Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) part 3 :

Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) part 3 :

1) Kindness and generosity shown to the people :

These are nearly all the public acts related by historians in which Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) took part in the first fifteen years of his marriage to Khadijah(radhi Allahu anha). As for his private life, he(sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) is described to have been ever helpful to the needy and the helpless. His uncle Abu Talib had fallen into distress through his endeavors(attempts) to maintain the old position of his family. Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam), being rather rich at this time by his alliance with Khadijah(radhi Allahu anha), tried to discharge part of the debt of gratitude and obligation which he owed to his uncle by undertaking the bringing up and education of his son 'Ali. A year later he(sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) adopted 'Akil, another of his uncle's sons.

Khadijah(radhi Allahu anha) bore Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) three sons and four daughters. All the males died in childhood, but in loving 'Ali(radhi Allahu anhu) he found much consolation.About this time, Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) set a good example of kindness, which created a salutary (productive) effect upon his people. His wife Khadijah(radhi Allahu anha) had made him a present of young slave named Zaid Ibn Haritha,who had been brought as a captive to Mecca and sold to Khadijah. When Haritha(father of Zaid) heard that Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) possessed Zaid, he came to Mecca and offered a large sum for his ransom. Whereupon Muhammed (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Let Zaid come here, and if he chooses to go with you, take him without ransom; but if it be his choice to stay with me, why should I not keep him?'

Zaid, being brought into Muhammad's (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) presence, declared that he would stay with his master, who treated him as if he was his only son. Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) no sooner heard this than he took Zaid by the hand and led
him to the black stone of Ka'ba, where he publicly adopted him as his son, to which the father acquiesced(agreed) and returned home well satisfied. Henceforward Zaid was called the son of Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).

Muhammed (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was now approaching his fortieth year, and his mind was ever-engaged in profound contemplation and reflection. Before him(sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) lay his country, bleeding and torn by fratricidal wars and intolerable dissension's(hatred); his people, sunk in barbarism, addicted to the observation of rites and superstitions, were, with all their desert virtues, lawless and cruel. His (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) two visits to Syria had opened to him a scene of unutterable moral and social desolation(misery), rival creeds and sects tearing each other to pieces, carrying their hatred to the valleys and deserts of Hijaz, and rending the townships of Arabia with their quarrels and bitterness.

To be continued,in sha Allah.