Acknowledgment.....................................................................9
Introducing the Prophet of Mercy ..................................... 11
A Word Picture ......................................................................18
Why Muhammad ?..............................................................26
Power of Caring, Loving, and Reaching All.................................28
Dissolving All Differences in His Message to All.......................29
Mercy upon Mankind............................................................38
Mercy to the Enemy ........................................................................41
Singular Capacity ..............................................................................44
Arise and Warn! .....................................................................47
Darkness............................................................................................48
Daybreak............................................................................................49
On Mount As-Safa...........................................................................52
Open Preaching of Islam................................................................53
One against All .................................................................................56
Psychological Warfare ........................................................... 61
1. A sorcerer! A madman! A liar! Rather, he is a poet! ........................62
2. Never will we show belief until we have a share of your prophethood ...68
3. Shall we believe in you while you are followed by the lowest of people?.72
4. We will make you our king...............................................................80
5. Prostrate before our gods to prostrate before your God!........................82
6. Turn Mount As-Safa into gold for us to believe you!..........................86

7. After dying and becoming dust, shall we then be resurrected?..............94
8. Allah did not reveal anything to a human being...............................101
9. You are not a Messenger!................................................................104
10. Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a Messenger?.....................108
11. Has Allah sent a human Messenger?............................................110
12. It is only a human being who teaches you.......................................114
13. Do not listen to this Qur’an!.........................................................119
14. If we wish we can say the like of this Qur’an .................................122
15. Bring us a Qur’an other than this or change it!..............................124
16. If this is the truth, rain down upon us stones from the sky!.............125
17. Your God has forsaken you ..........................................................127
129.............................................. Tَلا إِلَه 13 َ إَِّلا اللَّه Word the of 13TPower
13TI Am the Prophet, No Lying13T ............................................... 134
13TIslam Striving13T ..................................................................................135
13TEven if they put the sun and moon in my hands13T...................................137
13TBoycott13T.............................................................................................139
13TAssassination13T...................................................................................141
13TBesiegement13T ....................................................................................144
13TChase13T................................................................................................146
13TDo not grieve... Allah is with us13T..........................................................147
13TBestowed Mercy13T .................................................................. 149
13TChildren Who Worship Allah Alone13T...........................................150
13TTolerance Together With Mercy13T ......................................... 153
13T1-Prophethood13T................................................................................153

2-Asylum..........................................................................................154
3-Hijrah ............................................................................................158
On the Road of Hijrah......................................................... 162
A New World ....................................................................... 165
The Six Youths...............................................................................166
The First ‘Aqabah Pledge..............................................................168
The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge.........................................................169
To Those Who Are Being Fought....................................... 172
Full Moon Has Shone.......................................................... 176
Building the City of Light ....................................................181
Presidency........................................................................................183
Cornerstones........................................................................ 185
First Cornerstone: Return of Mankind to Allah .................. 186
1-Building Al-Masjid An-Nabawi ................................................186
2-True Foundations.......................................................................188
3-Call to Salah .................................................................................190
Second Cornerstone: Binding Muslims to One Another.... 193
1-The Aws and Khazraj United ...................................................193
2-Fraternity between the Muhajirun and the Ansar..................195
3-Covenant of Islamic Alliance....................................................198
4-Brotherhood of Believers..........................................................201
5-Role of Love................................................................................206
Third Cornerstone: Binding Muslims to Non-Muslims..... 208
1-Covenant with the Jews of Al-Madinah ..................................208

On One Ship........................................................................ 212
Free People .......................................................................... 214
Plant It................................................................................. 218
Writing to Kings .................................................................. 221
Hindering the Path.............................................................. 230
Divine Victory...................................................................... 233
Marching Onwards ........................................................................235
Back to Homeland .............................................................. 240
Go, you are the free ones......................................................................241
Straight Path........................................................................ 245
13TFollowers of the Path13T........................................................... 248
13TVerdant Shade13T...................................................................... 250
13TReferences13T ........................................................................... 254

