Muhammad the kindred to Humanity — Page 16
16 are, I ask, who have such chaste emotions? The Prophet had no male children. Such as were born had died early, so that he was almost without a child of his own. Fatima was his only daughter and only child. Yet when she comes to him in such distress and asks for help, he a father with the usual paternal instincts, thus disposes of her!. In every respect, therefore he was far above ordinary human beings. . The Prophet at Taif. In showing forbearance to the tyrannies of the enemy, he displayed unequalled bigness of heart. They stoned him on one occasion, and insulted him on another, by throwing on him the entrails of a camel as he prayed silently in the courtyard of the K'aba. When he went to p each to the people of Taif, the Meccans had long before sent word to them to say that a mad man wes coming to visit them. These cruel men of Taif set their street boys and their swift dogs on him. The boys volleyed him with stones while the hunting dogs ran furiously at him. The Prophet was wounded from head to foot. While returning he heard the voice of. God, saying that divine punishment would visit the tyrants if he but desired. But the Prophet said, "No, they are only an ignorant lot. ". Amnesty to Meccans. Whenever they stood in need, the Prophet helped even his enemies ungrudgingly. Nobody who ever approached him was refused. They were always received by him kindly. You remember the tyrannies he had met at the hands of Mecca and its people. Yes his own town Mecca from where he had to escape quietly at night. And the very same people of this town who had rent asunder the bodies of his companions by tying them to camels running. in opposite directions; who had murdered his womenfolk brutally, thrusting spears into their private parts; and who had tortured his men by dragging them on the burning sands. Yet when these very people were brought to him