Muhammad: The Ideal Character
MUHAMMAD The Ideal Character
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have had better treatment from you. You could
have advised me to be more punctilious about the
return of loans and you could have advised the Jew
to be more courteous in demanding repayment.”
He then requested Umar to procure some dates so
that the loan could be repaid, and to give the Jew an
extra forty kilograms for the rebuke he had been
given.
When the Prophet of Islam had become the ruler of
Arabia, whatever he said, as the messenger of God,
was law. He was venerated by his people as no man
had ever been venerated. Urwah ibn Mas’ud, the
envoy of the Quraysh at the time of the Hudaibiyya
settlement, was amazed to see that the water used
by the Prophet in performing his ablutions was
never allowed to fall on the ground. People would
catch it as it fell, and would rub it on their faces. His
close companion, Anas, says that in spite of the
great love they had for the Prophet, they could not
look him full in the face. They could not look him
straight in the eye. Mughira says that if any
companion had to knock at his door, he did so
softly with his fingertips. At the battle of Hunain,
when the Muslims were suffering an initial setback,
