Muhammad PBUH – The Best Role Model for Mankind
The Prophet (PBUH) was sent as a teacher and role model for all of mankind. He was sent as a warner of Allahs wrath and punishment, a bearer or good tidings, as well as a guide to Paradise.
O Prophet! Verily, We have sent you as a witness, and a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner and as one who invites to Allah (alone) by His permission and as a lamp that gives light. (Suratul Ahzaab 33:45-46)
The Prophet (PBUH) has the best personality, characteristics, and morals. Once when Aisha (R.A) was asked about the life and conduct of the Prophet (PBUH), she replied, Have you not read the Quran? His character is the complete explanation of the Quran. This means that his daily life was a living illustration and explanation of the Quran. He did and said everything in accordance to the teachings of the Quran and his life is the reflection of the Shariah of Allah. He maintained the best characteristics in his roles as father, husband, friend, ruler, governor, teacher, statesman, protector of the weak, widows, and poor, a guide to the rich, a guardian of the orphans, and a servant of Allah.
And verily, You are on an exalted Standard of Character. (Suratul Qalam 68:4)
When the Prophet (PBUH) came into this world, the community at that time was known as ummi, meaning illiterate. They did not know how to read or write. They did not know the potential of a human being. The Prophet (PBUH), himself, also was not educated. He had never even seen the face of a teacher, nor had he ever picked up a book and read even a sentence. On one hand, we have a community and on the other hand, we have the Prophet who was sent to guide them and both are Ummi [illiterate]. Allah commanded the Prophet (PBUH):
Arise and warn! (Suratul Muddath-thir 74:2)
So the Prophet (PBUH) stood up and made two major claims :-
1. I have been sent into this world as an educator and warner.
2. I have been sent into this world to perfect the best of moral conduct in human behavior, to educate and purify them.
These were two of the biggest challenges that the Prophet (PBUH) had to face and two of the biggest goals he had to accomplish throughout his Prophethood.
A professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Edinburgh University, who wrote a biography of the Prophet (PBUH) called, Muhammad in Mecca, Muhammad in Medina, stated: One thing baffles me. I cannot understand how one man, who has no formal education, could lead a community, who behaved like animals and created those same human beings into men the world had never seen.
Indeed, in the Messenger of Allah, you have a good example to follow for him who hopes (in the meeting with) Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much. (Suratul Ahzaab 33:21)
One time, Umar ibn al-Khattab (R.A) told the Messenger (PBUH) that he loved him more than anything in the world except for his Ownself. The Prophet (PBUH) told him it was not sufficient, so Umar (R.A) told the Final Messenger that he loved him more than his Ownself. The Prophet (PBUH) said that he had attained what is proper. He stated: No one of you has a true faith until I am dearer to him than his father, his children, and all of mankind. This was recorded in Bukhari and Muslim.
As a child, as a boy, as a youth, as a man, as a laborer, as a husband, as a father, as a companion, as a businessman, as a preacher, as a teacher, as a religious reformer, as a soldier, as a general, as an administrator, as a planner, as a ruler of a state, as a leader of the faithful, as a protector of the weak, widows, and poor, as a guide to the rich, as a guardian of the orphans, and as a servant and messenger of Allah, the Beloved Prophet (PBUH) has no equal, no parallel, and no peer in the entire history of mankind. He stands head and shoulders above all other human beings in the nobility of his character and the piety of his soul. In all these walks of life and in all of these departments, the Prophet (PBUH) is a hero and the best role model for mankind.
May Allah shower His choicest blessings upon the Beloved, Honored Messenger (PBUH), his companions, and all those that follow him till the Day of Judgement. And may Allah include us among those who love the Messenger (PBUH) more than anyone and anything else in the world and may Allah give us the ability to perfectly imitate the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (PBUH). Ameen, Alhumdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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