Thanks be to Allah, the
Lord of the worlds. Peace and prayers be upon the
most honorable of all messengers Mohammad; and all his folks, companions, and
followers to the day they are all summoned together.
Ethics of the Messenger
PPBU 2
In the name of Allah
most gracious most merciful
It is with the grace of
Allah upon his prophet Muhammad PPBU to honor him and bless him with great
ethics and character. Many Ayas in the Quran mentioned and commended the great
qualities associated with the messenger PPBU.
{Verily, there has come
unto you a messenger from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should
receive any injury or difficulty. He is anxious over you, for the believers
full of pity, kind and merciful”}
With reference to his
character in giving the good advice to Muslims, honesty and doing to the full
of what was required of him in delivering Allah’s message, Allah said about
him: {By the star when it goes down or vanishes, Your companion (reference is
to Muhammad PPBU) has neither gone astray nor has erred. Nor does he speak of
his own desire. It is only an inspiration that is inspired.}
Before he received his
revelations, the messenger did enjoy a very high standard of ethics.
Truthfulness, trustworthiness, generosity, wisdom, bravery, immaculacy,
purity, contentment and many more. After the revelations were received Allah
increase his messenger’s ethics and improved his character further.
Ebn-Masood said: “Allah
has looked into the hearts of his slaves, and found the best heart is
Muhammad’s heart. So Allah selected it for himself and picked him for
delivering the message. Then Allah looked into his slave’s hearts and found
the best amongst them and made them the messenger’s companions.” They gave
their entire lives for the sake of this belief. They lived with him and after
his death they took up the truth which he delivered to them, and they
delivered it to those after them. Amongst those are the two great Imams (Bukhari
and Muslim) who reported so many of the messenger’s talks.
1) Generosity
One of the messenger’s
characters was generosity. The messenger of Allah was the most generous of all
people ever. His generosity continued to be bigger with time during his life.
He once said “Every messenger had once definitely answered prayer. I made mine
to be given the power to intervene or mediate for my people in the Day of
Judgment”. When he could have asked for any thing he chose to what is good for
his people.
The messenger was never
asked by any one, for anything of this worldly life but gave; money or
otherwise.
A woman made a gown and
wished to give it the messenger to ware. He needed it and took it thankfully
and wore it. A man said “Give it to us to wear”, the messenger said “Yes”. He
went home, took it off, folded it and sent it over. The reset of the
companions gave out to the man saying: “Why did you ask him for the gown, you
knew he needed it and you also knew he never says no when ever he is asked.”
The man replied I didn’t want to wear but only wanted to be used as my coffin.
And it was.
2) Closeness to people
Another attribute to the
messenger is being close to the people, humble and modesty. He was closest to
the weak, the poor and was so far from pride, snobbery and cockiness.
The messenger was given
a choice of being a slave and a messenger or a prophet and a king. He chose to
be a slave and a messenger.
The victorious day of
coming to Mekka with his army, the messenger was so humbled bringing his head
down that his beard was nearly touching the animal he was riding. Any leader
would have put his head up so high with the feeling of victory and power. He
was so humble with the mercy Allah has given him.
The messenger always
listened to his people. Especially he respected and made sure women are taken
care of. With children he always greeted them with Salam, and gentle and nice
to. Anas, was working for the messenger, he said {I worked for the messenger
for ten years, He never showed me a sign of not being pleased with me, and
never said to me why didn’t I do something which I did not do, and never asked
me why I did something}
3) Mercy and kindness
He was always very
concerned with his people and full of mercy to his nation.
One man said to the
messenger, I am late because of someone, who takes a long time when he leads
us to prayer. The messenger was never seen so furious during a sermon than
that day. He said {yea people, there are amongst you those who repel people.
Any of you who lead others with a prayer, make allowances, {in another
narration he was reported saying: lighten off} for amongst them may be the
old, the sick and those with something to do afterwards.}
He was reported saying
{I start the prayer with intention to make long readings. But I hear a child
crying, I lighten off, for I hate to make it tough on his mother}
It was reported that the
messenger came to prayer once with his grand daughter in his arm. He lead the
prayer when he prostrates he puts her down and as he stands and takes her in
his arms.
It was reported by
3a-esha that the messenger recommends the believers to do something. He him
self would like to do, but he does not, Fearing that if he did then they take
it as being compulsory to do.
4) Forgiveness and
wisdom.
5) The true sincerity in
preaching for Allah
6) His power, heroism
and courage.
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