Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)
The Seal of Prophethood and the Guiding
Light for the Entire Universe
Name
Muhammad (PBUH)
Titles
Rasul-Allah, Habib-Allah, al-Mustafa,
Rahmatul-lil-‘Alameen
Kunya
Abul Qasim
Father
Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Mother
Bibi Amina bint Wahb
Birth
17th Rabi al-Awwal, Year of the Elephant
(570 CE), Mecca
Martyrdom
28th Safar, 11 AH (632 CE), at the age of 63.
Burial place
Medina, beside Masjid al-Nabawi
LINEAGE
The oldest and noblest tribe in the whole of Arabia was Banu Hashim. They were the descendants of Ibrahim through his son Isma”il. The Arabs respected and loved them for their goodness, knowledge, and bravery. And they were the followers of the Religion called Deen e Hanif , Which was Propogated by the Prophets through their Lineage, and the Most Respected & Authenticated Religion till the Proclaimation of ISLAM.
“ABD AL-MUTTALIB”
“Abd al-Muttalib was the chieftain of Banu Hashim and he was also the Guardian of the Ka”bah. Among his ten sons, “Abdullah was the father of the Holy Prophet.
BIRTH OF HAZRAT MUHAMMAD PBUH :
In Mecca, a baby boy named Muhammad was born on 17th Rabi” al-Awwal, 570 AD. His father “Abdullah, son of “Abd al-Muttalib, died before he was born and when he was six, he lost his loving mother Aminah bint Wahab. His Grandfather, “Abd al-Muttalib, took the responsibility of bringing up the orphan. At the age of ten, he was berefted of his venerable grandfather. On his deathbed, he appointed his son Abu Talib as the guardian of Muhammad. As a gentle, soft spoken, tall and handsome boy, Muhammad, accompanied the trading caravans of Abu Talib, across the deserts, giving him deep insight into nature and man.
BIBI KHADIJAH s.a
Muhammad, accompanied the trading caravans of Abu Talib, across the deserts, giving him deep insight into nature and man. At that time a wealthy noble lady Khadijah, was looking for a manager for her rich mercantile caravans, selected Muhammad (SW) as her manager. The able and fair dealing Prophet Muhammad (SW) was a tremendous success. Khadijah already an admirer of Prophet Muhammad (SW), made him an offer of marriage. At the time of Marriage Prophet Muhammad (SW) was twenty five and Khadijah forty. In spite of this disparity in age, the marriage proved to be a very Successful & happy one.
THE PROPHETHOOD
Lover of nature and quite worrried about human sufferings, Muhammad (SW) often retreated to Mount Hira” for meditation. One night – Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of Majesty) – a voice addressing him, commanded
“Recite in the name of thy Lord.”
(As the Prophet is born a Prophet, and proven by the Earlier Prophets likea Adam, Moses, Jesus , As Jesus is considered, he was born without father , and Bibi Maryam , who was a very pious lady, and from a Noble Lineage , when was asked about the Birth of a Child to her, as commanded By the God , She Just pointed towards Newly Born Child , and The Newly Born Child , Jesus answered them Himself that ” I’m the Servant of God. He has Given me the Book, and Made me a Prophet.)
So the Prophet Muhammad ( PBUH) was also a Prophet at the time of Birth, When he was married to Bibi Khadija s.a. At the age of 40 in the cave of Hira, he received the first revelation.
And as Again told in the Holy Quran ,That “He doesn’t Speak out of his own desire” or whim , Rather whatever he says ” is the revelation sent down to him from God”
So He returned home to his wife, Khadijah, who listened to him attentively and said that
“I bear witness that you are the Apostle of God.”
After an interval, the voice from heaven spoke again
“O thou shrouded in thy mantle, arise, and warn, and magnify thy Lord.”
