Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 951
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 951 purchasing provisions; often and often was he seen mending his clothes in his room, or milking a goat in his courtyard. He was accessible to all and at all times, He visited the sick and was full of sympathy for all, unlimited was his benevolence and generosity, as also was his anxious care for the welfare of the community. Despite innumerable presents which from all quarters unceasingly poured in for him, he left very little behind, and even that he regarded as state property. " 21 (19) A great writer Smith R. Bosworth (1874), in his book, 'Muhammad and Mu h ammadanism', writes: "We know indeed some fragments of a fragment of Christ's life; but who can lift the veil of the thirty years that prepared the way for the three? What we do know indeed has renovated a third of the world, and may yet renovate much more’ an ideal of life at once remote and near; possible and impossible but how much we do not know! What do we know of his mother, of his home life, of his early friends, and his relation to them, of the gradual dawning, or, it may be, the sudden revelation, of his divine mission? How many questions about him occur to each of us that must always remain