Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 330
sa. The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa. I have indeed lived among you a whole lifetime before this. Will you not then understand! (10:17). Do you not see that a man who lived for forty years of blameless life suddenly cannot turn into the most wanton man on earth. He, who never told a lie against his fellow beings, how could he dare speak lies about his Creator, the God he loved so much. (The Seal of Prophets: His Personality and Character, Islam International. Publications Ltd. , pp. 12-13, Printed in USA, 2007). Once Abū Jahl said to the Holy Prophet": اِنَّا لَا تُكَذِّبُكَ وَلكِنْ تُكَذِّبُ بِمَا جِئْتَ بِهِ inna la nukadhdhibuka wa lakin nukadhdhibu bimā ji'ta bihī. We do not belie you but we belie that which you have brought. (Jami‘ Tirmidhi, Kitabut Tafsir, Abwābu Tafsirul Qur'an, Wa min Sūrah al-An‘am) sa sa. The Holy Prophet" was himself so rigid in his standards of truthfulness that he was known among his people as "The Trustworthy" and "The Truthful". Through centuries of Arab history we find that it was only in the case of the Holy Prophet of Islam" that his people conferred the titles of "The Trustworthy" and "The Truthful". This proves that the Holy. Prophet possessed these qualities in so eminent a degree, that within the knowledge and the memory of his people no other individual could be regarded as his equal in these respects. sa. He was equally anxious that Muslims should adopt the same standards of truth as were observed by himself. He regarded truth as the basis of all virtue, goodness and right conduct. He taught that a truthful person is one who is so confirmed in truth that he is counted as truthful by. God. 330