Leaving a community behind for new community is tough, even if the new community will be stronger and better. To help integrate and build an improved community with the people from Mecca and Yathrib, Muhammad came up with several techniques. One technique was having the people from Mecca live with people of Yathrib until they are comfortable and on their feet. Another technique was a brother system. In this system, the people from Mecca were assigned a person from Yathrib to be their brother to connect the community and build kinship. In addition, the whole community had to promise not to fight one another no matter how much their differences and feelings of hatred surfaced. These techniques helped build the community and shared ideology. However, I think other natural conflicts were bound to surface such as stepping on toes, in other words, annoying one another. This could have easily fueled out bursts and attacks on one another, which were trying to be prevented. Muhammad tackled this issue head on. By putting people together as brothers or in the same house, they were forced to get along if they wanted to live in peace.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Intergreting into a New Community
Leaving a community behind for new community is tough, even if the new community will be stronger and better. To help integrate and build an improved community with the people from Mecca and Yathrib, Muhammad came up with several techniques. One technique was having the people from Mecca live with people of Yathrib until they are comfortable and on their feet. Another technique was a brother system. In this system, the people from Mecca were assigned a person from Yathrib to be their brother to connect the community and build kinship. In addition, the whole community had to promise not to fight one another no matter how much their differences and feelings of hatred surfaced. These techniques helped build the community and shared ideology. However, I think other natural conflicts were bound to surface such as stepping on toes, in other words, annoying one another. This could have easily fueled out bursts and attacks on one another, which were trying to be prevented. Muhammad tackled this issue head on. By putting people together as brothers or in the same house, they were forced to get along if they wanted to live in peace.
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I believe that it was smart of Muhammad to carry out this theory of making these two communities work together to become stronger. Instead of forcing them the work together, Muhammad cleverly encouraged them to act as family to help each other survive. By putting a new face on the situation, Muhammad received a more positive outcome.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it was important that the community grew quickly and strongly and the approach Muhammad took of basically throwing them together, was a good one. It may not have been by force, but it doesn't seem like they had much of choice in the matter. It made sense especially because people knew that if they didn't cooperate they wouldn't be able to survive comfortably in the area. The family aspect of the community building was what made it strong though. It seems very mob like, except that they aren't as brutal to people outside the "family".
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