Lesson

Children are to imagine that like Muhammad, they have been invited to rule a city and to establish a new religion. What would they do? What new rules would they make - in the areas of law, marriage, children. What about people who were poor? What about people from other faiths? Which house would they chose for themselves? How would they organize their religion? Build churches? Elect priests?

Compare what the children would do to what Muhammad did do? What do they think of his ideas?

Eight years after his flight to Medina, Muhammad and an army of 20,000 men advanced on Mecca. He showed clemency to his former enemies, but destroyed the idols in and round the Ka'aba. He had reclaimed the holy city for Allah.