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Habib u'l A'zam, Imam u'l Ambiya Sayyidina Muhammad (Sallallahu alaihi wa Sallam) ibn ‘Abd
Allāh (Arabic: محمد Muḥammad; also Mohammed,
Muhammed) (570 [Mecca] - 632 CE [Madina])
is the
last messenger (Rasul) and prophet (Nabi ) of God (Arabic: الله
Allah). Muslims do
not believe that he (pbuh) was the creator of a new religion Islam, but the restorer of the
original, uncorrupted monotheistic faith of Adam (pbuh), Abraham (pbuh) and others. He is the last and the greatest in a series of
prophets in
Islam. The name Muhammad (pbuh) literally
means "Praiseworthy". Although the
Qur'an sometimes declines to make a distinction among prophets, in Surah 33:40 it singles out Muhammad
(pbuh) as the "Seal of the
Prophets". The
Qur'an also refers to Muhammad (pbuh) as "Ahmad" (Surah 61:6) (Arabic :أحمد), Arabic for "more praiseworthy". Muhammad (pbuh)
traced his genealogy as follows :
Muhammad (pbuh) was born into the Quraysh tribe. He was the son of Abd Allah,
son of Abd al-Muttalib
(Shaiba) son of Hashim (Amr) ibn
Abd Manaf (al-Mughira) son of Qusai (Zaid) ibn Kilab ibn Murra son of Ka'b ibn
Lu'ay son of Ghalib ibn Fahr (Quraysh) son of Malik ibn
an-Nadr (Qais) the son of Kinana son of Khuzaimah son of Mudrikah (Amir) son of
Ilyas son of Mudar
son of Nizar son of Ma'ad ibn Adnan, whom the northern Arabs believe to be
their common ancestor. Adnan in
turn is said to have been a descendant of Ismael, son of Abraham.
Muhammad (pbuh) was born into the family of
Banu Hashim, one of the better class
families of Mecca. His birthday is considered by Sunni Muslims to have been
the 12th day of the month of Rabi'-ul-Awwal, the third month of the
Islamic calendar. His father, Abdullah, died almost six months before he
was born. He was wetnursed by Thuwaybah and
Halimah bint
Abdullah. At the age of six, he lost his mother Aamina
bint Wahb az-Zuhriyya to illness and became fully orphaned. He was subsequently brought up for two years under
the guardianship of his paternal grandfather Abd al-Muttalib. When
he was eight, his grandfather also died. Young Muhammad (pbuh) now came under
the care and guardianship of his uncle Abu Talib. While still in his teens, Muhammad
(pbuh) began
accompanying his uncle on trading journeys to Syria gaining some experience in
commercial career. Since childhood he was meek, sincere, hardworking and honest.
He was considered wise, noble and honest among the people at that time.
He was given the nickname "Al-Amin" (Arabic: الامين),
meaning "faithful, trustworthy" and was sought out as an impartial arbitrator. His
reputation attracted a proposal from Khadijah
bint Khuwaylid or Khadijah al-Kubra (R.A), a
forty-year-old widow in 595 CE.
Muhammad (pbuh) only 26 at that time, consented to the marriage. This marriage
was "long" & "happy" and lasted for 25 years. After her death in 619, friends of
Muhammad (pbuh) advised him to marry again, but he was reluctant to do so.
Later, Muhammad (pbuh) married additional wives, most of them widows,
making a total of eleven. Most of the marriages aimed at providing a
livelihood to widows (at that time it was hard for widows to remarry in a
culture that emphasized virgin marriages). Only two of Muhammad's (pbuh) wives bore him children. Khadijah
(R.A) bore him four daughters and two sons.
Sons:
- Qasim ibn Muhammad , died
in childhood at the age of two.
- Abd-Allah (Taher) ibn
Muhammad , also died in childhood.
Daughters: From Khadija the Prophet Muhammad had four
daughters:
- Zainab who was married to
her maternal cousin Abu Al-'As bin Al-Rabi' and that was
before Al-Hijra .
- Ruqayya was married to
Uthman ibn Affan .
- Umm Kulthum too was
married to Uthman ibn Affan after the death of her sister
Ruqayya .
- Fatimah the youngest was
married to 'Ali bin Abi Talib .
Maria al-Qibtiyya (R.A) bore him a son
named Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, but the child died
when he was ten months old. All except two of Muhammad's (pbuh) daughters,
Fatimah and Zainab died before him. Descendants of Muhammad (pbuh) are known as sharifs
شريف (plural: ِأشراف
Ashraaf) or sayyid.
