“Say (O Muhammad): O mankind! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah
to you all (The messenger of) Him unto whom belongeth the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth” (VII: 158).
It is reported in one tradition that during the Battle of Tabuk when the Holy Prophet (saw) got up to say the night prayer, some of his Companions began to guard him. After saying the prayer, he turned towards them and said: “Five things have been specially bestowed upon me tonight; these distinctive qualities were never given to any other prophet before me: -
(1) I have come as a prophet for all the peoples of the world, while before this every prophet used to come as prophets for his own people only.
(2) I am victorious over the enemy merely by reverence, an enemy that is a month’s travel away is overcome by my reverential fear.
(3) Booty has been legitimised for me and my Ummah, before, it was a grave sin to eat the booty; it used to be burnt up.
(4) The whole earth is ritually clean for me and is a mosque for me. Wherever comes the time of prayer, I can perform tayyamum (ablution performed by using dust in the absence of water) with the dust thereof and can say prayer on the same dust. On the contrary earlier people could worship only in their churches and places of worship.
(5) The fifth special distinction is this that I have been permitted to ask for one thing, as every prophet has requested for a thing of his liking. I have postponed my demand for the Day of Judgment, and it is for you and for every one who may give witness of the Oneness of Allah
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One can write volume upon volumes on this topic and yet it will not suffice, as Sheikh Sa’di has said: -
“The whole volume came to an end and life too reached its end and yet we are still toiling with the description of your first quality only.”
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