اسوہء انسانِ کامل

اسوہء انسانِ کامل — Page 639

نبیوں میں سب سے بزرگ اور کامیاب نبی 639 اسوہ انسان کامل "If we look into the prophecies of Muhammad or at the first Muslim conquests, it is easy to see how 'false was the accusation that Islam was imposed by the sword and that only by such means could its rapid and wide diffusion be accounted for۔The Quran says: There should be no compulsion in Religion۔۔۔۔Against the accusation of cruelty the answer is easy۔Muhammad, Head of a State, defender of the life and freedom of his people, in the exercise of justice punished severely individuals guilty of crimes,۔۔۔Muhammad, as a preacher of the religion of God, was gentle and merciful even towards his personal enemies۔In him were blended justice and mercy, two of the noblest qualities which the human mind can conceive۔۔۔۔۔Enemies of Islam have insisted in depicting Muhammad as a sensual individual and a dissolute man, trying to find in his marriages evidence of a weak character not consistent with his mission۔They refuse to take into consideration the fact that during those years of his life when by nature the sexual urge is strongest, although he lived in a society like that of the Arabs, where the institution of marriage was almost non-existent, where polygamy was the rule, and where divorce was very easy indeed, he was married to one woman alone, Khadija, who was much older than himself, and that for twenty-five years he was her faithful, loving husband۔Only when she died and when he was already fifty years old did he marry again and more than once۔Each of these marriages had a social or a political reason, for he wanted through the women he married to honour pious women, or to establish marriage relations with other clans and tribes for the purpose of opening the way for the propagation of Islam۔With the sole