Prophet Muhammad: The Glad Tidings of Jesus

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by  Ibrahim ibn Abdullah al-Ghannam

Prophet Muhammad: The Glad
Tidings of Jesus
Selections from Muhammad’s Biography and
Noble Features

By:
Ibrahim ibn `Abdullah Al-Ghannam
Imam of King Fahd Mosque at `Uyun Al-Jawa’
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Prophet Muhammad: The Glad Tidings of Jesus is catalogued in
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BN: 14408/2015

ISBN: 978-977-5239-59-4
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Contents
1- A difficult equation! ............................................................................ 7
O how terrible! ................................................................................... 10
The equation has not yet ended! ..................................................... 10
2- An easy equation! ............................................................................... 12
Allah is the Sole Creator of everything; everything other than
Him is created .................................................................................... 12
3- `Isa (PBUH) confirming the prophet who came before him
and giving glad tidings of the prophet to come after him ............... 18
4- The Divine Books give glad tidings of the coming of Prophet
Muhammad ............................................................................................. 24
Mount Paran ....................................................................................... 24
The barren woman ............................................................................ 26
Farqalit ................................................................................................. 28
The ruler of the world ....................................................................... 29
The sword for the sake of establishing the Truth ........................ 30
5- Between two birth events ................................................................. 33
A brilliant historic sign ...................................................................... 34
Logical analysis ................................................................................... 37
6- The truthful from among the Jews and Christians ...................... 40
Bahira (the Christian Monk) ............................................................ 43
The man from pre-Islamic time who turned to Christianity ...... 46
The incident ........................................................................................ 47
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The Christian king who became a Muslim .................................... 49
The Christian Byzantine Emperor Heraclius admitting the
truth but not grasping hold of it! .................................................... 51
Salman, the Magus Persian—A Christian who became Muslim 57
7- The Russian litterateur and the Scottish historian ........................ 65
8- Nothing to be done with the doubtful ........................................... 68
9- Muhammad (PBUH) enters Medina and is welcomed with joy
and chanting ............................................................................................ 74
A venerable Jewish rabbi embraces Islam ..................................... 78
10- Apology ............................................................................................. 82
11- The image of Muhammad (PBUH) .............................................. 86
Muhammad (PBUH) was: ................................................................ 88
12- How unkempt is the appearance of Khawlah! ........................... 94
13- I mention this especially to dentists ............................................. 99
14- Tamimah Al-Quraziyyah elicits a smile from the best man in
creation (PBUH)................................................................................... 105
15- Who will purchase this slave? ...................................................... 111
16- Leniency and kindness .................................................................. 115
Be calm and gentle, O `A’ishah ..................................................... 116
Can you imagine this scene? .......................................................... 118
17- Leave him, do not interrupt him! ................................................ 120
18- Warmth of the ink ......................................................................... 122
Tears shed for our sake ................................................................... 123
19- Make them laugh as you made them weep ................................ 126
20- I have met the greatest magician ................................................. 130
The two meanings of mercy .......................................................... 131
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21- Marriage has a different taste ....................................................... 133
22- Journey of flowers ......................................................................... 138
Necessary reflection ........................................................................ 141
Resumption of the journey ............................................................ 143
23- Nourishment of souls according to the Isra’ and Mi`raj ......... 145
24- Who caused this bird to grieve for its young ones? ................. 149
A camel complaining ....................................................................... 150
25- When you prepare a broth or buy fruits, think about the
neighbor ................................................................................................. 153
26- The Prophet’s mercy for his opponents and enemies ............. 156
The Treaty and the Conquest ........................................................ 157
Do not kill her .................................................................................. 158
A people’s master was captivated ................................................. 159
27- Attempts to extinguish the light .................................................. 161
This is what they said ...................................................................... 162
28- The sword fell from his hand ...................................................... 165
Sword and mercy ............................................................................. 170
29- Towards a happy society .............................................................. 173
Extreme humbleness and deep love ............................................. 176
30- Acknowledgement and conclusion ............................................. 178
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1- A difficult equation!
Gloomy darkness covered the earth. The world was enveloped in
utter blackness. In every corner, devils were toying with
humankind, luring them into false, distorted religions completely
devoid of Allah.1 There were the Buddhists, who worshipped a
man named Buddha, and next to them lived the worshippers of
cows and fire.
Some nations worshipped angels and jinn (creatures of free will
created from fire), some worshipped images and statues, while
others worshipped the spirits and relics of the dead!
Some people prostrated in adoring worship to cosmic creations
such as the sun, the moon, the rivers, and the trees, while others
raised the prophets and the righteous to the level of Allah!
Corruption spread as far as the Persian and Roman Empires.
Everywhere, morals degenerated, injustice prevailed, and vice
and sin flourished widely and became a characteristic trait of
rulers and powerful people.
Such was the state of the world in the period surrounding the
Year of the Elephant (571 CE). The state of the Arabs was even
worse.
A god of dates made for worship could end up eaten whenever
the ardent worshipper felt hungry! Another would carve a god
out of a rock, and then would bring some bread and butter and
place it over its head and ask it to eat! Instead, a fox would come
and eat the bread and butter, and then urinate over its head, with
the man looking on astonished, while saying the following lines:

