A Day in the Life of Prophet Muhammad(SAW)

Introduction

Introduction

Here is the city of palm dates and lively hearts; here lives his

heart. It is his place, his city, his people. It is the city in which

everything came alight when he arrived. Its people and its very

nature loved him. Here is Mount Uhud with which he had a relation

of mutual love. These narrow alleyways will recognize his footsteps.

Here will be his mosque and adjacent to it will be his small rooms.

But here in the mosque will also gather a great band of men, eager

to follow him and do his bidding. With them he will have a pure

relation of mutual love. He is always with them; but his special

relation is with God.

We will look at Prophet Muhammad's management of his day,

hour by hour, to gain an insight into the simplicity of his great lif e,

the spontaneity of his serious life, the perf ect balance between his

activities and the fulfillment of complementary needs.

We will see true vivacity in his life, as the lively hours follow

one another in his day: every moment is full; no second is wasted.

Deals with life itself were made at every second: in his home,

mosque, the alleyways of Madinah, his companions' homes, on the

hard mat where he sat, at meal times and in bed when he was about

to sleep.

Those around him were all eyes, trying to monitor every word

and every move. Even the dark night could not screen his action

from those loving hearts who wanted to know how he spent the

night. No walls were high enough to hide his private life. Both

hearts and eyes were with him at home until he went to bed: they

saw him as he was fast asleep and observed him as he woke up.

He was not just an ordinary person who started fresh in the

morning and was tired and less energetic in the evening. The

constant flow of his energy made you feel that every moment was a

fresh start. He was the man of the moment; every moment. No

opportunity was ever lost. As a Prophet and a messenger of God,

he instinctively realized that every moment must be accounted for;

must serve a useful purpose. The same rule applies to every hour

and every day: each must have its achievement. Life can thus yield

its fruits.