Documents of the Right Word

known by those who are cognizant of literary stylistics. Even in a
single story covering various events, its repetition at various places
lays stress on different facts. [1]
Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) had many mu’jizas;
such as, the moon’s splitting into two parts when he made a sign
with his blessed finger, stones and trees talking and moving with
him, his making beasts speak, satiating many people with a small
amount of food, water flowing from between his fingers, his
describing past and future facts not known by anyone, and many
others. Although not all his mu’jizas were reported by consensus,
he had many mu’jizas that were reported by consensus. They have
been general topics of conversation just as the bravery of Hadrat
’Alî and the generosity of Khâtam-i Tâî [and the cruelties and
tortures of Nero, the fifth Roman emperor] have been. We would
be contented with this much evidence to believe in his
prophethood.
The second way of proving the prophethood of Muhammad
(’alaihi ’s-salâm) is to study his manners, beautiful moral qualities
and utterances that were full of wisdom before he was declared a
Prophet, when he announced his prophethood and after his
prophethood was known. For example, he never lied, neither for
worldly affairs nor concerning matters of the Hereafter. If he had
lied once in his lifetime, his furious enemies would have raced with
one another in spreading it far and near. Before or during his
prophethood, he was never seen doing something unseemly.
Though he was ummî, [that is, he had never received an education
from anybody], his speech was fluent and sweet. For this reason he
said, “I am gifted with jawâmi’ al-kalîm (ability to give much
information in a few words).” He put up with many
inconveniences for communicating Allâhu ta’âlâ’s religion. In fact,
it was for this reason that he said, “No other Prophet suffered the
tortures I have suffered.” He suffered them all. He never gave up
his duties. After his enemies were subdued and everyone accepted
his commandments, no change took place in his beautiful morality,
compassion or modesty. Throughout his lifetime, he pleased
everyone. He never felt superior to anybody. To all his umma, he
was as compassionate as a father [to his children]. It was on
account of his extraordinary compassion that he was commanded,
[1] People who study the English literature and linguistics must be
familiar with types of verbal parallelism such as anaphora, cataphora,
epistrophe, symploce, anadiplosis, epanalepsis, antistrophe
polyptoton, and so forth.
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