The Seal of Prophets - His Personality and Character — Page 16
16 The Seal of Prophets with people and was humble, of course, to God. He was humble even to those who had accepted him to be the Prophet of God. Once in Medina, after he had already been told by God that he was the Seal of Prophets, which means the very best among them, one of his companions developed an argument with someone who held in very high respect an earlier prophet by the name of Jonah as. The companion of the Holy Founder sa of Islam said that Muhammad sa was superior, whereas the other said that Jonah as was far better. When this was reported to the Holy Prophet sa , he said: “Do not declare my excellence over Jonah as , son of Muta, because it is against the dignity of human relationship to go on boasting about your leaders against the leaders of others. The matter of superiority of one over the other is a question to be decided by God, not something to be exulted over. ” That was the message given to us, unfortunately forgotten by many Muslims of today. A similar incident happened between a Jew and a Muslim over the question of superiority between Muhammad sa and Moses as. The Muslim became extremely annoyed with the haughty attitude of the Jew and even slapped him. This Jew went to the Holy Prophet sa and complained. The companion responsible for this was very strongly rebuked by the Holy Prophet sa , who then used the same expression as used in the last incident: “Don’t declare me to be. better than Moses. ” He went on to relate the excellence of Moses as and paid tribute to him by way of comforting the distress caused to the Jew’s heart. We hear of the Holy Prophet sa standing the whole night, seeking forgiveness from Allah. His companions noticed that his feet