MUHAMMAD (S. A. W. S.)

his person, life & teachings

LECTURES
based on Non Moslems Centuries Long Research
By
Professor
MASOOD AHMED ABBASI

Mustafa the Chosen One

(Part-i)

1- “WHO SUBDUE THEIR ANGER” Holy Qur’an 3:134

To the Arabs who would fight for forty years on the slight provocation that a camel belonging to the guest of one tribe had strayed into the grazing land belonging to another and both sides had fought till they lost 70,000 lives in all, threatening the extinction of both tribes, to such furious Arabs, the Prophet of Islam taught self-control and discipline to the extent of praying even on the battlefield.

2- WAR FOR SELF DEFENCE

When after repeated efforts at conciliation had utterly failed, circumstances arose that dragged him into the battlefield purely in self-defence, Prophet of Islam changed the whole strategy of the battlefield. The total number of casualties in all the wars that took place during his life-time, when the whole Arabian Peninsula came under his banner does not exceed a few hundreds in all. He taught the Arab barbarian to pray, to pray not individually but in congregations, to God Almighty even amidst the dust and storm of warfare. Whenever the time for prayer came – and it comes five times every day the congregational prayer had not to be abandoned or even postponed. A party had to be engaged in bowing their heads before God while another was engaged with the enemy. After finishing the prayers, the two parties had to exchange their positions.

3- BATTLEFIELD HUMANIZED

In an age of barbarism, the battlefield itself was humanized and strict instructions were issued not to embezzle, not to cheat, not to break trust, not to mutilate, not to kill a minor child or a woman or an old man, not to hew down date palm nor burn it, not to cut down a fruit tree, not to molest monks and persons engaged in worship. His own treatment of his bitterest enemies was the noblest example for his followers. At the conquest of Mecca, he stood at the zenith of his power. The city which had tortured him and his followers, which had driven him and his followers in exile and which had unrelentingly prosecuted and boycotted him even when he had taken refuge in a place more than 200 miles away, the city now lay at his feet. By the laws of war he could have justly avenged all the cruelties inflicted on him and his people. But what treatment did he mete out to them? Muhammad’s heart overflowed with the milk of love and kindness as he declared,

“This day, there is no reproof against you and you are all free”.

4- BITTEREST ENEMIES PARDONED

This was one of the chief objects why he permitted war in self-defense – to unite human beings. And when this object was achieved, even his worst enemies were pardoned. Even those who had killed his beloved uncle, Humza, mutilated his dead body, had ripped it open and chewed a piece of his liver.

5- THEORY MERGED WITH PRACTICE

The principle of universal brotherhood and the doctrine of the equality of mankind which he proclaimed represent very great contribution of Muhammad to the social uplift of humanity. All great religions have also preached the same doctrine, but the Prophet of Islam had put this theory into actual practice and its value will be fully recognized, perhaps sometime hence, when international consciousness being awakened, racial prejudices would disappear and a stronger concept of the brotherhood of humanity comes into existence.

6- PEASANT & KING EQUAL BEFORE GOD

Sarojini Naida speaking about this aspect of Islam, says, “It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy”; for, in the mosque, when the AZAAN (the Muslims call to prayer) is sounded and the worshipers are gathered together the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim, ‘God alone is great”‘. The great poetess of India continues, “I have been struck over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes a man instinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian, an Indian, and a Turk in London what matters is that Egypt is the motherland of one and India is the motherland of another”. (Ideals of Islam – Madras – 1918)

7- ISLAM – CIVILIZED SPAIN AND IS ANSWER TO TOADY’S SOCIAL DILEMMA

Mahatma Gandhi, in his inimitable style, says, “Someone has said that European in south Africa dread the advent of Islam – Islam, that civilized Spain, Islam, that took the torch of light to Morocco and preached to the World the Gospel of Brotherhood. The Europeans of South Africa – dread the advent of Islam, as they claim equality with the white races. They may well dread it. If brotherhood is a sin, if it is equality of the coloured races that they dread, then their dread is well-founded”

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One of the most distinguished intellectuals of modern history speaks:

(Sir George Bernard Shaw in “The Genuine Islam” Vol. I No.8, 1936)

“I HAVE ALWA YS HELD THE RELIGION OF MOHAMMED IN HIGH
ESTIMATION BECAUSE OF ITS WONDERFUL VITALITY. IT IS THE ONLY
RELIGION WHICH APPEARS TO ME TO POSSESS THAT ASSIMILATING
CAPACITY TO THE CHANGING PHASE OF EXISTENCE WHICH CAN MAKE
ITSELF APPEAL TO EVERY AGE. I HAVE STUDIED HIM – THE WONDERFUL
MAN & IN MY OPINION FAR FROM BEING AN ANTI CHRIST, HE MUST

BE CALLED THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY.” “I BELIEVE THAT IF A MAN

 LIKE HIM WERE TO ASSUME THE DICT ATORS HIP OF THE MODERN

 WORLD HE WOULD SUCCEED IN SOLVING ITS PROBLEM IN A WAY

THAT WOULD BRING IT THE MUCH NEEDED PEACE AND HAPPINESS:
I HAVE PROPHESIED ABOUT THE FAITH OF MOHAMMED THAT IT
WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE EUROPE OF TOMORROW AS IT IS
BEGINNING TO BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE EUROPE OF TODAY”.

‘0 Muhammad We thee not save as a mercy for the peoples