اسوہء انسانِ کامل

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نبیوں میں سب سے بزرگ اور کامیاب نبی 652 اسوہ انسان کامل penance and merit of a hermit, he observed, without effort or vanity, the abstemious diet of an Arab and a soldier۔On solemn occasions he feasted his companions with rustic and hospitable plenty; but in his domestic life many weeks would elapse without a fire being kindled on the hearth of the prophet۔۔۔۔It is not the propagation, but the permanency of his religion, that deserves our wonder: the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved, after the revolutions of twelve centuries, by the Indian, the African, and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran۔If the Christian apostles, St۔Peter or St۔Paul, could return to the Vatican, they might possibly inquire the name of the Deity who is worshiped with such mysterious rites in that magnificent temple:۔۔۔But the Turkish dome of St۔Sophia, with an increase of splendour and size, represents the humble tabernacle erected at Medina by the hands of Mohammad۔The Mohammedans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith and devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man۔'I believe in one God, and Mohammed the apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam۔۔۔۔From the Atlantic to the Ganges the Kuran is acknowledged as the fundamental code, not only of theology but of civil and criminal jurisprudence; and the laws which regulate the actions and the property of mankind are guarded by the infallible and immutable sanction of the will of God۔۔۔۔He piously supposed, as the basis of his religion, the truth and sanctity of their prior revelations, the virtues and miracles of their founders,۔۔۔he breathed among the faithful a spirit of charity and friendship; recommended the practice of the social virtues; and checked, by his laws and precepts, the