In The Name Of Allah, The Most Compassionate,TheMost Merciful

REFLECTIONS AROUND THE GREAT MESSENGER (PBUH)
IN THE COMMORATION OF HIS DAY OF BIRTH

In the Name of Allah: No Assistance except from Him. Our praise to Allah: No Gratitude except for Him. Glories to You my Lord: You Created me and I am in full obedience to Your Command. I hold my covenant to You by whatever is in my power. I bear witness that there is no Deity except Allah. I send my prayers and greetings to the best among all creatures Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) the Messenger of peace who received the last message of heavens to guide the worlds and delivered Allah's Integrated Legislation and Wisdom in a perfect manner.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, I greet you by the greeting of Islam: Asslamu Alikum Wa Rahmetu Allah Wa Barakath:

Yesterday was, most probably the day of commemoration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). My Khutba today Inshaa Allah will be a reflection around that Great Man, who was sent as mercy to the whole worlds.

From the beginning of the revelation to its end, twenty-three years of miraculous incidence consisting of: defeat and victory; sorrow and joy; calamities and good times. Allah Summarized these years as an example for our life, in Sura # 3 Al-Imran, Verse # 140, where Allah Says:

"Such days (of varying fortunes) We Give to people and people by turns."

In about a quarter of a century, we find the last Messenger (PBUH) chased out of the sacred mosque at Mecca. His tribe's people acknowledged him as the best among their men, the most rational and the greatest in thought and behavior. But, when he called for the last Message revealed from the One God, they named him by what was stated in Sura # 15 Al-Hijr Verse # 6:

"They say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! Truly thou art mad (or possessed)!"

After thirteen years of strenuous endurance and calamities, he was chased out of his home in Mecca to his destiny far away from the sacred mosque. There in Medina he was caught in a horrible defeat in Uhd, where 70 of the great Imams of Muslims fell martyrs. The nonbelievers in that battle, represented by their victorious leader, dared to say glory to our god Hobble and they raised their worshiped idol to the sky. In that weak situation, the Prophet (PBUH) asked the remaining of his companions: You will not respond to him? They asked what to say? He replied, say "Allah is higher and the Most Might."

If the nonbelievers had claimed that they won the battle, the following five years after Uhd observed the Muslims after that reply, as the masters in the holy city of Mecca. After one year from the conquest of Mecca, the Muslims controlled and purified the Sacred House of Allah and managed the Hajj season. In the Ninth year of Hijra, Sura # 9 Al-Tauba, was revealed, to end forever the existence of all the signs of idolaters and nonbelievers in that holy city and in its country at large after some time. That was the end of the bloody disputes and superstitions that served the evil-doers for years. The nonbelievers and idolaters were given a limited opportunity to come back to their senses or to leave forever, or else, they would be subjected to the loss of their lives and security if they insisted on staying in the holy city of Mecca. Listen to verses # 1-3, from that Sura, where Allah Says:

"A (declaration) of immunity From Allah and His Messenger. To those of the Pagans with whom you have contracted Mutual alliances: Go you, then for four months (as you will), throughout the land, But know yet that you cannot Frustrate Allah (by your falsehood), But that Allah Will Cover with shame those who reject Him. And an Announcement from Allah and His Messenger, to the people (Assembled) on the day of the Great Pilgrimage: That Allah and His Messenger Dissolve (treaty) obligations with the Pagans. If, then, you repent, It is best for you. But if you turn away, know you that you cannot Frustrate Allah, and proclaim a grievous chastisement to those who reject faith."

That comprehensive treaty came after twenty-two years. From the beginning of the revelation to the time of this treaty the Prophet (PBUH) lived a very long, bloody struggle between the call of the Monotheism of Allah as the only One God and the demize of ignorance that lived in blood shed, restricted freedom and continuous violations on human rights and righteousness. The fair response to these calamities was the eternal Law of Allah stated in Sura # 13 Al-Raad, Verse # 17, where Allah Says:

"Then, as for the foam, it passes away as scum upon the banks, while as for that which is of use to mankind, it remains in the earth."

That ugly dispute and bloody struggle was dictated to stay to the Day of Judgment as a lesson for humanity teaching them that: The struggle between the right and the evil is bitter in taste, bloody endeavor leading to death and calls for huge sacrifice. The early Muslims stood tough to face all these consequences and learned that: When the struggle reaches its peak and when calamities consumed all they owned, that was the signs of their victory and hopes. That was recorded for Muslims to learn that they will never acquire a cheap victory at any time.

One of the last Verses of revelation came in the season of Hajj as I stated before. In the ninth year of Hijjra, Muslims declared that:

1. No Hajj after that year to any nonbeliever or idolater,
2. No one of the nonbelievers will be allowed to enter the House of Allah at Mecca,
3. None of the Hajj will be performed naked,
4. Nonbelievers will not enter the paradise of reward.