I Wonder About the Prophet. Ozkan Oze

themselves and Him.

      They asked for things they needed from the idols that they made with their own hands. Not directly from Allah

      When they were scared, they would seek refuge in their idols, not in Allah.

      When they set out on a journey, they would take the idols they had made out of halva (a sweet) with them and, when they got hungry, they would eat the idols that they had worshipped shortly before.

      Supposedly, the idols drew them closer to Allah. Yet what they were doing was distancing themselves from Him.

      The people who filled the Ka’bah with idols had hearts as dry as the desert and as hard as stone.

      Their fathers buried their daughters alive in the earth.

      Known or unknown, every type of corruption was an ordinary thing…

      This was the place where the night of ignorance was darkest.

      And the brightest sun since the creation of the earth was going to rise in this dark place; and shortly after it had risen, was going to astonish the whole world.

       The sun that rose in Makkah

      Since Prophet Adam, the Ka’bah has been was the place to worship Allah alone as God, asking only Him for the things we need, seeking refuge in Him alone when we’re scared and only being scared of Him.

      Which is why if a cleaning up of idols was going to take place on earth, this had to start with the Ka’bah in Makkah.

      The flag rises from where it falls.

      Makkah was the mother of cities.

      Allah’s house, the Ka’bah was there.

      When the Prophet reached the age of forty, Allah sent the Angel Gabriel to him. Thus, his mission as a prophet began. The verses of the Qur’an were revealed to him for exactly twenty-three years.

      During these twenty-three years, the Prophet, with the help of Allah, did many great things that weren’t granted to anyone else in the history of the world.

      The Ka’bah was cleaned of idols. Just as in the day of Prophet Abraham, Allah’s masjid was on earth again.

      However, before the Ka’bah, people’s hearts and minds were cleaned of idols.

      From those stone hearts, fountains of faith flowed after the Prophet’s one look, one word, and one touch.

      Those chests as dry and dusty as the desert turned into gardens with beds of roses.

      The people abandoned all bad habits with his one word.

      These were great things!

      You see how much effort goes into making people give up a small habit such as smoking despite the danger to their health, but they remain unsuccessful!

      The Prophet didn’t stop at making them leave their bad habits but also replaced them with good ones.

      Those people that buried their daughters alive were now being careful not to kiss their sons more than their daughters. Because the Prophet amongst them told people to be fair, even when it came to kissing their children.

      They threw away the jars of alcohol that they were drinking when they heard the order, “Allah banned it!”

      Instead of taking someone’s belongings against their will, they gave their own belongings to the poor.

      The hungry were fed, the naked were clothed.

      A bridge of brotherhood was being formed between the rich and the poor.

      Ordinary people in the streets of Makkah and Madinah turned into stars.

      Those stars were the friends of the Prophet.

      We call them the companions.

      The sun that rose in the mother of cities, Makkah, enlightened their hearts first.

      Then this light dazzled the whole world’s eyes…

What was Muhammad like before he was a prophet?

      MUHAMMAD IBN ABDULLAH lived a normal life before he became a prophet, in a community where evil, cruelty and misery could be seen wherever one looked. However, his was a life as clean and pure as a drop of rain.

      No evil touched him. No curse came near him. No drop of alcohol reached his throat or any impurity touched his flesh.

      He led a clean, pure, true life.

      The people of Makkah gave him the name AL-AMIN (trustworthy) because everyone trusted the Prophet.

       His Lord was protecting him