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The Advent Of
The Most Noble Messenger
Prophet
Muhammad (SAW)
With eyes as
bright as the shining sun, a reality on the lips more brilliant than the
light of the sun, a heart more fresh than the flowers of the gardens of
Yathrib and Taif, habits and morals more decent than the moon- lit nights
of the Hijaz, a mind more brisk than the strong winds, a bewitching tongue,
a heart with heavenly light, firm determination like a trenchant sword
and heavenly words on the tongue - such was Muhammad son of Abdullah, the
prophet of Arabia, the prophet who destroyed the idols which had separated
brothers from brothers. He did not break only the idols of wood and stone
but also broke the idols of wealth, indecent habits and party-spirit.
The only thing
which the cowardly Quraysh desired was money should be transferred from
the hands of the nomadic Arabs to their own pockets. The only value which
they attached to life was that in order to earn profit they should travel
through the desert on the back of the camels undergoing extreme hardships
and then return to their hometown Mecca-the same Mecca which was the city
of idol-worship, and where money was the only thing which counted.
Suddenly
they heard a voice which shook their nerves. Their hopes were shattered.
The world turned away its face from them saying "The value of man is not
the same which you have assessed and the object of the creation of the
nomadic Arabs is not the same which you think it to be".
........This
was the voice of Muhammad.........
Banu Asad-and
Banu Tamim were so foolish and ignorant that they buried their daughters
alive without any cause. There was no justification for their doing so
except that it was a custom which had survived amongst them. They were
opposed to the divine will. They hated the beauty of nature. And then they
heard a voice, which was expressive of deep love and sympathy for the people
saying: "Don't bury your daughters alive. Daughters are as good a creation
of God as the sons. No human being has a right to deprive others of life.
It is only God who creates the people and makes them die".
.......This
was the voice of Muhammad.........
The Arabs were
always fighting. They fought and shed blood for years on account of very
trivial things. They killed their own brothers and then rejoiced and glorified
themselves on it. To sacrifice their lives for the sake of their own ignorance
was something very ordinary for them. The children cried and screamed and
grew up in conditions which were not conducive to the creation of love
or sympathy for anyone in their minds.
In these circumstances
they heard another voice which said "What are you doing ? You kill one
another although you are all brothers because all of you have been created
by God. Strife is something satanic. Peace and friendship are more beneficial
for you. The blessing for which you fight can't be achieved except through
peace".
......This,
too, was the voice of Muhammad.........
The Arabs were
the most proud and egoistic people. They considered the non-Arabs inferior
to themselves. Not only this but they did not consider the non-Arabs even
human beings. Muhammad disliked this attitude of the Arabs very much. Addressing
these proud people he said: "No Arab is superior to a non-Arab unless he
is more pious. Whether you like it or not all human beings are brothers
of one another".
There were oppressed,
homeless and helpless persons whose faces had been scorched by the hot
winds. The society had discarded them and made their lives miserable. They
were more humble in the eyes of the people than the particles of sand and
their life had become extremely unenviable. And these were the true friends
of the prophet of Islam, just as the indigent and outcasts of the society
were the friends of Jesus Christ and other great men of the world. It was
these very people for whose benefit the prophet of Islam endeavoured to
prevent the establishment of dictatorship, disallowed slavery, freed man
from the bondage of his fellow-men, and established the public treasury
so that all might benefit from it without any discrimination. He directed
the efforts of the people towards public welfare. He insisted on Quraysh,
who were his kinsmen, at every step that they should improve their conduct,
do good deeds, and keep their attention directed wholeheartedly to God,
who has united the scattered creation into a single whole.
However, Quraysh
instigated the ignorant persons as well as their own children to stone
and ridicule him.
The helpless,
oppressed and homeless slaves among whom one was Bilal, the Mu'azzin of
the prophet, were overjoyed when they heard this: "All human beings are
fed by God. He likes him most who is more helpful to his creatures".
.......This
was the voice of Muhammad.........
Those who were
his enemies and stoned and ridiculed him heard this animating voice: "If
you (Muhammad) had been stern and hard-hearted they would all have deserted
you a long time ago. Forgive them and ask God to forgive (their sins) and
consult with them in certain matter. But when you reach a decision trust
God. God loves tbose who trust aim ".
.......This
was the voice of Muhammad.........
The following
pure words were imprinted on the minds of those who were endeavouring in
the path of God for a better life, and were ready to support him (Muhammad)
in his campaign against idol-worship and evil-doing, and were afraid lest
their rights and good conduct might be wasted in the battle-field.
"Remember !
Don't be treacherous. Don't commit breach of trust. Don't kill either a
child or a woman or an old man or a monk in a monastery. Don't burn a date-palm
tree and don't cut any tree nor pull down a building".
.......This
voice was the voice of Muhammad........
The Arabs heard
this heavenly voice from Muhammad and spread it in all the four corners
of the world. They covered powerful rulers and kings with this voice, estab-
lished brotherhood amongst human beings and strung them in one faith, and
created relationship between man and God.
The shade of
Muhammad spread so much that the entire Old World came under it and the
land from the east upto the west began producing the fruits of goodness,
knowledge, peace and friendship. The prophet of Islam stretched his hand
and sowed the seeds of friendship and brotherhood throughout the world.
That hand is still stretched and is busy sowing the seeds. Hence, there
is no part of the world wherein the followers of Muhammad are not found.
One of them may be in Pakistan and the other may be in Spain, but in spite
of this both of them are treated to be under one and the same standard.
The prophet provided honour and respect to the Orientals which is even
now a shining crown on their heads.
This voice of
the prophet, was a call for human brotherhood. It stopped the hands of
the rulers from reaching the property of the subjects and gave equal rights
to all human beings. In his religion there is no discrimina- tion between
a common man, a ruler and a subject and an Arab and a non-Arab, because
all human beings are the slaves of God and it is He who provides sustenance
to all of them.
This voice emancipated
women from the oppression of men, freed the labourers from the injustice
of the capitalists and delivered the servants from the degradation of submission
to their masters. As opposed to Plato and other philosophers, who deprive
the workers of their social rights on account of their mean occupation
and have divided the society into many grades, the prophet of Islam made
all human beings participate in the affairs of govern- ment. He also disallowed
usury and exploitation of one man by another.
After the prophet
of Islam it was Ali bin Talib who called men to good morals.
