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PROPHET MUHAMMAD (S.A.W.W.)

“Certainly you have in the Apostle of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day, and remembers Allah much”.                         

                                                                                                           (33:21)

“..by the pen and by what they (the men) inscribe. (O Muhammad) you are not, by the grace of your Lord, possessed. Verily for you there is an unending recompense. Verily, you (stand) on an exalted standard of sublime morality”.  (68:1-4)

Today is the 17th Rabee’ al-Awwal and on this day, we are celebrating the birth of our great Prophet, Muhammad (saww).

MESSAGE OF PEACE:

A major part of the Holy Prophet (saww) was to bring ‘peace’ to the world. One of the ways in which he strove towards this end was to attempt to convince people that all men and women, from different regions of the world, and seemingly different from one another in colour, culture and language, were infact each others brothers and sisters. His message was crucial, for a proper relationship of love and respect can be established only if that is how human beings regard one another. To inculcate such feelings, the Holy Prophet (saww) told his followers: “You are all Adam’s offspring and Adam was created of clay”. He (saww) would tell people that: “Every religion has some special characteristic, that of Islam being Modesty”.

In the absence of such a virtue, no community can have lasting peace. The Prophet (saww)’s own modesty couples with great strength of character, is depicted in a well known story of an old Makkan woman who hated the Prophet (saww). Every morning when the Prophet (saww) passed by her house, she would empty a basket of rubbish on his head from the upper storey of her house. He never once argued with her for this. One day, as the Prophet (saww) passed through this area, no rubbish fell on his head. Thinking that the old woman must be ill, he went upstairs to inquire how she was and found her ill in bed. When she discovered that the Prophet (saww) had come to visit her, she began to weep and said, “I ill-treated you and now you come to inquire after my health!” Ultimately she became one of his followers.

Those who are ignorant and hold prejudice against Islam and the Muslims, must read and understand the life of Prophet Muhammad (saww). Muhammad (saww) was the true representation of Islam. Muhammad (saww) was the true representation of Quran. To understand Islam & Quran, we must endeavour to understand Muhammad (saww).

Sa’d bin Hisham bin ‘Aamir says that:

[ One day I asked ‘Aayesha, the wife of the Holy Prophet (saww), “O Mother of faithful! Tell me about the character of the Messenger of Allah”. She asked, “Don’t you read Quran?” I said, “Yes”. Thereupon she said, “The character of the Apostle of Allah was the Quran”.(Saheeh Muslim)

The essence of the message of Islam is ‘peace’. The personality of Muhammad (saww) was sent to convey the message of ‘peace’. The Mass Media, a powerful instrument in building public opinion and in the developing of perceptions, tends to project historical prejudice in portraying Islam in negative form as a  religion of slitting off throats and killing of the innocent. Prophet Muhammad (saww) is often portrayed as someone who spread Islam by Sword.

Judgement is being made about Islam from the likes of Osama and Saddam, who, the whole world knows, were actually the creations-not of Islam-but the very powers whose greed in the Middle-East resources knows no bound. So were the many leaders of the Arab world. Suddenly today, the world is told that they are the heroes of Islam, so Islam is our enemy!!

Isn’t it unfair that when few American and British soldiers abuse the Iraqi prisoners and in the wake of an uproar against the inhuman treatment being accorded, it can be said that the few soldiers do not represent our American and British values but at the same time, the same people accuse Islam and the Muslims on account of the few dummies created by themselves like Osama and make the life of Muslims miserable all over the world??

September 11 episode is being used as an excuse to justify the atrocities being committed against Muslims all over the world. In occupied Palestine, innocent people including women and children are butchered daily and hundreds have been rendered homeless by the oppressive Zionist regime, but the educated world is only shown the desperate retaliation of the Palestinians and deliberately so, in order to label them as terrorists who are motivated in their acts by the teachings of Islam!

The “true peace” which is the message of Islam brought by all the prophets and which Prophet Muhammad (saww) preached, is based on the foundation of Truth & Justice and certainly not on lies, lewdness or any evil.

“…and say (O Muhammad), verily I believe in whatever Allah has sent down of the book; and I am commanded to do justice between you. Allah is our Lord as well as your Lord”.  (42:15)

“verily Allah enjoins justice, doing good to others, and giving to kindred, and forbids lewdness, evil and rebellion. He exhorts you in order that you may take heed”. (16:90)

Mahatma Gandhi speaking on the character of Prophet Muhammad (saww) said,

“I wanted to know the best of one who holds today’s undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind…I became more convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle”. (Young India)

Our sincere greetings and felicitations to Imam al-Mahdi (AJ) and to all the Muslims on the birth of Prophet Muhammad (saww).

 

Mulla Mujaheedali Sheriff

mulla@almahdi.org.uk


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