Adel ibn Ali Al-Shiddy – AbdulRazaq Maash
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The Needs Of Humanity In The Mission Of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): This is
a research that was developed to answer the Westerners who presently
asking what new aspects Prophet Muhammad -peace be upon him- offered to
the world?
Some Westerners are presently asking what
new aspects Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) offered to the world. Undoubtedly,
all those who conveyed great messages were great in themselves, great in
their lives. And although they appeared during specific periods of
history, they left their mark, not only on their own societies, but on
the history of the entire world.
Among them was our Prophet, Muhammad
(PBUH).The outstanding feature of his greatness lies in the fact that he
was the bearer of a divine monotheistic message. It was a comprehensive
message aimed basically at the amendment of human life, shifting it
from barbarism and paganism to a monotheistic civilization based on
certainty of faith.
Will Durant, the American research scholar and author of “The Story of Civilization”, wrote:
“When we judge greatness by what effect a
great person left on people, we could say that Muhammad (Peace Be Upon
Him) was one of the greatest figures in history. For he took it upon
himself to elevate the spiritual and moral level of a people cast into
the shadows of savagery by the heat and aridity of the desert. He
succeeded in the realization of that goal on a scale never achieved by
any other reformer in history. Very seldom do we find someone who
actually achieved that of which he dreamt. It was not merely because he
was an extremely religious person, but because there was no influence
other than that of religion which motivated the Arabs of that time to
follow the path he pursued. When he began his mission, the land of
Arabia was an arid desert inhabited by a few disunited polytheistic
tribes. But by the time of his death it had become a unified, cohesive
nation. He had tamed the anarchy of fanaticism and superstition and
established a religion over Judaism, Christianity and the ancient
beliefs of his land that was uncomplicated, lucid and powerful, a
bastion of morality, honesty, valor and national honor. Within a single
generation he was able to triumph in a hundred battles, to found a great
nation within one century, and remain until this day a formidable power
throughout half of the world.”
We, of the Program for
Introducing the Prophet of Mercy (PBUH) , consider it among our
obligations to answer the questions pertaining to what Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) offered to the world and to humanity with reference to the topics
that follow.
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