Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 365
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 365 from incurring Your displeasure. O my Lord, I will continue to seek Your pleasure, until You are pleased with me. No one except You, has any power or authority. " 38 The immediate acceptance of this prayer become evident in his receiving physical and spiritual fruits. The distressed state of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa roused the sympathy of two Makkan chiefs ‘Utbah and Sh i bah and they sent their Christian servant to H u du r sa. He presented fresh bunches of grapes to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. H u du r sa started to eat them after saying ‘Bismill a h’. The Christian slave, ‘Add a s said in amazement that the people of that town did not say any such prayer. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa enquired from him as to which town he belonged to and what was his religion? He replied that he was a Christian from Nineveh. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa said to him, "So you are from the town of God's pious servant and prophet Y u nus as bin Matt a (Jonah son of Amittai). "This is how even in that time of affliction, the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa found a way of conveying his message to a slave who believed in a different religion and was from a foreign land and did not consider the slave, a lowly person. At the mention of Prophet Y u nus as bin Matt a he asked as to how H u du r sa knew about this Prophet. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa replied, "He