RABI-AWWAL   THE MONTH OF REJOICE, GRATEFULNESS AND CELEBRATION

Rabi Awwal, This is a very beautiful month also because on the 12th of day of this blessed month was sent to this world by Allaah Ta'ala the Most Compassionate, a human being the like of which the world had never ever seen before, His own beloved Hadrat Muhammad bin 'Abdullaah, Sayyidul Mursileen, Afdal ul Ambiaa, (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) the manifest light (Noor ul Mubeen) who would lead the world from the darkness of ignorance to glories of enlightenment of the True Guidance from the very Source of Life and Absolute Truth, the Lord of the Universe Himself. The crown of honour of completion and perfection of this enlightenment for all humanity to come till the Day of Judgment, as testified by our Lord the Creator in His Quraan ul Majeed, was to be placed upon the blessed head of the last of the series of truly great human beings that were graciously sent by their Lord to guide humanity to the straight path, the path of willing submission to their Lord and Master, His Own beloved who He named "Rahmat ul lil 'Aalameen" (Mercy for the worlds) His (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) coming is not only an invaluable gift of mercy to the world, but to the entire universe! Allaah the Lord of Mercy has among many beautiful things, this to say about his Own beloved : Translation: "We sent you (O Muhammad ) not but as a mercy to the 'Aalameen (The worlds, the universe, His entire creation)". Soorah21 Aayah 107 Translation: "And you (O Muhammad) stand on an exalted (The greatest) standard of character (Manners, and Conduct ). Soorah 68 Aayah 4. Translation: "You have indeed in the Messenger of Allaah, a beautiful model of (conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allaah and the Final Day and who engages much in the praise of Allaah" Soorah33 Aayah 21.  Allaah Ta'ala when reminding us about his innumerous favors says in the Holy Quraan (Soorah 18 Aayah 109) Translation: Say (O Muhammad) if the ocean were ink (with which to write out) the words of my Lord (Praises, signs, favors, mercy) sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if were added another ocean like it for its aid." (Pehli Soorat jo Allah ki traf sy naazil howi wo ye hai) Dear beloved soul mates, is there a favor or mercy that Allaah Tal'ala the most Merciful could have bestowed upon us all greater than the gift to us of Muhammad  (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam)? According the above Aayah of our Merciful Lord, it is really not possible for us to thank Him adequately for this His greatest favor. HoweverAllah in Soorah 14 Aayah 7 commands us Translation:"And remember! your Lord caused to be declared (publicly): 'If you are grateful I will add more (favors) unto you; but if you show ingratitude truly My punishment is terrible indeed." for For more Information Watch this video. NOTE:- The resources I use to gather all of the Information are given below "click here" "click here" "click here" and the other I also mention in the lines...

LIFE IN MADINAH

On 1^st Rabi-ul-Awwal Prophet Muhammad  (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) came out of the cave of Thore and on the 8^th of this month he arrived at the town of Quba. After a 14-day stay in quba, where he built the first Mosque of Islam, the Holy Prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) left for Yathrab, whose name later changed to madinah-tul-Rasool or the city of the Apostle. Here he built masjid-e-Nabavi or the Mosque of the Prophet. In the 2^nd year of Hijra, the revelation came for the call of Azan and change of Qibla to kaabak, in Makkah. Fasting in the month of ramadan was made oblogotory, and 313 Muslims defeated over 1000 invaders from Makkah at Badr. Abu jahal was killed in this battle.

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In the 3^rd year of Hijra, Zakat was made obligatory, the battle of Uhad was fought in the month of Shawal in which Prophet's (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) uncle hadrat Hamza (RadiallahAnho) was martyred. In the 4^th year, the drinking of Alcohol was forbidden. In the fifth year, order of Hijab for the ladies was received. And in the month of Shawal of the same year, the Makkans again invaded Madinah and battle of Trench was fought. In the 6^th year, the historical treaty of Hudaibiya was signed and the Holy Prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) sent his emissaries to the famous kings of the time with the message of ISLAM. In the 7^th year, the battle of Khyber happened. In the 8^th year of Hijra, Makkah was conquered and several famous people accepted Islam. In the 9^th year of Hijra, battle of Tabook took place. The hajj was made obligatory. In the 10^thyear of Hijra the Prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) went to makkah for his last Hajj with more than 124,000 of his companions and faithfuls of Islam. He gave basic principles of Islam in his last sermon

The Flight to Abyssinia

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A 16th century map of Abyssinia – modern day Ethiopia

