Muhammad (S.A.W)

The Apostle's (SAW) names Muhammad and Ahmad are also mentioned in the Holy Quran:

"Muhammad is naught else but a Messenger."

(Al-i-Imran: 144) "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

(Al-Fateh: 29)

• Ahmad

"And I am the deliverer of the happy news of a Messenger who will rise after me (Jesus) by the name of Ahmad."

(As-Saf f.• 6)

• Foster Mother Halima Sa'adia

It was customary with the noble families of Makkah to send their infants to the desert tribes to be nursed and reared in the healthy climate and to be taught pure Arabic. For this purpose women from desert tribes arrived in Makkah from time to time and took charge of infants of the chiefs at substantial wages and expectation of gratuity at the end of their services. A short while after the Apostle's (SAW) birth some women of Beni Saad bin Bakr (a branch of the Hawazin tribe) came to Makkah to take infants. Among them was Halima binat Zuwaib who was accompanied by

The Apostle's (SAW) names Muhammad and Ahmad are also mentioned in the Holy Quran:

"Muhammad is naught else but a Messenger."

(Al-i-Imran: 144) "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

(Al-Fateh: 29)

• Ahmad

"And I am the deliverer of the happy news of a Messenger who will rise after me (Jesus) by the name of Ahmad."

(As-Saf f.• 6)

• Foster Mother Halima Sa'adia

It was customary with the noble families of Makkah to send their infants to the desert tribes to be nursed and reared in the healthy climate and to be taught pure Arabic. For this purpose women from desert tribes arrived in Makkah from time to time and took charge of infants of the chiefs at substantial wages and expectation of gratuity at the end of their services. A short while after the Apostle's (SAW) birth some women of Beni Saad bin Bakr (a branch of the Hawazin tribe) came to Makkah to take infants. Among them was Halima binat Zuwaib who was accompanied by

koun si dua nahi mangni chahiye

8. His Sacred Name

On the Seventh day Abdul Muttaleb celebrated his Aqiqa in accordance with the Sunnat-i-Ibrahimi (the precedent established by Hazrat Ibrahim). A tradition reports that Khatna (circumcision) was performed on the same occasion. According to another tradition he (SAW) was naturally circumcised at birth. Abdul Muttaleb held a feast for the Quraish. When the people enquired about the name of the Holy babe (SAW), Abdul Muttaleb said:

"He has been named Muhammad." The people then asked: "why did you name him differently from the other members of your family."

"I want him to earn the praise of Allah in the heaven and

1 Monday according to the Lunar calendar.

2 Friday according to the Lunar calendar

 

of Allah's people on the earth."

"To affirm his Excellence Allah derived his name from His own Name. The Lord of the Heaven is Mahmud (The Praiseworthy) and the Apostle is Muhammad (The Praised one)." In other words 'Hamd' (the praise) has a special relation with the Apostle (SAW). His position as intercessor is designated as 'Mahmud'. His Islamic Ummat is called 'Hamadun (the Ummat which offers the highest praise and devotion to the Allah Almighty); and the name of his standard is Lawa al Hamd'. All the praise is for Allah and (Seerat Rehmat al Almeen) praise is to be offered often."

6. The Dream of His Mother

During her pregnancy, Amina dreamt that a light emerged from her body and illuminated the palaces of Syria. In another dream she was told that she carried in her womb the Chief of the Ummat. When he is born she should name him Muhammad (SAW). A tradition quoted by Ibn-i-Sa'ad says that in her dream she was ordained to name her child Ahmad.

1. The Auspicious Birth

   The episode of the Ashab-i-Fil took place in the month of Muharram. Fifty days after this event the Holy Prophet (SAW) was born at dawn on Monday in the renowned Arabian City of Makkah al-Muzzama on 9 Rabi-ul-Awwal' (or according to the popular opinion 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal^z) corresponding to 2 April, 571 A.D.

   Auspicious are his prominent virtues, first and last. All his virtues were manifest on the day of birth. The turrets of Kisra's palace fell. They had to fall. The loyalist had to renounce their loyalty to kings.

