Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 283
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 283 and inner self would be cleansed. He despairingly said, "You are saying this but I feel this fever which is raging in my old body would take me to the grave". The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa replied, "If this is your thinking, then it will happen like this". 9 H u du r sa was kind enough to go and enquire about the health of this bedouin and tried to console him and prayed for him. As he did not pay regard to the Prophet of God. H u du r sa did not consider it appropriate to argue and fell silent on hearing him. Once the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , contradicting omens and false notions said that no disease was contagious in itself. A bedouin interrupted, 'Why is my camel, which was healthy as a deer, suffering from mange (skin disease) by coming in contact with another camel with this disease"? The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa made him understand with love and wisdom that if what he said was true, who had infected the first camel with this disease? 10 In this way neither did he scold the bedouin for interrupting his conversation, nor consider him lowly. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa pacified him with a plausible answer. Hadrat Ab u Hurairah ra relates that a bedouin presented a she camel to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. H u du r sa gave him six she camels in return but he was still unhappy