Brief History of Hazrat Mohammed (PBUH) in English PART 1

                                                                          PART 1

Brief History of Hazrat Mohammed (saw)

“You have indeed in the Messenger of Allah (swt) a beautiful pattern (of conduct)… (33:21)

 

We were once lost in the gloom of ignorance
Plunged deep in the heart of unawareness
Worshipping dumb idols made of stone
"Who would resurrect us, flesh and bone?"

 

We would shed blood for petty reasons
Remaining in war throughout the seasons
We would bury baby girls, no mercy did we feel
Nothing seemed cruel to those hearts of steel

 

And just when it seemed that we were doomed
In front of our eyes our destruction loomed
Allah, the Merciful and the Almighty
Sent us Mohammed (saww), Guidance, a Mercy

 
22 April, 571 A.D / 12^th Rabi-ul-Awwal, 1^st year of the Elephant:
Khatm-al-Anbiya (The Seal of Prophecy) was born in Makkah. The blessed being made his appearance from the person of Sayyida Amina (RA) who diverted totally the very stream of human history who uplifted humanity from the lowest pit of degradation and raised it to the zenith of glory and grandeur who heralded a new message of peace and prosperity for the suffering people and bestowed upon them a panacea for all pains and ills. He was named MOHAMMED “the Praised one” or “he who is glorified”. The new-born was of the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh and orphaned before birth. His father Hazrat Abdullah (RA) had died before his birth. According to the custom of Arab noblemen, infants were given into the charge of Bedouin women who suckle and nourish the infants. This blessed child entrusted to Hazrat Halima Sadia (RA) for nourishing. 
 
576 A.D:
He was five years old when Hazrat Halima Sadia (RA) returned him to his mother Sayyida Amina (RA)
 
577 A.D:
He was six years old when his mother Sayyida Amina (RA) taken him to Madina for a visit. She wanted him to see the grave of his father. It was a long journey, when they returned and encamped at a place named Abwa, Sayyida Amina (RA) fell ill and in a few days she was died.
In this strange and lonely place, young Mohammed (saww) saw the last agonies of the nearest and the best-loved person he knew, with no one to share his baffled and piercing grief, except a slave girl named  Hazrat Umm-e-Aiman (RA).The blessed child was fatherless when he left on this journey and motherless when he returned.
577 A.D:
After the burial of Sayyida Amina (RA), Hazrat Umm-e-Aiman (RA) returned young Mohammed (saww) to his grandfather. Abdul Muttalib took the responsibility of his grandson. 

579 A.D:
He was only eight years old when his grandfather died. After his grandfather’s death, his uncle Abu Talib became his guardian. In later years, he was brought up by his uncle.
 
583 A.D:
At the age of twelve, he went to Syria for trade along with his uncle. He was then growing up and had begun to look at men and things around with a curious and observant eye. In later years, Abu Talib trained him to be a merchant. With the passage of time, he established himself as a man of high moral status and a trustworthy trader, thus he come to be known as Al-Sadiq (the truthful one) & Al-Ameen (the trusted one)
 
590 A.D:
At the age of twenty, He took part Harb-ul-Fijar (Sacrilegious War) between the Quraysh and Banu Qais Élan over a trade conflict. He took part in that war on behalf of Quraysh.
 
590 A.D:
Four months after Harb-ul-Fijar (Sacrilegious War) a peace treaty called Hulf-ul-Fudul (oath of virtue or the pact of chivalry) was renewed by Quraysh aimed protection of trade caravans passing Makkah, being supported by Hazrat Mohammed (saww).
 
March, 595 A.D / Zilhaj:
At the age of twenty five, he became the business partner of Sayyida Khadija (RA) a wealthy and prestigious lady of Makkah. She requested him to take her trade articles of merchandise to Syria and he accepted this offer. His visit to Syria proved very successful. Sayyida Khadija (RA) was so stuck by his good sense, his honesty and his blameless ways that she proposed him by her close friend named Nafeesa. He accepted her proposal after the consultation with his uncle.
 
