Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 29
29 them], I beg and pray You have mercy on Your poor frail creatures and grant them Your forgiveness,” urging, on the one hand, the plea of his special contact with Him and on the other, the heartfelt solicitude for the welfare of His creatures [or for that matter a particular person], begging thereby of Him mercy for His frail creatures and His forgiveness. In this connection, the Holy Prophet (May peace and blessings of Allah be on him) says, in another Hadith, that when, on the Day of Judgement, the people will be seized with extreme panic and consternation, despairing of all others, they will ultimately turn to him, and then he will intercede for them with God, and that his intercession will be accepted. The fifth distinction of the Holy Prophet (May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is that whereas the former prophets were sent to particular people for particular periods of time, he was raised for the entire world, for all people and for all times. This is a special characteristic and a great distinction indeed. The result was that his God-granted mission extended to every people, to every country and to every age and he was declared the perfect and perfected manifestation of God. In other words, it meant that as the God of the entire world is One, through his appointment, there was likewise one Prophet for all mankind. O Allah! Bless Muhammad and grant him and his offspring peace.