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advent. However, the majority of their fellow Jews were secular.
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Many centuries passed since the migration of their ancestors and the Jewish tribes had
dispersed and their numbers in Yathrib had dwindled so that they no longer governed
the city as they had done in their heyday. As a result the Arabs were now the majority
and the Jews, considering themselves to be the chosen people of Allah, despised having
to be beholden to the pagan Arabs and all too often sharp words were exchanged. Even
though they were for the most part secular they would taunt the Arabs with the news that
a prophet was about to appear and that Allah would slay them on account of their
idolatry just as He had done with the people of Aad and Thamood.

There were occasions when the Jews spoke to their pagan neighbors about their belief
in One God and in the life after death. The Arabs found the matter of being raised from
the dead difficult to believe so the Jews told them that when the prophet came he would
confirm the truth of the matter. The idea of the coming of a prophet aroused both the