The Prophet on the zenith of compassion and mercifulness
- Updated On Sunday, 27 July 2014
- Written by Allamah Qurashi
- Editor Faisal Shaheen
- Supervisor Sayyed Roohullah Musavi
- Published on Wednesday, 07 May 2014
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The Prophet (SAWA) was far too compassionate and merciful to all of his people, even to his opponents. Allah has announced this in the Holy Qur'an when saying: (Certainly a Messenger has come to you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solicitous respecting you; to the believers (he is) compassionate).(1) His merciful side persevered even in the face of cruelty and disrespect from his people. While theyconsidered him a liar, resisted him and even tried to kill him; he did not invoke Allah's wrath against them. Once, Gabriel came to him and said: "Allah the Almighty has heard the reply of your people to you and what they faced you with, and so he has ordered the Angel of Mountains to obey you that you might order him to do to them as you like." After greeting him, the Angel of Mountains said to the Prophet (SAWA): "Order me as you like! If you want, I will tear down the two submissive ones (two mountains in Mecca) over them." The Prophet (SAWA) said: "I hope that Allah may make from among their progenies ones who shall worship Allah and not associate with Him anything else."(2) It was infinite mercifulness that Allah had declared in the Qur'an. Allah had said about the Prophet (SAWA):(And We have not sent you but as a mercy to the worlds).(3) Was there any mercy to people greater than the Prophet (SAWA) who raised the Word of Allah high in the earth which was the source of every mercy and blessing, and established a wonderful, developed system to reform the life of all human beings? His compassionate and mercifulness compelled some people to bringtheir newborn children to the Prophet (SAWA) to name them and to pray Allah to bless them. The Prophet (SAWA) took the babies and put them in his lap. It happened that some babies made water in the Prophet's lap, and so some companions might shout at the babies' families, but the Prophet (SAWA) said: "Do not make the baby cut his urination!" Then, the Prophet (SAWA) prayed to Allah for the new born children, and their families became delighted while the Prophet (SAWA) went to wash his body and clothes. (4) The Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) was very merciful to his family and children. His servant Anas bin Malik said: "I have not seen anyone more merciful to his family than the messenger of Allah." (5)
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Refernces 1.Qur'an, 9:128. 2.Sharh as-Sunna, vol. 13 p. 214, ash-Shafa, vol. 1 p. 255, TafsiribnKatheer, vol. 3 p. 259. 3.Qur'an, 21:107. 4.Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 66 p. 426. 5.Sahih of Muslim, Kitab al-Fadhaiil, vol. 7 p. 76, Musnad of Ahmed bin Hanbal