THE EPISODE OF THE ASHAB-I-FILL

A short while before the Apostle's(SAW) birth, Abbraha, the christian ruler of the Negro Kingdom of Yemen invaded Makkah with 60,000 troops with the object of razing the house of Allah to the ground. But had he brought sixty hundred thousand troops instead of sixty thousand, he would have met the same fate. At a place where a tremendous plan of Allah was at work to bring into being a person who would change the course of would history, whose prophecy,(the advent of which had been in preparation for thousands of years) was the last and the gratest, the mightiest human power would have been shattered by the Mighty Hand of Allah. The Holy Quran describes the end of the Ashab-i-Fill in these words: Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of theElephant? Did He not cause their plan to end in vain? And sent down on them swams of birds, which pelted them with stones of baked clay. Then He rendered them like straw eaten up ( by cattle) Al-Fil:1-5

MOTHER OF MUHAMMAD (PBUH))

His mother was Amina hint Wahab2 bin Manaf, bin Zuhra, bin Kalab. Her lineage, therefore, merges with the lineage of her husband in the fourth ascendant step in Beni Kalab.

FATHER OF MUHAMMAD(PBUH)

Muhammad (SAW) was the son of Abdullah. His lineage, according to traditions, is as follows: "Muhammad (SAW) bin Abdullah bin Abdul Muttaleb' bin Hashem, bin Abd Manaf, bin Qusai, bin Kalab, bin Mura, bin Ka'ab bin Lauri, bin Ghalib, bin Fahr (Quraish), bin Malik, bin al Naseer, bin Kina'ana, bin Khuzaima, bin Mudarka, bin Ilyas, bin Muzr, bin Nazar bin Maad, bin Adnan."

HAZRAT IBRAHIM (PEACE BE UPON HIM)

Allah to grant him righteous offspring. Granting the prayer, Allah gave him the happy news of a gentle son: "We gave him the good news of a gentle son" (As-Saaffat-101). Hazrat Ibrahim (PBUH) took the infant Ismael (PBUH) and his mother Hazrat Hajra (Allah be pleased with her) to the uninhabited jungle and barren valley of Makkah and left them there. While taking leave of them, he thus prayed for the mother and son: "Lord! I have settled some of my descendants in a barren valley near The Sacred House. Lord! I have done this in the hope that they would establish salat there. So make the hearts of the people yearn towards them, and provide fruits for their good: maybe they become grateful. (Ibrahim; 37) Recall the time when Ibrahim prayed, saying, "Lord! make this city (Makkah) a city of peace, and protect me and my descendants from the worship of idols" (Ibrahim-35). It is reported in Sahalain that the Holy Prophet (SAW) had observed. "From Beni Ismael Allah chose Kina'ana, and from Beni Kaanana, the Quraish and from the Quraish the Beni Hasham and from the Beni Hashim, me." (Mishkat) This tradition establishes that the Holy Prophet (SAW) had descended in a direct line from Hazrat Ismael (PBUH), the eldest son of the progenitor Hazrat Ibrahim (PBUH). Ibn-i-Hisham states that Abu Bakr, Ibn-i-Abbas, Ibn-i-Umar and a section among the Tabeian had reported the Holy Prophet (SAW) as saying: "I am the son of two Zabeehain (those who were to be slaughtered as sacrifice). One was my forebear Ismael and the other my father Abdullah bin Abdul Muttaleb."