At some point, discontented
with life in Mecca, he (pbuh) retreated to a cave in Mount Hira near Mecca for
meditation and reflection. According to Islamic tradition, it was here at the age
of 40, in the month of Ramadan, where he received his
first revelation from Allāh. The angel Gabriel commanded Muhammad (pbuh)
to recite the following verses:
Proclaim! (or read!) in the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who
created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood: Proclaim! And
thy Lord is Most Bountiful,- He Who taught (the use of) the pen,- Taught man
that which he knew not. (Surah 96:1-5)
Upon receiving his first
revelations he was deeply distressed. When he returned home he narrated the
event to his wife Khadijah (R.A), and
told her that he contemplated throwing himself off the top of a mountain. He was
consoled and reassured by Khadijah (R.A) and her Christian cousin, Waraqah ibn Nawfal.
This was followed by a pause of three years during which Muhammad (pbuh) had
gave himself up further to prayers and spiritual practices.
When the revelations resumed he was reassured and commanded to begin preaching
(Surah 93:1-11).
Muhammad
(pbuh) started
preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "Allāh is One", that complete
"surrender" to Him (lit. islām) is the only
religion (dīn) acceptable
to Allāh, and that he (pbuh) was a prophet and messenger of Allāh, in the same vein as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, and other prophets (pbut).
According to the Muslim tradition, Muhammad's
(pbuh) wife Khadija (R.A) was the first to
believe he was a prophet. She
was soon followed by Muhammad's (pbuh) ten-year-old cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A), close friend Abu Bakr (R.A), and
adopted son Zaid (R.A). Muhammad (pbuh) gained few followers early on, and was largely met with hostility
from the tribes of Mecca; he was treated harshly and so were his followers.
Tradition
records at great length the persecution and ill-treatment to Muhammad (pbuh) and his
followers.
Sumayya bint Khubbat, a slave of Abū Jahl and a prominent Meccan leader, is
famous as the first martyr of Islam, having been killed with a spear by her
master when she refused to give up her faith. Bilal ibn Ribah, another Muslim
slave, suffered torture at the hands of Umayya ibn khalaf by placing a heavy
rock on his chest to force his conversion. When oppression became intolerable
for his followers, Muhammed (pbuh) first asked his fellow Muslims to migrate to Yathrib (Medina), a large agricultural
oasis, in the year 622 and
later himself migrated to Medina away from the
oppressors in Mecca. This historic
event, the Hijra, marks the beginning
of the Islamic calendar. In
Medina, Muhammad (pbuh) managed to unite the conflicting tribes, and after eight years
of fighting with the Meccan tribes, his followers, who by then had grown to ten
thousand, conquered Mecca. Muhammad
(pbuh)
served not just
as a prophet, but also as a military
leader who helped defeat the Meccans in 624 during the Battle of Badr. He
continued to lead the Muslims as Islam spread
across the Arabian
Peninsula. In 632, on returning to Medina from his
'Farewell
pilgrimage', Muhammad (pbuh) fell ill and died. By the time of his death,
most of Arabia had converted to Islam.
The revelations (or Ayats, lit. Signs of
God), which Muhammad (pbuh) received till his death, form the verses of
the Holy Qur'an, regarded by
Muslims as the “word of God”, around which the religion is based. Besides the
Qur'an, Muhammad’s (pbuh) life (sira) and traditions (sunnah) are also
upheld by Muslims.
The Qur'an refers to Muhammad (pbuh)
as "a mercy (rahmat) to the worlds"
[Qur'an 21:107]
Masjid-e-Nabvi
Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) said, "We (Muslims) are the
last (to come) but (will be) the foremost on the Day of
Resurrection though the former nations were given the Holy
Scriptures before us. And this was their day (Friday) the
celebration of which was made compulsory for them but they
differed about it. So Allah gave us the guidance for it
(Friday) and all the other people are behind us in this
respect: the Jews' (holy day is) tomorrow (i.e. Saturday) and
the Christians' (is) the day after tomorrow (i.e.
Sunday)."
Ghaar-e-Hira
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The Biography of
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
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When the Moon
Split
This
picture shows the location of the "Rocky Belt" which shows the
moon was once split.
The unbelievers of Makkah said to the prophet that
if you are truly a prophet split the moon and if you do we
shall believe. It was a full moon that night...And so the
prophet prayed to Allah to grant him this miracle, and the
moon was split. Half was seen over Mount. Saffa, and the other
half was seen over Mount. Kaikaan.
The people said that the prophet has placed a spell on
us, however if he played a trick on us, then he cant play a
trick on all the people in the world! Abu Jahl then said: "let
us wait until the people of Albadiah come, and if they saw the
moon split, then it is true, if not then we all know it was a
trick of magic. When the
people of Albadiah came they said that they too saw the moon
split, and the disbelievers said "oh, how powerful Mohammad's
magic is!"
