28.5.09
From Darkness into Light. Why we choose Islam
Many people explain why they chose islam as the only right Path to the Truth...
22.5.09
Mohammad (pbuh) the Praise worthy
Mohammad, the seal of all of God's Messengers and Prophets.
He preached the religion of Adam, Noah, Abraham, moses, Jesus (pbut),
He founded a state
He built a nation
He laid down a moral code
He applies social and political reforms
He established a powerful dynamic society
He helped reform society
His teachings are practice and represented by a billion and half people world wide
He completely revolutionized the arab culture.
He gave of human thought and behavior for all times to come.
"His Name is MUHAMMAD" which translates to the Praise worthy.
May Peace of God Be Upon Him (pbuh) Source
He preached the religion of Adam, Noah, Abraham, moses, Jesus (pbut),
He founded a state
He built a nation
He laid down a moral code
He applies social and political reforms
He established a powerful dynamic society
He helped reform society
His teachings are practice and represented by a billion and half people world wide
He completely revolutionized the arab culture.
He gave of human thought and behavior for all times to come.
"His Name is MUHAMMAD" which translates to the Praise worthy.
May Peace of God Be Upon Him (pbuh) Source
15.5.09
QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE -CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION?
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QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE -CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION? – PART I
QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE -CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION? PART II
QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE -CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION? – PART I
QUR’AN AND MODERN SCIENCE -CONFLICT OR CONCILIATION? PART II
12.5.09
Who will stand up for Noah(pbuh) on Judgment day?
No 549: Narrated Abu Said: Allah's Apostle said, "Noah and his nation will come (on the Day of Resurrection and Allah will ask (Noah), "Did you convey (the Message)?' He will reply, 'Yes, O my Lord!' Then Allah will ask Noah's nation, 'Did Noah convey My Message to you?' They will reply, 'No, no prophet came to us.' Then Allah will ask Noah, 'Who will stand a witness for you?' He will reply, 'Muhammad and his followers (will stand witness for me).' So, I and my followers will stand as witnesses for him (that he conveyed Allah's Message)." That is, (the interpretation) of the Statement of Allah: "Thus we have made you a just and the best nation that you might be witnesses Over mankind .." (2.143)
It's rather intresting that I cam across this Hadith by an email and thought it was very uniqe, yet very truthful because in the Quran it speaks of Noah-pbuh, as a righteous man, who served God and delivered the message to his people, but they rejected and mocked him, that some of them were so arrogant, as it began raining as he told them, it says he was still inviting them to listen and come a board, they were still arrogant to say no his being untruthful and that it will stop. They mostly rejected because of arrogance and Noah-pbuh according to the Quran is not quilty of anything and is one of God's prophets.
It's rather intresting that I cam across this Hadith by an email and thought it was very uniqe, yet very truthful because in the Quran it speaks of Noah-pbuh, as a righteous man, who served God and delivered the message to his people, but they rejected and mocked him, that some of them were so arrogant, as it began raining as he told them, it says he was still inviting them to listen and come a board, they were still arrogant to say no his being untruthful and that it will stop. They mostly rejected because of arrogance and Noah-pbuh according to the Quran is not quilty of anything and is one of God's prophets.
In Malta Tourists are welcome (but not them Muslims)
a couple of scores of Muslim men gathered on the Sliema front. They were not being rowdy, they weren't drinking and they weren't swearing. All they had as props were some prayer rugs. Because, in fact, they were only interested in praying together. And they had a police permit to do so.
You would think, Malta being a free democratic country, that this would be a totally non-news event. Bzzz. Wrong answer - not with the racist hysteria gripping the island. For this whole week it's been the most read, most commented and most e-mailed article. Some of the comments to this simple gathering are truly alarming, chilling almost:
"Malta is a Catholic country. They have no right to come here and pray in front of us. I don't care what they do in the privacy of their own home, but not here."
"They should go to a mosque. That is where they belong. Or in some hole somewhere. But not here where I get my children to eat and have a good time."
"I would have had no problem if they were Catholics praying... in Malta we are all Catholics, so it's not a problem, but not them."
"If this happens again there will be trouble."
