Brief biography of the Prophet

Brief biography of the Prophet, authored by: Muhammad Al-Suwaini Binding: Cover Volumes: One Paper: Shamua Size: 14 × 21 Summary: This is our Prophet, Muhammad ibn Abdullah ﷺ, who spent 31 years in Mecca calling to Islam, his only weapon being speech and persuasion. The polytheists lied about him, cursed him, beat him, tried to assassinate him, dragged his companions, and assassinated some of them, yet he never harmed anyone with evil, never drew a weapon or assassinated anyone in revenge, nor incited to revenge. When he was welcomed by the most honorable people on earth (the Ansar) in Yathrib, they were convinced, and he established the state of Islam on their land with words, without shedding a single drop of blood. He built it through treaties and documents, living among a people consisting of Jews, polytheists, and Muslims, trying to reconcile them all and bring them together, adding to the weapon of speech he carried from Mecca another more effective weapon: the weapon of justice. He did not build prisons or palaces; rather, his house was his home, and he was a fugitive in Mecca, greater than his house as a ruler in Medina. His mercy captured people's hearts when they saw his face turn sorrowful upon seeing barefoot, naked, hungry polytheists who were not from his people. He did not rest until he fed them, clothed them, and comforted their hearts. He was busy building the Islamic state, forgetting the oppression of the tyrants of Quraysh, but they prevented him and his companions from their right to visit the House of Allah, incited Arab tribes against him, and collaborated with the Jews. So he signed a national treaty guaranteeing their freedom and security. They exploited his justice, betrayed the treaty, and contacted most of the pagan tribes, inciting them until they managed to turn them into armies besieging him and his companions. He was forced to take up arms in defense of his religion and homeland, fighting wars in which his family members led the front lines, many of whom were lost. When Arabia submitted to him, he was not eager for revenge; he was busy building and protecting lives. He signed a peace treaty with the tyrants of Quraysh, who imposed their conditions on him while they were at their weakest, and he agreed while he was at his strongest. Despite that, he opened Mecca, and at that time he did not seize a house or land, nor did he find a place to stay in Mecca. Then, ﷺ departed from this world while ruling over the entire Arabian Peninsula. He left without living in a palace, wearing gold or silk, or eating fine bread, nor did he spend a night with a dinar or dirham in his possession, nor owned a slave or servant. He departed while his shield was pawned with a Jewish merchant in exchange for a quantity of barley to feed his wives. As for his people, he left them as the purest, most organized, and most cultured peoples. ﷺ departed in body, but he remains a sun that does not set: in monotheism, morals, justice, and mercy for the worlds. Al-Obeikan Publishing