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IT WAS A BRIGHT MORNING WHEN
AT DAWN
A BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY WAS BORN
THIS LONG AWAITED AND ANTICIPATED BEING
THE LIKES OF WHICH NO-ONE HAD EVER SEEN
HIS ENTRY INTO THIS WORLD WAS MET WITH WONDER
AS IN PROSTRATION HE LOOKED UNTO THE SKY FROM UNDER
A "STAR" IN MADEENAH WAS SEEN BY A JEW
THE COMING OF A PROPHET EVERYBODY KNEW!
IT WAS IN MAKKAH THAT A LIGHT ROSE TO THE SKY
THIS LIGHT WAS SEEN IN SYRIA "A PROPHET HAS BEEN BORN"
WAS THE CRY!
HIS MOTHER AMAZED AT THIS GIFT OF HERS
FILLED WITH JOY SHE SHED MANY MANY TEARS
AN ANGEL WHISPERED TO HER THAT THIS WAS TO BE
"MUHAMMAD THE PRAISED ONE" WHOSE MESSAGE WOULD
SPREAD TO ETERNITY!
WHO WOULD SUCKLE THIS PRECIOUS BABY? THE QUESTION WAS ASKED
MANY ASPIRANT EYES UPON HIM WERE CAST
BY THE COMMAND OF ALLAH BIBI HALEEMAH APPEARED
TAKING MUHAMMAD TO THE COUNTRYSIDE WHERE HE WAS TO BE REARED
IN A HOME WHICH WAS EMPTY SUDDENLY BLESSINGS WERE ABOUND
A CELESTIAL LIGHT ENCOMPASSED THE LAND ALL AROUND!
BEAUTIFUL MUHAMMAD GREW UP HEALTHY AND STRONG
FOSTERED FOR FOUR YEARS UNTIL HE HAD TO MOVE ALONG
BIBI AAMEENA WAS OVERJOYED, FOR MUHAMMAD DID SHE PRAY
TWO JOYFUL YEARS HAD PASSED, THEN ALLAH TOOK HER AWAY
THIS CHILD OF SIX BY HIS GRANDFATHER ABDUL MUTTALIB WAS
TAKEN
WHERE AFTER TWO YEARS, BY HIS GRANDFATHER`S DEATH HE WAS
SHAKEN
ABOO TALIB HIS UNCLE, TOOK HIM AT THE AGE OF EIGHT
HE WAS VERY FOND OF HIS NEPHEW, ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT HAVE
FAITH
FOUR YEARS LATER, TO SYRIA DID THEY GO
A CHRISTIAN PRIEST BAHIRA, OF THIS FUTURE PROPHET, HE DID
KNOW
TAKE CARE OF THIS BOY, ABOO TALIB WAS TOLD
THIS CHILD IS SPECIAL ,THIS SECRET, DO NOT UNFOLD!
MANY YEARS LATER, AS A BUSINESSMAN, DID MUHAMMAD MARRY
BIBI KHADIJA A WIDOW, WHO HAD MANY BURDENS TO CARRY
AT THE AGE OF FOURTY, SHE WAS RELIEVED BY THIS TWENTY FIVE
YEAR OLD BEING
A PERSON SUCH AS MUHAMMAD, SHE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN
IT WAS RAMADAAN, WHEN IN THE CAVE OF HIRA MUHAMMAD PRAYED
ANGEL JIBRAEEL APPEARED, AND AN APPEAL TO MUHAMMAD HE MADE
READ IN THE NAME OF THY LORD! A POWERFUL VOICE WAS HEARD
MUHAMMAD WAS FRIGHTENED, ALMIGHTY`S ANGER , HE FEARED
COMFORTED BY KHADIJA, WHO TOLD HIM NOT TO LAMENT
MUHAMMAD ACCEPTED HIS PROPHETHOOD,AND THUS HE FELT CONTENT.
WARAQA BIN NAUFAL ,A LEARNED MAN SAID, THE ANGEL WAS THE
SAME
THAT HAD APPEARED BEFORE PROPHET MOOSA AS WELL, IN ALLAH`S
NAME!
SO WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LONG TALE TO TELL
THE REST OF WHICH, ALL OF HUMANITY KNOWS WELL.
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THE DEMISE OF OUR BELOVED PROPHET, MUHAMMAD SALLALLAHU-ALAIHI-WASALLAM
AS OUR BELOVED NABI SALLALLAHU-ALAIHI-WASALLAM LAY ON HIS
BED
DROPS OF PERSPIRATION FELL FROM HIS MUBARAK HEAD
IN AGONY AND PAIN HIS PURPOSE HE DID NOT FORGET
"HAS EVERYBODY OFFERED PRAYERS?" HE ASKED INSTEAD
THE APOSTLE OF ALLAH LIFTED THE CURTAIN OF HIS DOOR AT DAWN
HIS MUBARAK GAZE FIXED AT THE WORSHIPPERS
HE SMILED, THEN LAUGHED, WITH PLEASURE, THIS MORN
THE SAHABAH, EXCITED THAUGHT HE WAS COMING OUT FOR PRAYERS
BUT OUR BELOVED PROPHET, TOO WEAK, PULLED DOWN THE CURTAIN
LEAVING THE SAHABAH IN TEARS
TOO WEAK TO LEAD THE NIGHT PRAYERS, OUR BELOVED, ASKED HAZRAT
ABU BAKR INSTEAD
HEARTBROKEN, ABUBAKR DECLINED, BUT FINALLY THE PRAYERS,
HE LEAD
THE PROPHET`S BELOVED WIFE AISHA AT HIS BEDSIDE SHE STAYED
WIPING HIS MUBARAK FACE WITH WATER
WHILST FROM THE QURAAN, SHE CONTINUALLY PRAYED
NEARING HIS END, OUR BELOVED HAD A REQUEST
POINTING TO A MISWAAK HE USED IT AND THEN, WENT BACK TO
REST
IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS OUR BELOVED REMAINED
WHILST HIS DEAR DAUGHTER FATIMA WEPT BITTERLY IN PAIN
WITH THE WORDS OF ALLAH STILL ON HIS MUBARAK LIPS
HIS PRECIOUS LIFE BEGAN TO SLOWLY SLIP
TOO FRAIL TO TALK "SAY YOUR PRAYERS" HE WHISPERED
"CARE FOR THOSE UNDER YOU", THEN HE BECAME UNCONSCIOUS
ON REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS, UMMATI, UMMATI, HE WOULD SAY
THEN PEACEFULLY AND SILENTLY HIS MUBARAK LIFE WAS TAKEN
AWAY
A LIGHT THAT ONCE SHONE WAS NO LONGER THERE
SADNESS AND DESPONDENCY SPREAD EVERYWHERE
OUR GUIDING LIGHT WE HAVE CERTAINLY LOST
BUT WE SHOULD CONTINUE SPREADING HIS MESSAGE AT ANY AND
EVERY COST!
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