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THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD, The Greatest Liberator, The Holiest Prophet

Author: Baqir Sharif al-Qarashi
Translator: Abdullah al-Shahin
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category:

• Dedication
• The Publisher’s preface
• Introduction
• (1)
• (2)
• (3)
• (4)
• (5)
• (6)
• (7)
• (8)
• (9)
• (10)
• (11)
• (12)
• (13)
• (14)
• (15)
• (16)
• (17)
• (18)
• (19)
• Mecca the honored town
• Other names of Mecca
• 1. Ummol Qura (mother of villages)
• 2. Al-Balad al-Ameen (the safe country)
• 3. Becca
• 4. The Inviolable House
• Its locality
• Mecca is the most beloved place to the Prophet
• The Prophet glorifies the Kaaba
• The Prophet puts the Rock in its place
• The first who lived in Mecca
• The cultural life
• Dar an-Nadwa
• Hilf al-Fudhool (alliance of virtues)
• The religious life
• Who denied the idols
• 1. Umru’ ul-Qayss
• 2. Ghawi bin Abdul Uzza
• 3. Zayd bin Umar
• 4. A nomad man
• 5. Khuza’a bin Abd
• 6. Abdurrahman
• The belief of the Hashemites
• The Prophet destroys the idols
• The economic life
• The social life
• The Hashemites
• The Umayyads
• Great personalities and glories
• Hashim
• Abdul Muttalib
• Abdul Muttalib’s faith
• Entrusting the hospitality of the pilgrims to him
• Restoring the well of Zamzam
• Abdul Muttalib’s vision
• Abdul Muttalib’s vow
• His care for the Prophet
• Towards the High Companion
• Fatherhood, motherhood, and a shine
• The father: Abdullah
• To the heavens
• The mother: Aaminah
• Aaminah’s vision
• The shining of light
• His name
• Signs and miracles
• The Jews’ fear
• His wet-nurses
• With his foster-sisters
• A rejected narration
• His nursemaid
• The death of Aaminah
• A rejected narration
• Abdul Muttalib’s death
• Under Abu Talib’s care
• The care of Abu Talib’s wife to Muhammad
• With his uncle to Sham
• With a priest
• The battle of al-Fijar
• Grazing of sheep
• Disdaining from playing
• Placing the Black Rock in its place
• Trading with the capitals of Khadijah
• His marriage to Khadijah
• The Prophet adopts Ali
• His characteristics
• Willpower
• High morality
• A word by Imam Ali
• Forbearance
• Generosity
• Modesty
• Asceticism
• Turning to Allah
• His prayer
• a. assigning the time of prayer
• b. the caller (mu’azzin)
• c. His care for congregational prayer
• d. Regulating the rows of Muslims
• e. His much praying
• f. His weeping in his prayers
• Coyness
• Remembrance of Allah
• His weeps when certain verses are recited before him
• Compassion and mercifulness
• Loyalty
• Courage
• The love to the poor
• Disdaining of haughtiness
• Patience
• Justice
• Cleanness
• His fondness of perfumes
• Sense of humor
• Eloquence and rhetoric
• Gravity
• Prudent policy
• In the cave of Hara’
• The revelation
• With Khadijah
• Khadijah and Ali’s faith
• The Prophet’s prayer in the Kaaba
• Circumambulating the Kaaba
• Secret invitation
• Publicity of the mission
• Worry of Quraysh
• Severe procedures
• Mocking
• Inciting the children to harm the Prophet
• Accusing the Prophet of madness
• 1. Al-Waleed bin al-Mughirah
• 2. Al-Aas bin Wa’il
• 3. Al-Aswad bin Abd Yaghuth
• 4. Al-Harith
• 5. Al-Aswad bin al-Harith
• 1. Abu Jahl
• 2. Abu Lahab (the Prophet’s uncle)
• 3. Uqbah bin Abi Ma’eet
• 4. Al-Hakam bin Abil-Aas
• 5. Umayyah bin Khalaf
• Accusing the Prophet of magic
• Preventing praisers from coming to him
• Preventing people from embracing Islam
• Persecuting the believers
• The Prophet asks Muslims to be steadfast
• Abu Talib protects the Prophet
• Quraysh ask Abu Talib to deliver them the Prophet
• Abu Talib orders Ja’far to follow the Prophet
• By Allah I won’t fail the Prophet
• Abu Talib invites an-Najashi to Islam
• Hamza becomes a Muslim
• The first emigration to Abyssinia
• The second emigration of Muslims
• Umar turns a Muslim
• Quraysh negotiates with the Prophet
• As-Sahifah (document)
• In the Shi’b (defile) of Abu Talib
• The Prophet and the tribes
• The Prophet’s supplication
• The Night Journey and the Ascension
• The Ascension
• With the Exalted Creator
• The goals of the Ascension
• The influence of the Ascension in Mecca
• The Ascension: spiritual or bodily?
