Why Did They Become Muslims

great superiority and who wished to prepare a new religious book
for the humanity would be? First of all, would not he have
acquired knowledge ample enough to write such a tremendous
work of art, reading volumes of books and making the long
preliminary studies? As a matter of fact, Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
was taken along in two different business expeditions to
Damascus as he was a child, was charged only with the protection
and security of the commercial goods and the management of the
caravans in these expeditions, and accomplished these duties
owing only to HIS EXCEEDINGLY LOFTY MORAL
QUALITY AND INTEGRITY and unbelievably high
intellectual merits. This sudden, unexpected revelation, which he
had not even imagined, frightened, rather than pleased him.
However, as the events of revelation recurred, he gradually
realized that Allâhu ta’âlâ had decreed to assign him a
considerably important and heavy task, committed all his
existence to obeying the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and
began to publicize the Islamic religion, which He had
communicated to him and which was based on the ‘Unity of
Allah’. Muhammad’s ‘alaihis-salâm’ spreading Islam provided
him no worldly benefits, but on the contrary all the Meccans
became his enemies. He is known to have stated, “No other
Prophet suffered so much as I have, nor did any one of them
experience the same distresses as I have.” This hadîth-i-sherîf is
recorded in books. These facts show that Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
did not seek any worldly advantages or any personal
aspirations in spreading a new religion. In fact, as we have already
pointed out, his educational background and the social
environment he had found himself living in would hardly promise
him any success in the realization of so great a dream.
Then, it would be impossible to quite out of the question to
believe that Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ might have arranged the
Qur’ân al-kerîm by himself. So let us now reason on the conjecture
that the Qur’ân al-kerîm may be a stupendous masterpiece
revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
When a new Prophet appears, people around him anticipate
miracles from him. Both Mûsâ (Moses) ‘alaihis-salâm’ and Îsâ
(Jesus) ‘alaihis-salâm’ had to display miracles to prove their
prophethood. Actually, these miracles took place only with the
command and permission and creation of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Yet they
were recorded as “the miracles of Mûsâ and Îsâ ‘alaihim-as-salâm’
” by historians. In reality, Prophets ‘alaihimussalawâtu
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