Muhammad (saw) – The Perfect Man — Page 271
Muhammad sa The Perfect Man 271 The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa used to heal with prayer and blowing over the patient after incantation. In his own last illness, he recited the last two S u rahs of the Holy Qur’ a n known as 'Mu‘awwidhatain'. Sometimes he treated patients with the recitation of S u rah Al- F a ti h ah. 34 The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa used to keep an eye on the good deeds of his Companions for mankind and encouraged this sentiment. One day he asked his Companions if anyone of them was fasting on that day. Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra replied in the affirmative. Then the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa asked if anyone of them had visited an ill person? Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra again replied, "Yes", The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa asked again if anyone had offered funeral prayers for a Muslim brother? The third time Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra was the one who had performed this prayer. For the fourth time the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa asked if anyone had fed a poor person. Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra replied, "Yes, I had the good fortune to do this". The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa observed that the person who had performed all those good deeds in one day, would enter paradise. 35 Hadrat ‘ A ’ishah ra relates that when the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa used to visit an ill person or the ill disposed person visited him, he would tell them to pray in these word,