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Why Is He Loved? ....................................................
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Chapter One
Unity of the Basic Principles of Prophethood ..........
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Chapter Two
Prophet Muhammad Presents His Brother Jesus to
Mankind ....................................................................
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Chapter Three
Prophet Muhammad Presents Mary, the Mother of
Jesus ..........................................................................
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Chapter Four
Prophet Muhammad Presents His Brother Moses ....
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Chapter Five
Pioneer of the Greatest Awakening in Human
History ......................................................................
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(1)
 Beauty and Love in the Prophet’s Words and
Actions  .....................................................................
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(2)
 Wishing for the Good and Happiness for All
Humanity  .................................................................
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(3)
 Pioneer of the Greatest Awakening in Human
History ......................................................................
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Chapter Six
Muhammad: His Position with God and Status
Among Muslims .......................................................
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Love  is  the  most  beautiful  and  highest  value  in  both
religion and daily life. There are many causes for the love
of one human being for another. They include an open and
cheerful  personality,  sincerity  and  truthfulness,  loyalty,
modesty, rationality, fairness, honesty, fine speech, a pleasant
smile,  tolerance,  attentiveness,  generosity  and  willingness
to consult others and to overlook their shortcomings. They
also  include  encouragement  of  an  offender  to  get  back
on  his  feet  after  having  fallen  by  filling  his  heart  with
hope,  not  causing  embarrassment  to  others,  expression  of
humanitarian  feelings,  willingness  to  give,  do  favors  and
offer  assistance,  showing  gratitude,  appreciating  beauty,
upholding human dignity and inviolability, an honest desire
to teach beneficial knowledge, consistency in word and deed,
transparency, willingness to pardon and forgive, preference
of  peace,  promotion  of  dynamic  activity,  perfectionism  at
work and a refined sense of humor.
It  is  for  all  these  qualities  that  the  Prophet  of  Islam,
Muhammad bin Abdullah, is loved. They were inherent in
his personality and could be found on the surface and deep
within him, in both his public dealings and his private life.
They were the perennial qualities that never abandoned him
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his  wives,  children  and  grandchildren,  companions,  and
even his enemies. Yes, Muhammad, who is a source of pride
for mankind by being the best of its members, is loved for
those qualities. Every man of sound constitution, presence
of  mind  and  active  conscience  loves  such  qualities,  for  a
human being by nature loves everything beautiful.
Indeed, Muhammad bin Abdullah, the Prophet of Islam,
is  loved  for  those  qualities.  He  is  loved  all  the  more,  and
in  an  exceptional  way,  for  another  unique  virtue,  namely,
his  great  love  and  high  appreciation  of  those  leaders  of
the  human  race  who  preceded  him,  namely,  the  previous
prophets and messengers.
What  makes  this  a  virtue  that  merits  deep,  intense  and
unique love? Historical and current events are evidence of
a dark and evil tendency that has plagued humanity since it
came into being and that still exists today. It is the tendency
toward  mutual  enmity,  hatred,  envy,  rejection  and  disdain
among people of equal status.
Of  this  predisposition  for  envy  and  ingratitude,  the
Prophet of Islam was completely free. He was completely
disassociated from it. But how?
The  previous  prophets  and  messengers  were  similar  to
Prophet  Muhammad  in  almost  every  way:  in  having  been
chosen by God, having received divine revelations, having
delivered divine messages, and having been blessed with an
immaculate moral character.
   Prophet   Muhammad   gave   a   beautiful   and   highly
impressive  picture  of  celebration  and  appreciation  of  the
prophets and messengers who preceded him. He loved and
cherished them all, rejoicing for the past existence on this
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and beauty. He believed in every scripture revealed by God
to one of His messengers and spoke of the perfect qualities
of every preceding messenger.
It is true that the moral standards of prophets are of such
sublimity and magnitude that they cannot be equaled by any
human being except one chosen and inspired by God. Yet, to
have the names of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus mentioned in
the very scripture revealed to Muhammad many more times
than his own name is something unprecedented, unusual and
most  impressive  in  the  realm  of  divine  legislation,  ethics
and human relationships.
In the Qur’an the name of Abraham is mentioned forty-
eight  times;  the  name  of  Moses,  136  times;  the  name  of
Jesus,  thirty-six  times;  while  the  name  of  Muhammad  is
mentioned four times, and Ahmad
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, once. Thus, Muhammad
is mentioned by these two names a total of five times only.
The  reader  can  himself  calculate  the  proportions  of
these messengers’ mention in the Qur’an and compare the
number of times Muhammad is mentioned with the number
of times Abraham, Moses, and Jesus are mentioned in the
Book revealed to Muhammad.
This  in  itself  is  a  scientific  and  ethical  proof  that  the
prophethood  of  Muhammad  is  true  and  certain.  No  one
could  reach  such  a  high  level  of  fairness,  objectivity  and
selflessness,  giving  his  peers  precedence  over  himself  in
profuse  commendation,  frequent  mention  and  abundant
praise – no one other than a true prophet conveying the truth
in accordance with what was inspired to him and concealing
none of it.
This  impression  that  motivates  love  for  Muhammad  is
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strengthened by other supporting facts that produce love for
him as well. For example:
1.  The  fact  that  the  Qur’an,  revealed  by  God  to  Prophet
Muhammad, is the record that most precisely documents
the  biographies  of  other  prophets  and  messengers,  as
well as the history of their scriptures, sources, messages,
and missions of truth.
First, it is a record of the biographies of previous prophets
and of their messages in general terms:
• «Say, Praise be to God, and peace upon His servants
whom He has chosen.»
