- Category: PROPHETS & AWLIAH
- Language: ENGLISH
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Love is the most beautiful and highest value in both religion and daily life. There are many causes for the love of one human being for another. They include an open and cheerful personality, sincerity and truthfulness, loyalty,
modesty, rationality, fairness, honesty, fine speech, a pleasant smile, tolerance, attentiveness, generosity and willingness to consult others and to overlook their shortcomings. They also include encouragement of an offender to get back on his feet after having fallen by filling his heart with hope, not causing embarrassment to others, expression of humanitarian feelings, willingness to give, do favors and offer assistance, showing gratitude, appreciating beauty, upholding human dignity and inviolability, an honest desire to teach beneficial knowledge, consistency in word and deed, transparency, willingness to pardon and forgive, preference of peace, promotion of dynamic activity, perfectionism at work and a refined sense of humor.
It is for all these qualities that the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad bin Abdullah, is loved. They were inherent in
his personality and could be found on the surface and deep within him, in both his public dealings and his private life. They were the perennial qualities that never abandoned him throughout his personal, family and social life; be it with his wives, children and grandchildren, companions, and even his enemies. Yes, Muhammad, who is a source of pride for mankind by being the best of its members, is loved for those qualities. Every man of sound constitution, presence of mind and active conscience loves such qualities, for a human being by nature loves everything beautiful.
Indeed, Muhammad bin Abdullah, the Prophet of Islam, is loved for those qualities. He is loved all the more, and
in an exceptional way, for another unique virtue, namely, his great love and high appreciation of those leaders of
the human race who preceded him, namely, the previous prophets and messengers.
The previous prophets were similar to Prophet Muhammad in almost every way: in having been chosen by God, having received divine revelations, having delivered divine messages, and having been blessed with an immaculate moral character.
Prophet Muhammad gave a beautiful and highly impressive picture of celebration and appreciation of the prophets and messengers who preceded him. He loved and cherished them all, rejoicing for the past existence on this planet of every messenger who spoke of truth, goodness, and beauty. He believed in every scripture revealed by God to one of His messengers and spoke of the perfect qualities of every preceding messenger.
