Friday, June 27, 2008

Why is Muhammad so beloved for muslims?


We know that human beings are made up of body, soul and mind. In the religions of the world islam is the religion that fulfills the needs of all these three ingredients. It purifies the body, directs the mind and enlivens the soul. When islam was revealed to the Prophet, it was not merely a concept to direct the mind as most of the previous religions were, it was also a source of purification for our body and enlightenment of our soul.
The Prophet guided the people in two ways: with words for their minds and physical influence for their souls. When both were improved the environment of physical purification was ready. Much more than his words and the truth of their contents, it was the personality of the prophet that forced people to except him as their prophet.
Personality influence is a mysterious process. It is still practiced by saints in the islamic world. the people born with magnified quantity of personality influence of the prophet become sains or saintly in islamic world and further purifies the others to walk on the same path. Even in the modern times most of the muslims in their old ages when they are no more strong in mental and physical qualities become pious and purified in their later years, no matter how much impure they have been in their early ages. I have not seen so many people talking about God, hereafter and purification in their old age as i have seen in muslims.
The personality influence of Muhammad (saw) is descending down in his followers from generation to generation as a part and parcel of their existence. The ratio of converts to other religions is very negligible in muslims. Plus, in all the other religions the people talk about their prophet in a disparaging way. There has been very few such people in muslims. This all because of the personality influence of the prophet the muslims are having in their bodies and minds as blood veins.
This is why the influence of islamic saint is quite different from the influence of the saints of other religions. The influence of islamic saints penetrate into our hearts and moves them to certain directions where as the influence of the saints of other religions perhaps moves only the minds. a true islamic saint may develop his soul without sacrificing his mind. There is no such possibility in other religions of the world.
To make my reader understand what do i mean by personality influence i would like to say that it is some thing like the influence of opposite sex. We cant ignore its presence. It arouses certain feelings in our bodies hearts and minds that remain sleepy in the presence of men or people of our own sex howsoever loving or lovely they are.
The presence of a muslim saint arouses in the onlookers the same type of different feelings. Like all other feelings once they are aroused they are not likely to die in the whole of ones life. They can remain sleepy but they can never die. Somewhere in the life of the onlooker those feelings will arouse again and dominate all his existence.
This is the very personality influence of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) traveling down from generation to generation appearing or revitalizing the soul of this saint and that, that makes the prophet dear and respectful to all the muslims. The world can change their minds, the atmosphere can change their feelings, they can start committing all types of sins, but they can never devoid of that personality influence entered into their systems some fourteen centuries ago. The more they will encounter the intellectual and cultural suppression the more that influence will get ready to arouse. If some one injures their feelings concerning to that part of their existence they can never never endure that injury. They may compromise, they may stop yelling but they will never forget it. That personality influence of the prophet is a kind of second soul in all the muslims.

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