Mohammad - An Example
The patience and the great moral that we find in the life of last prophet Muhammad can’t be compared with any soul in the history of human kind. When he prayed, people threw their garbage at him. They came closer to him and clapped, danced and laughed to distract him. When he walked in the streets of Mecca, the young people threw stones and sand at him, when he spoke of Allah people did not listen to him but laughed at him, pushed him and humiliated him.
Once, when he was standing for a pray, Aqba bin Maeet put a sheet into his neck and pushed it with such a power that Muhammad collapsed down on his knees. But he never ever said a word that could implicitly mean the outcry of an irritated or violent mind. Instead, he asked god to forgive them ” Oh god, make them understand that I want their welfare” or ”god they don’t see, forgive them” were his usual responses at such provoking and hurting moments.
H
e was known in his town, Mecca, as the most honest and the trust worthiest person. All his town men kept their worthy belongings with him, they knew that they could get them back in a completely original state. When he stood on the mount Sa’fa to proclaim the message of Allah for the first time, he first asked the crowd. ”Would you believe me if I tell you that an army of enemy is about to invade you from the other side of this mount where I am standing? People said” we have never ever found anything in you but truthfulness”.But
after, that he had proclaimed the message of Allah, the whole nation despised
what he said and falsified his teachings. But it is very strange that none of
his town men ever called him a lawyer, it was something justified and out of
argument. Muhammad had grown up among them and they had never ever heard a lie
from him and now at the age of 40 no one could ever dare call him a liar.
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They despised him by saying that he had lost his mind, or he had been charmed, or he made up poetry of his own mind but no one said that he lied. His uncle, Abu Jahl, was his dreadful enemy but he said to him after his constant preaching of Allah’s message ” Muhammad! I don’t say that you are a liar but what ever you preach is not right, I consider this wrong”.
After seeing the very bad behaviour of his own people, Muhammad went to Taif, a city of lords and rich people which is situated 40 miles away from Mecca. People there, behaved unbelievably violent and made joke of him” didn’t god find anyone else to send as a prophet”. They did not think it was enough to falsify his teaching, so they made some thugs of the city follow Muhammad and stone him. These thugs followed him and threw stones at the last prophet of Allah, the almighty, till twilight.His footwear brimmed with his blood and at lost he found a place out of the city area to rest. At this moment when he was badly wounded, humiliated and hurt, his lips blurted out the same voice ”Allah! They don’t see, forgive them”. Can a person show such tolerance and such a great moral? Muhammad was also a human being, he had feelings and emotions, when people humiliated him he was as hurt as anyone else can be. His uncle, Abu Talib, was the leader of the town and had brought him up after Mohammed’s father had died. When his uncle was alive people hesitated somehow in harming him but when he died there was no one who could stop them from taking the extreme step against him and therefore according to the order of Allah he left for Medina alongwith his few disciples. There he established the first government of Islam.
After many violent and aggressive wars, Muhammad defeated his enemies and returned to his birth town as a conqueror.
When all of his enemies were standing in front of him, helpless and scared, Muhammad asked them” what do you expect me to do with you”? His defeated and weak enemies answered” you are the noble son of a noble father”. Muhammad said” I forgive you, you are all free”. Such tolerance and positive attitude has never been found in a human being and if every day of his life were not historically conserved people would think of him as a myth.Professor Bosworth Smith comments on him with these words:
”When
I take a look at his (Muhammad’s) perfect characteristics and his conquests in
general and wonder what he was and what he turned out to be and what tasks his
obedient disciples, in whom he had put a soul of life, fulfilled he seems to
me the most sacred, the superior of all and an example of his own”.
I am sure that the above mentioned parts of Muhammad’s life are enough to understand the characters of prophets and the distortion that modern ideas have affixed with the personalities of such pious and honest people of the human history. I have mentioned some parts of Muhammad's life because he is the only prophet who is historically proved. No one can deny that there was a person by the name of Muhammad, son of Abdullah, in Mecca, the city of present Saud e Arabia, where he was born, grew up and got the image of an honest and truthful person.
People
in his town called him Sadiq and Ameen ( meaning respectively honest and the
one who keeps other's keepsakes) and that this person announced a new religion
at the age of 40 in seventh century and succeeded in spreading his religion
all over the contemporary world and in establishing a strong and the first
democratic government in the history of human being in his life.
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Article excerpted from the Urdu book "Daur e
Jadeed ka challenge" by
Wahid ud din Khan
Updated and translated by Safis Web.
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