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-ii)

8- PILGRIMAGE – HAJ – A LIVING TESTIMONY

Every year, during the pilgrimage season, the world witnesses the wonderful spectacle of this international Exhibition of Islam in leveling all distinctions of race, colour and rank. Not only the Europeans, the Africans, the Persians, the Indians, the Chinese all meet together in Mecca as members of one divine family, but they are all clad ill one dress every person in two simple pieces of white seamless cloth, one piece around the loin while other piece over the shoulders, bare-headed, without pomp or, ceremony repeating “Here am I, O God; at Thy command; Thou art One & the Only; Here am I.” Thus there remains nothing to differentiate the high impression of the international significance of Islam.

In the words of Prof Hurgronje “The league of nations founded by the Prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity and human brotherhood on such universal foundations as to show candle to other nations”. He continues: “The fact is that no nation of the World can show a parallel to what Islam has done towards the realization of the idea of League of Nations“.

9- ISLAM – A BEACON TO A DRIFTING WORLD

The Prophet of Islam brought the reign of democracy in its best forum Caliph Umer, Caliph Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet, Caliph Abu Jaffar Mansur Abbasi, Abbas the son of Caliph Mamun Abbasi, and many other Caliphs and Kings, had to appear before the Judges as ordinary men in Islamic Courts. Even today we all know how the Black Negroes are treated by the civilized white races. Consider the state of Bilal, a Negro slave in the days of Prophet of Islam nearly 14 centuries ago, The office of calling Muslims to prayer was considered to be a position of Honor in the early days of Islam and it was offered to this Negro slave. After the conquest of Mecca, the Prophet ordered him to call for prayer and the Negro slave, with his black color and his thick lips, stood over the roof of the Holy KAABA, the most historic and holiest place in the Islamic World, when some proud Arabs painfully cried aloud. “Oh, this black Negro slave, woe to him. He stands on the roof of Holy KAABA to call for prayer.” As if to answer this outburst smacking of pride & prejudice, both of which the Prophet of Islam aimed at eliminating, he delivered a sermon in which he said:

“ALLAH IS TO BE PRAISED & THASKED FOR RIDDING US THE VICES AND PRIDE OF THE
DAYS OF IGNORANCE. O PEOPLE: NOTE THAT ALL ME ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO

CATEGORIES: THE PIOUS & GOD-FEARING WHO ARE ESTEEM ABLE IN ALLAH’S
RECKONING: AND THE TRANSGRESSORS AND HARD-HEARTED WHO ARE LOWLY

AND CONTEMPTIBLE IN THE EYE OF ALLAH. OTHER WISE ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE THE
PROGENY OF ADAM AND ALLAH HAS CREATED ADAM OF CLAY”.

This was later approved and confirmed by Qur’an in the following words:

“O MANKIND’ MOST CERTAINLY, IT IS WE (GOD ALMIGHTY) HAVE CREATED YOU ALL
FROM A SINGLE (PAIR) OF A MAN & A FEMALE, AND IT IS WE WHO HAVE MADE YOU INTO

NATIONS AND TRIBES, THAT YE MAY RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER (NOT THAT YE MAY
DESPISE EACH OTHER) VERILY THE NOBLEST OF YOU IN THE SIGHT OF ALLAH IS
(HE WHO IS) THE MOST RIGHTEOUS OF YOU”. (Holy Qur’an 49:13)

10- TRANSFORMATION EXTRA ORDINARIA

The Prophet of Islam thus brought about such a mighty transformation that the noblest and purest amongst Arabs by birth offered their daughters in marriage to this Negro Slave and whenever the Second Caliph of Islam, known to history as Omer the Great, the commander of the faithful, saw this Negro slave, he immediately stood in reverence and welcomed him by exclaiming “Here comes our master, here comes our lord”. What a tremendous change was brought by Qur’an & Prophet Mohammed in the Arabs, the proudest people at the time on earth. This is the reason why Goethe the greatest of German poets, speaking about the Holy Qur’an, declared that, “This book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence”. This is also the reason why George Bernard Shaw says “If any religion has a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe, within the next 100 years, it is Islam”.

11- ISLAM – EMANCIPATED WOMEN

It is this same democratic spirit of Islam that has emancipated women from the bondage of man. Sir Charles Edward Archibald Hamilton says “Islam teaches the inherent sinlessness of man. It teaches that man and woman have come from the same essence, possess the same soul and have been equipped with same capabilities for intellectual, spiritual & moral attainments”. It is a saying of Prophet of Islam that. a morsel of food that one places in the mouth of his wife is an act of virtue to be rewarded by God.

12- WOMAN HAD RIGHT TO OWN PROPERTY

The Arabs had a very strong tradition that he alone can inherit who can smite with the spear and can wield the sword. But Islam came as the defender of weaker sex and entitled women to share in the inheritance of their parents. It gave women, centuries ago, the right of owning property. Yet it was only 12 centuries later, in 1881, that England supposed to be the cradle of democracy, adopted this institution of Islam and an Act was passed, called “The Married Women’s Act”. But centuries earlier, the Prophet of Islam proclaimed that “Women are -the twin halves of men”. The rights of women are sacred”.

“See that women are maintained in the rights granted to them”.

(H. A. R. Gibbs, in “Mohammedanism” London 1953 p 33)

“THAT HIS (MOHAMMED’S) REFORMS ENHANCED

THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN GENERAL IS

UNIVERSALLY ADMITTED.”

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