Muhammad the kindred to Humanity — Page 8
00 days, there were no laws that had to be observed, nor moral code that was considered more or less binding on human beings There were those who prided themselves on having illicit connections with the wives or daughters of others. It is obvious that young people, living in such an environment, cannot show any high degree of restraint. . But the Holy Prophet living in an environment of such abominable laxity, displayed such an excellent character as a young man, that people gave him the title of Al-Amin and Al-Sad-ooq. To say that he did not lie is to insult him. For he was so ideally truthful that it is impossible to find a parallel to him. Also, we must remember that the positive virtue of truthfulness is far higher than the negative virtue of never telling a lie. His excellence consisted not so much in the fact that he never told a lie, but rather in the fact that he never said anything other than what was positively and strictly truthful. He concealed nothing, kept nothing and made no attempt to circumvent anybody. . That was why his word was accepted as soon as it was uttered. Even Christian biographers have had to concede that his early life was a strictly truthful life. He asked the people of Mecca, "Would you believe me, if I told you that you are in imminent danger of being attacked by an army behind this mountain !" And to a man they said, they would. Yet the part of the country of which he spoke was an open waste, and from over the hills of Safa and. Marwa, they could run their eyes over long distance. To believe anything that they were told about it merely because it came from the lips of Muhammad, simply meant that they were willing to disturst their own eye, but not distrust the words of Muhammad. It was possible their eyes wrong. But it was not possible that Muhammad was worng. When all agreed that they would accept his word, he announced that God had sent him for their regeneration, and that they ought to accept him. But when he said this, they would not have him. were. Of his strict truthfulness we have the testimony of an arch enemy of his. When the Meccans apprehended that. Muhammad would win over some of the pilgirms visiting