Thread: Endurance and Forgiveness

Bismillahir Rehmanir Raheem

Endurance and patience is a sign of good nature. It is such a quality that the more it is found in someone the better that person is perceived by others. This quality certainly has a high place in Islam.

Our Beloved Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam was unparallel to anyone in endurance. His whole life seems to be beautified with endurance. Which was the trouble that he did not encounter? Which were the atrocities that he was spared? But he endured all of this with awesome patience and displayed such high character that it seems impossible for anyone to replicate. There are numerous incidents which highlights his endurance and forgiveness and which will act as a means of guidance for mankind until the very last day.

In the battle of Uhad, Utbah bin Abi Waqqas severed the blessed tooth of RasoolAllah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam and Abdullah bin Qamiyyah wounded the blessed face. But the only words the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam had for them were, ‘O Allah! Guide my people as they don’t know who I am.’

In Khaiber, a Jewish woman named Zainab tried to poison the Beloved Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, but he refused to take revenge. Lubaid bin A’asim intended to harm him through magic. Allah revealed the truth about him to the Prophet, but the Prophet did not reprimand him.

Gaurath bin Harith grabbed the sword of RasoolAllah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam in order to kill him whilst the Prophet was sleeping. When the Prophet woke up, Gaurath said , ‘Ya Muhammed! Who will save you from me?’ The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam calmly replied, ‘Allah.’ This had such an affect on Gaurath that he started to tremble and dropped his sword. RasoolAllah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam picked up the sword and said, ‘Who will now save you from me?’ Gaurath fell
at the feet of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam and pleaded to be forgiven. The Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam set him free. When Gaurath arrived to his people he confessed, ‘O People! I have just met the best person in the world.’

The Quraish of Makkah subjected the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam to immeasurable atrocities and even forced him to leave his beloved city and birthplace. On the day when the Muslim army invaded Makkah, the Quraish thought that the Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam would take revenge for all they had done to him and his followers. But the world saw what history had never witnessed before, RasoolAllah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam announced, ‘There will be no revenge today, you are all free.’

There are plenty of other incidents in the blessed life of RasoolAllah Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam which demonstrates his enduring and forgiving nature in spite of having the power to take revenge. Indeed the world has never seen anyone of a superior nature than our Beloved Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam.