In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

190 body, soul, and posscssions, to the dcfcmc of the Muslim spiritual com- munity. Another dimension of trus teaching was that ...

At Homf, Ot'ff Thm^191 The time for pilgrimage (h'!iJ) was drawing near, and Muhammad asked Abu Bakr to take the pilgrims to Mec ...

(^192) I" IIH 1~lIftps oj fix Propbrt him I'vt'~' d:ly and spent hours by his side. \'V'hcn the c hild evcnrually breathed his l ...

At Home, O/lfr Tb~Tt ing his Companions of the order of things and of the necessity to make no mistake in interpreting signs, in ...

194 T 1/ the fWlJlrj>! of fix Prophet the Prophet in trus aim. Such situ ations were occurring more frequently as the communi ...

At H ome, 0 ,," Tlun 195 returns to rhose who come, or come back, to Him. Revelation reminded the Prophet: ''\Vhen comes the hel ...

196 rites from me."3 7 On the ninth day of Dhu al-Hijjah in the tenth year o f bjjmh, the Prophet addressed 144,000 pilgrims on ...

AI Htlllft. 0 ,," Thtrt^197 race, social class, or gender, for the only thing that distinguishes them lies in what they do with ...

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CHAPTER FIFrEE..'l Debtless The celebration that puncruated the hajj was over; the Prophet had per- formed aU the rites and want ...

200 as tu-sunnah) were the fWD fundamental references, and when faced with new situations, the keepers of those teachings were t ...

D~btlm^201 general level, trus was a fine lesson in humility addressed to older Com- panions: they were to experience the inner, ...

202 In 1m Footsteps of 1m Prophet not mutilate, you sh all not kill children nor rh e inhabitants of h ermitages [ashab as-sau'a ...

Debt/ess 203 )'OU holds a sapling in his hand, let h im hurry and plant it."13 The believ- ing conscience must thus, to the very ...

204 in the rWUlrpS of tIH Proplltl mals, thiS clearly consisted in re specting £heir life and their dignity as liv- ing beings, ...

Dt tJ/m 205 In the night following that day, the Prophet went to the AI-Baqi grave- yard, in Medina, to greet its occupants, and ...

206 In {ht FoollllPI 0/ fix Pruplxr other person, taking with rum no unforgivcn o ffense, no unhealed wound, no undischarged tru ...

Dtbtkn^207 H e told her this during the following days as weU, but every time he did, Aishah requested that her father be exempt ...

208 1" fIN Footr~ps of tile Prophtt Attention {O hygiene thus accompanied God's Messenger until his ver), last momentS, for he k ...

Debtim 209 intensity of me pain. The Prophet had recommended that grief should bc expressed but without excess, without hysteria ...