Tolerance is the Trait of Prophets

The Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “A strong man is not one who pushes down another, but a strong man is one who at the time of anger controls his Nafs.” [Bukhari]
Imaam Fakhruddeen Razi narrates an incident in his Tafseer-e-Kabeer. Once, prior to receiving prophethood, Moosa (alaihis salam)’s lamb ran away from his flock. Moosa (alaihis salam) ran behind it for miles on end in order to catch it. In the process he hurt his feet by running through thorn thickets which pierced his skin causing him to bleed profusely. The lamb continued running until it too was bruised and battered. Finally, it stood at one place, breathing heavily, unable to run anymore.

Moosa (alaihis salam) caught the tired little animal and instead of being angry at it, consoled the animal with tears flowing from his eyes, saying, “O sheep, if you did not feel sorry for Moosa, you should at least have pitied yourself. Why did you put yourself through so much trouble?” Before removing the thorns from his own feet, Moosa (alaihis salam) first removed the thorns from the sheep, then rubbed and pressed its legs, lifted it up onto his shoulders and carried it back to the flock.

Imagine what we would have done to the animal it it had caused us so much trouble and pain. Perhaps we would have beaten the poor animal or even slaughtered it. But what did Moosa (alaihis salam) do? He showed no sign of anger, instead he showed great mercy for the weak creation of Allah.

Imaam Fakhruddeen Razi writes that the angels said to Allah, “O Allah! This person is worthy of becoming a prophet because of his qualities of tolerance and patience. O Allah! Do make him a prophet.” (This incident took place before Moosa (alaihis salam) was given prophethood.) Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) replied, “I have already chosen him to be My prophet.”

Those for whom Allah has destined high stages, He imbues with noble qualities and strength of tolerance. It is not correct to become mad with anger at the slightest provocation.

This hadith has been sent to me by dailyhadith.adaptivesolutionsinc.com

Man Of All Time!

By Sajid Iqbal

There is no other man who has influenced life for all times. There is no other man who is a perfect role model for all humans for all times. There is no other man who has given rights to people of every society for all times.
So who is it then?

Einstein, Darwin, Marx, Socrates, Newton, Plato, Freud… (who?).
OK, is it Jesus, Moses, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Buddha, Lenin, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Martin Luther King, Shakespeare, Princess Diana or Abraham Lincoln? Or even (God forbid) Ali G, Tu Pac, Michael Jackson or David Beckam?

There is ONLY one individual or personality that is worthy of being known as the man of all times and that is no other than Muhammad, messenger of God . (Oh yeahhhh…I forgot about him…)

‘How’s that then?’…is probably what you’re thinking. 'Naah! Its cos we’re Muslims innit…and we have to believe in the Prophet, so it's obvious we think he’s the greatest person ever. Isn’t that a bit biased… if you know what I mean.’
If that’s what you’re thinking, I would say it’s a fair question but isn’t it sad that we don’t even know what our Prophet has done for us. If we did then you would definitely think that the Prophet is the greatest man of all times.

Well you know what, if nothing else you’re definitely gonna find out what the Prophethas done for the whole mankind.

OK, if you look at the great people throughout the history whether they are philosophers or intellectuals, scientists or inventors, politicians or revolutionary leaders, soldiers or military leaders, writers or entertainers, Prophets or religious personalities (I know it’s a long sentence, bear with me..) - none of them can be considered to be the ‘man of all times’ for one simple reason. They are all specialists in their own fields- and that is all.
You what!!(I know..I know...you're thinking I don't get it! Bear with me...).
You see, they cannot offer guidance and solutions for the everyday lives of people till the end of time. They cannot offer a perfect role model for each and every individual in society till the end of time. They cannot answer each and every question regarding life for every society till the end of time.
They cannot give rights to each and every individual in society till the end of time. (I can hear you saying ‘Have you fallen in love with the words ‘end of time’ or what’?) There is no one individual whose life and personality can offer guidance and be a perfect role model in each and every field whether it be social, economic, religious, spiritual, political, military, administrative, moral or cultural.

Mohamed is the most Influential man in history

Non-Muslims say that, when they are thinking and using the scientific approach. Let us read …

Michael H. Hart is a Jewish American astrophysicistand he is the writer of the famous book “The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History”which has sold more than 500,000 copies and been translated into 15 languages.

The said book was not directed to Muslims but Hart chose prophet Mohamed because he believes that prophet Mohamed peace be upon him was the only

Man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.

In his book hart says about the reason behind choosing the prophet as number one in the list:”My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential personsmay surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the onlyman in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's greatreligions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteencenturies after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.”

In comparison with the rest of men in the list, Hart says about Mohamed peace be upon him: “The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised incenters of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Mohammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at thattime a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning”.

SCHIZOPHRENIA- SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS

It is a disease, typically strikes in early adulthood, devastating the education and career forming years of many of its victims. This disease affects one person in a hundred and patients afflicted with this disease occupy nearly half of the bed in psychiatric hospital. Nearly half of those who experience schizophrenic episodes never really recovered. Some of the symptoms of schizophrenia are delusion, which are unshakable false ideas about reality and hallucination, which are sensory perception, such as hearing voices or seeing vision that do not exist. The patient of schizophrenia may have trouble finding the right words to express and when he does, he may show a very inappropriate emotion. He may laugh at sad events and his behaviour is bizarre .

Evidence is mounting that schizophrenia involves a physiological disturbances in the parts of the brain that mediates thought, mood and emotions. Researchers have found abnormalities in the limbic system and prefrontal cortex of the brain, in-patient inflicted with schizophrenia. Since the antipsychotic drugs use to treat schizophrenia work by reducing dopamine, it is possible that schizophrenia has relationship with excess production of dopamine. In conventional medicine, schizophrenic patients are treated using neuroleptic medications and patients have to be dependent on the drugs. The drugs are only to relieve the symptoms and it does not cure the disease.

Can schizophrenia be treated and cured? According to our Prophet, Muhammad s.a.w all diseases can be cured and as Muslim, the words of our Prophet is certainly true and using the principles lay down by our Prophet, we certainly can cure schizophrenia that has inflicted millions of people in the world. According to our Prophets, the centre of our body is the stomach and the bowel and we can treat all diseases when we initially treat the stomach and the bowel. CLICK

When the bowel and the stomach are good then the blood will be good and the person will get good health. Stress affects the health of the stomach and bowel. In order to treat schizophrenia we have to treat initially both the physical and the emotional stress. Physical stress treats with correct food supplements, physical exercises and correct diet while the emotional stress treats with the self-talk therapy. Once the stresses reduce, the stomach and the bowel will starts to function effectively and the blood circulating the body will be cleaner and more nutritious. Once the blood becomes cleaner and nutritious, the brain will get more oxygen and nutrition. When the brain is well nourished, inflammation of brain tissues will subsides and finally becomes normal, CLICK. Once the brain tissues become normal, the brain start to function and secrete dopamine normally and the patients cured from schizophrenia.