THE GREAT AND MATCHLESS LEADER IN HUMAN HISTORY
The one unique,
complete, and matchless person in all shades of life is Prophet Muhammad (Peace
be Upon Him). He is the leader who has enhanced this garden of the world with
fresh roses of quotes, with a deeply immersed soul of morals, with a strong
character of ethics, with the fragrance of kindness, with the glory of respect,
with the beauty of patience, with colors of relations and with the noble act of
sacrifice. He (Peace be Upon Him) is incomparable in all spheres of life. His
(Peace be Upon Him) personality is elegant and matchless in both enormous
fields of life, first is practical, social, cultural, and political- second
spiritual, moral, and religious.
He (Peace be Upon
Him) is supreme in every walk of life either as a husband or a leader of a
state or a friend or a human or a preacher or a teacher or a neighbor. He
(Peace be Upon Him) truthful example in all aspects of life and his splendid
actions and merits are very helpful for a purely natural human lifestyle. He
(Peace be Upon Him) is unprecedented and exceptional in the global record of
great personalities. There are no fables about his life history and Allah
Almighty says in the Glorious Quran;
لَّقَدۡ كَانَ لَكُمۡ فِي رَسُولِ ٱللَّهِ أُسۡوَةٌ حَسَنَةٞ لِّمَن كَانَ
يَرۡجُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلۡيَوۡمَ ٱلۡأٓخِرَ وَذَكَرَ ٱللَّهَ كَثِيرٗا
There has certainly been for you in
the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah
and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often. (Al-Quran 33:21)
Being Muslims we
believe that our honorable Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) is superior to
all Prophets (Ambiya and Rusul) and he has stated:
“I am the chief of all the
descendants of Adam (Tirmidhi, vol. 5, Hadith: 3159).”
The companions of
Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) described him and said:
"We haven't seen anybody like
him before him or after him." ( Sahih Bukhari)
Words fall less of
defining the incomparable and matchless personality of the Holy Prophet
Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him). No one can complete the description of his beauty
because if his beauty will reveal in its entirety, we will not be able to bear
the radiance of his incomparable personality. The Jibrail, an archangel who
acts as an intermediary between Allah Almighty and humans and as a bearer of
revelation to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) declared Holy Prophet Muhammed's (Peace be Upon Him) personality:
"I have combed the east and west
of the earth, but I have not found anyone as eminent as Prophet Muhammad (Peace
be Upon Him)." (A Tradition related by Baihaqi, Tibarani, and Asaker).
We know that there
are many revolutionists in the world and we have seen many great contributors
or leaders to the world civilization. For example, when we appraise the
qualities of any person we do so by scanning or conforming to the
accomplishments and victories of such person. So, to understand the distinctive
character of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) one needs to evaluate the
significance of his achievements and contributions by Prophet Muhammad (Peace
be Upon Him). The outstanding characteristics
and extraordinary virtues of Holy Prophet (Peace be Upon Him) make him the best
role model for all mankind.