1. What were the advantages of keeping the Faith secret for some years? Was it right?
2. Describe Mohammed's mode of life in Mecca. Was it suitable?
3. Give an account of the conversion of some one convert.
4. Is persecution good or bad for a religion? How far did Mohammed and his followers suffer?
5. To what do you attribute Mohammed's failure to make his way at Mecca? What circumstances led to the flight to Medina? Was this flight a good thing?
CHAPTER V
THE UNSHEATHING OF THE SWORD
'Too oft religion has the mother been,
Of impious act and criminal.'
LUCRITIUS.
As Al Caswa, the favourite camel, swung slowly with loose rein through the streets of Medina, allowed by her master to choose the place where he should alight, she bore him not only to a new home but to new circumstances, and to a new act in the drama of his life.