Hazrat Muhammad(S.W.A.L) leaves for Makkah with one thousand five hundred companions

لَقَدْ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيَا بِالْحَقِّ ۖ لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ آمِنِينَ مُحَلِّقِينَ رُءُوسَكُمْ وَمُقَصِّرِينَ لَا تَخَافُونَ ۖ فَعَلِمَ مَا لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا فَجَعَلَ مِنْ دُونِ ذَٰلِكَ فَتْحًا قَرِيبًا

Allah indeed fulfilled the vision for His Messenger with truth. You shall certainly enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah please, in security, your heads shaved and hair cut short, not fearing. But He knows what you know not, so He has ordained a near victory before that.[Al-Fath Verse27]

That is to say, God had decided to let Muslims enter the precincts of the Ka‘ba in peace, with heads shaven 

and hair cut (these being the external signs of pilgrims to the Ka‘ba), and without fear. But Muslims did not 

know exactly how Allah was to let this happen. Moreover,before Muslims performed their pilgrimage in peace, they were to have another victory, a precursor of the victory promised in the vision. In this vision Allah foretold the ultimate victory of Muslims, their peaceful march into Mecca and the conquest of Makah without the use of arms. But the Prophet understood it to mean that Muslims had been commanded by Allah immediately to attempt a circuit of the Ka‘ba. The Prophet planned a march towards the Ka‘ba. He announced his vision and his interpretation of it to Muslims and asked them to prepare. "You will go," he said, "only to perform a circuit of the Ka‘ba. There were, therefore, to be no demonstrations against the enemy." Late in February 628, fifteen hundred pilgrims, headed by the Prophet set out on their journey to Makkah.

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