Holy Prophet Muhammad and His Teachings — Page 6
6 stance, meals were not served in those homes in in an orderly and regulated manner. The financial condition and social habits of the people did not encourage the observance of modern table manners. At the time of meals the children gathered round the mother and clanoured for food, and each made an attempt to appropriate to him or herself a larger share than the others were able to secure. Abu Talib's maid, however, relates that Muhammad never followed this habit. . While the other children were engaged in their unseemly contest over the food, he would sit silently apart, waiting for his aunt to give him his food, and whatever he was given he ate with pleasure. . His Humanity. . At the age of twenty he joined a society whose members were required to take a vow, that they would, whenever called upon, help those who were oppressed, whatever tribe they might belong to and secure to them the enjoyment of their proper rights. So that, even in his. Learly youth whenever he learnt that one man