This document is a praise of the Prophet Muhammad. It discusses how Muhammad is beloved by billions, remembered daily in calls to prayer, and sent blessings upon daily by followers. It describes Muhammad as humble, forgiving, and kind even to his enemies. It emphasizes the importance of following Muhammad's example of humility, simplicity, kindness, forgiveness and gratitude in order to truly love Allah. The document aims to inspire love for the Prophet Muhammad.

1. I love Muhammad ‫صلى ال عليه وسلم‬
ّ‫م‬
He is as his name is!
The Praiseworthy!
The Most Praised One!
By Muqith Mujtaba Ali

2. Loving the Prophet must be a part
of our Islamic life as Allah
commands His Messenger to
declare to the world:
ْ ‫قل إن كنتم َتحببون ال كَ َتبعبون ي يحببكم ال ويغفر لكم ذنبوبكمو‬
ُ‫ْمُ و ْ ْرِ و ْ ْمُ و ْ ْمُ و ْ ْمُ ْرِ َنوّ كَ هّ فتاهّ ْرِ ْمُ ْرِ ْمُ و ْ ْرِ و ْ ْمُ ْمُ هّ كَ كَ و ْ ْرِ و ْ كَ ْمُ و ْ ْمُ ْمُ كَ ْم‬
ُ‫ْم‬ َ‫ك‬
ٌ ِ‫كَ هّ كَ ْمُ ٌ كَ ْر‬
‫وال غفبور رحيم‬ ُ‫ْم‬
“Say (O Muhammad to all Muslims!)
If you do love Allah, Follow Me! Allah will
love you and forgive you your sins, for
Allah is oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful” (3: 31)

3. No man has ever been loved
throughout history as he is loved
and revered by billions of people
right from his time down to this day
and ever shall he be loved as long
as the world is in existence!

4. He is the most remembered person
on earth!
Ten Times each day from each
mosque his name is being called out
through Azaan from thousands of
minarets of the world.

5. Millions of his followers send peace
and blessings upon him day in and
day out.

6. He was the simplest man on earth!
He never ordered people to stand
when he entered a room or reached a
place. Yet he was given more than a
hero’s welcome wherever he went!

7. He never liked to sit with legs
stretched when people were around.
He never allowed anyone to lift his
stature to the level of worship!
He condemned hero worship. He
condemned people making graves
and illuminating it with lights.

8. In spite of the fact that his followers
were ever ready to do anything if he
commanded them to do so, he did not
possess even an iota of ego in him.
He was the humblest Prophet of
Allah!

9. “10 years”, said his servant, “ I was
with the Prophet, and he never said
as much as ‘fie to me’!

10. The English language proverb ‘No
man is hero to his valet’ miserably
fails when it comes our glorious
Prophet ‫صلى ال عليه وسل م‬
ّ‫م‬
For, Muhammad ‫صلى ال عليه‬
‫ وسل م‬is indeed the hero to his valet!
ّ‫م‬

11. The closer a person was with the
Prophet, the more attracted was he
towards him. Ali ibn Abi Talib (may
Allah be pleased with him) said, “The
Prophet ‫ صلى ال عليه وسل م‬was
ّ‫م‬
benevolent, lavishly generous and
exceedingly kind-hearted. It was a
pleasure to have his company.
Whoever met him for the first time
was filled with awe but with closer
contact became attached to him”.
(Tirmidhi)

12. Despotism and arrogance of power
and knowledge were unknown to him!
He was kind to all people. When he
got his birth place back, not as a
citizen, but as a domineering
conqueror and leader, he didn’t take
revenge on anyone.

13. Among the conquered were those wild
beast that used to torture him for ten long
years; abuse him, mock at him, insult him,
make fun of him, call him mad and crazy,
persecute and punish his followers for
accepting him as the Prophet of Allah.
All those beasts in human garb were
standing before him with heads down!
As a conqueror, he did not throw even a
pebble on such wild attackers! He forgave
them all. Subhanallah!

14. Such was our Prophet,
‫نبي كري م صلى ال عليه وسل م‬
ّ‫م‬
True to his name. The
Praiseworthy!

15. Being full of gratitude, he was the
most humblest and the most greatest
worshiper ‫عابد‬
He used to be in prostration for such
long time that his foot used to get
swollen and when he was asked the
reason why he did like that he replied,
“Should I not be a grateful servant of
Allah?”

16. We need to adopt these humane
qualities in us. The qualities of
humbleness, simplicity, kindness,
benevolence, gratitude and
forgiving nature. Only then we will
be considered to be true followers
of this greatest man!

17. These qualities will develop in us only
when we do love Allah intensely.
Allah Himself says:
ِ‫ُدَ ِهّ هَّلِ ُدَ ُدَ بُ ُدَ ُدَ ُح ّ بُل اّ هَّل‬
ّ‫واَلذنين آمناوا أشُد حًبل ا ِه‬
‫َلِل‬
“Those who believe are intense in
their love for Allah” (2: 165)

18. Following the glorious Prophet
Muhammad ‫ صلى اَلِل عليه وسل م‬in letter
ّ‫م‬
and spirit is an expression of our
intense love for Allah.

19. May Allah instil in us the love of
our Prophet ‫صلى اَلِل عليه وسل م‬
ّ‫م‬
in the true sense of the term.
Aameen
__________________________
Taken from the author’s
introduction to the inauguration of his new blog
on Seerah
www.muhammad-theideal.blogspot.com