & Stages of the Call | The Sealed Nectar | Saifur Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri
The Muhammadiyya Call could be divided into two phases distinctively demarcated:
The Makkan phase: nearly thirteen years.
The Madinese phase: fully ten years.
Each of the two phases included distinctive features easily discernible through accurate scrutiny into the circumstances that characterized each of them.
The Makkiyya phase can be divided into three stages:
The stage of the secret Call: three years.
The stage of the proclamation of the Call in Makkah: from the beginning of the fourth year of Prophethood to almost the end of the tenth year.
The stage of the call to Islam and propagating it beyond Makkah: it lasted from the end of tenth year of the Prophethood until Muhammad’s (Peace be upon him) emigration to Madinah.
The Madiniyya phase will be considered in a later in its due course.
