Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
3. Exemplary Conduct
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both poverty and affluence; That I should join
hands with those who break away from me; and
give to those who deprive me; and forgive those
who wrong me; and that my silence should be
meditation; and my words remembrance of
God; andmy vision keen observation.
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These were no just glib words; they were a
reflection of the Prophet’s very life. Poignant and
wondrously effective words of this nature could not
emanate from an empty soul; they themselves
indicate the status of the speaker; they are an
outpouring of his inner being, an unquenchable
spirit revealed in verbal form.
Even before the dawn of his prophethood, the
Prophet’s life had followed the same pattern. The
motivation, however, had been subconscious; now
it came on to the level of consciousness. Actions
which had previously been based on instinctive
impulses now became the well-conceived results of
profound thinking. This is the state of one who
reduces material needs to a minimum; whose life
assumes a unique pattern; who in body lives in this
world, but in spirit dwells on another plane.