The converts of the first four years were mostly humble folk unable to defend themselves against oppression. So cruel was the persecution they endured that the Prophet advised all who could possibly contrive to do so to immigrate to a Christian country, Abyssinia . And still in spite of persecution and emigration the little company of Muslims grew in number. Quraysh were seriously alarmed. The idol worship at the Ka`bah, the holy place to which all Arabia made pilgrimage, ranked for them, as guardians of the Ka`bah, as first among their vested interests. At the season of the pilgrimage they posted men on all the roads to warn the tribes against the “madman” who was preaching in their midst. They tried to bring the Prophet to a compromise offering to accept his religion if he would so modify it as to make room for their gods as intercessors with Allah, offering to make him their king if he would give up attacking idolatry; and, when their efforts at negotiation failed, they went to his uncle Abu Talib offering to give him the best of their young men in place of Muhammad, to give him all that he desired, if only he would let them kill Muhammad and have done with him. Abu Talib refused.

The Hunafa

The First Revelation

It was his practice to retire often to a cave in the desert for meditation. His place of retreat was Hira’, a cave in a mountain called the Mountain of Light not far from Makkah, and his chosen month was Ramadan, the month of heat. It was there one night toward the end of his quiet month that the first revelation came to him when he was forty years old.

He heard a voice say: “Read!” He said: “I cannot read.” The voice again said: “Read!” He said: “I cannot read.” A third time the voice, more terrible, commanded: “Read!” He said: “What can I read?” The voice said:

      “Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth.
      “Createth man from a clot.
      “Read: And it is thy Lord the Most Bountiful
      “Who teacheth by the pen,
      “Teacheth man that which he knew not.”

The Vision of Cave Hira’

He went out of the cave on to the hillside and heard the same awe-inspiring voice say: “O Muhammad! Thou art Allah’s messenger, and I am Jibril (Gabriel).” Then he raised his eyes and saw the angel, in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon. And again the dreadful voice said: “O Muhammad! Thou art Allah’s messenger, and I am Jibril (Gabriel).” Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) stood quite still, turning away his face from the brightness of the vision, but wherever he turned his face, there stood the angel confronting him. He remained thus a long while till at length the angel vanished, when he returned in great distress of mind to his wife Khadijah. She did her best to reassure him, saying that his conduct had been such that Allah would not let a harmful spirit come to him and that it was her hope that he was to become the Prophet of his people. On their return to Makkah she took him to her cousin Waraqa ibn Nawfal, a very old man, “who knew the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians,” who declared his belief that the heavenly messenger who came to Moses of old had come to Muhammad, and that he was chosen as the Prophet of his people

• The Hunafa
  The Makkans claimed descent from Abraham through Isma`il and tradition stated that their temple, the Ka`bah, had been built by Abraham for the worship of the One God. It was still called the House of Allah, but the chief objects of worship here were a number of idols, which were called “daughters” of Allah and intercessors. The few who felt disgust at this idolatry, which had prevailed for centuries, longed for the religion of Abraham and tried to find out what had been its teaching.
  ===>Such seekers of the truth were known as Hunafa (sing. Hanif), a word originally meaning “those who turn away” (from the existing idol-worship), but coming in the end to have the sense of “upright” or “by nature upright,” because such persons held the way of truth to be right conduct. These Hunafa did not form a community. They were the non-conformists of their day, each seeking truth by the light of his inner consciousness. Muhammad son of Abdullah became one of these.
  

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The cave Hira’ in the Mountain of Light (Jabal Al-Nur)

His Distress To understand the reason of the Prophet’s diffidence and his extreme distress of mind after the vision of Hira’, it must be remembered that the Hunafa, of whom he had been one, sought true religion in the natural world and regarded with distrust the intercourse with spirits of which men “avid of the Unseen” sorcerers and soothsayers and even poets, boasted in those days. Moreover, he was a man of humble and devout intelligence, a lover of quiet and solitude and the very thought of being chosen out of all mankind to face mankind, alone, with such a message, appalled him at the first.

Recognition of the Divine nature of the call he had received involved a change in his whole mental outlook sufficiently disturbing to a sensitive and honest mind, and also the forsaking of his quiet, honored way of life. The early biographers tell how his wife Khadijah “tested the spirit” which came to him and proved it to be good, and how, with the continuance of the revelations and the conviction that they brought, he at length accepted the tremendous task imposed on him, becoming filled with enthusiasm of obedience which justifies his proudest title of “the Slave of Allah.”

