PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S LOVE FOR NON MOSLEMS
At a corner of
Madinah’s traditional market there was a Jew blind beggar. When somebody
approached him, he always said “My Brother, never approached Muhammad. He is a
crazy man, liar, and shaman. If you come to him, he will influence you”.
Every morning
Prophet Muhammad came to the beggar bringing meal and feeding him without a
word. He always did it although the beggar never stopped insulting him. It just didn’t happen
for the Prophet death.
One day Khalif
Abu Bakar visited his daughter A’isyah (Prophet Muhammad’s widow). He asked
her, “My Dear, are there my beloved Prophet’s activities I don’t do yet?”. A’isyah
answered, “Dear Father, You are the best follower of him. You did every single
activity of him but
one”. “What is it?” Khalif Abu Bakar asked. “Every morning Prophet
Muhammad always came to a corner of the traditional market bringing some meals
for a Jew blind beggar there”.
Next morning
Khalif Abu Bakar brought some meals and visited the Jew blind beggar. How
curious he was for finding the beggar kept insulting Prophet Muhammad with his
bad sentences. Why did Prophet Muhammad feed him continually?
Khalif Abu Bakar
sat beside the beggar and start putting the meal to his mouth. But the beggar
refused and shouted angrily, “Who are you?”
Khalif Abu Bakar
answered, “I am a man visits you every morning for giving you meal”. He tried
to make sure the beggar that he is the man the beggar wanted. But the beggar
didn’t believe because the man he wanted was smoother and more patient to feed him. “No! You
are not the man feeds me everyday” said the beggar. “If he comes here I don’t
find any trouble to hold and chew the meal. He always feeds me, but first he chews
the meal and feeds me with his own mouth”.
Khalif Abu Bakar
couldn’t stop his tears for listening Prophet Muhammad nice character. Prophet Muhammad
responded the beggar bad words with love. He feed a man kept insulting him by
feeding him with an amazing way.
Crying he said
to the beggar, “I am not the man feeds you every single day. I am just a friend
of his. He won’t come here anymore to give you the meal”.
The beggar suddenly
cried and asked, “What’s my mistake until he doesn’t want to visit me? Please
tell him my regret in order to he visits me anymore”.
“That great man
was died”, Khalif Abu Bakar said. “He had leaved this world and I am his
successor. I am Abu Bakar, a friend of Prophet Muhammad. The man feeds you every
day was Prophet
Muhammad”.
Listening Khalif’s
sentences makes the beggar cried more loudly. He was so sorry for it. “Is it true?
I always insulted him, but he was never angry to me. Even he visited me every day
and feed me with love. He is so noble”. Finally the beggar became a moslem. The honorable character
of Prophet Muhammad motivated him to do.
So let’s realize
that love often makes everything better. It’s not always easy, but we still
have to do. Don’t do it for yourself or for some purposes. Just do it for
Allah, because Prophet Muhammad did it. We must be brave to show that Islam is
the best. But moslem’s braveness doesn’t mean power or even angry. It means LOVE.
(El-Fath
Satria)