(Surah an-Naml, 27:59)
• «God chooses from the angels messengers and from
the people.»
 (Surah al-Hajj, 22:75)
• «And indeed they are, to Us, among the chosen and
outstanding.»
(Surah Saad, 38:47)
•  «And  [We  sent]  messengers  about  whom We  have
related  [their  stories]  to  you  before  and  messengers
about whom We have not related to you.»
 (Surah an-Nisaa’,
4:164)
Second,  it  is  a  record  of  the  lives  of  previous  prophets
and  their  messages  in  detail.  References  to  and  accounts
of  prophets  and  messengers  occur  in  various  Qur’anic
contexts, such as those in Surahs  al-An`aam and Maryam:
•  «That  was  Our  [conclusive]  argument  which  We
gave Abraham  against  his  people. We  raise  by  degrees
whom We will. Indeed, your Lord is Wise and Knowing.
And  We  gave  to  him  [i.e.,  Abraham]  Isaac  and  Jacob
– all [of them] We guided. And Noah, We guided before;
and among his descendants, David and Solomon and Job
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and Joseph and Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward
the  doers  of  good. And  Zechariah  and  John  and  Jesus
and Elias – and all were of the righteous. And Ishmael
and  Elisha  and  Jonah  and  Lot  –  and  all  [of  them]  We
preferred over the worlds.»
 (Surah al-An‘aam, 6:83-86)
• «And mention in the Book [the story of] Abraham.
Indeed,  he  was  a  man  of  truth  and  a  prophet.»
(Surah
Maryam, 19:41)
• «And mention in the Book, Moses. Indeed, he was
chosen, and he was a messenger and a prophet. And We
called him from the side of the mount at [his] right and
brought him near, confiding [to him]. And We gave him
out of Our mercy his brother Aaron as a prophet.»
(Surah
Maryam, 19:51-53)
•  «And  mention  in  the  Book,  Ishmael.  Indeed,  he
was true to his promise, and he was a messenger and a
prophet. And he used to enjoin on his people prayer and
zakah  and  was  to  his  Lord  pleasing  [i.e.,  accepted  by
Him].»
(Surah Maryam, 19:54-55)
• «And mention in the Book, Idrees. Indeed, he was a
man of truth and a prophet. And We raised him to a high
station. Those were the ones upon whom God bestowed
favor  from  among  the  prophets  of  the  descendants  of
Adam and of those We carried [in the ship] with Noah,
and  of  the  descendants  of  Abraham  and  Israel  [i.e.,
Jacob], and of those whom We guided and chose. When
the  verses  of  the  Most  Merciful  were  recited  to  them,
they  fell  in  prostration  and  weeping.»
(Surah  Maryam,
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19:56-68)
2. The fact that Muhammad
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s religion is a universal religion
for all humanity rather than a local or a racial religion.
Owing  to  its  universality  and  appeal  to  all  mankind,
Muhammad
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s   heart,   soul,   and   mind   was   generous
enough to accommodate all other prophets and revealed
scriptures. He eloquently praised his «brothers» among
the former prophets and messengers.
3. The fact that the final message is a complete and perfect
one, yet, the Prophet was required to abide by the pattern
of previous prophets in the basics of belief, obligations
of faith and high moral standards.

You  have  a  good  example  in  Abraham  and  those
who were with him.»
(Surah al-Mumtahinah, 60:4)
«These are the ones whom God has guided, so from
their  guidance  take  an  example.»
(Surah  al-An‘aam,  6:83-
90)
The reference here is to the succession of prophets and
messengers  whose  names  adorn  the  verse  preceding  this
one.
Indeed, Muhammad is loved for all this: for his personality
and moral character in which all the qualities of beauty and
perfection are inherent, and for his noble relationship with
his brothers among the prophets and messengers who lived
in  various  times  at  various  places  and  spread  knowledge,
enlightenment and morality – from Noah to Jesus, the son
of Mary, peace be upon them all.
This introduction is a general reference to the relationships
on  which  the  book  focuses  in  detail  in  its  following
chapters.  As  we  perceive  from  this  relationship  the  high
morality in which the chosen, righteous messengers lived,
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wise  and  magnanimous  people  of  all  ages  are  encouraged
to be principled in their relationships with one another by
practicing  truthfulness,  loyalty,  dignity  and  refinement.
By  so  doing,  they  follow  the  way  of  the  prophets  and
messengers.
Among the purposes of sending prophets and messengers
on   missions   to   humanity   is   to   provide   practical   and
observable evidence that attaining high morality is possible
and  workable  in  actual  human  life  and  not  a  mere  mental
fantasy. For this reason, prophets were sent as human beings
rather than angels.
•  «Their  messengers  said  to  them, We  are  only  men
like you.»
(Surah Ibraheem, 14:11)
•  «Say,  I  am  only  a  man  like  you,  to  whom  has
been  revealed  that  your  god  is  one  God.  So  whoever
would hope for the meeting with his Lord – let him do
righteous  work  and  not  associate  in  the  worship  of  his
Lord anyone.»
 (Surah al-Kahf, 18:110)
Likeness    in    species,    form,    nature    and    human
characteristics  ensures  the  ability  of  people  to  follow  the
example  of  prophets  and  messengers  in  many  respects
and  to  emulate  them  as  much  as  possible  in  establishing
civilized  human  relationships  free  from  hatred,  envy  and
lack of appreciation and overflowing with love, admiration,
honest praise, and positive testimony.

Prophet Muhammad Presents His Brother Jesus To Mankind Peace And Blessings Be Upon Them .