Why Did They Become Muslims

The Prophet was of medium height; yet,
When a tall man walked with the Prophet,
However tall that man might be,
The taller one the Prophet would be.
The Prophet, with the tall man compared,
Would be as taller as the palm of hand.
Whenever he walked, in dignity,
Rather fast was he in velocity.
As he walked, his habit was, let us say,
To bend forward, in a singular way.
Like walking downwards, that is to say,
He would lean forward in a slight way.
So high was he in honour and personality,
The soul of Halîl [1] was proud of his nobility.
When Hudâ [2] loves a person, certainly,
All his limbs will be perfect in beauty.
As the Messenger of Allah walked quietly,
If a person confronted him suddenly,
That person would be stricken with fear;
Such would Allah’s Messenger to him appear.
If a person talked with the Prophet continuously,
And listened to his sweet voice piously,
The flavour in his words would affect him so much,
He would be the Prophet’s slave, if accepted as such.
The Eternal Creator had decked him with such beauty,
Peerless in all sorts of moral quality.
he would be burnt into ashes if he did. The Prophet went on alone. He
went beyond the Sidra and beyond the Arsh, and entered Paradise. He
saw Allâhu ta’âlâ in an ineffable, incomprehensible, inexplicable
manner, without time and without direction. Then he was taken back
to the earth. This ascent of the Messenger of Allah is called Mi’râj.
Muslims celebrate this blessed event yearly on the twenty-sixth night
of the blessed month of Rajab.
[1] The Prophet Ibrâhîm (Abraham) ‘alaihis-salâm’.
[2] Allâhu ta’âlâ.
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