• Arguments
• Farid Wajdi’s opinion
• The year of sorrow: Abu Talib’s death
• Abu Talib’s will
• To immortality
• Khadijah’s death
• The gifts of Allah on her
• To the Paradise
• The first homage of al-Aqabah
• Sending Mus’ab a deputy to Medina
• The second homage of al-Aqabah
• The Prophet meets with the Ansar
• Fear of Quraysh
• Muslims’ emigration to Medina
• The Muhajireen in the hospitality of the Ansar
• The method of the mission in Mecca
• 1. wisdom and good preaching
• 2. good saying
• 3. leniency and mercy
• 4. repelling evil with what is best
• 5. patience
• 6. warning the unbelievers against Allah’s punishment
• 7. giving good tidings to the believers to be in the Paradise
• The invitation to Allah
• The existence of Allah
• The oneness of Allah
• The power of Allah
• The knowledge of Allah
• The legislation of wudu’ and prayer
• The kiblah
• The Prophet’s miracles in Mecca
• 1. The Holy Qur'an
• 2. The miracle of the Tree
• 3. The split of the moon
• The Meccan Suras
• The Prophet’s emigration to Yathrib
• Worry of Quraysh
• The Prophet leaves Mecca
• Imam Ali sleeps in the Prophet’s bed
• The Prophet with Suraqah
• Yathrib receives the Prophet
• “The dawn has come to us
• The population of Yathrib
• Friday Prayer
• The building of the mosque
• The Prophet’s achievements in Medina
• Brotherhood among Muslims
• Building the Islamic civilization
• Liberation of woman
• Equality
• 1. Social equality
• 2. Equality before the law
• 3. equality in taxes
• 4. equality in employment
• Individual responsibility
• Annulling the racial segregation
• The Islamic brotherhood
• 1. Mercifulness and sympathy
• 2. The spread of greeting
• 3. Mutual visiting
• 4. Satisfying the needs of people
• 5. Helping a Muslim
• Factors of separation
• 1. Mocking and insulting each other
• 2. Backbiting
• 3. Talebearing
• 4. Irrelation
• 5. Non-cooperation
• 6. Harming and insulting
• 7. Frightening and terrorizing
• 8. Revilement
• 9. Watching of others’ slips and defects
• 10. Degrading a Muslim
• 11. Priding on lineages
• Lights from the Islamic civilization
• Freedom
• 1. The freedom of religion
• 2. The freedom of thought
• 3. Civil freedom
• Governors and officials
• The task of governors
• The Prophet’s covenant to governors
• The Prophet’s covenant to Mu’ath
• Deposing of governors
• The salaries of officials
• The Prophet’s deputies
• 1. To Khosrau
• 2. To Caesar
• 3. To al-Muqawqas
• Al-Muqawqas with a delegation from Thaqif
• 4. To Negus
• 5. To the King of Ghassan
• 6. To the king of Yamama
• 7. To the kings of Oman
• 8. To the people of Hajar
• 9. To al-Munthir bin al-Harith
• His letters to the notables
• Aktham bin Sayfi
• Ziyad bin Jumhoor
• The delegations to the Prophet
• Education
• Education of women
• The house of hospitality
• The Islamic economy
• 1. The encouraging of agriculture
• 2. The encouraging of labor
• 3. The forbidding of usury
• 4. The prohibition of cheating
• 5. The prohibition of monopoly
• 6. The watch of the market
• 7. Taxes
• 8. The zakat of monies
• 9. The Khums
• 10. The government’s responsibility
• The change of the qibla to the Kaaba
• The Prophet consults with his companions
• The Prophet’s scribes
• The Prophet’s seal
• The political document
• Examples from the Prophet’s supplications
• The importance of Du’a (supplication)
• The benefits of Du’a
• Those whose du’a is responded to
• 1. The wronged
• 2. The father’s supplication for his children
• 3. One’s prayer for his brother
• 4. The prayer of one who is far away for another who is far away
• 5. The prayer of an afflicted believer
• 6. The supplication at affection
• 7. The supplication of one who is done good to
• 8. The Muslim’s prayer for his Muslim brother
• 9. Answered supplications
