Perchance for the reason that Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) would be the last prophet of the heavenly sent prophets of God, his personality has been made to be an enviable and agglomeration of all the nobilities and niceties of all the apostles of God before him.
For the fact that Allah Has not wanted him to be called on his father whenever the earthly needs of a child arises like every child will do, He Has made his father gone the way of all mortals even before he was born!
Abdullah Bn AbdulMattalib, who was the biological father of prophet Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) had died some months early before the birth of his son who would be the final prophet of the Lord of the creation to the entire worlds of human and the Jinn.
And his mother, Amina Bint Wahab shortly experienced her death some six years after the birth of the prophet though before now, she had given her child to Halimatu-Shadiyya of the Banu-Sa’ad clan to wean as it was the age-long practice of the Arab to give their children to foster-mothers especially in the rural areas for proper upbringing and linguistic acculturation.
These, according to the scholars, were ways of preparing him to know the rights of the downtrodden, orphans and other hoi polloi beforehand till he would be commissioned as a prophet since he had felt what they would be feeling before and after his birth until Allah emancipated him through his uncle Abu-Talib and his wife the wealthy and noble daughter of Khuwaylid, Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid!
Indeed, the prophet’s Boss and His Lord Allah , Has been generous to him while He Has elevated his essence, station and level to enviable ones afterwards . Not only that, he has been specially favoured more than any other beings and placed above the rest of the universe!
For examples, Allah Has purged his intellect of every error and He Has mentioned that in His Book as follows:
” Your companion is neither astray nor being misled” Qur’an 53-2
Allama Yusuf Ali in his exegesis of this verse has said :
” “Your Companion” in the verse is the holy prophet Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam), who had lived among the Quraish . By this verse, he is being defended from three kinds of charges that the Unbelievers brought against him :(1) that he was going astray, either through defect of intelligence or through carelessness ( for telling them to abandon the age-long practice of polytheism of their forefathers), (2) that he was being misled or deceived by evil spirits; and (3) that he spoke out of a whim or impulse , or from selfish desire to impress his own personality”
He Has safeguarded the prophet’s tongue from error and affirmed it in Qu’ran 53-3 thus :
” Nor does he ( Muhammad) say thing out of his own desire”
Whatever he mentioned or said of this religion and its affairs are of God and from Him alone, no addition or subtraction from it however smaller or bigger they are!
His eyes and mind have also be vouchsafed from defects and falsities that no illusion befalls them nor fantasy! Whatever he had been made to see or behold in the essence and kingdom of God, he had in actuality seen them as he had reported them whether in the glorious Qur’an or in his Hadith! These are confirmed by God in the Qu’ran as follows:
On his eyes , He says;
” His sight never swerved , nor did it go wrong” _Qu’ran 53-17
And on his mind, He says:
” The prophet’s mind and heart in no way falsified that which he saw” _ Qur’an 53-11
Likewise, his soul and back have been relieved of human’s burdens of hatred, enmity , want and all what are evils. These have been pointed to in the glorious Qur’an thus:
” Have we not expanded your breast ( soul)?
And removed from you your burden”
” And raised high in esteem your virtues?” Qur’an 94- 1,2 and 4.
In addition, what Allah Has done for the prophet in the above realms, He Has also done for him in the realms of patience , knowledge and excellent character! On all that, He Has mentioned as follows:
On his patience, He said;
” …to the Believers he is most kind and merciful ”
On his knowledge, He acknowledged;
” He was taught by one Mighty in power” ( Angel Jubril)
And on his character, He confirmed;
” And surely you have sublime morals”
The Greatest Good And Benefit Done To Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) Are The Revelation And Preservation Of The Qu’ran
The greatest good and benefit Allah Has done to prophet Muhammad has been the making of his Book( the glorious Qur’an) an everlasting miracle! While the Qur’an has been protected from redaction, substraction,addition and general distortion which befell the previous heavenly Books in the hands of man , this cannot be said of the Books before it.
The Qur’an has been made so through its preservation in the minds of the millions of its memorizers and in the mouths of its reciters for more than 1440 years of its revelation so that it remained an everlasting and onerous unsurmountable miracle of prophet Muhammad!
The secret behind these differences between the previous books given to the prophets before prophet Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) and the Qur’an is that while other books came as momentous ones that are meant to be used for the limited times of the prophets and nations on which they were revealed, the noble Qu’ran had been sent to be permanent and enduring one which speaks of the people of the yesteryears, those that are living now and the incoming generations!
This glorious Qur’an has come to be a confirmation of what are in the previous books and a witness on their messages as well as a collector of the truths they contained and an addition of messages which will be for now and ever as long as this earth remains!
Allah’s Favour On Prophet’s Muhammad ( Salla-llahu alehi wasalam) Above All Other God’s Apostles And Prophets ( Alehim Sallam)
In the meantime, as the Book revealed to prophet Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) is made international,so is the prophet on whom it is sent is appointed to be a non-national one! Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) has been sent to the entire human and spirit nations! This is has been testified to in the verses of the Qur’an and in his tradition.
For instance, we read Qur’an :
” We have not sent you but as a messenger to all mankind, giving them glad tidings, and warning them against sin, but most men know not”
Not only this, he had been favoured above the rest of the apostles and Allah’s prophets with six things as recorded in his Hadith as follows:
” I was favoured above the rest of the apostles of God with six things :
I had been given a catalogue of words( concise words that encompass different beautiful meanings); I had been aided with panic ( those who want to harm or fight him would be in panic and horror long before seeing him); I was given allowance to enjoy from the booties of war which had not been given to the prophets before me ; all the lands are made for me as mosques and purified; I was sent to all mankind and God Has made me to be the completion of the prophets and messengers!”
While every prophet of God had been given an answered prayer, to be enjoy by each and everyone of them here in this life and in the hereafter, prophet Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) had been bestowed with that too but while all other prophets had used this Allah’s favour for themselves in this passing life, Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) had tarried in his use of this grace and had even postponed it to the hereafter to be an intercession for his community’s benefit !
Abiy Hurrairah ( may the good Lord be pleased with him) said that the prophet ( salla-llahu alehi wasalam) said :
” For every apostle of God is granted an answered prayer and every prophet has enjoyed this grace in haste while I had tarried to use it so that it be an intercession for my community on the day of resurrection; it will be enjoyed by every dead member of my community who has not associated anything with God!”
And Muhammad Is A Mercy To The Whole World
And Muhammad is but a mercy to the whole world. His words, countenance, deeds and characters are a bundle of mercy to the whole world irrespective of who believe in him or otherwise! His models of morals, economics, politics, knowledge and religion will remain a mercy to the whole world untill the hour of resurrection!
And for the fact that he was sent to the whole world,what had befallen the past generations as punishments in disobeying God and His apostles will not befall his community again, which is the entire world until the day of judgement!
This is the reason God in his infinite mercy and wisdom Has called on Muhammad’s community to rejoice only in His grace and mercy which Muhammad ( salla-llahu alehi) had come to signify , for that is better than that which they gather”. This is contained in Qu’ran 10-58 as follows:
” Say ( oh Muhammad), in the grace of Allah and in His mercy ( Muhammad) — in that they should rejoice ; it is better than that which they gather!”