Why Did They Become Muslims

Only, from the mid-chest downwards,
A line of hairs went waistwards.
This black line looked on his body, so blessed,
Fine like a halo around the moon harvest.
The blessed limbs remained throughout his life
The same as they were in his early young life.
As time passed, the Prophet grew in age, naturally;
Like a bud, however, he was renewed physically.
Never presume that the Sultan of Universe
Was a bit above the normal size in fatness.
Neither thin nor fleshy was he;
Medium in size, and quite mighty.
Those people who are deeply learned in the matter,
Neither too lean, nor above the normal or fatter.
The Maker had made that splendid body,
With divine justice and equality.
On his pure skin precision reigned;
On his entire body haloes rained.
The Champion of Sidra [1] was of medium stature;
With him did the world attain its peaceful order.
Those who saw his miracles and wonders,
Said to praise him was beyond their powers.
We have never seen such rosy beauty,
In height, in manners, in features, so lovely.
[1] Sidra-t-ul-muhtahâ: a tree in the sixth sky. No creature, except for our
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’, has gone farther above
the Sidra-t-ul-muntahâ. One year before the Hijrat (Hegira), when
our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was fifty-two years old, on
the twenty-sixth night of the blessed month of Rajab (on the night
between the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh days), the Archangel
Jebrâîl (Gabriel) ‘alaihis-salâm’ took the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ to the Ka’ba, where an unknown person
cleaved his chest, took out his heart, washed it with Zamzam water,
and put it back in its place. Then the Prophet and the Angel mounted
a Paradise animal called Burak and rode to the Mesjîd-i-Aqsâ in
Jerusalem, which took them only a moment, thence ascended to the
sixth sky, in one moment again. When they came to the Sidra-t-ulmuntahâ,
Jebrâîl ‘alaihis-salâm’ said he could not go any further, for
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