1 Allah is the superior, all-comprehensive name of the One True Universal God.
This name is absolutely unique to the Creator of existence. In Arabic, it means
‘the One exclusively worthy of deification and worship.’ Arabic-speaking
Christians and Jews also use the name Allah for God.
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People who place hope in you have come disappointed,
They wanted your victory when they engage in fighting.
You are not helpful against the matters predetermined,
Nor do you defend them when a disaster is approaching.
Is there a god whom foxes urinate on his head?
Surely, those on whom foxes urinate feel ashamed!
As soon as a daughter was born, her father, foolishly and
ignorantly, took her away and buried her alive out of fear of
shame! He might also murder his son out of fear of poverty!
Intoxicants predominated the gatherings and societies of the
Arabs! Women were no more to them than pieces of furniture.
For the most trivial reasons, fierce wars raged among them and
persisted for decades. The forty-year-long war of Dahis and Al-
Ghabra’ was kindled because of a contest of horses (the stallion
Dahis against the mare Al-Ghabra’) and a bet on the results. It
devoured everything in its path.
Plundering, robbery, violence of the strong against the weak, bad
traditions and false pride in lineage and ancestry prevailed
everywhere.
O Allah! To what depths of iniquity the human brain had sunk!
Even those Jewish and Christian nations to which prophets and
messengers had been sent by Allah were not safe from the
tampering and distorting hands of human intervention. They
changed and twisted the contents of their scriptures and
religions.
Only a few believers, who knew the truth, existed at the time; a
small remnant of the People of the Book (the Jews and the
Christians) who adhered to the veracious divine teachings.
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With few exceptions, all people were living in a world immersed
in total chaos during this era.
This leaves us wondering who would be able to liberate the
minds from widespread myths and superstitions? Who could
ennoble and elevate humanity to sublime heights? Who could
save it from sinking to the bottom?
Who would be the lamp that dispels the darkness of the earth?
Allah (Exalted be He) describes this era by saying: “I created all My
servants Hunafa’ (Muslims or upright monotheists). But, the devils came to
them and deviated them from their (original) religion. They forbade them that
which I made lawful for them and commanded them to associate with Me
that for which I sent down no authority.’ Then Allah looked at the people of
the earth and detested them all, Arabs and non-Arabs, except for a remnant
of the People of the Book…”1
In such a critical time of pitch-black darkness lived a man on the
plains of Mecca, renowned for his trustworthiness, honesty and
loyalty, who had a sublime moral character. He was born in
tough circumstances. His father died while his mother was
pregnant with him, and six years later his mother also died. He
then faced one sorrowful event after another. Yet, unlike the
men of his generation and society, he never followed their way of
life, such as Shirk (associating others with Allah in His Divinity
or worship) and drinking alcohol.
This person exhibited graceful moral and physical qualities. His
name was Muhammad—a name unknown before this time,
except in divinely revealed books.
He had now attained the age of forty years.

1 Narrated by Muslim, Sahih, vol. 4, p. 2197, no. 2865, and Ahmad, Musnad, vol.
4, p. 162.
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O how terrible!
He claimed himself to be a prophet, and that he was receiving
revelations from Allah! He warned people against idol worship!
The Quraish (the Meccan people) exploded with rage and
descended upon him with all kinds of scorn and mockery.
Persecution and besiegement followed. Then they planned to
assassinate him!
Yet a few people believed in the truth of what he said and
preached. He stayed with them, steadfast in his stance, for
thirteen years, until he was forced to immigrate to Medina, where
he stayed for ten years before he died.
But he revived a worldwide community that could restore the
human mind to its primitive rectitude, that could defeat injustice
and debauchery and carry the human soul back to safe shores. In
this way, the darkness of the world could be illuminated and the
dead awakened from sleep!
All this change happened over the span of only twenty-three
years, during which he tipped the balance of power and was
capable of lifting up human beings to the high goal for which
they have been created.
Comparing twenty-three years with the number of Muslims
today, while taking into consideration the steady permanence of
this message over the course of fourteen centuries, makes us feel
the significance of the equation at hand—especially knowing that
he stayed in Mecca for only a year and a half following his
conquest over it. Mecca became the Qiblah (direction of prayer)
of Muslims worldwide and the place attracting their hearts.
The equation has not yet ended!
The second part of the equation: Before Muhammad (peace be
upon him [PBUH]) the Arabs had been plunged into ignorance
so deep that they ruined everything. They left nothing intact in