"I bet that their next step will be to make us remove our icons/crosses and statues from our streets or from schools."
"The authorities should never have given permission, much less protection, at the cost of the Maltese taxpayer."
"This is clear case of arrogance by a small group of men."
I'm sorry? Arrogance? Arrogant was the woman who insisted on walking her dog in front of them, twice. The comments get harsher and harsher. You would think that these men were planning a coup d'etat rather than reciting their Qur'an, or that their prayer beads were weapons of mass destruction.
The reaction, were it not in the context of our society's dark skin paranoia, would have been perplexing. These men simply prayed and then went their way: "We are not here to protest or threaten violence but to express our fundamental human right to gather in prayer," one of the leaders, Bader Zina, said.
They resorted to the Sliema front because the Planning Authority sealed off the Sliema flat where they normally gathered as it did not have a licence to be used as a place of worship. Fair enough. But then, they have every right to get a permit and hit the front.
It's not as if it's never been done before by religious groups. Didn't that touchy-feely, hand-clappy charismatic Edward Spiteri guy and his followers hog the Birzebbuga front for summer weekends on end?
Religion is being used as a poor excuse, a cover-up if you want, for racism. Yet again, the Catholic leaders have chosen to remain silent on the matter. They who should be encouraging the embracing of different religions, they who should be at the forefront of promoting tolerance and acceptance, they who should be reminding all and sundry that Christ after all said 'Love your neighbour as yourself.'
Where is the Church when it needs to voice its disapproval of this unacceptable prejudice? More on this
You would think, Malta being a free democratic country, that this would be a totally non-news event. Bzzz. Wrong answer - not with the racist hysteria gripping the island. For this whole week it's been the most read, most commented and most e-mailed article. Some of the comments to this simple gathering are truly alarming, chilling almost:
"Malta is a Catholic country. They have no right to come here and pray in front of us. I don't care what they do in the privacy of their own home, but not here."
"They should go to a mosque. That is where they belong. Or in some hole somewhere. But not here where I get my children to eat and have a good time."
"I would have had no problem if they were Catholics praying... in Malta we are all Catholics, so it's not a problem, but not them."
"If this happens again there will be trouble."
"I bet that their next step will be to make us remove our icons/crosses and statues from our streets or from schools."
"The authorities should never have given permission, much less protection, at the cost of the Maltese taxpayer."
"This is clear case of arrogance by a small group of men."
I'm sorry? Arrogance? Arrogant was the woman who insisted on walking her dog in front of them, twice. The comments get harsher and harsher. You would think that these men were planning a coup d'etat rather than reciting their Qur'an, or that their prayer beads were weapons of mass destruction.
The reaction, were it not in the context of our society's dark skin paranoia, would have been perplexing. These men simply prayed and then went their way: "We are not here to protest or threaten violence but to express our fundamental human right to gather in prayer," one of the leaders, Bader Zina, said.
They resorted to the Sliema front because the Planning Authority sealed off the Sliema flat where they normally gathered as it did not have a licence to be used as a place of worship. Fair enough. But then, they have every right to get a permit and hit the front.
It's not as if it's never been done before by religious groups. Didn't that touchy-feely, hand-clappy charismatic Edward Spiteri guy and his followers hog the Birzebbuga front for summer weekends on end?
Religion is being used as a poor excuse, a cover-up if you want, for racism. Yet again, the Catholic leaders have chosen to remain silent on the matter. They who should be encouraging the embracing of different religions, they who should be at the forefront of promoting tolerance and acceptance, they who should be reminding all and sundry that Christ after all said 'Love your neighbour as yourself.'
Where is the Church when it needs to voice its disapproval of this unacceptable prejudice? More on this
11.5.09
Message from Musa Sadulayev. Chechnya Iam with you
For more than a month I was at home in Chechnya, first I was ill and then I was nursing my son who had influenza, so I had no opportunity to check up e-mail. Only yesterday, having received all mail for 3-4 weeks, in total more than 160 messages, I was surprised to learn that the radicals during this time had carried out so much work to attract attention to the genocide happening in Chechnya. I can't call in other way what the federal army does in my land. Because it isn't considered a crime to kidnap a peaceful civilian and then for a big sum to sell to his relatives his corpse with traces of violent death (having bragged beforehand in the Russian mass-media about one more killed field commander). As it isn't considered a crime to fire at peace houses from sub-machine guns, grenade discharger cups, mortars. Anyway, I'm not aware of any fact of punishment of a criminal for similar act. And there is a lot of facts when criminal proceedings aren't instituted for above mentioned crimes.
