The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Trusting Human Nature
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him: ‘O Prophet, my tribe, the Daus has become an
oppressor. So curse them.’ But the Prophet did not
curse them. Instead he raised his hands and prayed
in these words: ‘O God, give them guidance.’
(Seerah Ibn Hisham
1/409).
After praying for them, the Prophet asked Tufayl to
go back to his tribe and deal with them gently, in
spite of their hardness towards him, and to be their
well-wisher and speak to them reassuringly. The
Prophet gave this advice, for he was convinced that
the Daus tribe was no exception. They were also
human beings like the others. They were also
invested with the same God-given nature as others
had. And it turned out that the Prophet had rightly
trusted human nature. When Tufayl went back to
his people and called them again to the call of
monotheism, the miracle happened. Gradually all
the men and women embraced the call of the faith
of monotheism. Trust in human nature is a great
sunnah
of the Prophet of Islam, and we find
examples of it in every stage of his life.
In the Madinan period when the call of Islam
spread all over Arabia, delegations from different
