Sayyidah Ayeshah (Radhiyallahu 'anha), the wife of Rasulullah ﷺ, was once asked:
She replied:
“His character
was the Qur’aan.”
[Sahih Muslim]
EXTRACT
“And
You Are Surely On An Excellent Standard Of Character.”
[Surah Al-Qalam 68 :4]
“The night was dark. The caravan had lost its
way. Light was extinguished. Heavy rain and darkness invaded the jungle. Danger
intensified.’
…This was the picture of the Jahiliyya (era of
ignorance) before the arrival of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.
People were in a kind of intoxication –
intoxicated by vices and crimes. No one had any kind of direction in life. The
world out there was nothing but a jungle. It was a question of ‘survival of the
fittest’. Everyone was out to grab, grab and grab...
The whole world was submerged in zulumaat (darknesses). There was just darkness
upon darkness – layers of darknesses…
The darkness of tyranny and injustice, the
darkness of kufr, the darkness of shirk, the darkness of bid’aat, the darkness
of suppression of the rights of the women, the darkness of suppression of the
rights of the children, the darkness of cruelty upon the parents, the darkness
of stealing, the darkness of gambling, the darkness of every crime … the
darkness of every evil infiltrated the lives of people.
…In that compounded darkness, Allah Ta’ala
sent Nabi Muhammad ﷺ as a guide and
as a light, and darkness was overcome by the brightness and shine of Nubuwwah
and the Message of Islam.
