Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 68
CHAPTER 4 A perfect servant of the Almighty God who discharged his obligations 68 commandment. ِ ٰاَﻗِﻢ َ اﻟﺼَّﻠ ِﻮة ِﻟِﺪُﻟُﻮْك ٰاﻟﺸَّﻤْﺲ ِاِىل ﻏَﺴَﻖ َّ ا ْ ﻟ ِ ﻴ ٰﻞ َ وَﻗُﺮْا ِن اﻟْﻔَﺠْﺮ ؕ◌ َّ ٰاِن َ ﻗُﺮْا ِن َاﻟْﻔَﺠْﺮ ۡﺎن ﻣَﺸ ﻬُﻮدًا (17:79) He performed the five daily prayers with such diligence till the last day of his life that God Himself testified, "My Prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are all for All a h, the Lord of the worlds. " (6:163) In the beginning, only Hadrat Khad i jah ra and Hadrat ‘Al i ra had accepted Islam. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa started the routine of congregational prayer with them. Throughout his life, while travelling or staying, whether healthy or ill, in war or peace, strain or ease, in any situation, he never abandoned this obligation. In the early days of Islam despite the persecution by the Quraish, he offered S al a t. Sometimes he offered S al a t in his home, sometimes in the valley of a hill but he always offered "Ch a sht" S al a t (prayer when sun has risen high) openly in the Ka‘bah. 6 After the proclamation of Prophethood, the non-believers of Makkah would stop him from worship and persecuted him. One day these cruel men put a filthy heavy womb of a she-camel on his back while he was in prostration. 7 One wretched person put a sheet round his neck and started to squeeze, in order to suffocate him. Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra pushed the evil man away and said "Do you want to kill