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The Mission of Prophet Muhammad God’S Peace Be Upon Him THE MISSION OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD God’s peace be upon him THE MISSION OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD God’s peace be upon him Moin Qazi Notion Press 5 Muthu Kalathy Street, Triplicane, Chennai - 600 005 First Published by Notion Press 2014 Copyright © Moin Qazi 2014 All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 978-93-84381-16-5 This book has been published in good faith that the work of the author is original. All efforts have been taken to make the material error-free. However, the author and the publisher disclaim the responsibility. No part of this book may be used, reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. In loving memory of my uncle Qazi Syed Shahabuddin The Messenger of God is an excellent model for those of you who put your hope in God and the Last Day and remember Him often. (Q33:21) Say, [O Muhammad], “If you should love Allah, then follow me, [so] Allah will love you and forgive you your sins.” (Q3:31) Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Prophets. (Q33:40) But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission. (Q4:65) CONTENTS 1. Timeline of Prophet Muhammad’s life 1 2. Introduction 2 3. Biography 6 4. The final Vicegerent 20 5. The uniqueness of the Prophet’s mission 27 6. Predestination: The role of fate 32 7. A model ruler 43 8. The Quranic pattern of life 49 9. A living Quran 61 10. The last sermon of the Prophet 87 11. The Medina Charter 90 12. Vignettes from the life of Prophet Muhammad 96 13. The Prophet through the global lens 142 TIMELINE OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S LIFE 570 - Born in the town of Mecca. His name (Abu al- Qasim Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusai ibn Kilab) derives from the Arabic verb hamada, meaning ‘to praise, to glorify’. 575 - Orphaned upon the death of his mother and placed in the protection of his paternal grandfather, then his uncle. 595 - Marries Khadijah - an older, wealthy widow. They had six children. 610 - Receives first revelation during the month of Ramadan. 613 - Took his message public; these would later become the Quran, Islam’s sacred scripture. 622 - Emigrates with his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, soon to become known as Medina. 624 - The start of three major battles with the Meccans - the Battle of Badr (victory), 625 - the Battle of Uhud (defeat), and 627 - the Battle of the Trench (victory). 628 - The two sides signed a treaty recognising the Muslims as a new force in Arabia. Meccan allies breached the treaty a year later. 629 - Orders first raid into Christian lands at Muta (defeat). 630 - Conquers Mecca (along with other tribes). 631 - Consolidated most of the Arabian Peninsula under Islam. 632 - Returned to Mecca to perform a pilgrimage. 632 - Dies in Medina after a brief illness. He is buried in the mosque of Medina. INTRODUCTION Let me glorify the family of Muhammad, for they are my light and the source of my devotion They are my most exalted support, theirs is the lofty assistance they are the power of piety and the sun of my destination. Leave me the love of Husayn and his grandfather, from their exalted station I witness all spiritual realities. Do you reproach me for love, although love is grace; if the longing heart tastes it, it will not wander... I am not removed from their love because I know my Lord through them, for they are the source of my acquaintance with him... (Sheikh Abdel-Salam Al-Hilwani, Sufis, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt) The lavender of the sun begins to grow deeper as the slowly rising sun spreads a golden calm on the endless stretch of the sandy dunes. The heat of the sun, direct and relentless, bakes the plains, blanching everything around. Far across the vast expanse of the desert, the misty landscape dissolves into the hills as silence is struck in the air around. A cloud of dust, eddied up into the air by the kick of a band of horsemen, grows into a wispy golden fog as it catches the luminescent rays of the sun. The landscape is barren and haunted; but in the nearby city, life bustles with activity. Amidst the shanties in which the poor dwell, the land is embossed with palatial mansions of rich merchants and a curia of hills around the city. There rises in the deeper hinterland a wall of mountains, polished clean by the unrelenting sun Moin Qazi 3 The band of people in the desert slowly mounts their horses as they prepare for a mission which, in the years to come, is to transform the lives and thoughts of millions of people. The band has a teaching to offer to the city folks who, far from listening to them, start persecuting their leader so much as to compel them to leave the city. The year is 622 A.D., the country Arabia, the city Mecca and the leader of the band, Muhammad. It was a small event for the Meccan people who, in fact, felt a sense of exalted joy at the sight of the band leaving them because they had come to regard its mission and work as a threat to their life and existence. But for the future historian, a poignant drama was unfolding on the arid borders of the city. The event was to blaze the mission in its full glory in the short span of its initiation and become the torchlight of a great revolution. As the hot ball of the sun began to climb over the horizon the band began to move out. In the process a great milestone was set. The migration of Muhammad, peace be upon him, from Mecca came to be known as Hijra (Emigration) and marked the first year of Islam. Muhammad, one-time caravan leader and trader turned religious leader, was leading his followers to the city of Yathrib, to be called Medina, city of the Prophet. The Hijra was neither an abandonment of Mecca nor the forgetting of where one had come from. It was the tenacious determination to rise up from oppression, with the intention of returning eventually to redeem even the oppressor. This Muhammad would accomplish at the end of his life through his triumphant return home. But before he could liberate Mecca, he had to move to the city where the Muslim community would become established. The advent of Islam was becoming clearly visible, and it was to be nurtured and nourished into a dynamic 4 The Mission of Prophet Muhammad and composite philosophy in the peace loving city of Medina who’s humble and pious inhabitants had invited Muhammad (peace be upon him) to preach the message among them. The seeds which were to flower into full bloom in Medina were sown twelve years back in the silent cave called Ghar-i-Hira (Mount Hira) in a Meccan suburb where Muhammad proclaimed the religion of Islam and began reviving the teachings of Abraham. It was during the month of Ramadan, the ninth in the Islamic calendar, that Muhammad received the divine call and was chosen as the Messenger of Allah. During Ramadan, Muhammad (peace be upon him) used to retire for prayers and contemplation to his retreat in Ghar-i-Hira in the Jabal-i-Nur (Mountain of Light). It was in the fortieth year, the fifth consecutive year since his annual retreats that one night, while in deep meditation, Angel Gabriel appeared to him and said: “Read!” Amazed and frightened Muhammad replied, “I do not know how to read.” The Angel Gabriel roused him from his bed with the stern command: “Proclaim!” Rubbing his eyes, the startled Muhammad gasped, “But what shall I proclaim?” Suddenly his throat tightened as though the angel were choking him. Again came the command: “Proclaim!” And again the terrified Muhammad felt the choking grip. “Proclaim!” ordered the angel for a third time. “Proclaim! (or Read!) In the name of thy Lord and cherisher who created - created man out of a mute clot of congealed blood. Proclaim! And thy Lord is most beautiful. He who taught (the use of) the pen, taught man that which he knew not.” With these words began in the year 610 A.D., the revelation of the Quran to the prophet. The revelations continued during the 23 years of his prophet hood ending shortly before his death in 632 A.D. with the verse: “This Moin Qazi 5 day have I perfected your religion for you, completed my favour upon you and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.” BIOGRAPHY Noble birth and pure lineage The Prophet was born on Monday, 12 Rabi’ al-Awwal, in the Year of the Elephant (57O C.E.). His ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him). His full name is Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abdu’l- Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn ‘Abd Manaf ibn Qusayy ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ibn Ka’b ibn Lu’ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn an-Nadr ibn Kinanah ibn Khuzaymah ibn Mudrikah ibn Ilyas ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma’add ibn ‘Adnan. The lineage of Adnan goes back to Ismail, the son of the Abraham (peace be upon both of them).
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