Also I was surprised to learn that our party comrade and colleague Olivier Dupuis had been fasting for more than 2 weeks to protest against the war in Chechnya and attracted thus to the Chechen problem the attention of many international politicians who after monstrous acts of terrorism of last September 11 preferred not to speak about my republic and thus untied the hands to the Kremlin. With great pleasure I'll join the initiative "Two days of the world hunger-strike for Chechnya". Not only me. My brothers Havazh (43 years), Rezaudi (42), Magomed (38) Sadulayev, and also my friends Aslan Zugayev (34), Mamed Khazhmuradov (34) and Selima Gapayeva (29). Though only our familiars and neighbours will know about our action, we consider it our duty to join the mass two-day hunger-strike from March 12 till March 14, against the war in our republic. It is a pity that I learned about this action only in the evening on March 11. I'm sure that there could be much more people wishing to take part in it.
Since the end of 1994, a genocide has been carried out against all inhabitants of Chechnya, the leaders of Russia call it an antiterrorist operation. It isn't known the exact death-roll and the number of disappeared among the peace population during this period. Official figures of the lost Russian militarians cause doubts. But even official figures frighten. It's more than three thousand death notifications in Russian houses during the last military campaign. There are more than 10 thousand mutilated and wounded. But the tears of victims of these two wars don't reach the Kremlin leaders, and they lack courage to repent of their sins and to stop a senseless war. But if all of us who take a sober look at what is happening, don't say "no" to the war - there won't be an end.
The people of Chechnya is tired of what is happening. Federal forces every day carry out the so-called sweeping-ups throughout Chechnya, accompanied by beatings, tortures, murders and plundering of peaceful population. Especially it happens in mountain and foothill regions of Chechnya. It's villages Alleroy, Tsotsan-Yurt, Kurchaloy, Stariye Atagi, Noviye Atagi, Chechen-Aul, Urus-Martan, Assinovskaya, Sernovodskaya, Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan, Argun, Shali, Vedeno... Speaking about all these evil deeds, the representatives of the command of federal army say that everything occurs within the framework of the Russian law. I'm not a lawyer, nevertheless I know that there is no law in the world allowing to taunt the arrested person, to torture with electro-shock, to cut off ears from alive person, to hold a person waist-deep in ice water (in order that he have no posterity - as militarians themselves said), to organize lynching and to hide carefully the traces of their actions.
In Grozny and in other settlements of Chechnya there is a lot of places where presumably the burial places are. But it's problematic and unsafe to carry out excavations and identification of bodies, because the militarians at once "find" in these places mines which are to be neutralized only by exploding them on the place, after that no corpses can be found there. Such fact took place last year in Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, near the military commandant's office.
And it would be a long story about what is happening on the Chechen roads, especially on the road from Rostov to Baku. But I'll tell a short story from my own experience. I had to spend 120 roubles in order to get from Sleptsovskaya (Ingushetia) to Assinovskaya (Chechnya) and back. The distance is no more than 20 kms. No soldier on my way would let me pass without having received "one tum" (ten roubles). Thousand people pass there every day. So it isn't surprising that having received a "tum", the soldier asked to change small coin for big notes which he got enough during the day. And these people officially enforce the order in our land, struggle with terrorism.
It is impossible to write shortly in one letter about everything happening in Chechnya. But in order that the events in our republic be not judged in the world by official propaganda of Mr. Yastrzhembsky, by the statements of Mr. Rogozin-headed Russian delegation in the PACE, and many mass-media controlled by the Kremlin, all of us as far as possible must inform the public about the essence of the arbitrariness occurring in Chechnya. Only reminding to all the world that the war in Chechnya isn't the lesser grief than the explosions of September 11, we'll be able to compel somehow the contradictory parties to sit down to the negotiating table. Otherwise the bloodshed will never stop.
