The Geniality of Mohammad: Part I

Copyright © 2015 by Imad Ahmad.

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Contents

Acknowledgment

Preface

CHAPTER 1

Signs of a birth

The Geniality of the Inviter

CHAPTER 2

The Martial Geniality of Mohammad

The Political Geniality of Mohammad

The Administrative Geniality of Mohammad

The Eloquent

Mohammad the Veracious

Mohammad, the President

The husband

Acknowledgment

I am greatly indebted and grateful to all who assisted in producing this book.

Thanks to my old teacher Mr. Abbass Al-Aqqad, for he wrote a series of books about the geniality of the key figures in Islam.

Thanks to my wife, Maha, who did her part in caring about the family and gave me the peace of mind to write.

Thanks to my lovely friend, Hanan, who always inspired and supported me thru her constructive ideas.

Last, but not least, my gratitude is extended to my publishing consultant in Partridge Singapore, Amy Arman, who encouraged me to take the first step towards the publishing of this book.

Preface

My dear readers:

Before reading this book I’d like to confirm that this book is trying to focus on a single feature of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him). It is neither a detailed biography nor a religious textbook. As a matter of fact, the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) has scores of outstanding features that each requires a book or more to highlight upon.

This book is elaborating on one of these features. It is, as the title indicates, the Geniality of Mohammad.

The following points are worth noting:

1. This book is trying to tell the truth about Mohammad. All the information presented are established on what the Islamic reference books wrote and confirmed. Two main sources of information are the Qur’an and the HADEETH books

2. This book lists many facts that both Muslims and non-Muslims confirmed in various occasions.

3. The author firmly believes that the Qur’an is the word of Allah. For those who believe otherwise, a simple proof of this fact is that a single word of the Qur’an has never changed since it was sent down to Mohammad fourteen centuries ago. In the context of the Qur’an, Allah pledged to keep and preserve the Qur’an. Another proof is the challenge that Allah put for the doubtful ones. He challenged all humanity to write even a small chapter similar to a SURA of the Qur’an!

4. The author firmly testifies that there are no gods but Allah, and Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah.

5. Mohammad is unique in possessing all aspects of morals. This fact is confirmed by Allah in the Qur’an. A verse described Mohammad, "You have a great standard of ethics."

6. What humanity deeply needs, nowadays, is sincere reformers. This book highlights the geniality of Mohammad, for he was one of the greatest reformers in history.

7. Misunderstanding of equality and freedom of expression encouraged some people to offend the great reformers. This book tries to tell those offenders that whatever they say cannot affect the fact that the great remains great either in geniality or deeds or faith.

8. Mohammad was great in the criteria of religion, knowledge, feelings and human nature.

9. It is enough for Mohammad that he converted the Arabs and many other nations from worshiping idols into monotheism. He converted the world from stagnation into dynamism, from chaos into order, and from indignity into honorableness. No one in history could make such a change!

10. A verse in the Quran reads, "You [the humanity] have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern of conduct for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah".

CHAPTER 1

Signs of a birth

A World:

It was a collapsing, unstable world, almost approaching its end. The summation of what can be said about it, is It was a world that has lost not only the belief, but also the order.

In other words, it has lost the means of interior and apparent tranquility. The inside tranquility which arises from resorting to an unseen force that spreads justice, protects weakness, punishes the oppression and selects the best and most perfect in all issues.

The apparent tranquility that originates from the reliance upon a polity that judges according to the rule, adjudicates between the aggressors and the innocents, guards the road and intimidates the corruptors.

Byzantium converted its religion into polemics which overloaded the empire and mitigated its power in land and sea, to the extent that those who used to seek its protection became covetous of it.

In Persia, the Magians derided their own religion, and around its throne, ambushed evil aims, incentives of disorder, and tendencies of whims.

Abyssinia was lost between idols, (borrowed sometimes from the culture and other times from savagery), and deformed monotheism. Moreover, it neither had a mission in life, nor it formulated a phase along history stages. Therefore, it did nothing to be recorded in the surviving acts log.

It was a world that was longing for a condition different from its own, and preparing for a change, or for a collapse followed by the construction.

A Nation:

Among those collapsing states was a nation without a state, but getting ready to be a state.

