{"id":1552,"date":"2016-02-21T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2020-06-28T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T15:57:10","slug":"meet-the-prophet-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/meet-the-prophet-muhammad\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Prophet Muhammad"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Imam Kamil Mufti<\/em><\/p>\n

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“I began to look at him and at the moon, he was wearing a red mantle, and he appeared to be more beautiful than the moon to me.” (Al-Tirmidhi<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is how Jabir ibn Samura\u00a0<\/b>described the Last of the Prophets, the Chief of the Pious, the Prince of the Believers, the Chosen One of the Most Merciful \u2013 <\/i>Muhammad, the Messenger of God.<\/p>\n

He had a pleasant face that was round, white, and fair.\u00a0 His hair fell to his ear lobes.\u00a0 His beard was thick and black.\u00a0 When he was pleased, his face would light up.\u00a0 His laugh was no more than smiling.\u00a0 His eyes were blackish, and his eyelashes were long.\u00a0 His long eyebrows were curved.\u00a0 When the eyes of Abdullah ibn Salam, the chief rabbi of Medina, fell on his face, he declared that such a noble face could not be the face of a liar!<\/p>\n

He was of medium height, neither tall nor short.\u00a0 He walked inclining forward.\u00a0 He wore tanned leather sandals.\u00a0 His pants would reach to the middle of his shin or sometimes just above his ankles.<\/p>\n

On his back, towards the left shoulder was the \u2018Seal of Prophethood\u2019. It was the size of a pigeon\u2019s egg with spots like moles on it.\u00a0 His palms were described to be softer than the brocade of silk.<\/p>\n

He was recognized by his fragrance when he approached from a distance.\u00a0 Drops of his perspiration were described to be like pearls.\u00a0 His companions collected his sweat to mix with their perfumes which made them even more fragrant!<\/p>\n

Islamic doctrine holds if someone has been blessed with the vision of the Prophet in a dream as described, then indeed they have seen him.<\/p>\n

He would keep silent for long periods of time and was the most dignified when silent.<\/p>\n

When he spoke, he uttered nothing but the truth in a voice pleasing to the ears.\u00a0 He did not speak rapidly as many people do today; rather he spoke in a clear speech so that those who sat with him could remember it.\u00a0 His speech was described to be such that anyone who wished to count his words could have done so easily.\u00a0 His companions described him to be neither vulgar nor indecent.\u00a0 He neither cursed people, nor abused them.\u00a0 He merely reprimanded by saying:<\/p>\n

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“What is the matter with such and such people” (Saheeh<\/i> Al-Bukhari<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The most hateful conduct to him was lying.\u00a0 Sometimes he used to repeat himself twice or even thrice to enable the listeners to understand him well.\u00a0 He would give short sermons.\u00a0 While delivering the sermons his eyes would become red, his voice would rise, and his emotions become visible as if he were warning of an imminent assault from an enemy.<\/p>\n

He led a simple life without any extravagance or lavishness.\u00a0 He put the worldly life behind his back and turned away from it.\u00a0 He considered it to be a prison, not Paradise! \u00a0Had he wished, he could have had anything he desired, for the keys of its treasures were presented to him, but he refused to accept them.\u00a0 He did not exchange his share of the life to come with the worldly life.\u00a0 He knew that it is a corridor, not a permanent residence.\u00a0 He understood fully well that it is a transit station, not a leisure park.\u00a0 He took it for its real worth – a summer cloud that would soon disperse.<\/p>\n

Yet God says He enriched him from poverty:<\/p>\n

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“Did He not find you poor and enrich you?” (Quran 93:8)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Aisha, his wife, said:<\/p>\n

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“A month would pass while the family of Muhammad would not light fire in their homes.\u00a0 They subsisted on two things – dates and water.\u00a0 Some residents of Medina who were his neighbors would send milk from their sheep, which he would drink and then give to his family.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari<\/i>, Saheeh Muslim<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She said the family of Muhammad never ate wheat bread to their satisfaction for three consecutive days from the time of his arrival at Medina until he passed away, about 10 years!<\/p>\n

With all this, he would stand up in the middle of the night to offer his gratitude to his Lord in prayer.\u00a0 He would pray for so long that his feet would swell! \u00a0When his wives would ask why he worshipped God so much, his only response would be:<\/p>\n

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“Shall I not be a thankful servant of God?” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari<\/i>, Saheeh Muslim<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Omar, one of his companions, remembering the days he passed in hunger said that sometimes the Prophet did not even have rotten dates to satisfy his hunger!<\/p>\n

Abdullah ibn Mas\u2019ud, another companion and eye-witness, says that once, when Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, awoke from sleep, the marks of the mat made out of date palm leaves on which he used to sleep were etched on his body.\u00a0 Abdullah complained:<\/p>\n

