Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 266
CHAPTER 14 The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa 's Compassion for Mankind 266 watchful of the needs of the people and helped them. He used to take personal interest in arrangements of the marriages. Hadrat Rab i ‘ah Aslam i ra says, "I used to serve H u du r sa. One day he asked me as to why I did not get married. I replied, ‘By God, I do not intend to marry because I do no have the means to support a wife and also I do not wish that any other activity should hinder me from serving you. " H u du r sa did not comment on this. I continued to serve him. Sometime later he asked me the same question about marrying. I replied, with the same answer but thought in my heart that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is sagacious in the matters of the world and the world hereafter. If he asks me again I would tell him that I am ready to do whatever he commands. Next time when H u du r sa motivated me to marry, I told him that I was ready to do whatever he says. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa said, 'Go to this tribe of An sa r and tell them I have sent you and to give the hand of their daughter to you in marriage'. I did as he commanded. The people of that tribe said, 'Welcome to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and his representative. We take an oath in the name of All a h that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa 's representative will not return without fulfilling his requirement. ' They married that girl to me and treated me with love. They did not even ask me to prove that I had genuinely been sent by the Holy