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Islam, The Only Solution For Humanity!
History
Throughout history, our Lord has sent many prophets to all parts of the world. Prophets of Islam are male human beings who were chosen by God to spread the message of God. The Prophets and Messengers of Allah are the greatest human beings that ever lived, and are the greatest role models for us all. They should be reverred and respected by all human beings. Some of these prophets are the same ones mentioned in Judaism and Christianity, while others are not. The prophets of Allah are the most pious, devote, humble and careing human beings that the world has ever seen.
Their devotion and love for Allah is far greater than anything we can imagine or emulate. They were willing to sacrifice their own lives, children and wealth for the sake of Allah. They are the highest of human beings, yet they lived very humble, modest and simple lives, full of obediance and devotion to Allah. They use to do acts of worship day and night. They didn't pray on soft comfortable, flushy cushions, rather they got down on their knees and fell on their faces onto the ground in submission and obediance to the Almighty. All prophets preached the same message; to believe that there is one God, not to commit idolatry, to follow the word of God and to warn of not to commit sin, etc. They all came to preach Islam and to tell of the coming of the last and final prophet and messenger of God; Muhammad S.A.W. They were however different in Sharia (or the practice of religion) that they taught to their nations. Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam distinguishes between a direct Messenger of God (rasul) and a prophet (nabi). Both are divinely inspired recipients of God's revelation. However, the Almighty elevated some Nabis to a higher position called 'Rasul'. The Qur’an makes a clear distinction between the two, some nabis are given a divine message or revelation for a community in the form of a book. While every Rasul is a Nabi, not every Nabi is a Rasul. Almighty Allah has sent over 124,000 messengers all over the world. They range from the first, Prophet Adam pbuh to the last, Prophet Muhammad pbuh. Five are also accorded the highest reverence for their perseverance and unusually strong commitment to God in the face of great suffering. These five are Nuh (Noah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus), and Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Them All. Out of the thousands and thousands of prophets Allah has sent, only 25 are mentioned by name in the Holy Qur'an, they are: MAY THE PEACE, MERCY AND BLESSINGS OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH BE UPON THEM ALL! 
Muhammad S.A.W
Our beloved leader faced many trials, tests and tribulations during His time on earth. There are many fascinating stories of Him and the immense hardship that He went through to give us this divine message. We must not forget this and realise how fortunate we are to be able to practice Islam as easily as we can and not take it for granted and waste the opportunity to do so as well. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the most honest, righteous, pious, kind, sincere, beautiful, handsome, humble, just, smart, merciful, and honourable person and creation of God's.
The Prophet Muhammad pbuh is the greatest and most gentle and pure of Allah's vast creations. He is by far the greatest (human) example of love, compassion, intellect, open-mindedness, and reasoning. The Prophet Muhammad pbuh is the enemy of hypocracy, lies, opression, violence, hate, burglary, war, and murder.He spent his whole life giving and not recieving. Truly the Prophet pbuh is Gods mercy on mankind. His beauty cannot be displayed in any form of art. Because no mere painting would do justice to such a beautiful face. Glorify him by talking about the various miracles and wonders he performed. The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History by Michael H. Hart My choice of Muhammad pbuh to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad pbuh promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad pbuh, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Makkah, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. When he was forty years old, Muhammad pbuh became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad pbuh preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Makkan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad pbuh fled to Madinah (a city some 200 miles north of Makkah), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power. This flight, called the Hijra, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Makkah, he had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad's pbuh following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Madinah and Makkah. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's pbuh triumphant return to Makkah as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to Islam. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642. But even these enormous conquests, which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's pbuh close friends and immediate successors, Ali, Abu Bakr and 'Umar ibn al-Khattab pbut, did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. For a while, it must have seemed that the Muslims would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Muslim army, which had advanced into the center of France, was defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the faith eventually followed. Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Muslim, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Muslim conquests. Currently it has millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Muslims in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad pbuh has been ranked higher than Jesus pbuh. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad pbuh played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus pbuh did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus pbuh was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity, St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament. Muhammad pbuh, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the revealer of the Muslim holy scriptures, the Qur'an. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's pbuh lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Muslims as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammad pbuh through the medium of the Qur'an has been enormous. It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad pbuh has been as influential in human history as Jesus pbuh. Furthermore, Muhammad pbuh (unlike Jesus pbuh) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad pbuh, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan. It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Muslim nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Qur'an in the Muslim religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad pbuh to be considered the most influential single figure in human history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100 Lamartine, the renowned historian speaking on the essentials of human greatness wonders: "If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad pbuh? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislation, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls....his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was two-fold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with the words. "Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is MUHAMMAD pbuh. As regards all the standards by which Human Greatness may be measured, we may well ask, IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?" (Lamartine, HISTOIRE DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp 276-277).
Battle of Badr
The Battle of Badr, fought March 17, 624 CE (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia), was a key battle in the early days of Islam and a turning point in Muhammad's (pbuh) struggle with His opponents among the Quraish in Makkah. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a decisive victory attributable to divine intervention or the genius of Muhammad. Although it is one of the few battles specifically mentioned in the the Qur'an, virtually all contemporary knowledge of the battle at Badr comes from traditional Islamic accounts, both hadiths and biographies of Muhammad pbuh, written decades after the battle. Prior to the battle, the Muslims and Makkans had fought several smaller skirmishes in late 623 and early 624. Badr, however was the first large-scale engagement between the two forces.
Advancing to a strong defensive position, Muhammad's pbuh well-disciplined men managed to shatter the Makkan lines, killing several important Quraishi leaders including Muhammad's pbuh chief antagonist, 'Amr ibn Hisham. For the early Muslims, the battle was extremely significant because it was the first sign that they might eventually defeat their enemies in Makkah. Makkah at that time was one of the richest and most powerful pagan cities in Arabia, which fielded an army three times larger than that of the Muslims. The Muslim victory also signalled other tribes that a new power had arisen in Arabia and strengthened Muhammad’s pbuh authority as leader of the often fractious community in Madinah. Local Arab tribes began to convert to Islam and ally themselves with the Muslims of Madinah; thus, the expansion of Islam began.
Battle of Badr | |||||||
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| Part of the Muslim-Quraish Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Muslims of Madinah | Quraish of Makkah | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Muhammad (P.B.U.H) | Abu Jahl | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 313 | 900-1000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 14 killed | 70 killed | ||||||
