Q. & A. 711 to 1707 with solved Papers css 1971 to date

IMPORTANCE
The Treaty Proves Advantageous to the Muslims
In fact, every clause of this treaty was a masterpiece of practical statesmanship. It was a triumph beyond doubt. No one, except ”perhaps Sohail, had thought back as had Muhammad (PBUH) when the Quraysh stood before him. No one except these two, recollected the beatings, the stoning, the escape by night, the hiding in the cave. No one thought of the hazardous exile with the seventy followers. The contrast between now and then was unbelievable, miraculous. That the Quraysh were willing to deal with Muhammad (PBUH) at all, to recognize him as someone worthy of their attention, to admit him as the ruler of the Arab community was beyond the bounds of all expectation. He was not a man to quibble over small details. If Sohail’s limited mentality could not reconcile itself to calling someone who had been a travelling salesman by a grandiloquent title; it did not really matter. What was important was to have free access to Makkah. Muhammad (PBUH) knew that the day he and his men could set foot in the Holy City would not be long before they would be there permanently”.3 ”The ten years’ truce would, therefore, afford opportunity and time for the new religion to expand, and force its claim upon the convictions of the Quraysh. The stipulation that no one under the protection of a guardian should leave the Quraysh without his guardian’s consents, though unpopular at Medina, was in accordance with the principles of Arabian society; and the Holy Prophet had sufficient confidence in the loyalty of his own people and the superior attractions of Islam, to fear no ill effect from the counter clause that none should be delivered up who might desert his standard. Above all, it was a great and manifest success that free permission was conceded to the believers to visit Makkah in the following year, and to stay in the city for three days undisturbed”.
This treaty had a wonderful effect on the local tribes and what the,Holy Prophet had foreseen in this connection proved to be perfectly true. Within a few days of signing the document, which had
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caused a stir among some of his men, chiefs from all around were coming to swear allegiance to him.
The treaty is a specimen of the finest draft in which the clauses of peace were clearly laid down. There is no ambiguity, nothing hazy about it. Every word is pointed, unequivocal and highly meaningful, nothing superfluous, and no playing of words, ”The treaty of Hudaibia,” says Majid Khadduri, ”was looked upon as a model for drawing up the draft of the arbitration treaty”.5