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The Coming of the Most Noble Messenger - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Coming of the Most Noble Messenger 2022-09-13 401 Views With eyes as bright as the shining sun, a reality on the lips more brilliant than the light of the sun, a heart more fresh than the flowers of the gardens of Yathrib and Taif, habits and morals more decent than the moon-lit nights of the Hijaz, a mind more brisk than the strong winds, a bewitching tongue, a heart with heavenly light, firm determination like a trenchant sword and heavenly words on the tongue such was Muhammad son of Abdullah, the prophet of Arabia, the prophet who destroyed the idols which had separated brothers from brothers.

He did not break only the idols of wood and stone but also broke the idols of wealth, indecent habits and party spirit. The only thing which the cowardly Quraysh desired was money should be transferred from the hands of the nomadic Arabs to their own pockets.

The only value which they attached to life was that in order to earn profit they should travel through the desert on the back of the camels undergoing extreme hardships and then return to their hometown Mecca -the same Mecca which was the city of idol-worship, and where money was the only thing which counted. Suddenly they heard a voice which shook their nerves. Their hopes were shattered.

The world turned away its face from them saying “The value of man is not the same which you have assessed and the object of the creation of the nomadic Arabs is not the same which you think it to be”. Banu Asad and Banu Tamim were so foolish and ignorant that they buried their daughters alive without any cause. There was no justification for their doing so except that it was a custom which had survived amongst them. They were opposed to the divine will. They hated the beauty of nature.

And then they heard a voice, which was expressive of deep love and sympathy for the people saying: “Don’t bury your daughters alive. Daughters are as good a creation of God as the sons. No human being has a right to deprive others of life. It is only God who creates the people and makes them die”. The Arabs were always fighting. They fought and shed blood for years on account of very trivial things. They killed their own brothers and then rejoiced and glorified themselves on it.

To sacrifice their lives for the sake of their own ignorance was something very ordinary for them.