Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 125
125 enemy harder, and had but came over to him, and that he was about to lead them back to the battleground. When this soul-stirring call of the Holy Prophet (May peace and blessings of Allah be on him) reached the ears of this party, then suffering silently in the vortex of despondency and buffeted by the rising waves of inferiority complex, they sprang forward in one bound and fell to kissing his hands. This was the lesson that our chief gave his companions practically and which he imparted theoretically through the Hadith under reference. O Lord, shower peace and bliss and safety on Muhammad! The word: occurring in this Hadith (meaning ‘ he destroyed them ’) is susceptible to another meaning (‘he is personally the most ruined’): after a slight variation in vowel point, it becomes: It is evident that in terms of this other meaning also, this Hadith carries a very charming sense, for, in the latter case, it will mean that the person who declares others to be doomed, is, in reality, himself caught up deep in the extreme consciousness of self-defeatism. Whether, therefore, the other people are doomed or not by uttering these words, he, at any rate, seals his own doom without a trace of doubt.