a) The Function of Trustworthiness The greatest factor which...

a) The Function of Trustworthiness The greatest factor which rendered the Noble Prophet (S) successful not only among the Arabs, but amidst all the inhabitants of the world, was that he was a trustworthy man [right] before the Prophetic mission. The people used to acknowledge him as a dependable man and used to call him, ‘Muhammad the Trustworthy’ [ Muhammad-i amin ]. And this very trait became a cause of the people’s inclination to him, because reliability also calls for telling the truth.

A man who betrays people with regard to their property cannot tell the truth. A lot of people conceded his assertion that he was the Prophet (S) because he never used to tell any lies. As has been mentioned previously, a value such as dependability is conceived by the intellect, and if there had not been the prophetic mission and the divine call, the people would still perceive…