In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.
Assalam alaikum once again. We read about the Event that took place in Taif with Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) in my note – ‘Are you forgiving enough to let go?’
This note is an upshot to it as I would like to highlight two other events that took place during the life of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w).
This verse from the Holy Qur’an says-
And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], but as a mercy to the worlds.
[Al-Quran: 21:106-107]
Indeed, God's last and final Messenger was the kindest of men in the same way as he excelled all others in courage and valor. Being extremely kind-hearted, his eyes abounded with tears at the slenderest sign of inhumanity. Here is one of the accounts.
The Garbage thrower-
Even before the first ray of sunlight had entered her window, she was busy sweeping her house. She saved all the garbage in a basket, placed it on the roof of her house and arrogantly looked at it for a while, then with an impatient look on her face, she looked at the street that she lived on, and thought, "No one has ever seen him angry. Everybody will praise me when they will see him shouting at me and getting mad. They will laugh at him and make fun of him." She looked at the basket again and grinned.
Meanwhile, she heard footsteps, announcing the approach of the end of her waiting. "Finally my prey has arrived," she thought, as she saw a man dressed in clean, white clothes coming that way. She picked up the basket in her hands and threw all the garbage on him when he passed by. Much to the woman's disappointment, he did not say anything and continued on his way.
She did the same the following day thinking, "Maybe this time I will be able to annoy him." But he was too gentle to shout at a woman. She misinterpreted his attitude as fear and decided to repeat the same mischief everyday in order to keep him terrified, so that he might stop preaching the Oneness of God.
This gentleman whom the woman hated so much was Muhammad (s.a.w), the last prophet of God Almighty. He did not want to disappoint the woman and so continued to walk down the street everyday, instead of picking an alternate route, and prayed for the woman to recognize the Truth.
One day, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) did not find the woman to be on the roof of her house with the basket. This concerned him, because he thought something must have happened to her for not being over there. So he knocked at the door.
"Who is it?" asked a feeble voice. "Muhammad bin Abdullah," was the reply, "can I come in?" The woman feared, "I am sick, and too weak to fight or talk back, therefore Muhammad has come to take revenge for what I have been doing to him." But the permission to enter her house was in such a gentle voice that she allowed him in.
Muhammad (s.a.w) entered the house and told the woman that not finding her on the roof had worried him and he thus wanted to inquire about her health. On finding out how ill she was, he gently asked if she needed any help. Hypnotized by the affectionate tone in the Holy Prophet's (s.a.w) blessed voice, she forgot all fear and asked for some water. He kindly gave her some in a utensil and prayed for her health, while she quenched her thirst. This made her feel very guilty for being so cruel to him in the past and she apologized for her mean behavior. He forgave her and came to her house everyday to clean it, to feed her and to pray for her, till she was on her feet again. The kind attitude of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w) inspired her into the recognition of the Truth, and his prayers were answered in the form of yet another addition into the growing number of Muslims.
One day Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) was going somewhere at noon and it was too hot in the desert when He (s.a.w) saw an old woman carrying her luggage on her head. Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) helped her and took the luggage from the woman and carried it for her.
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) asked the woman that where she was going and why? She said that I am leaving this town as I have heard that a magician named Muhammad (s.a.w) is in town. As Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) was very patient and kind, He (s.a.w) didn't say a word and kept listening. The old lady kept complaining that why she was leaving the town. In short the basic reason of her to leave the town was her misconception about Muhammad (s.a.w), who was walking beside her and she didn't know it. When they reached the destination, Muhammad (s.a.w) put down the bag and was about to leave when the old woman said,
"O, kind person! At least tell me your name!”
Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) replied, "I am the person because of whom you left the town." The old lady was amazed to listen that and said that such a kind, helping and true person can never be wrong and therefore she also accepted Islam.
Alhamdulillah.
May God almighty help us in following the ways of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w).
Ameen!
Ameen..!!
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