And my success cannot come except from Allah. Upon Him I have relied,
and to Him I repent. [Hud 11: 88] Thank You, my Lord, for Your
Generous Support. You made it to my soul an effort easy, beloved,
insatiable, and a task worth striving after. Every success in this
work is from You Alone, any faults from my own self.
I then dedicate my deep gratitude and appreciation to my dear
parents, the sun and moon in my life. Thank you for your
encouragement for me to do this work; the kindness and care of
my mother, Amira Ezzat Salih; the professional support
and supervision of my father, Prof. Muhammad Ahmad Eid.
May Allah repay and reward you with the best, my dear family,
sisters and friends, for your kind efforts towards me.
A special thank you goes to Mr. Ahmad Muhammad Hassan
who made the preparation and printing of this work possible
through his unconditional support and voluntary contribution with
experience. May Allah be generous to you and Emily Kalharine
Richardson, the expert editor of this book, who showed skill,
diligence, and care. Accept my sincere thanks.
My appreciation to all those who helped me in my career of
Islamic translation for guidance, support, or just a kind
encouraging word.
Again, all thanks, all gratitude be to Allah.

For mercy there was sent a Prophet.
Not only to show it, preach it, and teach it, but to be it:
We have only sent you as a mercy to the worlds.7T0F
1

In him mercy talked, mercy walked, mercy lived on the
earth at one time.
That time began on Monday, the ninth of Rabi‘ I, in
Makkah Al-Mukarramah [Makkah, the Honored]. This mercy
was born of the noblest and purest lineage, from the best
family among the Arabs whose pedigree is traced back to
Isma‘il (Ishmael 7T1F
2
7T), son of Ibrahim (Abraham ), the father

of all the Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah7T2F
3
7T be upon

them).
Muhammad bin ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdul-Mutalib bin Hashim bin
‘Abd-Manaf bin Qusai bin Kilab bin Murrah bin Ka‘b bin Luaiy bin
Ghalib bin Fahr bin Malik bin An-Nadr bin Kinanah bin
Khuzaimah bin Mudrikah bin Ilyas bin Mudar bin Nizar bin Ma‘d
bin ‘Adnan, and ‘Adnan is from the children of Isma‘il, son of Ibrahim
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon them both).
1 Translated meanings of Al-Anbiya’ 21: 107. 2 May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
3 The Name indicative and all-inclusive of every Divine Name and Attribute of
Absolute Perfection: the One God, the Maker, the Almighty, the All-Merciful,
etc.; in Arabic it means: The One exclusively worthy of deification and worship.

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With Prophet Muhammad  came the birth of the light
that guides to the way of peace, mercy, and happiness.
There has come to you from Allah a light and a plain Book
wherewith Allah guides those who seek His Good Pleasure to the
ways of peace, and He brings them out of darkness by His Will unto
light, and guides them to a Straight Path.7T3F
4

It is not possible to gather all the rays of this light in hands
for humanity to read; but this book will try to draw closer to
this most nobly-mannered man , to his Message and mercy,
begging help and support only from Allah 7T4F
5
7T.

Turning the pages of his noble, faith-filled, and faith-
building life, and hearing the 5Tdepiction given by a close

eyewitness,5T Ja‘far bin Abu Talib 7T5F
6
7T, to the Christian Emperor
of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), nothing better can introduce the
Prophet of Mercy  and the greatest aspect of this mercy, the
bringing of humanity from darkness into light.
The light that shines from within through worshiping
Allah Alone and being Muslim7T6F
7
7T. The light of the three
Heavenly Messages – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam7TF
8
7T –
calling to the one true religion. One light sent by the One
God.
4 Translated meanings of Al-Ma’idah 5: 15-16. 5 Glorified and Exalted be He. 6 May Allah be pleased with him.
7 It means submitting oneself to Allah Alone. Bilal Philips defines “Islam” and
“Muslims” as: “Islam” means submission or surrender of one’s will to Allah, the
only true God worthy of worship; anyone who does this is termed a “Muslim”.
The word also implies “peace”, which is the natural consequence of total
submission to the Will of Allah.
8 Literally: submission and resignation to Allah Alone.

