A Strange Event Occurred in the Desert

[Rational_Mind]

Have you any notion what was the strange event that occurred in the desert country of Arabia when hundreds of thousands of the dead were revived within a brief period and those who had been misguided through generations put on Divine color, and those who were blind obtained sight, and those who had been dumb began to speak of the understanding of the Divine, and the world underwent a revolution which had never been seen or heard of before? It was the supplications during dark nights of one who had lost himself in God which raised a clamor in the world, and manifested such wonders as appeared impossible in the case of that unlearned helpless one. Send down Thy blessings and peace, O Allah, on him and his people according to the amount of pain and anguish he felt for his Ummah, and pour down upon him the lights of Thy mercy forever.

[Barakat-ud-Du'a, Ruhani Khaza'in, Vol. 6, pp. 10-11]

 

[Rational_Mind]

"Illiterate himself, scarcely able to read or write, he was yet the author of a book which is a poem, a code of laws, a Book of Common Prayer, and a
Bible in one, and is reverenced to this day by a sixth of the whole human race as a miracle of purity of style, of wisdom, and of truth. It was the one
miracle claimed by Mohammed—his ‘standing miracle’ he called it; and a miracle indeed it is."

-Reginald Bosworth Smith

 

[elmarna]

In the "listening" it is best to call upon Allah than the mind that can not rest.
Inner peace is the foundation to find his words.
The understanding of what they can do is only found in the willingness to use them.

 

[Rational_Mind]

The famous British Historian Sir Thomas Carlyle writes,


"One other circumstance we must not forget: that he had no school-learning; of the thing
we call school-learning none at all. The art of writing was but just introduced into Arabia;
it seems to be the true opinion that Muhammad never could write! Life in the Desert, with
its experiences, was all his education. What of this infinite Universe he, from his dim place,
with his own eyes and thoughts, could take in, so much and no more of it was he to know.
Curious, if we will reflect on it, this of having no books. Except by what he could see for
himself, or hear of by uncertain rumor of speech in the obscure Arabian Desert, he could
know nothing. The wisdom that had been before him or at a distance from him in the world,
was in a manner as good as not there for him. Of the great brother souls, flame-beacons
through so many lands and times, no one directly communicates with this great soul. He is
alone there, deep down in the bosom of the Wilderness; has to grow up so, -- alone with
Nature and his own Thoughts"

- Sir Thomas Carlyle; Sartor Resartus and On Heroes and Hero Worship, page 287. Everyman's Library, New York 1965.

 

[Student of X]

nice, thanks for sharing

 

[maro]

"Illiterate himself, scarcely able to read or write, he was yet the author of a book.....

-Reginald Bosworth Smith

I don't think he was the author of any books