THE HOLY PROPHET HAZRAT MUHAMMAD (P.B.U.H)
Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H), the prophet of Islam, was born posthumously of a poor but noble family of Quraish in 571 A.D. at Makkah. He lost his mother in his childhood. The care of the orphan Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was taken by his grandfather Abdul Muttalib and after his death, his uncle Abu Talib.
Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) grew up to be a good man, both honest and truthful. He never said any unkind thing to anyone and was always helpful to the poor people. People began to call him Al-Amin and Al-Sadiq.
When Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) was born, Arabs did not believe in one God but they believed several gods made of stone or wood.
He resolved to reform that society. He spent many years in thinking about God. He was troubled by the wickedness and cruelty. He saw and often climbed the mountain of Hira in order to be alone with his thoughts. He asked God to give him true guidance. Then one day in the year of 699 A.D. on the mountain of Hira the angel Gabriel came to him and asked him to teach the people the way of Islam.
Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) went home and told his devoted wife Hazrat Khadijah that Allah wanted him to be his Holy Prophet. He started preaching Islam but the people of Arabia refused to change their wicked ways of living. They hurt him very much and began to harm the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) and his followers. At last, when the suffering of the Muslims exceeded all limits Hazrat Muhammad (P.B.U.H) migrated to Madina in 622 A.D. with his faithful friend Hazrat Abu Bakr.
In the 10th year of migration, Muhammad (peace be upon him), at the head of a triumphal procession of believers, marched into Makkah and performed the first pilgrimage in the Kabba. There he addressed a very large gathering of the Muslims. He said, “Truth has come, and dishonesty has gone forever. O, people! Listen to my words and remember them.
There is none worthy of worship by one God. Your lives and your goods and your honor are sacred among one another. You and your wives have rights over each other. You are all equal; the Arabs have no superiority over the non-Arabs. All Muslims are brothers to one another. Give my message to those who are absent.”
And so Islam spread not only throughout Arabia but throughout the world as well. After the pilgrimage, the Prophet (peace be upon him) returned to Madina. He was now sixty-three-years old. He fell ill. He breathed his last at noon, on the twelfth day of Rabi-al-Awwal, in 632 A.D.
Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) was at once a Prophet a social reformer of a political thinker, an economist, and a law-giver. He has left for the world a complete code of life – life in all its aspects: religious, political, economic and social.