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We will sail backwards to hear Ja‘far’s words narrating the
defeat of evil by the rebirth of good that Prophet Muhammad
 makes happen in souls, and live with the first Muslims in
the critical moment after they embraced Islam.
A group of persecuted Muslims left for Abyssinia where
they sought asylum with its fair Christian king, who never
wronged any of his subjects, just as the Prophet  had
depicted him. The Quraish could not tolerate the prospect of
a haven for the Muslims in Abyssinia, so they dispatched two
sturdy envoys to demand their extradition on the grounds
that they had abandoned the religion of their forefathers, and
that their leader was preaching a religion different from theirs
and that of the king.
The Negus summoned the Muslims to his royal court and asked:
The Negus: What is this religion for which you have
parted with your people, and you entered into neither my
religion nor the religion of any of these nations?
Ja‘far bin Abu Talib: O king! We were ignorant people
who worshiped idols, ate dead meat, committed obscenities,
severed the ties of the womb (kinship), ill-treated the
neighbors, and allowed the strong among us to devour the
weak.
We remained so until Allah sent us a Messenger from
among ourselves. We know his descent, his truthfulness, his
honesty, and his chastity.

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He invited us to Allah, to believe in His Oneness and
worship Him Alone, and cast off the stones and idols that
our forefathers and we used to worship besides Him. He
ordered us to speak the truth, render back the trust, join the
ties of the womb, treat the neighbors kindly, and refrain from
bloodshed and things forbidden.
He forbade us from immoralities, making forged
statements, devouring the property of orphans, and
calumniating chaste women. He ordered us to worship Allah
Alone, associating nothing with Him, and to offer Salah7T8F
9
7T, pay

Zakah7T9F
107T, and fast (Ramadan) [Ja‘far recounted to him the
precepts of Islam].
We trusted him, believed him, and followed that with
which he came. We worshiped Allah, Alone, and associated
nothing with Him. We considered forbidden that which he
declared forbidden to us and we considered permissible that
which he declared permissible for us. But, our people
transgressed against us.
They tortured us and tempted us away from our religion,
to turn us from the worship of Allah back to the worship of
idols, and to make us deem as lawful the abominations that
(in the past) we used to deem lawful.
9 Salah (Prayer), the second Pillar of Islam, is a fixed obligatory form of worship
performed five times a day at prescribed times. Salah consists of Rak‘ahs
(singular: Rak‘ah). Rak‘ah represents a unit of Salah and consists of one standing
while reciting the Qur’an (Surat Al-Fatihah in every Rak‘ah and a portion of the
Qur’an), one bowing, and two prostrations with a sitting in between for
testifying to the Oneness of Allah and supplication.
10 Zakah (purifying, wealth-increasing obligatory charity) means both
“Purification” and “Growth.” It purifies the soul and increases wealth.

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When they oppressed us, wronged us, tyrannized us, and
came between our religion and us, we immigrated to your
country. We chose you over others and sought your
protection, and hope not to be treated unjustly under you, O
king.
The Negus: Do you have any of what (the revelations) he
brought from Allah?
Ja‘far bin Abu Talib: Yes.
The Negus: Recite it to me.
Ja‘far recited to him the beginning of Surat Maryam (Mary: 19). On
hearing the recited Ayat (Qur’anic verses), the Negus cried until his
tears wet his beard, and the bishops of his realm cried until their tears
wet their books.
The Negus: This, by Allah, and what Musa (Moses )
came with emanate from the same lamp (source). Go, by
Allah, I will never hand them over to you.
Yet, ‘Amr bin Al-‘As, one of the two envoys, swore to come the next
day and censure them before the Negus, and tell him that they claim that
‘Isa (Jesus ) was no more than a Servant of Allah.
‘Amr bin Al-‘As: O king! They say about ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, a grave saying. Send for them and ask them about
what they say regarding him.

 This book talks about some situations from the biography of our Prophet Muhammad such as: his life in Makkah, calling people to Islam, persecution for the early converts, migration to Abyssinia then Madina, Islamic country in Madina, conquest of Makkah, the farewell pilgrimage and his death. It also mentions his physical description and manner. In addition, it mentions what the prophet said about the environment, treatment of animals and relationships with nonMuslims. It also sheds light on his appreciation of woment and his love for children. On the other hand it takls about what nonMuslim scholars have said about Prophet Muhammad such as: Alphonse de Lamartine, Sir George Bernard Shaw, Michael Hart, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Carlyle, Edward Gibbon, Simon Ocklay, Annie Besant, W. Montgomery Watt, Bosworth Smith, Wolfgang Goethe, LanePoole, W.C. Taylor, Dr. Gustav Weil, Washington Irving, Arthur Glyn Leonard and Jules Masserman