Then
Allah revealed Surat al Qamar: "The hour has come near and the
moon has split, and when they see a sign, they turn and say
'this is a continuous magic' and they disbelieved and followed
their desires..."
This took
place in the days of the prophet Muhammad in Makkah
In one
of Dr. Zaghlool Al-Najaar's seminars, in one of the British
universities said: "The miracle of the plitting of the moon
has been proven recently"... " One of the British brothers who
is very concerned about the state of Islam "Dawood Musa" who
is the new chairman of the British Muslims party who is
planning to enter the coming elections under the banner of
islam, which is spreading extremely fast in the west said
"While he was searching for a religion, a friend gave him a
copy of the Quran translated in english. He opened it and came
across surat Al-Qamar and read "The hour has come and the moon
has split", looking at this he said 'The moon has split?!' He
then stopped reading and did not open it again.
Then one day while watching a program on the BBC,
The broadcaster was talking with three American scientists,
and the broadcaster was blaming America for spending billons
of dollars on space projects, in a time where millions of
people are suffering from poverty.
The scientists were trying to explain why it is
important to go into space exploration
Soon the scientists came to discuss the most expensive
trip to the moon, which costed about 100 billion dollars, so
the broadcaster asked them "So to put the American flag on the
moon you spent this much internal structure of the moon to see
what similarities it has with the Earth, and they said that
they were surprised to find a 'Belt of Rocks' that goes from
the surface of the moon right to the inner depths.
Being quite surprised, they gave this information
to their geologists, who were also surprised, as they
concluded that this couldn't be unless the moon was once split
and resealed. The rocks on the belt are a result of the impact
during the time that the two halves of the moon recombined.
Watching this brother Dawood Mussa jumped off his
seat screaming "This is Muhammad's miracle which occurred more
than 1400 years ago, and now the Americans are spending
billions of dollars to prove it to the Muslims. He then said
"This must surely be a true religion, and so, where once Surat
Al-Qamar was a cause for him disbeleiving in Islam, it was now
the reason for his embracing Islam...
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Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
(s.a.w.)
Selected
and Translated by Shaykh Kabir Helminski
--I heard
Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) saying, "We (Muslims) are the last
(to come) but (will be) the foremost on the Day of
Resurrection though the former nations were given the Holy
Scriptures before us. And this was their day (Friday) the
celebration of which was made compulsory for them but they
differed about it. So Allah gave us the guidance for it
(Friday) and all the other people are behind us in this
respect: the Jews' (holy day is) tomorrow (i.e. Saturday) and
the Christians' (is) the day after tomorrow (i.e. Sunday)."
-- ISLAM began as something strange, and it will become
thus again, as it was at the beginning. Blessed, therefore,
are the strangers.
(He was asked who the strangers
are:)
The strangers are those who restore what the people
have corrupted of my law, as well as those who revive what has
been destroyed of it.
-- You will not enter paradise until you believe, and
you will not believe until you love one another.
Let me
guide you to something in the doing of which you will love one
another.
Give a greeting to everyone among you.
-- I was delegated as a prophet to perfect moral
virtues.
-- Good character is half of faith.
-- God is merciful to those who show mercy to
others.
-- Power consists not in being able to strike another,
but in being able to control oneself when anger
arises.
-- Honor your children and thus improve their
manners.
-- The three best things:
to
be humble amidst the vicissitudes of
fortune;
to pardon when
powerful;
to be generous with no
strings attached.
-- Whoever does not express his gratitude to people
will never be grateful to God.
-- The best people are those who are most useful to
others.
-- Living among others is a cause for blessing, while
seclusion is the cause of torment.
-- Happy is the person who finds fault with himself
instead of finding fault with others.
-- From morning until night and from night until
morning keep your heart free from malice towards
anyone.
-- A perfect Muslim is one from whose tongue and hands
mankind is safe.
-- Islam is purity of speech and
hospitality.
-- Every religion has a distinctive virtue and the
distinctive virtue of Islam is modesty.
-- Greet those whom you know and those whom you don't
know.
-- When asked what was most excellent in a human being,
he answered, "A friendly disposition."
Masjid
Nabvi (Sunehri Jaliyan)
-- The best of God's servants are those who when seen
remind you of God; and the worst of God's servants are those
who spread tales to do mischief and
separate friends, and look for the faults of the
good.
-- Whoever believes in one God and the Hereafter, let
him speak what is good or remain silent.
-- He is the best Muslim whose disposition is most
liked by his own family.
