Syed Al-Arif's video: Story Of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born in 570 C.E, he was not fortunate enough to have been born wealthy as he was born an orphan. His father, Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib, died of sickness at the age of 25 on a trading journey to Syria, leaving his wife Amenah only a few months pregnant. His grandfather always took good care of him and never left him alone, he took him to all public gatherings. However, at the age of eight, Abdul Muttalib died leaving him into his uncle Abu Talib's care. Muhammad (PBUH) insisted on sharing the burdens of life with him. He went with his uncle on a trading journey to Syria at the age of thirteen. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) then returned to Macca and resumed his life, working as a shepherd in his early life. He did not acquire knowledge or education from a monk or a philosopher or sorcerer, as was the norm then. Instead he read through the pages of life and took what he found good. He combined the good qualities of discipline with spiritual purity, rightness and contentment. In this manner, he entered his third phase of life and got acquainted with his first wife Khadija (R.A) who was a merchant woman of nobility and wealth. She had heard of his truthfulness and trustworthiness, so she offered him to take her trade to Syria (before marrying him). He was 25 years old and she was 40 years old when they got married. Their marriage lasted until she died at the age of 65. Every year, Muhammad (PBUH) used to leave Makkah to spend Ramadan in the cave of Hiraa where he used to meditate and worship for self-purification away from the falsehood of Jahilia. In this cave, He met with the heavenly host and listened to the voice of the angel telling him to read. He knew that he had become a Prophet of Allah (PBUH) and that it was Gabriel, the ambassador of revelation who came to him; then the mission's struggle began. The Prophet (PBUH) and his companions abused, ridiculed, humiliated, accused of indulging in magic, and the weak and oppressed believers were tortured until they disbelieved or died. After ten years of suffering for the mission of Islam, Muhammad (PBUH) suffered the loss of his wife Khadijah and his uncle Abu Talib, in other words, he had lost his public life, as his uncle defended him and protected him from any calamity, and his private life, as Khadijah loved, supported and shared with him the miseries and pains of the Da'wah. A delegation consisting of the representatives of the twelve important clans of Medina, invited Muhammad (PBUH) as a neutral outsider to Medina to serve as chief arbitrator for the entire community, eye for an eye were no longer workable. The delegation from Medina pledged themselves and their fellow-citizens to accept Muhammad (PBUH) into their community and physically protect him as one of themselves. Muhammad (PBUH) instructed his followers to emigrate to Medina until virtually all his followers left Mecca. Being alarmed at the departure of Muslims, according to the tradition, the Meccans plotted to assassinate Muhammad. With the help of Ali, Muhammad (PBUH) fooled the Meccans who were watching him, and secretly slipped away from the town with Abu Bakr (best friend). Among the first things Muhammad did to settle down the longstanding grievances among the tribes of Medina was drafting a document known as the Constitution of Medina, "establishing a kind of alliance or federation" among the eight Medinan tribes and Muslim emigrants from Mecca, which specified the rights and duties of all citizens and the relationship of the different communities in Medina . The community defined in the Constitution of Medina, Ummah, had a religious outlook but was also shaped by practical considerations and substantially preserved the legal forms of the old Arab tribes. It effectively established the first Islamic state. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) began to prepare for a campaign. In 630, Muhammad marched on Mecca with an enormous force, said to number more than ten thousand men. With minimal casualties, Muhammad took control of Mecca. He declared an amnesty for past offences. Most Meccans converted to Islam and Muhammad subsequently had destroyed all the statues of Arabian gods in and around the Kaaba. In 632, at the end of the tenth year after the migration to Medina, Muhammad (PBUH) carried through his first truly Islamic pilgrimage, thereby teaching his followers the rites of the annual Great Pilgrimage (Hajj). After completing the pilgrimage, Muhammad (PBUH) delivered a famous speech known as The Farewell Sermon. In this sermon, Muhammad advised his followers not to follow certain pre-Islamic customs and follow the Quran and the sunna "the prophet Mohamed (PBUH) way of living". A few months after the farewell pilgrimage, Muhammad (PBUH) fell ill, He died in Medina, at the age of 63, in the house of his wife Aisha. With his head resting on Aisha's lap.