The Principles and Philosophy of Social Convergence in the Prophet's Time

Social cohesion in pre-Islamic Arabian society was focused on the tribe, the system, and the person of the tribal leader. With the rise of Islam in Mecca, the tribalism discourse faced a powerful rival called the religious theocracy discourse and was marginalized for some time. In this land, the factors of divergence at the community level had reached their maximum. The Prophet of Islam could not put the Revelatory system in full confrontation with the tribal system which had been rooted in the inner depths of the Arabs for years. The activities of the Prophet (SAW) were aimed at eliminating divergence and turning it into Islamic convergence. With a descriptive-analytical approach, this article raises the question of what were the interactions of belief, tribe, and enemy as a collective spirit in the social cohesion of the Prophet’s era. The results obtained from the research show that belief in the first stage, and tribe as the Islamic community (umma) in the second stage, and enemy in the third stage are among the factors of social cohesion in the Prophet’s time.