-- Respect the guest and do not inconvenience your
neighbors. The faithful are as one person. If a man complains
of a pain in his head, his whole body complains; and if his
eye complains, his whole body complains.
-- He is not of us who is not affectionate to the
little ones and does not respect the reputation of the
old.
-- Truly, the farthest seat from me on the day of
resurrection will be the garrulous, those who talk glibly, and
those who talk tall. And who is it that talk tall? The
vain-glorious.
-- God is gentle and loves gentleness.
-- Inscribed on the prophet's sword:
Forgive him who
wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to him who does
evil to you;
and speak the truth even if it be against
yourself.
-- Whoever restrains his anger when he has the power to
show it, God will give him a great reward.
-- Backbiting is more grievous than adultery,
and God
will not forgive the backbiter until the one wronged has
forgiven him.
-- Keep yourselves far from envy, because it eats up
and takes away good actions as
fire
consumes and burns the wood.
-- What actions are most excellent?
To gladden the
heart of a human being,
to feed the hungry, to help the
afflicted,
to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to
remove the wrongs of the injured.
Seal of Hazrat Mohammad Mustafa Sallalla Hu
Alaihewalsm
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Our
Prophet : Enes Ibn Malik reports that a Bedouin came to the
Messenger of Allah and greeted him in the Masjid. The
Messenger of Allah asked him where he came from. The Bedouin
said:" I came from far, seeking answers to some
questions".
Our master told him to ask his
questions:
"I wish to be an intelligent
man, what should I do?"
Holy Prophet
replied, "Fear Allah".
"I wish to be a
loyal servant to Allah and do what He wants me to
do?"
Holy Prophet
replied, "Read the Koran."
"I wish to be
enlightened and have peace of heart?"
Holy Prophet replied, "Remember
Death".
"I wish to be
protected against enemies?"
Holy
Prophet replied, "Trust in
Allah".
"I wish to follow
the Straight Path?
" Holy Prophet
replied, "Do good to others for Allah's
sake".
"What should I do
so that Allah does not abase me?"
Holy
Prophet replied, "Do not respond to the desires of your
flesh".
"I wish to have a
long life?"
Holy Prophet replied,
"Praise and thank Allah".
"I wish for
prosperity?"
Holy Prophet replied, "Be
in a state of ablution at all
times".
"How can I save
myself from the hellfire?"
Holy Prophet
replied, "Protect your eyes and your tongue and your hands and
what is below your waistline against
evil".
"How can I
cleanse myself from my sins?"
Holy
Prophet replied, "Shed tears for what you have done and repent
by undoing what you have done
wrong".
"I wish to be a
respectable person?"
Holy Prophet
replied, "Then don't ask for anything from
anybody".
"I wish to be
honorable?"
Holy Prophet replied, "Then
don't divulge the wrong doings of
anybody".
"What should I do
to protect myself from the tortures of the
grave?"
Holy Prophet
replied, "Recite the Surah Mulk".
"What should one
do to be rich?"
Holy Prophet replied,
"Read the Surah Muzammil".
"How should I
calm my fear of the day of last judgment?"
Holy Prophet replied, "Remember Allah before you
eat anything and before you
sleep".
"What should I do
to feel the presence of Allah when I make my
prayers?"
Holy Prophet replied, "Give
the utmost care in taking your ablutions and in being clean
and pure".
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PROPHETS &
THEIR AGES :-
Hazrat
Idrees (Alaihi Salaam) : Three-hundred
and fifty-six (356) years
Hazrat Nooh
(Alaihi Salaam) (Noha) : Nine-hundred and
fifty (950) years
Hazrat Hud
(Alaihi Salaam) : Two-hundred and
sixy-five (265) years
Hazrat
Saaleh (Alaihi Salaam) : Five-hundred and
eighty-six (586) years
Hazrat
Ayyoob (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
forty-six (146) years
Hazrat
Shoayb (Alaihi Salaam) : Eight-hundred
and eighty-two (882) years
Hazrat
Ibraaheem (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
ninety-five (195) years
Hazrat
Sulaimaan (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
fifty (150) years
Hazrat
Zakariyya (Alaihi Salaam) : Two-hundred and
seven (207) years
Hazrat
Ya'qoob (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
thirty-nine (139) years
Hazrat Moosa
(Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
twenty-five (125) years
Hazrat
Ishaaq (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
twenty (120) years
Hazrat
Haaroon (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
nineteen (119) years
Hazrat
Ismaaéel (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
thirty-seven (137) years
Hazrat
Yuusuf (Alaihi Salaam) : One-hundred and
ten (110) years
Hazrat Yahya
(Alaihi Salaam) : Ninety-five (95)
years
Hazrat
Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) : Sixty-three (63)
years
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