MUHAMMAD THE IDEAL CHARACTER

~ 19 ~ have had better treatment from you. You could have advised me to be more punctilious about the return of loans and you could have advised the Jew to be more courteous in demanding repayment.” He then requested Umar to procure some dates so that the loan could be repaid, and to give the Jew an extra forty kilograms for the rebuke he had been given. When the Prophet of Islam had become the ruler of Arabia, whatever he said, as the messenger of God, was law. He was venerated by his people as no man had ever been venerated. Urwah ibn Mas’ud, the envoy of the Quraysh at the time of the Hudaibiyya settlement, was amazed to see that the water used by the Prophet in performing his ablutions was never allowed to fall on the ground. People would catch it as it fell, and would rub it on their faces. His close companion, Anas, says that in spite of the great love they had for the Prophet, they could not look him full in the face. They could not look him straight in the eye. Mughira says that if any companion had to knock at his door, he did so softly with his fingertips. At the battle of Hunain, when the Muslims were suffering an initial setback,