Seerah of Rasool Allah (saw) thread

[Salman Al-Farsi]

Assalam Alaykum

Please use this thread to post accounts from the the seerah of Prophet Sayeduna Mohammed Mustafa (saw).

Please makesure its short, authentic and please quote the source. It can be in any order since i am not sure if we will be able to maintain an order, but still perhaps we can identify the accounts from seerah as Makki/Madni etc.

InshaAllah it would be nice to start off from the birth of the prophet (saw).

It be great idea to read and post, we should aim at covering a vast amount before the end of ramdhan.

Who wants to start??

[*IslamicGirl*]

:start:

:salams

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'aan:

"Those who will serve the Messenger, unlettered the Communicator of hidden news when they will find with them written in the Taurat and Injeel. He will bid them to do good and will forbid them from doing evil, and will make lawful for them clean things and will forbid for them unclean things, and will take off from them that burden and shackles which were upon them. Then those who believe in him and honour him and help him and follow that light which has been sent down with him, they are the persons who attained their objects."
[Surah 7: Ayat 157] :love: :love:

:salams

[AbuSadiq]

:start:

:salams

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'aan:

"Those who will serve the Messenger, unlettered the Communicator of hidden news when they will find with them written in the Taurat and Injeel. He will bid them to do good and will forbid them from doing evil, and will make lawful for them clean things and will forbid for them unclean things, and will take off from them that burden and shackles which were upon them. Then those who believe in him and honour him and help him and follow that light which has been sent down with him, they are the persons who attained their objects."
[Surah 7: Ayat 157] :love: :love:

:salams

This is one verse that describes the entire "assignment" of the Holy Prophet Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasallam, and what is expected of his law abiding followers.

May the Almighty Allah put us among them, amin.

[Salman Al-Farsi]

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Before we start on the seerah of our beloved prophet (saw), it is important to look at what Islaam came to address, ie the Jahilli (ignorant) arab society pre-islam and some of their practices.

Here is a brief account of a Jahilli practise and how Islaam adressed it:

The Killing of Infant Girls:

The value of human life had plunged to an all-time low in pre-Islamic society. There existed a convention of burying young girls alive, for fear of shame or poverty. The Quran describes this practice in order to communicate the horror of this crime and record its Ignorance, i.e., Jahiliyyah. Its condemnation jibes with the declared aim of Islam, to destroy Ignorance and save mankind from depravity.

"When the infant girl, buried alive, is asked for what crime she was slain." (At-Takwir 81: 8-9)

" When the birth of a girl is announced to one of them, his face grows dark and he is filled with rage and inward gloom. Because of the bad news he hides himself from everybody; should he keep her with disgrace or bury her under the dust? How will they judge?" (An Nahl 16: 58-59)

"You shall not kill your children for fear of want. We will provide for them and for you..." (Al Isra' 17: 31)

Girls were killed in an extremely cruel way. They were buried alive! Those who did not kill their young daughters or send them to mind cattle, had different methods of ill-treating women. If a man died, the head of the clan would throw his gown over the widow as a gesture of acquisition. This was socially translated as the widow could not remarry anyone except the owner of the gown. If he fancied her, he would marry her, paying no regard whatsoever to her feelings in the matter. If he did not marry her, he would keep her until she died with the objective of inheriting her wealth.

Islam condemns the attitude of Ignorant societies and spurns all these practices. The Shariah forbids the murder of young girls and expresses its horrifying nature. It makes such actions as subjects of reckoning on the Day of Judgment. The Quran informs us that the murdered girl will be questioned about her murder. The surah leaves us to imagine how Allah (swt) will bring the murderer to account on Judgement Day.

The ignorant social order of the pre-Islamic period would never have helped women to gain a respectable, dignified position. The way of life Allah (swt) has chosen for mankind secures a dignified position for both women and men. Women owe their respectable position to Islam, not to other man-made systems that look at women as either objects of adoration or contempt.

Islam elevated the women as an object of respect and honour.

extract taken from Fi Thilali-l-Qur'an of Syed Qutb.

[Salman Al-Farsi]

His Birth:

Muhammad (saw) , the Master of Prophets, was born in Bani Hashim lane in Makkah on Monday morning, the ninth of Rabi‘ Al-Awwal, the same year of the Elephant Event, and forty years of the reign of Kisra (Khosru Nushirwan), i.e. the twentieth or twenty-second of April, 571 A.D., according to the scholar Muhammad Sulaimân Al-Mansourpuri, and the astrologer Mahmûd Pasha.[]

Ibn Sa‘d reported that Prophet Muhammad’s mother said: "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the palaces of Syria." Ahmad reported on the authority of ‘Arbadh bin Sariya something similar to this.
It was but controversially reported that significant precursors accompanied his birth: fourteen galleries of Kisra’s palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians’ sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed.

His mother immediately sent someone to inform his grandfather ‘Abdul-Muttalib of the happy event. Happily he came to her, carried him to Al-Ka‘bah, prayed to Allâh and thanked Him. ‘Abdul-Muttalib called the baby Muhammad, a name not then common among the Arabs. He circumcised him on his seventh day as was the custom of the Arabs.

The first woman who suckled him after his mother was Thuyebah, the concubine of Abu Lahab, with her son, Masrouh. She had suckled Hamzah bin ‘Abdul-Muttalib before and later Abu Salamah bin ‘Abd Al-Asad Al-Makhzumi.[]