This was a signal for him to start preaching the gospel of truth of One God. In the beginning Muhammad (SW) invited only those near him, to accept the new Faith. The first to testify Islam was Khadijah and next it was Hazrat Ali (AS). Soon after, Zayd ibn al-Harithah became a convert to the new Faith. For three long years, he labored quietly to wean his people from the worship of idols and drew only thirty followers. Prophet Muhammad (SW) then decided to appeal publicly to the Quraysh to give up idol worship and embrace Islam. The new Faith, is simple without complications, practical, and useful for everyday life. It commands to believe and do good, to keep up prayer and to pay the poor tax (alms). Almost ten years of hard work and preaching, in spite of all persecution, produced over a hundred followers, physical cruelties and social boycott made life unbearable in Mecca. The Holy Prophet of Islam advised his followers, to seek refuge in the neighboring country of Ethiopia. Eighty eight men and eighteen women sailed to the hospitable shores of the Negus, under the leadership of Ja”far at-Tayyar (brother of “Ali) and the cousin of the Holy Prophet. several times the chieftains of the tribes of Infidels came to Abu Talib saying,
“We respect your age and rank, but we have no further patience with your nephew. Stop him or we shall fight YOU.” Abu Talib conveyed the messages of Mushikeen Makkah to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for his decision. With tears in his eyes, the Apostle firmly replied, “O my uncle! If they place the sun on my right hand and the moon on my left, to force me to renounce my mission, I will not desist until God manifests His cause or I perish in the attempt.”
YEAR OF TRAGEDIES
In a period of troubles, trials and tribulations two major tragedies afflicted Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). First the venerable guardian uncle Abu Talib died and shortly afterwards his noble wife Khadijah died, leaving behind her daughter Fatimah (peace be on her) – the only child she had from the Holy Prophet – the daughter who looked after her father so much so that the prophet called her Umm Abiha (the mother of her father).
MUSLIM ERA
With the death of the old patriarch Abu Talib, the Meccans planned to assassinate the prophet. But Under Divine guidance, he asked “Ali to sleep in his bed and the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) put his green Shroud ( garment ) on “Ali. While the murderers mistook “Ali for Muhammad, the Holy Prophet of Islam descended to Medina. The Muslim era of Hijrah (Emigration) is named after this incident and dated from 17th Rabi” al-Awwwal, 622 AD. From the time he came to Medina, he was the grandest figure upon whom the light of history has ever shone. We shall now see him as the King of men, the ruler of human hearts, chief law-giver and supreme judge. The Preacher who went without bread, was mightier than the mightiest sovereigns of the earth. No emperor with his tiaras was obeyed, as this man in a cloak of his own clothing. He laid the foundation of the Muslim commonwealth and drew up a charter which has been acknowledged as the work of highest statesmanship, a master-mind not only of his age, but of all ages. Unlike the Arabs, the Prophet, had never wielded a weapon, but now he was forced to defend Islam by force of arms. Commencing from the battle of Badr, a series of eighty battles had to be fought, which the infant community defended successfully.
BATTLE OF UHUD
Next year, Abu Sufyan, the famous long-lived enemy of Islam, again attacked the Muslims at Uhud. Hamzah, the first flag-bearer of Islam and uncle of the Prophet, was killed in action. In spite of strict instructions from the Prophet, a few Muslim soldiers Disobeyed the Prophet and deserted their post, when victory was in sight. This changed the course of the battle. Khalid ibn al-Walid attacked the Prophet and the grave situation was saved by the timely arrival of “Ali. Who fought bravely with the enemies of Islam, and he fought with such authority that the enemies had to retreat. The enemies ran away and the issue was decided. Prophet Muhammad PBUH was deeply grieved at the death of Hamzah.
