Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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The Qur’an characterizes the final product of this
human progeny in the following words:
God had endeared the Faith to you, and
beautified it in your hearts, making unbelief,
wrongdoing and disobedience abhorrent to
you. Such are the rightly guided.
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We can only understand this verse if we think of
the situation that prevailed one and a half
thousand years ago, when the Companions
adopted the Faith. It was surrounded by a host of
visible “gods” that they took an invisible God as
their own; from out of a multitude of worldly
greats, they recognized and believed in a prophet
who commanded no worldly stature. Islam at that
time was a religion strange to the world, but it was
this outlandish religion that the Companions grew
to love so much that they were willing to renounce
everything for it. In short, they saw truth when it
was still an abstract force, before it was backed up
by the ratification of history, before it had become
a symbol of national pride. One had to be ready to
give everything for it, and to expect nothing in
return.