A SHORT NOT ON THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD (S,A,W)PART1

Nature had been eclipsed by the dark sins of the world; when flood tides of human ingratitude and rebellion were flowing over land and water. Washing away the edifices built by the God's Messengers, a sacred person ascended the throne of prophecy and from the deserts of the Hejaz and the oases of Makkah raised the call of the Unity of God which resounded in the valleys of the Safa'a and Fara'an Mountains. The call arose from the desert of Hejaz and began to reverberate through the four corners of the world. This heart warming call was: "Allah; He is the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of the Universe: in reality there is no god but He." (Al-i-Imran: 1) (4) The roar of this call t(, it uth blew away the clouds of polytheism and evil innovation, disbelief and error, sin and evil. The call to Truth and the Cry of Allah is one! rose on the horizon and the hymn of one Allah resounded in the garden of the universe banishing autumn and ushering in the spring. As the Sun of Islam rose, the dark night of savagery and barbarism faded away; the oppressed humanity, relieved of tyranny and exploitation, began to enjoy the blessing of true freedom. 2. Hazrat Ibrahim (peace be on him) It is an historically established fact that the family of Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) descended from that branch of Ibrahim (PBUH) lineage which issued from his eldest son Hazrat Ismael (PBUH) and is known as Beni Ismael. Hazrat Ibrahim (PBUH) was born in 2100 B.C. in the city of Ur ir4 Iraq. This city was not only the capital of the dynasty of Nimrood, but was also a centre of trade and culture and a citadel of disbelief and polytheism. Here Allah raised Ibrahim (PBUH) to the dignity of prophethood. Hazrat Ibrahim (PBUH) by the grace of Allah survived the fiery ordeal into which Nimrood had put him. Losing hope in his people, Ibrahim emigrated from his home and prayed to

A SHORT NOTE ON THE LIFE of Muhammad (S.A,W)

This chapter gives a brief account of the life of Muhammad (SAW) so as to acquaint the reader with the life history and prophetic advent of that Mercy for Mankind, Leader of Divine Messengers and the last of the prophets who had been raised by Allah as Messenger, Guide, Leader, Pattern and Model of Perfect Man for the entire human race. It is the Excellent Example of this august person which forms the subject of this book. 1. The Condition of Arabia and Ajam (Non-Arab Countries) at the Advent of the Holy Prophet (SAW) (1) On the eve of the Prophetic advent of Muhammad (SAW) the entire human world was enveloped in various layers of darkness. Savagery and brutality were the order of the day. Polytheism and idolatry polluted the atmosphere of the whole world. The once resplendent civilizations of Egypt, India, Babylonia, Nineveh, Greece and China had fallen into decay. Roman and Persian civilizations were still in the ascendant. Their outward glory but masked the rule of jungle law. The rulers had installed themselves as deities of the people. The feudalist-capitalist classes and self appointed guardians of religion were active collaborators of I Adapted from 'Mohsin-i-lnsaniyat', pp. 19-21.these god-kings. This triumvirate preyed upon the people without mercy. They put them to work like beasts of burden and made merry on the fruits of their labour. The blood thirsty fiends, however, had no panacea for the ills of the people. They had no moment to spare for listening to the groans of their victims, let alone feeling sympathy for their plight. (2) The conditions in Arabia were not dissimilar. In the times of the Aad and the Thamud and the Empires of Saba, Aden and Yemen the Arabian civilisation had reached its zenith, yet it too had deteriorated giving place to savagery and brutality. Chaos reigned everywhere. The people were given to fights, plunder, liquor, dice and fornication. Class conflict was raging in full fury. On the one hand the Quraish who were polytheists and idolaters had set themselves up in business as guardians of the Ka'aba; and on the other the Jews were trading in philosophical and legalistic polemics. The bankers of Makkah and Taif had spread the nets of usury on the one side and on the other the business of slav­ery was thriving without restraint. In short it was impossible to recognize man from the beast, nay man had fallen from humanity and sunk below the animal culture. Not justice and equity but the law of `Might is Right' reigned supreme. God's earth was riven with the mischief,' which is portrayed by the Holy Quran thus: "Mischief has appeared in the land and the sea on account of men's doings that he may make them taste some of their (evil) works: maybe they mend their ways. (0 Prophet) say to them; Go about in the land and see what has been the end of those who lived before (you). Most of them were mushriks (idolaters)." (Ar-Rum: 41-42) (3) In short, when the people had forgotten their Lord, when their consciences were dead; when the real beauty of