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He also commanded him to wage war on his enemies and at the same time He protected him from their misdeeds. Allah constantly heightened his importance more and more until his death. All the Arabs obeyed to him and rallied to Islam under his authority. Many of the kings, the Romans as well as the Persians, the Copts, and the Ethiopians, feared him when they heard of his might and authority. Some of those kings rallied to his religion, others offered him presents in friendship or alliance, and by the time Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) left this world, he had raised an army of a hundred and twenty thousand warriors, each of whom was ready to sacrifice his life and his wealth for him and for Islam. He accomplished all that owing to the miracles and the great deeds he had performed, the most important of which is the miracle of the Holy Qur`an. Except for this miracle, the great people of Arabia, who were so uneducated and wild, and who worshipped idols, would not have followed him.
Even his own tribe, which must have been the first one to produce his followers, was at that time among his worst enemies, and had done everything in its power to fight against him, to injure him and to send away people from him. This very tribe plotted his death, when he was weak. The abusive wrongs he endured only reinforced him in his faith, and encouraged him all the more to popularize the mission entrusted to him by Allah, the Most High, and to struggle against the obscure beliefs and traditions of his next to kin. The latter, having seen the Prophet's (pbuh) miracles and deeds and heard the Qur`an reciting, and unable still to get rid of their father's religion, proposed to the Prophet (pbuh) that he become their king, but with one condition; that he not to injure their religion. But alas!