It is the Arab Nation. It started to recognize its existence and feel its status. It also started to feel dangers threatening its being and learn its own shortcomings. The trade of other peoples was in its hand.

When the caravans travelled from the Persian Gulf to the Roman Sea (The Mediterranean), they were actually travelling in the desert among Arab guards who were beyond the control of the collapsing states. They possibly could have felt the dominance of such states when the Romans or the Persians were strong. Later on, they realized that they are independent. Once they are satisfied, the trade flourishes as sustenance shall be linked between East and West, but if they are angry, then the trade shall fade, the resources shall run out, and the markets shall suffer depression.

If the caravans were moving from Yemen to Levant or from the Red Sea to The Mediterranean, they were in the neighborhood of Arabs in both roads.

This nation took notice of its existence, realized its importance among those states encircling its desert, how those states offend it, and wanted to control and swallow it.

Thus, Hercules, the Roman, sends a man to rule Mecca.

Abraha, the Abyssinian, heads toward Mecca to demolish the Kaaba in order to replace it by a similar building he thought to construct in his country, (hoping that pilgrims will go to his country rather than Mecca), while Persia transgresses beyond the East and South boundaries of the Arab Peninsula.

A danger from outside, enhances the vigilance of the nation and attention towards it existence.

A danger from inside, is strongly pushing the nation either toward its demise, or towards the repair of the grave defects in its life.

Mecca was a city where the wealth of the Arabic Peninsula gathers and one clique of leaders possess the wealth of the city.

It was a state of unsettlement. Thus, luxury, greed, wine, gambling, relish, besides harnessing the weak people for the benefit of the strong ones.

This generated poverty, sorrow, and a doubt in rectifying the situation.

This doubt was a searching and an active one, rather than a relaxing and a calm one.

Whenever a group of intellectuals met, recalling the doctrine and the peace of mind, there was always a feeling of dissatisfaction regarding their bad acts.

A band of people gathered in a place called (Nakhlah) to celebrate one of their idols called (‘Ozza). One of them said to his companions; I swear that your folks are on a false doctrine and are misguided. What is the value of a rock that cannot hear or see, and cannot do harm or good, that we cruise about while the blood of animals we slaughter runs over it! Oh my folks; seek a religion another than yours!

They then dispersed; some of them became Christian, others abandoned the idols, some waited until he heard the invitation of Islam and answered it.

One of those who became Christians and answered the invitation of Islam was (Waraqa Bin Nofal) who was lucky to receive the good news of the onset of the Arabic Prophet, and gave him the tidings! Those people started with doubts that lead them to search for the real doctrine and peace of mind.

Three tribes (Bano-Hashim, Zahra, and Taym) gathered and pledged, in the name of Allah, the Revenger, that they shall be supporting the oppressed until he recovers his rights. That pact was called (Al-Fudhool Pact) and the Arabic Prophet witnessed it while he was young. He said about it; I’d rather be in a pact I attended in the house of (Bin Jad’aan) than having the best livestock!

It was an unsettled situation, still looking for stabilization.

A wide-awaken nation!

There was an imminent danger, from those who encircle it, or from its innermost state.

It was a state, which expects demise. However, rarely a vigilant nation vanishes while it is awake. Thus, it is a state of change and renewal.

A Tribe:

In that nation, in that city, lived a tribe composed of two classes:

One is luxurious; greedy who wants the situation to stay as it is.

The other is composed of pious, lenient people who occupy an intermediate position between the strong, who transgresses and retains the tools of oppression, and the weak that sustains prejudice and undergoes inconvenience, and cannot do anything against their masters but to comply with their orders and eat the remainders of their morsels.

A Family:

Within that intermediate class, there was a family of a majestic deep-rooted kin, which neither had the vileness of the overwhelming wealth nor the wicked arrogance, nor the cruelty against the disadvantaged, inferior people. That was the family of (Abdul-Muttalib) from the core of (Quraish Tribe), the most-honored one, even though not the most wealthy at the time.

The head of that family, Abdul-Muttalib, was a strong man, and had a strong faith in what he believes, wise, potent and worthy of breeding an offspring that can preach and defend a religion.

He vowed," If I