in 630, most people in arabia had become muslims, and they became part of muhammad's large army to capture mecca. because of the big size of the army, the people of mecca were afraid to fight back. abu sufyan, who was feeling unhappy over the broken truce, went to muhammad's camp outside mecca to ask for forgiveness. muhammad did not say that he would forgive him, so he returned home. while he was with muhammad, he changed his religion to islam by saying the testimony (ash-ashaada):