The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
The Prophet of Islam and other Prophets
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the city, a group of Quraysh youths blocked his
path. They told him that they would not let him go
with all the earnings he had made in Makkah.
Suhaib had a few
dinars
(gold coins) with him at
that time. He asked them:
“If I let you have these dinars, will you let me go?”
They said that they would. Suhayb then gave all his
money to them and carried on to Madinah. When
Suhaib reached Madinah and the Prophet heard
about this incident, he said:
“Suhayb has profited! Suhayb has profited. “
(Seerah ibn Hisham, 2/89).
The truth is that the ethics preached by Christ to his
disciples apply equally to the believers. These are
the salient pre-requisites of
dawah,
which the
dayee
has to adopt in the case of the
madu.
If a moral code
of this nature is not adhered to unilaterally, the
dawah
process can never even be initiated.
The Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) is the only one of the
prophets whose story takes up a whole chapter
(entitled Yusuf). His story concludes with these
