Islam Watch

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)-Life

Islam advocating betterment of this life rather than concern itself exclusively with super mundane affairs has led to a new orientation of moral values.

Its abiding influence on the common relations of mankind in the affairs of every day life, its deep power over the masses, its regulation of their conception of rights and duty, its suitability and adaptability to the ignorant savage and the wise philosopher are characteristic features of the teaching of the Prophet of Islam.

It should be most carefully born in mind this stress on good actions is not the sacrifice correctness of faith. While there are various school of thought, one praising faith at the expense of deeds, another exhausting various acts to the detriment of correct belief, Islam is based on correct faith and righteous actions.

Means are important as the end and ends are as important as the means. It is an organic Unity. Together they live and thrive.

Separate them and both decay and die. In Islam faith can not be divorced from the action.

Right knowledge should be transferred into right action to produce the right results. How often the words came in Quran -- Those who believe and do good thing, they alone shall enter paradise.

Again and again, not less than fifty times these words are repeated as if too much stress can not be laid on them.

Contemplation is encouraged but mere contemplation is not the goal. Those who believe and do nothing can not exist in Islam. These who believe and do wrong are inconceivable.

Divine law is the law of effort and not of ideals. It chalks out for the men the path of eternal progress from knowledge to action and from action to satisfaction.

What is the correct faith from which right action spontaneously proceeds resulting in complete satisfaction.

Here the central doctrine of Islam is the Unity of God. There is no God but God is the pivot from which hangs the whole teaching and practice of Islam. He is unique not only as regards his divine being but also as regards his divine attributes.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)-Science
The Great Prophet of Islam turned the attention of his followers towards the study of nature and its laws, to understand them and appreciate the Glory of God.

Holy Quran says, "God did not create the heavens and the Earth and all that is between them in play. He did not create them all but with the truth. But most men do not know."
It is the same practical character of the teaching of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) that gave birth to the scientific spirit, that has also sanctified the daily labors and the so-called mundane affairs.

The Quran says that God has created man to worship him but the word worship has a connotation of its own.

God's worship is not confined to prayer alone, but every act that is done with the purpose of winning approval of God and is for the benefit of the humanity comes under its purview.

Islam sanctifies life and all its pursuits provided they are performed with honesty, justice and pure intents.

It obliterates the age-long distinction between the sacred and profane. The Quran says if you eat clean things and thank God for it, it is an act of worship. It is saying of the prophet of Islam that Morsel of food that one places in the mouth of his wife is an act of virtue to be rewarded by God.

Another tradition of the Prophet says "He who is satisfying the desire of his heart will be rewarded by God provided the methods adopted are permissible."
The debt of science to Muslims does not consist in starting discovers or revolutionary theories. Science owes a great more to the Islamic culture. It owes is existence.

The Greeks systematized, generalized and theorized by patient ways of investigation, the accumulation of positive knowledge, the minute methods of science, detailed and prolonged observation, experimental inquiry, were altogether alien to Greek temperament.

What is called science arose in Europe as result of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, and of the development of Mathematics in form unknown to the Greeks.

That spirit and these methods were introduced into the European world by the Muslims.

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Anniversary-Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him)

Great personality of Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him) is distinguished: Mohammad the Prophet, there is Mohammad the General; Mohammad the King; Mohammad the Warrior; Mohammad the Businessman; Mohammad the Preacher; Mohammad the Philosopher; Mohammad the Statesman; Mohammad the Orator; Mohammad the reformer; Mohammad the Refuge of orphans; Mohammad the Protector of slaves; Mohammad the Emancipator of women; Mohammad the Law-giver; Mohammad the Judge; Mohammad the Saint.

After the fall of Mecca, more than one million square miles of land lay at his feet, Lord of Arabia, he mended his own shoes and coarse woolen garments, milked the goats, swept the hearth, kindled the fire and attended the other menial offices of the family.

The entire town of Medina where he lived grew wealthy in the later days of his life.

Everywhere there was gold and silver in plenty and yet in those days of prosperity many weeks would elapse without a fire being kindled in the hearth of the king of Arabia, His food being dates and water.

His family would go hungry many nights successively because they could not get anything to eat in the evening. He slept on no soften bed but on a palm mat, after a long busy day to spend most of his night in prayer, often bursting with tears before his creator to grant him strength to discharge his duties.

As the reports go, his voice would get choked with weeping and it would appear as if a cooking pot was on fire and boiling had commenced. On the very day of his death his only assets were few coins a part of which went to satisfy a debt and rest was given to a needy person who came to his house for charity.

The clothes in which he breathed his last had many patches. The house from where light had spread to the world was in darkness because there was no oil in the lamp.

Circumstances changed, but the prophet of God did not. In victory or in defeat, in power or in adversity, in affluence or in indigence, he is the same man, disclosed the same character. Like all the ways and laws of God, Prophets of God are unchangeable.

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