September, 595 A.D:
Hazrat Mohemmed (saww) married Sayyida Khadeja (RA). He was twenty five then and Sayyida Khadeja (RA) was forty. Hazrat Mohemmed (saww) had now a home of his own and no further worries regarding his living. Sayyida Khadeja (RA) played a vital role in prophet’s life; she was honored to be the first wife of the prophet and during her life time, the only one. (She spent 25 years with prophet) she bore Hazrat Mohammed (saww) two sons named Sayyidna Qasim and Sayyidna Abdullah (who both died in infancy) and four daughters named Sayyida Zainab (RA) Sayyida Ruqayya (RA) Sayyida Umm-e Kulsoom and Sayyida Fatima (RA).
 
598 A.D:
Hazrat Mohammed (saww) begun to spend long hours in solitary meditation into a cave he had found in mountain of Hira nearby. Here he pondered and meditated in long and lonely vigils. His periods of loneliness became more frequent and his vigils lengthened as he approached the age of forty.
 
599 A.D:
At the age of twenty eight, the first baby was born who was named Qasim (RA). This child died in infancy.
 
600 A.D:
At the age of thirty, his first daughter Sayyida Zainab (RA) was born.
 
603 A.D:
At the age of thirty three, his second daughter Sayyida Ruqayya (RA) was born.
 
604 A.D:
At the age of thirty four, his third daughter Sayyida Umm-e-Kulsoom (RA) was born.
 
605 A.D:
At the age of thirty five, he took part in rebuilding of Khana-e-kaaba and settled a quarrel over the placing of Hajar-e-Aswad (Black stone) and saved Quraysh from a certain blood shed. For their idolatry and pagan customs, the Arabs still revered the Kaaba as the holy of holies. In the Kaaba there is a black stone held to be particularly sacred. When they decided to rebuild Kaaba, there was furious wrangling over the Hajar-e-Aswad (Black stone) whoever was chosen to put it back into its place in the structure, it was felt, would acquire a pride and precedence that would humble all competitors. Every chief of Quraysh therefore, claimed the honour. The quarrel waxed hot and bloodshed seemed imminent. At last they asked Hazrat Mohemmed (saww) to arbitrate and settle the issue among them. He spread out his wrap on the earth, placed the holy stone in the middle and asked all the claimants to lift the wrap and carry it to the Kaaba. Then he picked up the Hajar-e-Aswad (Black stone) himself and fixed it in its place. Thus much bloodshed was avoided.          
 
605 A.D:
At the age of thirty five, his fourth daughter Sayyida Fatima (RA) was born.
 
12 February 610 A.D / Ramadan-ul-Mubarak:
The beginning of the Prophet’s mission; at the age of forty, he began to receive the revelation of Quran in a cave (Hira) at the summit of a mountain (Jabal-e-Noor) outside Makkah. Where the prophet (saww) was engaged in meditation on one of the last nights of the month of Holy Ramadan, Gabriel (A.S) appeared to him with the first revelation the beginning of verse 96:
 
“Proclaim! (Or read!) In the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created,
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood,       
Proclaim! (Or read!) And thy Lord is Most Bountiful,           
He who taught (the use of) the pen,     
Taught man that which he knew not.” (96:1-5)
 
Gabriel (A.S) disappeared then and Hazrat Mohammed (saww) came home, strangely troubled, and said to his wife:
           

“Cover me up, Khadeja, cover me up!”

 
After a while, he became calmer and spoke his wife of the divine commendments revealed to him. Sayyida Khadija (RA) comforted him:
 

“Fear not, my noble one, but rejoice.

 God will not forsake you in this affair nor expose you to shame.

 For you are good and kind a truthful. You are hospitable to the passing stranger;

 You aid and comfort the poor and the lowly, and support the virtuous in righteous deeds.”

 
Sayyida Khadija (RA), without a moment’s hesitation, accepted the truth of his words. She thus became the first to believe that the prophet (saww) had indeed been charged with a divine mission, followed by Sayyidna Ali (RA) his cousin, and Hazrat Zayd b. Harith (RA) his freed servant. The first convert from outside the family circle was Sayyidna Abu Bakr (RA) a respected merchant and best friend of Mohammed (saww). After this, quietly and unobtrusively, Hazrat Mohammed (saww) went round preaching, relating to whomsoever would listen or seemed likely to accept, the message and the commandments he had received. Thus three years passed. These three years produced only forty followers for his faith. These forty are known as Al-Sabiqun-al-Awwalun (the First and foremost)