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Articles: Philosophy | Last and final Prophet
- Mr. Kareemullah Mohammed
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Muhammad's life (PBUH) is the finest example for the entire humankind from beginning to end. The early life of many leaders and clerics was blemished but the life of the Prophet remained clean and spotless from the very beginning.
After the death of his grandfather he was under the guardianship of his uncle, Abu Talib. Financially, Abu Talib was not sound. So, to ease his uncle's financial strain he worked as a goat-herd to earn some wages.
Muhammad (PBUH)
--My Prophet, my guide.
--The man sent by Allah to show mankind the right path.
--The man who brought wisdom and good sense to the Arabs.
--The man who defeated the superpower of Rum.
--The great leader who sacrificed his all for Islam and its followers.
--The king of kings
worked as a goat-herd! What hardships he faced! Our eyes brim with tears when we think of the sufferings he underwent.
Muslims are definitely fortunate to have as their leader such a man of immense qualities. He who in his childhood worked as a goat-herd to earn his livelihood. He who accompanied his uncle on distant trade tours at the tender age of twelve.
His family was not the only beneficiary of his trade tours. He took with himself goods of other poor and weak women also to earn some profit for them. He was always mindful of and helpful to the weak and the oppressed. 'I am going to market, can I bring anything for you,' he was in the habit of saying this to his needy neighbours. He brought for them their requirements from the market.
He actively participated in the treaty of Hilful Fazool meant for the help of the oppressed people. His life was an example of truth. He always kept his promise. Once a person asked him to wait at a certain place and went with the promise to return shortly. He forgot what he said, but Muhammad stayed there for three consecutive days. The man, by chance, passed that way and found him waiting there.
Fully ashamed he asked: 'Are you waiting here for the last three days?'
Muhammad softly said: 'You told me to wait here.'
That is how he was nicknamed Sadiq and Ameem (Truthful and Trustworthy). And this man of highest human qualities Lady Khadeeja selected as her life partner. Khadeeja was surely very fortunate. She had twice borne the burden of widowhood before marrying Muhammad (PBUH). She was fifteen years older to him. Khadeeja gave birth to Qasim, Abdullah (Tahir), Zainab, Roqiya, Umme Kulsum and Fatima. The two sons Qasim and Abdullah died in infancy.
As he gained economic self sufficiency after marriage, Muhammad's (PBUH) only concern was reformation of the humanity.
He discharged his household responsibilities and simultaneously called upon the people to Islam and virtuous life and was the only Prophet who fulfilled all his responsibilities so competently.
---Gautam Buddha turned ascetic.
---Shankaracharya did not marry.
---Christ was also unmarried.
---a lot of other religious leaders were unmarried, ascetic and Brahmacharya.
But we see the last Prophet accomplishing his duties with amazing success; at home and in the society, carrying all the burden of his movement for the establishment of Islam. His family and social life was equally exemplary.
The people of Mecca called him truthful and trustworthy, but vehemently opposed him when he called them towards Islam.
No one in the history of religion was so vehemently opposed for disseminating his message. This raises a question: What was in his message?
NON-ICONIC WORSHIP
What Muhammad (PBUH) said was not spoken by any other revolutionary ever. He prohibited idols, statues and pictures. This was his teaching fourteen hundreds years ago. He did not do just verbal service , but actually eliminated idol-worship in the true iconoclastic manner.
Here in Tamil Nadu we consider EVR(E.V.Ramaswamy Naicker) a true revolutionary because he not only condemned idol-worship but he really broke idols. Muhammad (PBUH) did it centuries ago. Reciting the Quranic verse:
Truth has arrived and
Falsehood perished; for Falsehood
Is (by its nature) bound to perish (17:81),
he removed the idols from Ka'aba.
Id-ul Azha is one of the two biggest festivals of Muslims all over the world., What is the signifacance of this festival? It is celebrated in memory of the sacrifice of Ismail by his father Abrahim, in the way of Allah. Idols of Abraham and Ismail were also in Ka'aba. Muhammad (PBUH) ordered to celebrate the occasion of that great sacrifice and thus immortalised it but along with other idols he removed the idols of Abraham and Ismail also. Can we imagine of a greater revolutionary step? Moreover, such a step was taken in a country which was sunk in ignorance and indulged heavily in idol-worship. Communism rules over Russia and atheism officially prevails, but no one dares to remove the idols of gods and goddesses there.
Here in Tamil Nadu poets have hoped for the dawn when all idols would be demolished. But we see that all the nooks and corners are full of idols and statues. A courageous step to remove the idols from Ka'aba was taken fourteen hundred years ago.
To stand up in one's own land against the idols worshipped by one's own people and their forefathers was an exceptionally daring step. Such a revolutionary task, in history, was performed by Muhammad (PBUH) . Today people make tall claims about their progressive thinking ad present atheism in support of their progressivism, but are still captivated by portraits, statues, and sculptures. It is sheer irony that these progressive people negate idols of gods and goddesses but make statues and portraits of their leaders and bow their heads before them. They remove pictures and idols of of gods but replace them by statues and busts of persons of their own choice. Be it a statue, bust or portrait, all symbolize man's weakness. The only man who warned and saved human beings from this weakness was Muhammad (PBUH), who performed this feat fourteen hundred years ago.
Today, the only movement without pictures and statues is the movement of Islam which , infact, is based on knowledge, and faith and conviction.
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