Let Muhammad's (SAW) Doctrines Work For Peace And Justice

All the Prophets had many characteristics common with each other, yet each one of them had a type of uniqueness making him distinct in the community of the Messengers. In Surah Ash-Shura we see five of the Prophets, Nuh, Hud, Salih, Lut, Shuaib, be Allah’s peace and blessings on all of them, making their people believe that they were the trustworthy prophets. In Surah Maryam, Ibrahim (AS) and Idris (AS) both were presented as the men of truth and also Ismail (AS) as a man true to his promise. Ibrahim (AS) had an individuality of being blessed with position of the leader (Imam) of mankind. Two more of his inner qualities, his forbearance and grief, are mentioned in Surah Hud (75).


As for the last and final Prophet, Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, long before his getting entrusted with the position of a Prophet, he was held in repute to be Sadiq (Truthful) and Amin (Trustworthy) in the Makkan society. His chastity and modesty was also a conceded quality in his surroundings. No more well-aware about man’s private life, his habits and nature and better substantiating source can be than of his own wife. When angel Jibrail, brought the first revelation to Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, he came under aghast and was extremely disturbed. When he came back to his home he told Khadeejah (RA) all what had happened to him and that he afraid for his life. His wife solaced him with the remarks:
“By God, He will not waste you. You join ties of the kin, speak the truth, you bear the burdens of others, you hospitably entertain the guests, you help the people in their needs.”


The Quran is the complete code of life and perfect system, encompassing all the spheres of human life. Social and economical justice, love, sympathy, tolerance, impartiality, harmlessness and cooperation are some of the salient features of its moral values and legal procedure enjoined by the Quran. Character of Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, as once his wife, Aishah (RA) had said, was a tremendous exhibition of the Quranic moral values. ‘Kana Khulqohu Al-Quran’ (his moral character was all as in the Quran).

We find a particular account of his kindness and mercifulness, his grief over sufferings of the believers and his concern about their Faith and other matters, separately touched upon in the second last verse of Surah At-Taubah, and his lenience and tender heartedness pointed at in verse 159 of Surah Al-Imran, all actually the integral parts of his high character. ‘Khulq’ (singular of Akhlaq, stands for the plural sense also), when used in positive form, means high morality in its entirety. In the opening verses of Surah Al-Qalam, Allah, the Exalted, has mentioned profundity and completeness of the character of His Messenger, be peace and blessings upon him.
“And verily, you (Muhammad) are on an exalted standard of character.”

All the Prophets in past, with a bit exception of Ibrahim (AS), were commissioned to convey the Divine Message to only the localities where they lived and the communities they were part of. So their mission remained limited to only their people. But Muhammad’s prophethood is not bounded to his town nor his time.
“And We have not sent you (O Muhammad) except as a bringer of good tidings and a warner to all mankind, but most of the people do not know.” (Saba: 28)

The Messenger of Allah, explaining the singularity of his prophethood, is reported to have once said: “I have preference over the other Prophets by six points. I have comprehensiveness in my words, I have been helped with frightfulness in the hearts of my opponents, spoils of war have been made lawful for me, whole of the earth has been made pure for me as a place to prostrate ourselves on it, I have been sent to all the mankind and the chain of the Prophets has been closed with me.” (Muslim)

Thus, naturally Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, was the first greatest reformer of the history who had obliterated the differences and discrimination on the basis of Arab and Ajam and white and black. He was not the well wisher of his own clan or only the Arabs. His teachings totally refute the racial bigotry, now the greatest evil and a cause of international hostilities. The imperialistic designs and self- established right of the hegemony of the super powers has been a great cause of the destruction and miseries suffered by the weak nations. Satanic thought of their being superior on the base of their being white skinned has ruined the possibilities of the world peace. Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, had disavowed the race, colour, language and land as the basis of the precedence of some persons or the nations over the others. Only piety and righteousness was declared a reason of preference.

Not only the ordinary Westerns are accustomed to making the ‘Third World’ and particularly the Muslims the target of outrageous calumnies but the spiritualists, philosophers, historians and political theorists of the caliber of Ernest Renan (1823-1892) were of the views that ‘Man’s spiritual race is the Northern and the Western race.” The Westerns think the brain cells of the black man’s cortex are inferior to white’s cells. Late Dr. Ali Shari’ati, the real ideological founder of the Iranian revolution of 1979, was right in saying that ‘the fact is that the West, with her philosophy from Nietzsche, Hegel, to Freud and Sigfried, all have designed the issue of superior race inferior race, Western-Eastern race and black –white.” (Man and Islam)

Islam, from the very beginning, showed a solicitous and an affirmative thinking about Christianity. Is it not a fact that the man who first of all affirmed what had happened to Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, in Hira cave to be a Divine Revelation, was a Christian learned man, Waraqah bin Naufal, cousin of Prophet’s wife Khadeejah (RA). And it was Najjashi, the Christian king of Abyssinia who gave shelter to the migrants of the first Hijrah to live in his country with peace and protection, when due to the torturous treatment of Makkan pagans they were forced to migrate. In the wars between the Roman and Iranian Empowers in, moral support of the Muslims was with the Christian Romans.

But unfortunately there came the time the Western malice toward the East its bigotry and malice got masked with the Christianity. Crusades were actually that malicious phenomenon. When the Crusaders victoriously entered Antioch they made the streets of the city filled with dead bodies. Appallingly, their Western superiority complex made them ransack the houses of even Armenian Christians also, as Karen Armstrong, one of the most popular and best selling Western writer of this modern age gives detailed account of the tragedies in her book ‘Holy War, The Crusades And Their Impacts on Today’s World’. And when Jerosalem fell in the hands of the Crusaders, the compound of Masjid Aqsa’ was changed into a blood pool above the knees, with mutilated bodies floating in it. Piles of heads, hands and feet were seen in the streets of the city.

This was done with the followers of the Messenger, who came with the teachings:
“O you who have believed, be persistently firm for Allah, witness in justice, and let not the enmity and hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah; indeed Allah is Well-Acquainted with what you do.” (Al-Maidah: 8)

“…if anyone killed a person not in retaliation of murder or to spread mischief (and disorder) in the land, it would be as if he killed all mankind, and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind…” (Al-Maidah: 32)

It was done with the followers of the Prophet who was very sensitive about the sacredness of human life, who made killing of noncombatants, children, women, patients and religious leaders unlawful, who forbad in the battle, cutting of the fruit giving trees, ravaging the crop fields and damaging the monasteries, churches and worship places of the non-Muslims. He once felt extremely distressed on knowing that the believers had killed in the battlefield an innocent child of the infidels. In the expedition of Bani Jazimah, Khalid bin Walid, in spite of objection of his companions, ordered to kill those who had been made captives. The Messenger, be peace and blessings upon him, was greatly sad on this incident and repeatedly said: “O Allah! I denounce what Khalid has done.”

What is known today as ‘Terrorism’, though never to be justified, but is in fact reaction of the Imperialistic tyranny of almost two centuries, which has changed its technique, now not colonizing a territory but keeping it in political, economic, cultural and economic dominance. Imperialism changes its masks, sometime purely religious cloak to wage crusading wars and sometime in military uniform, with the pretence of spreading democracy, ensuring human rights and eliminating the extremism. Mankind will never rest in peace as long as high morality, spiritual loftiness, an insight giving knowledge and power of argument, the doctrines and values introduced by Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, are not made source to win the hearts and not bow the heads. Disastrous wars in every case and at any rate will keep on filling the earth with the filth of mischief and disorder and even the people of the crusading nations will not feel in peace.