The seerah of the final prophet mohammed sw.(part-3)

Dear brothers! Before going through the seerah of prophet sw. i should mention that the seerah of prophet sw. is a huge topic so, what I’ll be able to do is to talk just about the timeline of prophet sw. and shortly, will try to give you the clues and some facts which might help you those who want to know about the seerah of prophet sw. please, study yourself as we don’t have enough time to go through the seerah of prophet sw. in details.
The situations of the Arab before the birth of the prophet sw.
the reason we should know the situation of Arab before prophet’s sw. birth is without knowing the character of darkness you can’t get the test of the light. So, firstly we will talk on introducing the tribes of Arabs and their situation.
The tribes of Arab:
Genealogists divided the Arabs into two major groups:

First: The Arabs who perished having no descendents such as `Aad and Thamood.
Second: The Arabs who remained and they are divided into two groups: 1.Pure Arabs who were Yemenis and were originated from the progeny of Ya`rub Ibn Qahtaan. 2. Arabized Arabs who originated from `Adnaan who himself originated from the progeny of (Ishamel) Ismaa'eel the son of (Abraham) Ibraaheem. So, prophet sw. was from the Adnani which came through prophet ismaeel.

The political situation of Arab:The most remarkable feature of the political life of Arabia before Islam was the total absence of political organization in any form. With the exception of Yemen in the south-west, no part of the Arabian peninsula had any government at any time. The modern student of history finds it incredible that the Arabs lived, generation after generation, century after century, without a government of any kind.

The only law of the land was lawlessness. In the event a crime was committed, the injured party took law in its own hands. Since there were no such things as police, courts or judges, the only protection a man could find from his enemies, was in his own tribe. The tribe had an obligation to protect its members even if they had committed crimes.
The social situation of Arab:
Arabia was a male-dominated society. Women had no status of any kind other than to fulfil men’s pleasure .The number of women a man could marry was not fixed. When a man died, his son “inherited” all his wives except his own mother.

A savage custom of the Arabs was to bury their female infants alive.16:58 “Yet when news of the birth of a daughter reaches one of them, his face is darkened, and he is overwhelmed with silent grief” Also,They were compulsive drinkers and compulsive gamblers. The Shihab (az-Suhri) said: 'Urwah ibn az-Zubayr informed him that Aishah, the wife of the Prophet (God bless and preserve him), informed him that marriage in the Jahiliyah was of four types:

1. One was the marriage of people as it is today. 2. Another type was husband asked his wife to intercourse with others this is simply from the desire for a noble child. This type of marriage was (known as) nikah al-istibda, the marriage of seeking intercourse.

3. Another type was when a group (raht) of less than ten men used to visit the same woman and all of them had to have intercourse with her. If she became pregnant and bore a child, when some nights had passed after the birth she sent for them, and not a man of them might refuse.

When they had come together in her presence, she would say to them, ‘You (pl.) know the result of your acts; I have borne a child and he is your (sing.) child, N.' – naming whoever she will by his name. Her child is attached to him, and the man may not refuse.

4. The fourth type is prostitutions. These women are the baghaya (prostitutes). And then When Muhammad (God bless and preserve him) came preaching the truth, he destroyed all the types of marriage of the Jahiliya except that which people practice today.

The economical situation of Arab:
Before Islam mostly the Arabs had business and Slavery was an economic institution of the Arabs. Male and female slaves were sold and bought like animals.Their economic system was designed to make them richer and richer, and the borrowers poorer and poorer.

The most important urban centers of Arabia were Makkah and Yathrib, both in Hijaz. The citizens of Makkah were mostly merchants, traders and money-lenders. Their caravans traveled in summer to Syria and in winter to Yemen.

The religious status of Arab:
we talked that Allah sw. sent prophets to every nation 16:36. So the meccan people had prophet before our prophet the prophet ibraheem and ismaeel. But, Arab forgot the message of ibraheem and start to idolatry and turned in to pagans But, they used to do sacrificing animal, and twaf around the k’aba and used to do sa’e at the safa and marwa and the way its haram to us to hunt animals in the hajj times the Arab used not to hunt or take revenge around the k’aba these all taken from prophet ibraheem.

              Now the pagan or many non-believers researcher claiming we Muslims adopted many pagan’s cultures or ritual in our religion. But they are not looking for the fact that all these are taken from prophet ibraheem. Now the question is the Arab they had prophet then where did come from the paganism or how did they adopted the paganism?