And in conclusion I'd like to express my gratitude to all those who grieves over my republic and my people. At the same time I earnestly ask Olivier Dupuis whom I respect so much, to stop his indefinite hunger-strike. You did much more than all the politicians together who speak much about human rights and at the same time indifferently look how every day innocent people are killed in Chechnya, thousands of people three years live in canvas tents in Ingushetia, they are ill with hepatitis, tuberculosis, other diseases and have no means for treatment, people for ever leave their historical native land, going abroad to rescue their children.
Sincerely yours, Musa Sadulayev, member of the TRP since 1995
Also I was surprised to learn that our party comrade and colleague Olivier Dupuis had been fasting for more than 2 weeks to protest against the war in Chechnya and attracted thus to the Chechen problem the attention of many international politicians who after monstrous acts of terrorism of last September 11 preferred not to speak about my republic and thus untied the hands to the Kremlin. With great pleasure I'll join the initiative "Two days of the world hunger-strike for Chechnya". Not only me. My brothers Havazh (43 years), Rezaudi (42), Magomed (38) Sadulayev, and also my friends Aslan Zugayev (34), Mamed Khazhmuradov (34) and Selima Gapayeva (29). Though only our familiars and neighbours will know about our action, we consider it our duty to join the mass two-day hunger-strike from March 12 till March 14, against the war in our republic. It is a pity that I learned about this action only in the evening on March 11. I'm sure that there could be much more people wishing to take part in it.
Since the end of 1994, a genocide has been carried out against all inhabitants of Chechnya, the leaders of Russia call it an antiterrorist operation. It isn't known the exact death-roll and the number of disappeared among the peace population during this period. Official figures of the lost Russian militarians cause doubts. But even official figures frighten. It's more than three thousand death notifications in Russian houses during the last military campaign. There are more than 10 thousand mutilated and wounded. But the tears of victims of these two wars don't reach the Kremlin leaders, and they lack courage to repent of their sins and to stop a senseless war. But if all of us who take a sober look at what is happening, don't say "no" to the war - there won't be an end.
The people of Chechnya is tired of what is happening. Federal forces every day carry out the so-called sweeping-ups throughout Chechnya, accompanied by beatings, tortures, murders and plundering of peaceful population. Especially it happens in mountain and foothill regions of Chechnya. It's villages Alleroy, Tsotsan-Yurt, Kurchaloy, Stariye Atagi, Noviye Atagi, Chechen-Aul, Urus-Martan, Assinovskaya, Sernovodskaya, Samashki, Achkhoy-Martan, Argun, Shali, Vedeno... Speaking about all these evil deeds, the representatives of the command of federal army say that everything occurs within the framework of the Russian law. I'm not a lawyer, nevertheless I know that there is no law in the world allowing to taunt the arrested person, to torture with electro-shock, to cut off ears from alive person, to hold a person waist-deep in ice water (in order that he have no posterity - as militarians themselves said), to organize lynching and to hide carefully the traces of their actions.
In Grozny and in other settlements of Chechnya there is a lot of places where presumably the burial places are. But it's problematic and unsafe to carry out excavations and identification of bodies, because the militarians at once "find" in these places mines which are to be neutralized only by exploding them on the place, after that no corpses can be found there. Such fact took place last year in Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, near the military commandant's office.
And it would be a long story about what is happening on the Chechen roads, especially on the road from Rostov to Baku. But I'll tell a short story from my own experience. I had to spend 120 roubles in order to get from Sleptsovskaya (Ingushetia) to Assinovskaya (Chechnya) and back. The distance is no more than 20 kms. No soldier on my way would let me pass without having received "one tum" (ten roubles). Thousand people pass there every day. So it isn't surprising that having received a "tum", the soldier asked to change small coin for big notes which he got enough during the day. And these people officially enforce the order in our land, struggle with terrorism.
