LIFE OF THE PROPHET

HIS MARRIAGE WITH KHADEEJAH

           When the purity and honesty of Muhammad's life began to be generally known, he was employed by a wealthy lady merchant of Mecca, whose name was Khadeejah, to make a trading journey into Syria.

         He was promised a share in the profits of his trading. Khadeejah sent one of her slaves with him. Muhammad traded so well that the profit was more larger than khadeejah expected. Her servant's good account of the prophet's purity of life and his honesty has such a good effect on her that she wanted to become the wife of so noble a man. She therefore asked Muhammad to marry her, and he did so. At this time khadeejah was forty years of age and Muhammad was only twenty five!

         HE SETS THE SLAVES FREE.

       The first act of khadeejah after her marriage was to give all her wealth, including slaves to her husband.
Muhammad at once set all the slaves free. Thus at the age of twenty five he did what all leaders had not been able to do during long lifetime. He showed that it was possible to do without slaves in a town where slavery had always been thought of as a necessity of life.

          HIS LIFE OF PRAYER.

         The evils and bad morals from which his country men suffered made muhammad sad. He used to go alone to a cave at the top of a mountain called Hira, three miles from Mecca, and there, he thought over the condition of his country, and of the idol worship that was so strong there.

         In this cave, he used to pray to the One and Ever living God. He had such interest in this, that he often took with him food enough for several days and spend long hours in the cave praying to God.

        One night in the month of Ramadan, AD, 609, when Muhammad was forty years old, the angel Gabriel appeared to him while he was at prayer in the cave of hira and told him to recite after him the following words:

Recite in the name of your Lord who created.
He created man from clot.
Recite and your lord is most honourable, who taught man (to write) with the pen. He taught man what he knew not..
(The holy Quran 96:1-5)...

      
       This was the day when Muhammad first knew that he was to be a prophet. He knew what was to be his life work. He was told that it was to be a work of the greatest difficulty. He had to change the lives of men everywhere and to teach all people to live their lives as God wished them to live. Hard work indeed! For men at that time were full of evil.

      But the message given to him by the angel Gabriel frightened Muhammad (pbuh)that it made him shake as though with cold. He went home and told Khadeejah (RA) all about it, saying that it was in this way that God meant to try him.

  
        Khadeejah, who knew him well because she love him and had watched all his ways, comforted him and said;

"Nay by God, He will not ruin you, for you are kind to your family, you help the helpless, you welcome guest, and you assist those who are in trouble".

       Muhammad was not, however comforted by what his wife told him, and she therefore took him to her elderly relation, Waraqa Bin Naufal, a blind man who was a student of the bible, and asked him the meaning of the message which the angel Gabriel had brought.

        Muhammad met Waraqa and told him what had happened. As soon as Waraqa heard this, he said;

"Do not worry, God has revealed Himself to you as He did to Moses".

And then waraqa added;

"I am sorry I am so old, I wish I were younger and could see the day when God will make you a guide to men. Yet I fear that your people will drive you away from their home!".

       Muhammad (PBUH) had spent much of his life thinking how he could help those among whom he lived, and they liked him. He was therefore very surprised to be told that his people will one day drive him away.

"Will my people really send me away from them and from my town?!".

      He asked and Waraqa replied;

"They surely will. For whenever a man has been trusted with a message such as yours, his own people have not believed him and have treated him badly".

     All that Waraqa told him troubled and surprised him. But there were to be greater surprises in store for him!

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