• 10. Supplications that are not rejected
• Supplications that are not responded to
• The best of du’as
• 1. Abundance of livelihood at old-age
• 2. The fear of Allah
• 3. Gratefulness and patience
• 4. Doing good
• 5. Bliss in this life
• 6. Good end
• 7. Protection
• 8. Resurrection with the poor
• 9. Reconciliation
• 10. Sound faith and life
• 11. Help at dying
• 12. Forgiveness
• 13. Best qualities
• 14. Fear of Allah
• 15. Seeking soundness
• 16. More knowledge
• 17. Good qualities
• 18. Faith
• 19. Blessing of morning
• 20. The fear of Allah
• 21. Good deeds
• 22. The increase in good
• 23. Self-control
• 24. Guardians of Muslims
• 25. Seeking goodness
• 26. Soundness against diseases
• 27. Safety from bad qualities
• 29. A cunning friend
• 30. Knowledge and labor
• 31. Debt
• 32. Enticement
• 33. Abomination
• 34. Bad day
• 35. At travel
• Supplications the Prophet taught to Ali
• Fourth supplication
• Supplications the Prophet taught to Fatima
• First supplication
• Educational recommendations
• The Prophet’s recommendations to Imam Ali
• The Prophet’s recommendation to Fatima
• The Prophet’s recommendation to Qays
• The Prophet’s recommendation to Ibn Mas’ud
• The Prophet’s recommendation to Abu Tharr
• Another recommendation to Abu Tharr
• The Prophet’s recommendation to Mu’ath bin Jabal
• His recommendation to Salman al-Farisi
• His recommendation to al-Fadhl bin al-Abbas
• A recommendation to Khalid bin Zayd
• His recommendation to Harmalah
• His recommendation to Abu Umayyah
• His recommendation to some man
• His recommendation to another man
• His recommendations to some other men
• Preachments and advices
• 1. Warning against the love of this life
• 2. Good deed
• 3. Noble attributes
• 4. Fancy and wishes
• 5. The most afflicted people
• 6. The deeds that take to the Paradise and to the Fire
• 7. After this life is either the Paradise or the Fire
• 8. Devotedness to Allah
• 9. Remembering death
• 10. With death
• 11. Hastening to goodness
• 12. This life is of crookedness
• 13. The love of this life
• 14. Consolement and preachment
• 15. Desertion of the life
• 16. With the angel of death
• From the Prophet’s sermons
• 1. His speech in Mecca
• 2. His speech in Medina
• 3. The Friday Sermon in Medina
• 4. His speech in al-Khayf
• 5. His speech on warning against this life
• 6. His speech in the Farwell Hajj
• 7. His speech in the Ghadeer of Khum
• 8. His speech on receiving the month of Ramadan
• 9. His speech in his last illness
• Wonderful maxims and teachings
• Good morals
• Gaiety
• Reason
• Foolishness
• Knowledge
• The reward of scholars
• The punishment of scholars who quit their knowledge
• The nation’s rightness is by its scholars and leaders
• Jurisprudents are trustees of the messengers
• Learning knowledge
• The death of a scholar
• Knowledge is a treasure
• The fatwa with no knowledge
• Knowledge for pride
• Teaching kindly
• Dispraising of ignorance
• Thinking deeply on affairs
• Kinship and pardon
• Praising of benevolence
• Virtues
• Generosity
• Doing good
• Charity
• Bad and prohibited features
• Hypocrisy
• Treason
• Betrayal of trust
• False testimony
• Oppression
• Rejoicing at others’ distress
• Haughtiness
• Talebearing
• Envy
• Evil plotting
• Lying
• Stinginess
• Pride
• Injustice
• Impudence
• Double-faced
• Uncertainty
• Supporting of falsehood
• Praising the disobedient
• Terrifying a Muslim
• Praiseworthy attributes
• Five qualities
• Four qualities
• Satisfaction
• Economics
• Obedience of Allah
• Seeking forgiveness
• The inviolability of a believer
• Pardoning
• Hating the sinners
• The most beloved people to the Prophet
• Wisdom
• Reciting the Qur'an
• Leniency
• The advantage of fasting
• Prayer
• Comfort in food
• Economic in food
