In the shadow of the prophetic biography

In the shadow of the prophetic biography, authored by: Muhammad Hamad Abdullah Al-Suwayani Binding: Cover Volumes: One Paper: Shamooh Size: 14 × 21 Brief: The mercy sent down upon him, peace be upon him His father died before he was born, so his mother raised him, and when he became a child, his mother passed away. Then his bitterness of orphanhood increased with the death of his grandfather Abdul Muttalib when he was a youth. Death took his loved ones… causing him pain, leaving him with memories and tears. He struggled and worked hard… tending sheep, trading, buying and selling, dealing with people until he earned the title of Al-Ameen (the Trustworthy). He never drank wine, worshiped idols, or knew fornication, so he was the dream of the virgins. But they were surprised by the kind forty days… Khadijah won his heart, and God blessed them with four daughters like flowers. As he approached forty, he continued his journey of reflection and major questions about his surroundings: people, life, and the universe. He realized there was no god or creator but Allah, so he alone, سبحانه, was his Lord, and he sincerely turned to Him. Sometimes his soul longed for solitude, so he chose a cave in Mount Hira to purify his soul and to converse with his Lord for days each year. Then he began to see truthful visions that heralded and puzzled him. One night in that cave, the chief of angels, Jibreel (peace be upon him), descended upon him, delivering God's message, and revealed to him (Read). He, peace be upon him, descended to Mecca as a bearer of glad tidings and warnings to his people. Few believed him, and most denied him, so he kept calling them… addressing hearts and minds. His only weapon was the word (the Quran), and a white history free of lies, until his followers increased. Fearing the tyrants of Quraysh, they began arrests and dragging believers, who scattered between exile and prisons. Then, peace be upon him, started addressing other tribes, appealing to them to shelter him and support the oneness of his Lord. Until the most noble of the people (the Ansar) of Yathrib believed in his call. He established with them a state on their land and only by word… built it without shedding a single drop of blood… established it through treaties and documents. He did not exclude the idolaters as they excluded him. His people consisted of Jews, idolaters, and Muslims. He tried to reconcile them all and unite them, but he added to the weapon of the word from Mecca another weapon: (the weapon of justice). He did not build prisons… he was humble to the extent that his house, even when fleeing in Mecca, was larger than his house as a ruler in Medina. He was preoccupied with building his state, forgetting the persecution of Quraysh, and even allowed his people to trade with them, especially their tyrants. But they did not leave him… they prevented him and his people from the right to visit their House of God. They incited Arab tribes against him, launching attacks, sieges, and treachery against his companions. A minority of his people, the Jews, betrayed him by allying with Quraysh tyrants. The Jews, whose rabbis he hosted in his house, liked to agree with them outside of revelation, yet they lied and conspired against him, insulting him even inside his house. He was forced to sign national treaties with them, guaranteeing their rights, freedom, and security. They exploited his justice, breaking the treaties one after another, secretly contacting most pagan tribes and inciting them, until they turned them into armies besieging his people. He was compelled to take up arms in defense of his religion, his homeland, and his people, whom he vowed to protect as they protected him. He fought wars, with his family’s men leading, and lost many loved ones. When his state became the strongest in the Arabian Peninsula, he did not thirst for blood… he did not seek revenge… he was captivated by building, peace, winning hearts, and preserving lives rather than shedding them. His mercy won people’s hearts when they saw his face filled with sadness at seeing strangers, barefoot, naked, and hungry idolaters. He did not rest until he fed them, clothed them, and comforted their hearts. At the height of his power and the best opportunity to take revenge on Quraysh tyrants, he signed a peace treaty with them. They imposed unjust conditions on him while they were at their weakest, but he agreed to save lives and bring peace. They betrayed him, and the world was surprised by the conquest of Mecca. It surprised them because he opened it in support of a pagan tribe that had a mutual defense treaty with him. Quraysh tyrants betrayed it. When he triumphed over them, he did not commit massacres… he did not seek revenge for twenty years of oppression, torture, and conspiracies. He entered Mecca without seizing a house or land, and he found no place to stay except a valley where he and his companions had been imprisoned before the migration. He opened Mecca and ruled the Arabian Peninsula, causing the great nations to panic and begin to harass the state of the Quran. The Magi, Christians, and their agents began sending armies. He was forced to defend his people in Mu'tah, Dhat al-Salasil, and Tabuk, and he prepared a third army for the same mission before his death. Then, peace be upon him, departed from this world while ruling all of Arabia. He left without residing in a palace, wearing gold or silk, or spending a night with a dinar or dirham in his possession. He died without leaving a slave or a nation, but he left his shield mortgaged with a Jewish merchant from his people in exchange for a quantity of barley to feed his family. As for his people, they left them as the purest peoples, most organized and cultured. He departed after introducing the pen and the book into every home, making them the first people to own books in their houses. The Book of Allah, which educates them doctrinally, intellectually, spiritually, psychologically, educationally, socially, health-wise, politically, economically, militarily, and judicially. He, peace be upon him, has gone, but he remains a sun that does not set: in monotheism, morals, justice, and mercy for the worlds. Al-Obeikan Publishing