PEACE TREATY OF HUDAYBIYYAH
The Muslims had been in self-exile for six years and began to feel a keen yearning for their homeland, Mecca. The Prophet desired to perform a pilgrimage to Kasbah. When he forsook his home town he was weak, but when he wanted to return, he was strong. He did not use his strength to force an entry into the sacred city. Finding the Quraysh hostile, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) entered into a treaty Known as the Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, appearing not very advantageous to the Newly Converted Muslims , who had even earlier disobeyed the Prophet Muhammad , in the Battle Field of UHUD , even tried to disrupt the Peace process , and tried to interfere in the Wisdom of the Prophet , but the Peace Treaty which revealed the Islamic character of moderation and magnanimity. For the strong to exercise restraint and toleration is true courage. Having reached up to the door of their birth place with hearts over-flowing with impatient longing to enter it, the Muslims retraced their steps peacefully to Medina, under the terms of the treaty, which allowed them to perform the pilgrimage next year.
CONQUER OF MECCA
In The 8th year AH, the idolaters violated the Peace Treaty of Hudaybiyyah by attacking the Muslims. The enemies were defeated and Mecca was conquered. The Prophet who fled from Mecca in the cover of the Night, now returned home as a mighty conqueror. The Rahmatun lil “Alamin (mercy unto all beings of the Universe, i.e., the Prophet ) entered the city with his head bowed low in thankfulness to the Almighty (Allah) and ordered a general amnesty, instead of the mass massacre of those who persecuted him and his followers.
WIVES of PROPHET MUHAMMAD PBUH
A great number of Muslim soldiers were killed in battles at Badr, Uhud, Khaybar, Hunayn and other places, leaving behind young wives and children. The serious problem of taking care of the widows and orphans, threatened to break up the moral fabric of the Muslim Society. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) decided to marry these widows and set an example for his followers to do likewise.
LAST HOLY PILGRIMAGE
Under the Divine intuition of his approaching end, Muhammad prepared to make the farewell pilgrimage to Mecca. Before completing all the ceremonies of Hajj, he addressed a huge multitude from the top of mount “Arafat on 8th Dhi al-hijjah, 11 AH, in words which shall ever ring and live in the atmosphere. After finishing the hajj the Holy Prophet started for Medina. On his way, at Ghadir Khumm the Voice from Heaven cried:
“O Apostle! deliver what has been revealed to you from your Lord; and if you do it not, then you have not delivered His message and Allah will protect you from the people, surely Allah will not guide the unbelieving people”. (5:67)
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) immediately ordered Bilal to recall the Muslims, who had gone ahead, who were behind and who were proceeding to their homes at the junction, to assemble. And as the Assembly was formulated , and the gathering was complete , a Huge Stage was formed , and after which the Prophet Muhammad PBUH , took HAZRAT ALI a.s , with him , and addressed all the Muslims and Announced The Leader of the Faithfuls , when he departs , in the words as narrated By The famous Sunni mutakallim and commentator, Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi in his At-Tafsir al-Kabir, vol. 12, pp. 49-50, writes that the Prophet took “Ali by the hand and said:
“Whoever whose mawla (master) I am, “Ali is his master. O Allah! Love him who loves “Ali, and be the enemy of the enemy of “Ali; help him who helps “Ali, and forsake him who forsakes “Ali.”
MARTYRDOM OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD PBUH :
On His return to Medina, he got busy settling the organization of the provinces and the tribes which had adopted Islam. But as His strength rapidly failed and the poison (administered by one of his wives) took its deadly toll. So ended the life dedicated to the service of God and humanity from first to last, on 28th Safar, 11 AH.
On the 15th of Safar, 11 A.H. he was poisoned. In his final days, he gave his community a last piece of counsel: that if he owed anyone anything, they should come forward and ask for it, and if he had wronged anyone, they were free to take retribution. He passed away with his head resting on Ali’s chest, on the 28th of Safar, 11 AH, and was buried where he died, in the chamber of his house beside what is now Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
On the 28th of Safar, the Muslim world marks the anniversary on which the last Prophet, Messenger of Allah left this world. It is a day of grief layered upon grief – for it is also, in Shia memory, the day Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (a.s), his elder grandson, was martyred by poison. Two griefs converge on this one date, and that convergence feels less like a coincidence rather more of a synchronicity.
