Since so many people didn’t support Islam, Muhammad sent his followers to Yathrib in 622 A.D. and then secretly followed them. This event is called the Hijrah and is known as the beginning of the Muslim calendar.
Once Muhammad came to Yathrib, they accepted his religion and made him the ruler. Yathrib soon “became known as Madinat al-Nabi, “the city of the prophet,” or Madinah.” (pg 273). Yathrib was called Madinah because it meant “the city of the prophet” and Muhammad was known as “the prophet of Islam”. In A.D. 624 Muhammad created the Madinah Compact. The Madinah Compact “laid the foundation of an Islamic state.” (pg 273). In the Madinah Compact, it really specified how the Muslims were supposed to live. “He decreed that all Muslims were to place loyalty to the Islamic community above loyalty to their tribe.” (pg 273). By writing the Madinah Compact, Muhammad made everyone be loyal to him instead of being loyal to their sheikh and their tribe. This affected the people of Madinah greatly. “Since Muhammad created the religion of Islam, he took religious power. He also took military power, political power, legal power, and made himself chief judge, which made him a totalitarian.” (notes). By writing