First Converts

         For the first three years, or rather less, of his mission, the Prophet preached to his family and his intimate friends, while the people of Makkah as a whole regarded him as one who had become a little mad. The first of all his converts was his wife Khadijah, the second his first cousin Ali, whom he had adopted, the third his servant Zayd, a former slave. His old friend Abu Bakr also was among those early converts.

• LIFE IN MAKKAH & PROPHETHOOD

On the first day of 41^st year of his life, Muhammad (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam)  received his first revelation from Allah ta'ala through Angel Gibrail Alihesalam. First  Muslims were Hadrat Khadijah, Hadrat Abu Bakr, Hadrat Ali, and hadrat Zaid (Allah be pleased with them). After three years of his Prophethood, Almighty Allah ordered him to invite people openly to Islam. Then he (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) declared his prophethood in an open gathering  on the top of the hill called Safa. People who used to love and respect the prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) becomes his enemies and started persecuting the handfuls Muslims. Prophet's uncle Abu Lahab and Abu Jahal were in the forefront to oppose and torture the prophet and his followers. 
In the 5^th year, life in makkah for Muslims was becoming unbearable, so they were ordered to leave Makkah on individual basis. In the 6^th year, Hadrat Umar (RadiallahAnho) and Prophet's uncle Hadrat Hamza (RadiallahAnho) accepted Islam, and right after that time, Muslims prayed openly and collectively in kabbah. Between 7^th to the 10^th year the Quraish of Makkah really made muslims' life miserable. They drove them out of Makkah to the outskirts and bycotted them for any business or family relationship. This was the hardest time in Prophet's (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) life. In the 11^th year, a group of people from yathrab (Madinah)  and accepted Islam. In 12^th year on 27^thof Rajab the Holy Prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) went on Meraj to Heavens and beyond, Where he met Allah Ta'ala and brought five prayers for Muslims as a gift of Almighty Allah. In 13^th year of Prophethood, in the month of Safar, the Prophet (SalallahoAlaiHeWasallam) migrated to Madinah in the company of Hadrat Abu Bakr (RadiallahAnho) leaving hadrat Ali (RadiallahAnho) behind so that hadrat Ali can return All the Amanats back to the people

Muhammed is the first founder of a major world religion, according to western scholars, who had biographies written by contemporaries, and about whom there are numerous records in historical texts, although like other premodern historical figures not every detail of his life is known.

For the Muslims, Muhammad is just the last prophet of the unique religion preached by the other prophets before him.

The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and lived in Mecca for the first 52 years of hishttp://www.quranandscience.com/images/stories/kaaba1.gif life (570–622). Orphaned early in life, he became known as a prominent merchant, and as an impartial and trustworthy arbiter of disputes. He married his first wife, the 40-year-old widow Khadijah bint Khuwaylid at age 25. He would not take other wives during her lifetime.

According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad began receiving revelations at the age of 40. The key themes of his messages in Mecca were the oneness of God and the rejection of polytheism, generosity towards the poor and the needy, kind treatment and emancipation of slaves, and the equality between men and women before God. Some of his peers respected his words and became his followers. Many others, including tribal leaders, opposed, ridiculed and eventually boycotted his clan, and Muhammad and his followers were harassed, assaulted, tortured and forced into exile. Several attempts were made on his life.When his uncle and chief protector, Abu Talib, who was the head of the clan of Banu Hashim died, Muhammad migrated to Medina in 622, where he had many followers who agreed to help and assist him.

Muslims celebrate the birth of Muhammad, and Islamic tradition relates many events during this period that foreshadow his prophethood. They also believe he made the night journey to Jerusalem and the heavens while still living in Mecca.

The Prophet’s Birth

Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdul Muttalib, of the tribe of Quraysh, was born in Makkah fifty-three years before the Hijrah. His father died before he was born, and he was protected first by his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, and after his grandfather’s death, by his uncle Abu Talib.

As a young boy he traveled with his uncle in the merchants’ caravan to Syria, and some years afterwards made the same journey in the service of a wealthy widow named Khadijah. So faithfully did he transact the widow’s business, and so excellent was the report of his behavior, which she received from her old servant who had accompanied him, that she soon afterwards married her young agent; and the marriage proved a very happy one, though she was fifteen years older than he was. Throughout the twenty-six years of their life together he remained devoted to her; and after her death, when he took other wives he always mentioned her with the greatest love and reverence. This marriage gave him rank among the notables of Makkah, while his conduct earned for him the surname Al-Amin, the “trustworthy.”

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