The humble Preacher had risen to be the ruler of Arabia. The Prophet of Islam not only inspired reverence, but love owing to his humility, nobility, purity, austerity, refinement and devotion to duty. The Master inspired all who came into contact with him. He shared his scanty food; he began his meals in the Name of Allah and finished them uttering thanks; he loved the poor and respected them; he would visit the sick and comfort the heart broken; he treated his bitterest enemies with clemency and forbearance, but the offenders against society were administered justice; his intellectual mind was remarkably progressive and he said that man could not exist without constant efforts. There is no god but One God and Muhammad is the Apostle of God, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his descendants.
Habib of Allah
Among the Prophet’s titles, none is repeated with more love in Muslim devotion than Habib Allah — the Beloved of Allah. The Quran affirms in Surah Aal-e-Imran, Allah instructs him to tell the believers: “Say: if you love Allah, then follow me — Allah will love you” (3:31) — making closeness to the Prophet the very condition of being loved by God. And in Surah al-Qalam, Allah says to him directly: “And indeed, you are of a great moral character” (68:4), a verse the exegetes read as God’s own praise of the one He sent. Around these verses, a vast hadith tradition — cited in collections such as al-Darimi’s Muqaddima and al-Tirmidhi’s Manaqib — records the Prophet describing his own station: “Ibrahim is Khalil-Allah; Musa is Safiyy-Allah; I am Habib-Allah.” It is this inheritance of Quran and hadith together, not a single verse in isolation, that gave the Muslim world the name it turns to him with most tenderly: the Beloved.
The gleaming light, first of the Panjtan
In Shia belief, the Prophet is remembered not only as a man raised up in history, but as light itself — the first light Allah brought into being, before the sun, before the throne, before time as creation knows it. A narration transmitted from the companion Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari —has the Prophet saying: “O Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet, from His own light.” This light, in the teaching of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir and Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq, did not belong to Muhammad (PBUH) alone. It was carried, undivided, through Ali (a.s), Fatima (s.a), Hasan (a.s), and Husayn (a.s) — the Panjtan Pak, the Five Pure Souls — with Muhammad bearing prophethood and his four companions in light bearing the wilayah, the guardianship, that continues through the Imams after him.
This is why Shia devotion holds that the universe itself was not made apart from their love. Whatever meaning creation has — every mind that comes to know, every heart that comes to feel safe, every soul that comes to worship — is said to run back to this single source of light. And it is why the tradition insists that no one reaches Allah by bypassing the one He sent to show the way. The Prophet is described as a torch, not a destination in himself, but the only light by which the destination becomes visible at all. Whatever brightness exists anywhere in the world — enlightenment in a mind, peace in a heart, joy in a life — is, in this understanding, nothing but a sadqah, an unearned gift, flowing from these five pure beings whose love, tradition holds, the universe itself was built to hold
What the poets say
Devotional poetry across the Muslim world returns again and again to this idea — that Muhammad, and the Ahl al-Bayt with him, are the very reason for existence. Bedam Shah Warsi, the celebrated Urdu na’at poet, put it in a couplet still recited today:
بے دم یہی تو پانچ ہیں مقصودِ کائنات
خیرالنساء، حسن و حسین، مصطفیٰ، علی
“Bedam, these five alone are the very purpose of creation: Khair-un-Nisa [Fatima], Hasan and Husayn, Mustafa, Ali.”
Conclusion
We are, in the plainest sense, indebted to a man his own people tried to silence — through mockery, through boycott— and who answered every one of those attempts with patience, and on the day he held every card, with mercy instead of vengeance. It is because of that patience, and because of the prayers he never stopped making for a people who so often failed to deserve them, that his message reached us at all, fourteen centuries and a world away. On this anniversary of his passing, that debt is worth remembering plainly: we are only here, still holding this light, because he refused to let go of it first.
