It is a Prophet's cry...

It is a Prophet's cry, Semitic to the core, yet of meaning so universal and so timely that all the voices of the age take it up, willing or unwilling, and it echoes over palaces and deserts, over cities and empires, first kindling its chosen hearts to the world conquest, then gathers itself up into a reconstructive force that penetrates the dark, glooms of Greece and Asia when Christianity was the Queen of Night." The verses of the Qur'an give out very important guiding factors for those who sincerely long for the right guidance.

Indeed, the Prophet is guidance personified as was rightly versified by the Egyptian poet, Ahmad Shawqi in his famous qasidah.

"Born is the right guidance blazing the whole Universe with glow and brightness." Ka'b bin Zuhayr, author of the famous panegyric on the Prophet (s), composed almost sixty verses in praise of him in the Jahiliyyah style beginning: "Su'ad has gone away, so my heart today is distracted and enslaved to her, unrequited and in fetters." When Ka'b reached the following verses: The messenger is indeed a light from whom enlightenment is sought; he is an unsheathed Indian sword from amongst the swords of Allah.

"At the head of the company of Quraysh whose spokesman said in the valley of Makkah, when they became Muslims, "Go forth!" "They went forth, but the weak and the defenders in the fray and those who sat badly in the saddle and those unarmed did not go forth." "They walk with the gait of pure white camels - a blow protects them, when dwarfish black ones take flight in fear." "Holding their heads high, heroes whose coats of mail in the fray are breast plates of (Nabii) Da'ud's weave." "Shining and foil, whose rings have been knit together as though they were the close-woven rings of al-Qaf a plant." "They do not exalt if their spears pierce an enemy and they are not.

despairing when they are speared." "They thrust (lances) only in their throats (i.e. they never show their backs to the enemy) and for them there is no flying away and shrinking from the pools of death, the Prophet (s) threw his own burda - a mantle, a sort of a cloak at him (Ka'b bin Zuhayr)." The supplication of Nabi Ibrahim (a) while building the Ka'bah was answered: "Our Lord!

And raise up in their midst a messenger from among them who shall recite unto them Your revelations, and shall instruct them in the Scripture and in wisdom and shall purify them. Lo! You, only You, are the Mighty, the Wise.