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THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD
I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind.... I became more than ever 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 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.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, in 'Young India,'1924.
Before his death in 632, Muhammad had established Islam as a social and political force and had unified most of Arabia. Islam is now the faith of well over a billion people all over the globe, and believed to be the second largest religion of the present day.
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The exalted example of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
Prophet Muhammad –peace be upon him- practiced what he preached. He very carefully and meticulously followed the Qur’an, Allah’s Word that was revealed to him. He followed and lived the Qur’an at every moment in every detail of his life. He life was the reflection of Allah’s words. He became the Qur’an in person, the embodiment of the Qur’an, or one may even say in a metaphorical sense “the Word in flesh”. -- Dr. Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi, in a sermon delivered for the Prophet's birthday in 2002.
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Is our Prophet a sensualist who surrounded himself with young women?
"No great religious leader has been so maligned as Prophet Mohammed. A modern German writer accuses Prophet Mohammed of sensuality, surrounding himself with young women. This man was not married until he was twenty-five years of age, then he and his wife lived in happiness and fidelity for twenty-four years, until her death when he was fourty-nine. Only between the age of fifty and his death at sixty-two did Prophet Mohammed take other wives, only one of whom was a virgin, and most of them were taken for dynastic and political reasons. Certainly the Prophet's record was better than the head of the Church of England, Henry VIII."
-- Geoffrey Parrinder, Mysticism in the World's Religions, Oxford University Press, 1976. | | |