Sayings of Hazrat Muhammad PHUH :
1. When the innovations & heretical practices becomes evident in my Ummah it is necessary for the scholar to make his knowledge manifested & open (with regards to making the innovations public) so, curse of Allah be upon the scholar who does not do it.
2. One who starts a morning in a condition that he does not make effort about the affairs of the Muslims is not one of the Muslims. And a person who hears the voice of a man who calls the Muslim to his help but he does not respond him, is not a Muslim.
3. I do not have the fear of neither the faithful not polytheist about my Ummah. However, the faith of the faithful refrains him from harming the Ummah, more over the infidelity of the polytheist will become the cause of his abjectness & repression. But I am afraid about you (being harmed) from the glib tongued hypocrite. He utters by his tongue what you believe is good & practically he does what you consider bad (vices).
4. There is a good deed above each good deed, to the extent that a man is slain on the way of Allah. so when he is slain on the way of Allah then there is no good deed above (better than) it.
5. The one who pleases a ruler with something which is the cause of Allah”s fury has gone out of Allah”s religion.
6. One who comes to a rich man & shows humbleness to him for the sake of his wealth has lost two third of his religion.
7. When the resurrection day will come, the ink of the pen of scholar will be weighed against the blood of martyrs, so as a result of weighing the ink of the pen of scholars will get superiority over the bloods of the martyrs.
8. The example of my household (Hazrat Zehra (SA) & the twelve imams) is like that of the Hazrat Nuh”s (AS) ship. Who so ever boards it will get rescued (salvation) & the one who opposes the boarding of it, gets drowned. (JAMIASAGHIR VOL 2, P533 Hadith, 8162)
9. Cursed is the one who puts the load of his life responsibilities upon the shoulders of the people.
10. When the dooms day will come about, man will not move one step from his place till he is questioned about four things.
a. The way how he spent his life?
b. As to how did he wear out his youth?
c. About the wealth, as to where he got it from & in what way he spent it?
d. And about the love of us the household of prophet.
(TUHFUL AQOOL, P56)
11. Oh Ali! all the eyes will weep on the resurrection day except three eyes:
a. The eye which remained waking in the night till morning on the way of Allah (for the defense of Islamic system).
b. the eye which refrained from seeing the the things prohibited by Allah.
c. The eye which shed tear from the fear of Allah.
12. I am the city of knowledge & Ali is it”s gate so whoso ever intends to acquire knowledge must come through the gate.
13. Oh Abazar! do value & esteem five things before five others (to happen).
a. your youth before your old age.
b. your health before your ailment.
c. your wealth before your poverty.
d. your life before your death.
14. Allah does not look at (value) your faces & nor your wealth”s but he looks at your hearts & your practices.
15. Oh people! I have left among you some thing which if you get (hold of) it, you will not go astray: The book of Allah (Quran) & my progeny, household.
16. Oh community of Muslims! definitely avoid committing adultery because it has six peculiarities three (will emerge) in this world & three in the hereafter. More over, those three which appear in this world (consist of):
a. This becomes the cause of getting dishonored.
b. Causes to bring poverty
c. Causes the shortening of age.
And those which take place in the hereafter are:
a. It causes the anger of Allah.
b. It causes the severe ness & graveness of accounting.
c. It causes the eternity & perpetuity (of man) in the hell fire.
17. Beware! one who died with the love of household of Prophet (P.B.U.H) has died as a faithful, having complete faith.
18. Drinker is similar to the idolater. Oh Ali! Allah does not accept the service of the drinker (up to) forty days. And if he dies with in forty days, he has died as an infidel.
19. One who postpones and delays the performing of Hajj (having got it”s capacity) till the time he dies. Allah will resurrect him as a Jew or Christian on the justice day.
20. Sighting (at stranger man or women) is a poisonous arrow out of the arrows of Satan. So one who overlooks & omits that due to the fear of Allah, Allah bestows upon him a faith, the sweetness of which he will find in his heart.
