Rasullullah’s Resistance...
"Resistance.....
..........Humility.........
...........and Exile."
The Prophet Muhammad was neither fatalistic nor reckless.His trust in God was absolute, but that had never caused him to drift with the tide of events.In this respect, another of the Prophet's warnings echoes in our minds, addressing his spiritual community there is an object of centuries to come, "For every (spiritual) community, there is an object of discord,tension , and disorder (fitnah), and for my community, this object is money."
Hadith reported by Muslim. At time, the clan chiefs kept mocking Muhammad and encouraging others to criticize and humiliates him . The man who claimed to be a prophet was asked for miracles and tangible evidence. People questioned God's choice in electing a man who held no particular power, who went about in market places without any sign setting him apart from other men. They mocked the men and his claims as much as the message. Nevertheless,as we have seen, the Prophet stood his ground.When one of the Quraysh leaders,Utbah ibn Rabiah, came to see him to offer him money and power, the Prophet's response was first of all to qoute the Quran at length:
In the name of God, Most Gracious,Most Merciful,A Book, of which the messages are clearly explained; a Quran in Arabic, for people with inner knowledge, giving good news and admonition: yet most of them turn away , and so they do not hear.
They say:"Our hearts are under veils, (conceiled) from that to which you invite us, and in our ears is a deafness, and between us and you is a screen: so do (what you will); as for us , we shall do (what we will)."
Say (O Prophet: " I am but a man like you: it is revealed to me by inspiration, that your God is One God.So take the straight path unto His Forgiveness. And woe to those who associate other gods with Him, those who do not pay purifying social tax(zakat) and who even deny the hereafter! For those who believes and work deeds of righteousness is a reward that will never fail."
"Say: "Do you deny He Who created the earth in two days (cycles), and do you join equals with Him?
He is Lord of (all) the worlds.He set on the earth mountains standing firm, high above it and bestowed blessings on the earth, and measured therein its sustenance in four days {cycles) alike for those who seek." (Quran,41:1-10)
The Prophet went on reciting up to verse 38, which mentions those who prostrate themselves; when he reached it, he prostrated himself in reverence to the One God, Utbah had come to him to offer him the riches and power of this world, and he was now faced with a man prostrated in the name of his faith in the Eternal and thereby expressing his clear rejection of the proposal that had just been made to him .
Utbah was very strongly impressed by the form and content of the Quranics message, and he went back to his kin and suggested that they should not oppose this message. But they, persuaded that he had been bewitched by the magic of those words, paid no heed to this advice and carried on with their persecutions.
The Messenger (Prophet Muhammad) taught his Companions to love God, and the Quran taught them in return:" Say ,( O Messenger): 'If you love God, follow me:God will love you."Quran 3;31.
The Prophet's life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us--in the course of events, trial, hardships, and our quest--that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence.Deeply , simply , he who cannot LOVE cannot understand.
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