               Our prophet sw. replying the hadith came from muslim he saying I saw the Amor ibn luhai al khujaee in hell having severe punishment because he was the first person to baddala dina ismaeel like he made some superstition about the sacrificing animals type what Allah swt. saying 5:103  its narrated that the Amor ibn luhai al khujae he travelled to the syriah the Syrian were under amaliqa civilisation. He found them they worshiping Idols they have a powerful civilisation. He asked about Idols what are they?  They said they are our source of power then he said can you give me one as a gift? They give him one the Idol name was hubal. Then he brought it to maccah and put it in the ka’ba and start to worship and then people start to make many Idols and the Hubol become the first Idol of Arabian peninsula and also, it’s become main Idol of Quraish. This is how the Arab got idolatrized and become pagan.
so, after the prophet ibraheem they the paganism starts when  Amor ibn luhai thought the amaliqa is the best as they had super power, they had a civilisation they had writing, architecture and large buildings. So, I should copy their everything as they are known to be undefeated.

           It’s like in our time the way the Muslim countries are adopting the western cultures. So from here we should take lesson that simply because a nation powerful in technology, architectures it doesn’t means they have correct morality, correct ethics, correct theology. Yes, they have better something but not everything 

               Now the question is who is the Amor ibn luhai al khujaee that he changed them in to Idolatry? As this is not very simple that one person can change everything. Amor ibn luhai he was the chief ten of khuja’ tribes and the khuj’a was one of the most powerful tribe in maccah. He made lots of victory against the khuj’a tribes he defend them from foreign invasion also, he was very generous and pious too amongst them and the history saying that the Arabs follow their leaders blindly and the Amor ibn luhai al khujaee was the most influential person amongst them, most respectful person amongst them. So, the Idoltary introduced in macca by the tribe of khuj’a not the Quraysh.

Here we must take three lessons in our time
1. Whatever we think better than us it might not coz, simply because a nation powerful in technology, architectures it doesn’t means they have correct morality, correct ethics, correct theology. Yes, they have better something but not everything. The way amor ibn luhai al khujaee imported the theology from the amaliqa civilisation. 2. The person who says has credentials like the amor ibn luhai was prestigious among them and they took everything blindly from him 3. Ignorance the average Muslims doesn’t know their religion like the way Arab wasn’t aware of their religion  

               Prophet’s sw. birth:

The Prophet Muhammad was born on Monday 12^th/ 9^th of Rabi-ul-awal (571AD) which is approx. 20/22 of April. After he was born, Amina sent word to his grandfather, Abdul-Muttalib of the joyous news.

Abdul-Muttalib tenderly held this newborn baby in his arms. He then named him Muhammad - the praised one, which was not a name common to the Arabs. Muhammad was circumcised on the 7th day, which was the custom of the Arabs.
In foster caring and washed the chest:
It was the general custom of the Arabs that their young children were sent to the desert to be brought up with the Bedouins. There were two reasons to sent 1.The tough desert life gave the child a good start in life 2.The language of the Bedouins was a much purer Arabic.

The Prophet was entrusted to Halima Sadia. She was a poor wet nurse. None of the other Bedouin wet nurses wanted to take the child Muhammad because They couldn’t expect to gain many riches from a child who was an orphan.

As soon as she lifted Muhammad (pbuh), her fortunes turned right around and her life was filled with immense good fortune. Halima knew that she had a blessed child with all the miracles and blessings she was seeing with her own eyes. Halima’s herd of goats used to come home full, and over flowing with milk. There were many more signs about how her life was turned around.

After two years, Muhammad was returned to His mother Amina, but soon Amina was persuaded by Halima to return the baby back with them for another two years. At this time, Halima told Amina about the great blessings that she had received when Muhammad was in her care. There was also an illness in Makkah and the child would be protected from it.

A strange incident took place in the prophet’s childhood. Once both Muhammad and his foster brother were playing in the yard with the goats when the Angel Jibrael appeared to them. The Angel came split open Muhammad’s chest, took out his heart, removed a blood clot and washed it in Zamzam. The angel then returned the heart to Muhammad's body before going away. The angel said this was the part of shaytan in you.

His foster brother ran to Halima and said that Muhammad has been murdered. She rushed out and found Muhammad standing with a pale white face. She checked over his body and found that he was fine.

After this incident halimah got scared about child mohammed and Very shortly she returned him to Amina, his mother. Amina found out from Halima about the events that had taken place. Muhammad was returned to the care of his mother Amina and continued to live with her until her death.
Dear brothers! As we talked last week Studying the seerah of prophet sw. life and time is studying our religion and also, we will be able to explore the miracles of prophet sw. how a orphan, uneducated, shepherd boy become a blessed for mankind. What is the power he had that made a huge revolution that will continue till the end of Earth. This is why I would like to request all of you to study the seerah of prophet sw