The Global Program of Introducing the Prophet of Mercy Language: English | Format: PDF | Pages: 84 | Size: 1 MB
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon Muhammad, seal of the prophets and messengers.
“If greatness of purpose, smallness of
means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius,
who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
“Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer
of Rational beliefs…The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one
spiritual empire that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which
human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man
greater than he?” Alphonse de Lamartine in ‘Histoire de la Turquie,’
Paris, 1854.
“People, listen to me as I explain to
you, for I do not know whether I will ever meet you again in this place
after this year”, he said in a strong and clear voice. The crowd, over a
hundred and twenty-four thousand, stood in silence knowing that
whatever was about to be said was of the utmost importance.
The men were all dressed in two white
garments, whilst the women were in their normal clothing. He continued
talking, whilst sitting up straight on his camel. “Know that your blood,
property and honour are as sacred as this day, this month and this
city”. It was mid-day and the sun was bright and hot. Yet the weather
was the last thing on the minds of these righteous men and women. Their
eyes were fixed on their leader and they were listening attentively to
his words.
“You will certainly meet your Lord and He
will certainly question you about what you do. Have I delivered my
message?” He asked. They all unanimously replied “Yes”. “O God, bear
witness,” he said, raising his forefinger skywards and then moving it
towards the people.
As soon as he finished, the following verse was revealed to him:
“This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.”(The Noble Qur’ān: 5:3)
Finally, the mission was accomplished. A
movement, which started a little over twenty years ago by one man, was
now a full-fledged nation with thousands of followers. Within a few
decades, it was to spread further and engulf three continents. In just a
hundred years, it would become the largest empire ever seen, stretching
from the Indus to the streets of Gibraltar. Within another hundred
years, it would reach the doorsteps of China. The transforming power of
his message was to produce a civilisation which contributed to all areas
of human endeavour, in algebra, engineering, astronomy and medicine.
Even today, almost a quarter of the
people of the earth have responded to the message of this man. People of
all colours and ethnic backgrounds, the rich and the poor, the strong
and the weak, all have been touched by the light, which was torched by
this individual approximately fourteen hundred years ago.
How can a man of such modest beginnings, a
man with such feeble means, a man with so few early followers, and a
man in such a short space of time;
start a revolution which changed the face
of human history forever? Who is this man? He is Muhammad bin Abdullah
(blessings and peace be upon him), the last Messenger of God. The
greatest man in history and here is his story.
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Table of Contents:
Birth of the Prophet
The Lone Orphan
Al-Amīn (The Trustworthy)
The Pledge
His Marriage to Khadijah
Rebuilding the Ka`bah
In the Cave of Hiraa’
“Cover Me, Cover Me”
The Early Converts
The Great Warner
Rejection
Persecution
The Escape to Abyssinia
Umar and Hamza Embrace Islam
The Boycott
True Patience
The Journey to Ta’if
The Miraculous Night Journey
The Delegation
The Prophet’s Migration
A New Beginning
The First Constitution
The Battle of Badr
Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy
The Treaty of Hudaibiyyah
Beyond Arabia
The Conquest of Makkah
The Farewell Pilgrimage
The Death of the Prophet (Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him)
The Prophet’s Physical Description and Manner
What Prophet Muhammad (blessings and peace
be upon him) Said About the Environment
What the Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) Said About the Treatment of Animals
What the Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) Said About Relationships With Non-Muslims
The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) and the Appreciation of Women
The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) and his Love for Children
What Non-Muslim Scholars Have Said about Prophet Muhammad
Alphonse de Lamartine in ‘Histoire de la Turquie’, Pans 1854, Vol. 11, pp. 276-77.
Sir George Bernard Shaw in ‘The Genuine Islam,’ Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.
Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy Michael Hart in ‘The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,’ New York, 1978.
The great Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi said:67 Thomas Carlyle, the English writer, said:
He further writes in ‘Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,’ 1840.
Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay write in History of the Saracen Empire, London 1870, p 54.
Gibbon in ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ 1823
Annie Besant writes in The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p 4
W. Montgomery Watt writes in Mohammad At Mecca, Oxford, 1953, p 52
Bosworth Smith writes in Mohammad and Mohammadanism, London 1874, p 92.
James A. Michene ~ Islam: The Misunderstood Religion, Reader’s Digest (American ed.) May 1955, pp. 68-70.
The German Poet, Wolfgang Goethe said: Lane-Poole in ‘Speeches and Table Talk of the Prophet Muhammad’
W.C. Taylor in ‘The History of Muhammadanism and its Sects’
Dr. Gustav Weil in ‘History of the Islamic Peoples’
Washington Irving in ‘Life of Muhammad,’ New York, 1920.
Arthur Glyn Leonard in ‘Islam, Her Moral and Spiritual Values’
Jules Masserman in ‘Who Were History’s Great Leaders?’ in TIME Magazine, July 15, 1974
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