Quraysh’s Plan to Attack on Medina In addition to all that, they began to make preparations on a large scale for’an all out attack on Medina which, they believed, would exterminate the nascent power of Islam But before fighting this decisive battle they were anxious to enlist the support and sympathies of the non-Muslim tribes living around Medina. This objective was achieved by various means, the chief among which was to display their power and thus impress upon them their unrivalled strength as compared with that of the Muslims.