Why Did They Become Muslims

45– His speech was extremely clear and easily comprehensible.
He had visitors from various places, and he spoke to his visitors in
their own languages. People listened to him with admiration. He
stated, “Allâhu ta’âlâ has given me a beautiful training and
education.”
46– With few words he said much. His more than one hundred
thousand (utterances termed) hadîth-i-sherîfs are a demonstration
of the fact that he was Jawâmi-ul-kalîm. According to some
scholars, Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ stated the four essentials of
Islam with four hadîth-i-sherîfs, which are as follows:
“Actions are evaluated in accordance with the intentions (in
doing them).”
“Halâl (permission) is obvious, and harâm (prohibition) is
obvious.”
“The plaintiff has to produce witnesses, and the defendant has
to swear an oath.” and
“Unless a person wishes for his Muslim brother whatever he
wishes for his own self, he will not be a perfect Believer.”
The first of these four hadîth-i-sherîfs form the basis for the
knowledge pertaining to acts of worship, the second one for the
knowledge pertaining to transactions, (e.g. buying and selling,
renting, joint-ownership, etc), the third one for the knowledge
pertaining to jurisprudence and politics, and the fourth one for
knowledge pertaining to manners and ethics.
47– Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ was innocent. He never
committed sins, neither intentionally nor inadvertently, neither
grave sins nor venial ones, neither before he was forty years old
nor afterwards. He was never seen to behave in an unseemly
manner.
48– It is a religious precept to invoke a blessing on
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ by saying, “As-salâmu ’alaika
ayyuha-n-nabiyyu wa rahmatullâhi,” during the sitting posture in
namâz. Islam does not contain another religious precept
commanding that you should invoke blessings on other creatures,
such as another Prophet or an angel, which is done when
performing namâz.
49– Instead of demanding position or sovereignty, he
preferred poverty. One morning, during a dialogue with Jebrâîl
‘alaihis-salâm’, he said that they had not had a morsel to eat the
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