شخصية الرسول The Prophet’s Personality

Muhammad the Messenger; the Man of Education

The fair researcher would be wondering by the amazing ability that Mohammad the messenger owned, which made him capable of transferring a nation who don’t know how to write and read into a nation which is proud of knowledge, and had scientists of very high levels in the state and society. And looking for the secret behind this success, the researcher will find out that the Almighty Allah gave Muhammad the messenger great educational abilities, being an eloquent speaker, a convincing lecturer and a successful educator.



What helped him through this success is perhaps his proficiency in the conversational methods, having the attention, and stimulating the mind to the information. These are the essential effects in Muhammad’s educational teachings.



Notice this example when he asks his companions:"who is the insolvent?", then he waits for their answer even thought he knows that the answer will be wrong, but this is his intellectual conversation methods to stabilize the information. Then, as expected, his students say a wrong answer, he listens to them till they finish, then he gives them the right answer. Similar examples for this effective educational way are many in the teachings of Muhammad the messenger.



Muhammad’s instructions that obligate all people whether males or females to learn and reach a specific educational level, then to encourage who wants to learn more had an effective role in the substantial leap that Muhammad created in the educational field.

Some of his instructions and teachings concerning this field: "seeking knowledge is an obligation upon each Muslim"; in Muhammad’s speeches and in the revealed book-the Holy Quran- the word (Muslim) includes both males and females.


Muhammad the Messenger Encourages Noble & Refined Sports

Muhammad the Messenger (PBUH) had encouraged his companions to practice the refined sport that is based on strengthening the body and recreating the spirit and bringing benefit unto the society without wasting money and soul and without corrupting manners.



He himself had practiced some sports like running, wrestling & horseback ridding. The only condition to sport in Muhammad's (PBUH) constitution is to own noble and refined manners and to have sublime goals.

Smiling was the Prophet's Motto

How much important it is in such a world, full of social crises and psychological disease we live in, to keep a smile on our faces like the one the Prophet asked his followers to keep all the time.




The Prophet released his followers from all heart diseases, psychological crises and life pressures that demolish human life to reach happiness and inner peace. So he made the smile his slogan in sorrows and happiness and was never seen but smiling. His smile cured the sadness of all people around him and healed the pains of his companions.



Abdullah bin Al Hareth reported:" I never saw a man smiling more than the Prophet (PBUH)."


But he never went over the limits; he did not exaggerate in the way he smiled or laughed, he used to smile politely and respectfully.

Abdullah bin Al Hareth reported:" The Prophet's way to laugh was only by smiling." Narrated by Al Tarmithi



It means that he used to laugh without cackling and full of respect.


Muhammad the Messenger, the Man of Cleanness and Environmental Care

One of the special features of the Prophet's life and religion is his strict teachings dictated to his followers which forced them to give great concern to neatness and protecting the environment.



So the Prophet ordered his followers to wash their different body parts that are exposed to pollution as the face, mouth, nose, hands and feet five times per day or more, and washing the whole body frequently as much as possible.



-He warned people not to pollute the areas near living places with dirt.

-He insisted on the importance of getting rid of any dirt caused by humans.

-He obliged his followers to clean their clothes from dirt " najass ".

-He taught his followers "medical isolation"; so he ordered them not to enter the places affected with epidemic diseases and not to leave it in order to prevent the spread of diseases.



With these instructions and many others, the Prophet (PBUH) built a complete social system within a healthy atmosphere and clean environment. So there is no place in the Prophet's teachings for pollution, dirtiness in clothing, body and the whole environment.


Muhammed The Prophet with Himself

The Prophet was a great man; he built up this greatness through his confidence and steadiness on his principles. He was of good manners and fair deeds with all people; enemies and friends. In addition to that, modesty and flexibility were of his great qualities away from complexity and arrogance.

- He was frank with himself and satisfied with his principles. He had specific targets and a clear vision.

-He held on his principles till he conveyed his divine message spreading all his noble principles which are not known by those who hate and vilify him.


- He owned all the good qualities of a person gained by innate and all the characteristics of human perfection wished by the wise.

- Handsome features are mixed with noble manners and wise mentality to form a teacher who awakened the world like the sun enlightening darkness. He gave live to all human beings after being buried for ages and ages under ignorance and selfishness.


Muhammad the Messenger; the Man of Elegance and Beauty

If you ask about the things that the Prophet like most, you will get three answers starting with perfume. He liked very much the nice smell of perfumes and never smelled bad. Moreover the Prophet was very elegant; he was the best looking ever among his people, shinning in his clothes like a moon in the sky.


And the great thing is that the Prophet's appearance was such of elegance in a society very far from classiness, cleanness and sophistication .He was as a beautiful flower in the arid desert, and like the warm fire in the frozen desert and like the spring in a lifeless earth.


Muhammad the Messenger; the Builder of the Distinguished Structural


Muhammad (PBUH) had built in a barren desert a unique cultural system that was never known before. It was distinguished with the accuracy of planning and observing the interest of the city all in a beautiful & attractive view. The Mosque was in the center of the capital and it was the headquarters for running the city and the conference center for people during important events and emergencies. Such center (the mosque) was the refuge for the poor & needy, where the state and the charitable bodies provide for them food and shelter. Also it was the shelter for the strangers who come from outside the state where they find food and hostel.



The civilization system built by Muhammad (PBUH) depended on establishing markets & houses around the mosque to facilitate the transaction between people of the markets and those of the houses from one side and to facilitate their contact with the mosque from the other side. The people in the city of Muhammad (PBUH) are one entity always in contact; everyone is in the centre of the events with no discrimination or suppression.


Muhammad the Messenger, the Man of Tolerance & Noble Forgiveness

Whoever browses the history of great men and leaders, during a victory after a lost battle, will find one common trait among them all, except for Prophets, which is revenge.



Muhammad the Messenger (PBUH) had given a superb example for the nobleness of the victorious. Despite being exiled from Makkah, his possessions being confiscated and being hurt badly by its people at the beginning of his prophecy, upon entering Makkah overwhelmingly victorious, his great personality & generosity would not give room for revenge. He had forgiven all those who have oppressed him while being able to exact severe vengeance on them.

He told them: "You can go for you are free"



In such a way Islam had raised Muhammad and his companions on such refined manners, free from the shackles of selfness & selfishness. For the Quran says: "Show forgiveness, enjoin what is good, and turn away from the foolish (i.e. don’t punish them)."


Muhammad the Messenger, the Man of Religion and Government


How many great persons and leaders tried to build up glories and establish a human message, but nobody along history could create a delicate and well thought-out system applying the needs of both body and soul.


But Muhammad the Prophet (PBUH) came with something new to the whole world mixing the spiritual part and the materialistic one in a great harmony never found before. So he built a government unable to survive without religion and a religion never accepts but such kind of government.


The Prophet healed the soul's injuries caused by the materialistic life and filled the materialistic gap of needs because of being far from the soul needs.


So he was in deed the truthful spiritual teacher, the honest politician and the fair judge, that unified the wild tribes to civilized people and unified those people to a nation that built glory and made life under the belief of the Almighty Allah;"there is no God but Allah and the Prophet Muhammad is his messenger".