It is impossible to write shortly in one letter about everything happening in Chechnya. But in order that the events in our republic be not judged in the world by official propaganda of Mr. Yastrzhembsky, by the statements of Mr. Rogozin-headed Russian delegation in the PACE, and many mass-media controlled by the Kremlin, all of us as far as possible must inform the public about the essence of the arbitrariness occurring in Chechnya. Only reminding to all the world that the war in Chechnya isn't the lesser grief than the explosions of September 11, we'll be able to compel somehow the contradictory parties to sit down to the negotiating table. Otherwise the bloodshed will never stop.
And in conclusion I'd like to express my gratitude to all those who grieves over my republic and my people. At the same time I earnestly ask Olivier Dupuis whom I respect so much, to stop his indefinite hunger-strike. You did much more than all the politicians together who speak much about human rights and at the same time indifferently look how every day innocent people are killed in Chechnya, thousands of people three years live in canvas tents in Ingushetia, they are ill with hepatitis, tuberculosis, other diseases and have no means for treatment, people for ever leave their historical native land, going abroad to rescue their children.
Sincerely yours, Musa Sadulayev, member of the TRP since 1995
Chechnya, War Crimes, death toll 160000 in two Russian Campaigns
MOSCOW: The two military campaigns Russia has conducted in separatist Chechnya have claimed a toll of up to 160,000 persons, a Chechen official said on Monday. "Between 150,000 and 160,000 civilians and military have died or gone missing in the two campaigns," Taus Dzhabrailov, head of Chechnya's interim Parliament, told a press conference in Moscow. He said ethnic Chechnens accounted for only a fourth of the total losses. "Rough estimates show that between 30,000 and 40,000 ethnic Chechens have died in both campaigns," Mr. Dzhabrailov said. According to official figures around 5,000 Russian servicemen were killed during the first war in 1994-1996. Unofficial estimates put the number of Russia's military losses in the second campaign launched in 1999 at 7,700. Vladimir Radyuhin
Refrences The Hindu
10.5.09
Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle
By JASON STRAZIUSO and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writers Jason Straziuso And Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writers – 57 mins ago
KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over "unusual" burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. Full article
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KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over "unusual" burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country's top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. Full article
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4.5.09
Witness for Jesus' in Afghanistan
By Al Jazeera
May 04, 2009 "Al Jazeera" -- US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan's predominantly Muslim population, video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show.
Military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were also filmed with bibles printed in the country's main Pashto and Dari languages.
n one recorded sermon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him".
"The special forces guys - they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down," he says.
"Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our business."
Local language Bibles
The footage, shot about a year ago by Brian Hughes, a documentary maker and former member of the US military who spent several days in Bagram, was obtained by Al Jazeera's James Bays, who has covered Afghanistan extensively.
Bays also obtained from Hughes a Pashto-language copy of one of the books he picked up during a Bible study lesson he recorded at Bagram.
A Pashto speaker confirmed to Bays that it was a Bible. More here
2.5.09
Twelve Proofs that Muhammad is a True Prophet
Shaykh `Abdul Rahman `Abdul Khaliq
Originally published by IANA
My brothers and sisters everywhere! With this essay, I am not singling out the adherents of Islam - to which I ascribe - but rather I am writing this essay to every man and woman throughout the whole world.
I ask Allah that He facilitates that this essay reaches every ear, falls under the sight of every eye, and is understood by every heart...
Muhammad the son of `Abdullah is Allah's Prophet and the Final Messenger Sent by Allah to the Inhabitants of Earth.
My brothers and sisters everywhere! You should know that the Messenger, Muhammad the son of `Abdullah (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) is Allah's Messenger in reality and truth. The evidences that show his veracity are abundant. None but an infidel, who out of arrogance alone, could deny these signs.
Among these proofs:
1. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) was raised illiterate, unable to read or write, and remained like that till his death. Among all his people, he was known as being truthful and trustworthy. Before receiving revelation, he had no prior knowledge of Religion or any previously sent Message. He remained like that for his first forty years. Revelation then came to Muhammad with the Koran that we now have between our hands. This Koran mentioned most of the accounts found in the previous scriptures, telling us about these events in the greatest detail as if he witnessed them. These accounts came precisely as they were found in the Torah sent down to Moses and in the Gospel sent down to Jesus. Neither the Jews or Christians were able to belie him regarding anything that he said.
2. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also foretold of everything that would occur to him and his community after him, pertaining to victory, the removal of the tyrannical kingdoms of Chosroes [the royal title for the Zoroastrian kings of Persia] and Caesar, and the establishment of the religion of Islam throughout the earth. These events occurred exactly as Muhammad foretold, as if he was reading the future from an open book.
3. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also brought an Arabic Koran that is the peak of eloquence and clarity. The Koran challenged those eloquent and fluent Arabs of his time, who initially belied him, to bring forth a single chapter like the Koran. The eloquent Arabs of his day were unable to contest this Koran.
Indeed, till our day, none has ever dared to claim that he has been able to compose words that equal-or even approach-the order, grace, beauty, and splendor of this Glorious Koran.
4. The life history of this Noble Prophet was a perfect example of being upright, merciful, compassionate, truthful, brave, generous, distant from all evil character, and ascetic in all worldly matters, while striving solely for the reward of the Hereafter. Moreover, in all his actions and dealings, he was ever mindful and fearful of Allah.
5. Allah instilled great love for Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) in the hearts of all who believed in and met him. This love reached such a degree that any of his companions would willingly sacrifice his (or her) self, mother or father for him.
Till today, those who believe in Muhammad honor and love him. Anyone of those who believe in him would ransom his own family and wealth to see him, even if but once.
6. All of history has not preserved the biography of any person in the manner it has preserved the life of Muhammad, who is the most influential human in history. rest of list
Originally published by IANA
My brothers and sisters everywhere! With this essay, I am not singling out the adherents of Islam - to which I ascribe - but rather I am writing this essay to every man and woman throughout the whole world.
I ask Allah that He facilitates that this essay reaches every ear, falls under the sight of every eye, and is understood by every heart...
Muhammad the son of `Abdullah is Allah's Prophet and the Final Messenger Sent by Allah to the Inhabitants of Earth.
My brothers and sisters everywhere! You should know that the Messenger, Muhammad the son of `Abdullah (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) is Allah's Messenger in reality and truth. The evidences that show his veracity are abundant. None but an infidel, who out of arrogance alone, could deny these signs.
Among these proofs:
1. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) was raised illiterate, unable to read or write, and remained like that till his death. Among all his people, he was known as being truthful and trustworthy. Before receiving revelation, he had no prior knowledge of Religion or any previously sent Message. He remained like that for his first forty years. Revelation then came to Muhammad with the Koran that we now have between our hands. This Koran mentioned most of the accounts found in the previous scriptures, telling us about these events in the greatest detail as if he witnessed them. These accounts came precisely as they were found in the Torah sent down to Moses and in the Gospel sent down to Jesus. Neither the Jews or Christians were able to belie him regarding anything that he said.
2. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also foretold of everything that would occur to him and his community after him, pertaining to victory, the removal of the tyrannical kingdoms of Chosroes [the royal title for the Zoroastrian kings of Persia] and Caesar, and the establishment of the religion of Islam throughout the earth. These events occurred exactly as Muhammad foretold, as if he was reading the future from an open book.
3. Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) also brought an Arabic Koran that is the peak of eloquence and clarity. The Koran challenged those eloquent and fluent Arabs of his time, who initially belied him, to bring forth a single chapter like the Koran. The eloquent Arabs of his day were unable to contest this Koran.
Indeed, till our day, none has ever dared to claim that he has been able to compose words that equal-or even approach-the order, grace, beauty, and splendor of this Glorious Koran.
4. The life history of this Noble Prophet was a perfect example of being upright, merciful, compassionate, truthful, brave, generous, distant from all evil character, and ascetic in all worldly matters, while striving solely for the reward of the Hereafter. Moreover, in all his actions and dealings, he was ever mindful and fearful of Allah.
5. Allah instilled great love for Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) in the hearts of all who believed in and met him. This love reached such a degree that any of his companions would willingly sacrifice his (or her) self, mother or father for him.
Till today, those who believe in Muhammad honor and love him. Anyone of those who believe in him would ransom his own family and wealth to see him, even if but once.
6. All of history has not preserved the biography of any person in the manner it has preserved the life of Muhammad, who is the most influential human in history. rest of list
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