• Honoring old people
• Trust of meetings
• Consultation
• Unity
• The jihad for the sake of Allah
• Short maxims
• The battle of Badr
• The trade of Abu Sufyan
• The march of Muslims
• The battle
• The results of battle
• 1. The prevalence of Islam
• 2. The fear of Quraysh
• 3. The sorrow of Quraysh
• 4. The delight of Muslims
• The battle of Uhud
• The leadership of Abu Sufyan
• The Prophet consults with his companions
• The war
• The Prophet and his companions
• The murder of Hamza
• The Prophet’s sorrow
• The martyrdom of Mus’ab
• The rout of the polytheists
• The defeat of Muslims
• The struggle of Umm Imarah
• Villains try to kill the Prophet
• Danger surrounds the Prophet
• 1. Anas bin an-Nadhr
• 2. Thabit bin ad-Dahdaha
• 3. Abu Dujanah
• 4. Ziyad bin Imarah
• 5. Abu Talha
• 6. Amr bin al-Jamuh
• 8. Aasim bin Umar bin Qatadah
• 9. Al-Usayrim
• 10. Mukhayreeq
• The end of the war
• The Prophet marches with his army to fight Abu Sufyan
• The results of the battle of Uhud
• 1. The joy of Quraysh
• 2. The delight of the polytheists and the Jews
• 3. Deeming Muslims weak
• The event of al-Khandaq (trench)
• The role of the Jews
• Digging the trench
• The Prophet with Nu’aym
• The crossing of the trench
• Bani Quraydhah and the conquest of Khaybar
• The march of the Muslim army
• The delegation of Abu Lubabah
• The arbitration of Sa’d
• The conquest of Khaybar
• A poisoned ewe
• The faith of al-Hajjaj bin Ilat
• Expeditions
• The expeditions
• 1. The expedition against the Banu Sulaym
• 2. The expedition of as-Suwayq
• 4. The expedition of Buwat
• 5. The expedition of al-Asheera (the tribe)
• 6. The expedition of the Bani Qaynuqa’
• 7. The expedition of Qarqarat al-Kudr
• 8. The expedition of Thee Amarr
• 10. The expedition of Dawmat al-Jandal
• 11. The expedition of the Bani al-Mustaliq
• 12. The expedition of Mu’tah
• 13. The expedition of Wadi al-Qura (the valley of villages)
• 14. The conquest of Mecca
• The truce of al-Hudaybiyyah
• The Prophet determines to conquer Mecca
• The Prophet’s favor to Abu Sufyan
• The Prophet enters Mecca
• The Prophet’s sermon
• Men and women’s homage to the Prophet
• 15. The expedition of Hunayn
• The defeat of the polytheists
• 16. The expedition of at-Ta’if
• 17. The expedition of Tabuk
• Imam Ali and the Sura of Bara’ah
• Imam Ali and the conquest of Yemen
• The battles and the expeditions of the Prophet
• The battalions
• 1. The battalion of Zayd bin Haritha
• 2. The battalion of Khalid
• 3. The battalion of Abdullah bin Rawaha
• 4. The battalion of Basheer bin Sa’d
• 5. The battalion of Abu Hadrad
• 6. The battalion of Amr bin al-Aas
• 7. The battalion of Zayd bin Harithah
• The signs of the departure
• The farewell Hajj
• The conference of Ghadeer Khum
• The homage to Imam Ali
• The Prophet and the caliphate
• The Prophet chooses Ali for the caliphate
• The immortal disaster
• The army of Usamah
• The calamity of Thursday
• Fatima’s distress
• The Prophet recommends of his family
• The Prophet’s recommendation about his two grandsons
• To the High Paradise
• Preparing the holy corpse for burial
• The prayer over the holy corpse
• The burial
• Endnotes
• Introduction
• Mecca the honored town
• Great personalities and glories
• Fatherhood, motherhood, and a shine
• His characteristics
• In the cave of Hara’
• Publicity of the mission
• The Prophet’s emigration to Yathrib
• Examples from the Prophet’s supplications
• Educational recommendations
• Preachments and advices
• From the Prophet’s sermons
• Wonderful maxims and teachings
• Short maxims
• The battle of Badr
• The battle of Uhud
• The event of al-Khandaq (trench)
• Bani Quraydhah and the conquest of Khaybar
• Expeditions
• The battalions
• The signs of the departure
• The immortal disaster