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“My father and mother be ransomed for you! \u00a0Why did you not let us prepare something
\n<\/strong>(softer) for you from which you could protect yourself?”<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He replied:<\/p>\n

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“I have nothing to do with this world.\u00a0 I am in this world like a rider who stops under the shade of the tree for a short time and, after taking rest, he resumes his journey again, leaving the tree behind.” (Al-Tirmidhi<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Various conquerors in the annals of history are known for spilling rivers of blood and erecting pyramids of skulls.\u00a0 Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, is known for his forgiveness.\u00a0 He never took revenge from anyone who wronged him to the point that he never struck anybody with his hand, neither a woman nor a servant, unless he was fighting in battle. His forgiveness could be seen on the day he entered Mecca as a conqueror after eight years of exile.<\/p>\n

He forgave those who persecuted him, and forced him and his family in exile for three years in rugged mountains, who had accused him of being a lunatic, a poet, or one possessed.\u00a0 He pardoned Abu Sufyan, one of the most evil of people who plotted to persecute him day and night, along with his wife, Hind, who mutilated the dead body of the Prophet\u2019s Muslim uncle and ate the raw liver after ordering Wahshi, a \u00a0fierce slave known for his fighting skills,\u00a0 to kill him, which later led them to accept Islam. Who else could be on such an exalted standard of character but the noblest and most truthful Messenger of God?<\/p>\n

Wahshi, who used to live in Mecca, won his freedom from Hind for the service of killing the uncle of the Prophet.\u00a0 When Islam gained dominance in Mecca, Wahshi ran away from Mecca to Taif.\u00a0 Eventually Taif also succumbed to the Muslims.\u00a0 He was told Muhammad would forgive anyone who accepted Islam.\u00a0 Even though the crime was so great, Wahshi gathered his courage and came to the Prophet of Mercy and announced his Islam, and Muhammad forgave him.<\/p>\n

His forgiveness even extended to Habbar ibn Aswad.\u00a0 When Zaynab, the Prophet\u2019s daughter, was migrating from Mecca to Medina, the Meccans tried to stop her, Habbar was one of them.\u00a0 He made the Prophet\u2019s pregnant daughter fall from her camel.\u00a0 As a result, she lost her baby.\u00a0 Running away from the guilt of his crime, Habbar fled to Iran, but God turned his heart towards the Prophet.\u00a0 So he came to the Prophet\u2019s court, acknowledged his guilt, bore the testimony of faith, and was forgiven by the Prophet!<\/p>\n

Muhammad performed physical miracles with God\u2019s permission.\u00a0 He split the moon into two halves by merely pointing his finger at it.\u00a0 In a mystical journey known as Mi\u2019raaj<\/i>, he traveled in one night from Mecca to Jerusalem on a heavenly mount, al-Buraq<\/i>, led all the Prophets in prayer, and then ascended beyond the seven heavens to meet his Lord.\u00a0 He cured the sick and the blind; demons would leave the possessed by his command, water flowed from his fingers, and his food would glorify God.<\/p>\n

Yet he was the most humble of men.\u00a0 He sat on the ground, ate on the ground, and slept on the ground. \u00a0A companion narrated that if a stranger were to enter a gathering where he was present, he would not be able to differentiate the Prophet from his companions due to his humbleness. \u00a0Anas, his servant, swore that in his nine years of service, the noble Prophet never chastised him or blamed him for anything.\u00a0 Those around him described Muhammad to be so humble that even a little girl could hold his hand and take him wherever she wished.\u00a0 He used to come to the weak among the Muslims in order to visit the sick and attend their funeral processions.\u00a0 He used to stay at the back of the caravan to aid the weak and pray for them.\u00a0 He would not hesitate to walk with a widow or a poor person until he had accomplished for them what they needed.\u00a0 He responded to the invitation of even slaves, eating nothing more than barley bread with them.<\/p>\n

He was the best of men to his wives.\u00a0 Aisha, his wife, described how humble he was:<\/p>\n

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“He used to remain busy serving and helping his household, and when the time for prayer came he would perform ablution and go for prayer.\u00a0 He would patch his own sandals and sew his own garments.\u00a0 He was an ordinary human being, searching his clothes for lice, milking his sheep, and doing his own chores.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari<\/i>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed he was the best of all people to his family.\u00a0 His personality was such that people were not driven away from him!<\/p>\n

Such was the noble Prophet of God who we must love more than our own selves and whom God has described as:<\/p>\n

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“Indeed in the Messenger of God you have a good example to follow\u2026” (Quran 33:21)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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