I have created it a habit to celebrate Prophet's birthday by reading and reflecting upon his famous last sermon once a year. This sermon, that was delivered by Prophet Muhammad at the top of his final pilgrimage to Mecca and shortly before his death to quite one hundred,000 early Muslims has been thought-about because the Prophet's can to his companions and long lasting universal message and teaching to his Ummah.
For people who will drop their twenty first century cultural baggage and skim this sermon in its own historical context, one can not help however admire it in concert of the earliest declarations of human rights in written history. nearly everything he says during this prophetic sermon was nearly unparalleled and inconceivable before the arrival of Islam. The prophet of Islam addresses a number of the core universal values during a society where those values are long forgotten and violated during a systemic basis. The prophet did not solely say however reworked his society, terribly} very short amount of your time, remarkably in all the values and lessons that he talks concerning.
All persons are equal, racial supremacy is unacceptable, ladies have rights, thereforecio-economic inequality is despicable and will be fought against and so on. In twenty 3 years he united a deeply divided and polarized Arabian peninsula, stopped the continued bloodshed, restored the dignity of ladies, minimized the gap between the poor and also the made and additional. In his lifetime former slaves become governors of provinces and generals. Centuries previous, deeply rooted primitive patriarchal and oppressive cultural practices were exhausted, racism and tribalism were defeated. there's hardly the other non secular figure who has been as successful each in non secular terms similarly as in secular terms as Muhammad.
In this sermon of Muhammad, Muslims realize their deep commitment to the universal human values like sacredness of life and property, equality, justice, peace and additional. Upon these high universal values, the faith of Islam was designed.
We still have most to find out from this one,400-plus-year-old cry we tend to|and that we} are most in want of this message of Muhammad in our broken time where we still struggle with nearly identical problems in our world human community. we want to travel back to those core teachings and samples of Islam and equally try for achieving an moral and ethical society, wherever we have a tendency to live, where nobody inflicts nor suffers inequity, unfairness and in justice.
Peace and blessings be upon Prophet Muhammad and upon all prophets came before him. Here is his sermon:
"O People, listen well to my words, for I don't understand whether or not, when this year, I shall ever be among you once more. Therefore, hear what i'm saying to you terribly rigorously and take these words to people who couldn't be gift here nowadays.
O People, simply as you regard this month, this day, this town as Sacred, therefore regard the life and property of each Muslim as a sacred trust. come the products entrusted to you to their rightful house owners. Treat others justly so nobody would be unjust to you. bear in mind that you simply can indeed meet your LORD, which HE can indeed reckon your deeds. God has forbidden you to require usury (riba), so all riba obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your capital, however, is yours to stay. you may neither inflict nor suffer inequity. God has judged that there shall be no riba which all the riba owing to `Abbas ibn `Abd al Muttalib shall henceforth be waived.
each right arising out of homicide and blood-killing in pre-Islamic days is henceforth waived and also the initial such right that I waive is that arising from the murder of Rabi`ah ibn al Harith ibn `Abd al Muttalib.
O people, the Unbelievers bask in tampering with the calendar so as to create permissible that that God forbade, and to forbid that that God has created permissible. With God the months are twelve in variety. Four of them are sacred, 3 of those are successive and one happens singly between the months of Jumada and Sha`ban. watch out for the devil, for the security of your faith. He has lost all hope that he can ever be ready to lead you astray in huge things, therefore watch out for following him in little things.
O People, it's true that you simply have bound rights over your ladies, however they even have rights over you. bear in mind that you simply have taken them as your wives solely below God's trust and together with his permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the correct to be fed and clothed in kindness. Treat your ladies well and be kind to them, for they're your partners and committed helpers. it's your right and that they don't create friends with anyone of whom you are doing not approve, similarly as never to be unchaste...
O People, hear me in earnest, worship God (The One Creator of the Universe), perform your 5 daily prayers (Salah), quick throughout the month of Ramadan, and provides your monetary obligation (zakah) of your wealth. Perform Hajj if you'll afford to.
All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; conjointly a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and sensible action. Learn that each Muslim may be a brother to each Muslim which the Muslims represent one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim that belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it had been given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.
Remember, in some unspecified time in the future you may seem before God (The Creator) and you may answer for your deeds. So beware, don't stray from the trail of righteousness when i'm gone.
O People, no prophet or messenger can come back when me and no new religion are born. Reason well, therefore, O People, and perceive words, that I convey to you. i'm leaving you with the Book of God (the Quran) and my Sunnah (the life vogue and also the behavioral mode of the Prophet). If you follow them you may never go astray.
All people who hear me shall pass away my words to others and people to others again; and will the last ones perceive my words higher than people who hear me directly. Be my witness O God, that I even have conveyed your message to your folks."
