Bearing in mind Muhammad's
commission (P.B.U.H.) to the whole of mankind as a prophet and
a messenger, it will incur that his principal mission would be:
the demonstration of Allah's religion and the interpretation of
His descended holy Quran through his honorable legal deeds
which we have confirmed their being a practical replica of what
the verses of the Quran meant comprehensively and in
detail.
But this does not prevent the lucky people
from meeting their secular and religious needs altogether as
being a necessity for them to contain both jointly to a degree
which can make them appreciate what is religious and what is a
worldly pleasure.
And this, in fact, necessitated
the one who wants to harmonize in practice between what is
spiritual and what is practical in common life and rather
necessitated to be awarded the required acceptability which
could enable him to organize his affairs in a way that would
liquidate the rising conflict of interests and the
inevitability of intersection between the
people.
This acceptability is but a state of
purification and a heavenly qualitative choice in selecting the
one who is the best among them and the most benevolent through
a number of qualities such as being endowed with: good manners,
moral values and normal behavior and the traits of his family
which should accord with what is nowadays called: the
instinctive and hereditary aptitude for rendering those values
and morals acceptable in addition to other praiseworthy merits
and traits.
Based on such criteria, the
Prophet, has been the chosen, the most preferable one to whom
Allah, the Almighty, has given the right to administer the
people and organize their living affairs, beginning with the
necessity of paying him absolute obedience by considering-his
obedience-as obedience to Allah and this fact is confirmed in
the holy Quran:
"He who obeys the Messenger
(Muhammad) has indeed obeyed Allah, but he who turns away, then
we have not sent you (O Muhammad) as a watcher over them."
(Al-Nisa: 80) that is, for he doesn't speak out of his passion
and verily, his speech is but the speech of Allah, the
Almighty: "Nor does he speak of (his own) desire. It is only a
Revelation revealed."(Al-Najm: 3- 4).
And since the noble Prophet
(P.B.U.H.) has been the Seal of all prophets, their purest and
their most refined character in reforming-mankind-the whole of
mankind-and that his legislature is the most permanent and the
most durable of all religions, it, required to be, owing to
that, an ideal pattern-a typical model in application-that is
to say: a Guiding Hand-which can push the world forward towards
ways happiness in both abodes via his application of the
heavenly theses on earth amongst which is the building up of a
Muslim Society in accordance with highly constitutional bonds
responding to what was descended in his holy Quran at a time
when the noble Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was the Messenger of Allah
and His warner to the whole of the worlds, went on
establishing-by order of his Lord-a spiritual building for them
in a disciplined manner through constructing a society whose
government stems from divine rules and heavenly
judgements-other than that which they used to refer to during
the pre-Islamic rule when conflicts were steadily arising
between the tribes; therefore, he became their leader, their
chieftain and their top guardian especially, his words, deeds
an decisions were all descending from Allah, the Glorified even
though some of their affairs, related to their domestic affairs
or perhaps, their practical life items.
For all this, he deserved to be
their supreme authority in terms of their secular life and the
life of the Hereafter altogether.
The Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) started
with the process of changing the society and reforming its
defective conditions in the same manner that Allah, the
Almighty has started with him.
Allah has given him power to rehabilitate
them by qualifying him to undertake the task successfully,
beginning with making them behave properly and organize their
living conditions to get to managing them as a society-having a
government, an army and a political system because of his being
the higher executive authority and the one who could draw up to
them the general features of their political affairs, provide
for them its requirements and finally, explain to them all that
which can transfer them from nomad life into a civilized
environment.
This indeed totally differs from the
nomadic and backward society amidst an absolute acceptance of
the overwhelming masses of the Muslims who ought to put in mind
his being commissioned by the Lord, the Exalted, to them in
addition to his infallibility which necessitates that all his
theses revolve around the circle of his being absolutely right
and that people accept them as totally right and be taken for
granted.
On this basis, people ought to
have been content with him and ought to have given a pledge of
allegiance to him to the extent that he be more favorable than
themselves, particularly, after being trusted on their religion
and that he is more worthy of being trusted on their worldly
life in its spectra of dimensions as well.
Preferentiality Exposes
Itself
Verily, Allah's selectivity
with regard to His Prophet's commission (P.B.U.H.) to people as
a prophet and a messenger has been owing to his being the most
understanding, the most preferable, the most pious and the most
daring character together with other attributes: some of which
are associated with the laws of heritage, progeny and the
purity of birth; without which, he will lose the justification
of heading the spiritual and practical chieftainship over the
people.
Since Muhammad, the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) was
the most preferable one, it would be illogical to prefer the
"favorable" one over the "most favorable" one and the "perfect"
one over the "most perfect" lest the proof loses its power and
impact in the eyes of all especially when we know that his
acceptance demands the approval of the whole human masses as
that requires the availability of the preferable
characteristics and granting the priority of his status,
especially the overwhelming majority of the people who are
unable to appoint the most preferable one at the time when
other human groups convene joint covenants through which they
can establish peaceful coexisting conditions via their search
for (the most preferable one) and here comes the Divine
Fairness which provides all that which makes Muhammad
(P.B.U.H.) that most preferable person in the whole human
society…the whole human society.
And there may happen to be some
positive qualities in one person, other than the person of the
Prophet (P.B.U.H.) not exclusively restricted to him as in
someone who is characterized as being qualified to manage a
Muslim Society as far as that living system of society is
concerned financially, economically and socially and perhaps
religiously as well.
But there can be no guarantee as it can
maintain him from the pitfalls of prestige and the recurrent
people's need for him in all of their requirements in a way
that it can grow in him the sense of "egoism" but that which is
termed as "infallibility" with which Allah, the Almighty, has
kept him safe from slips and wrongs and errors and enriched him
with protective valves which could grant him the preservation
of valid attitudes and rather increased in them their trust him
and raised in them the tide of their acceptance of
him.
Building upon this big advantage of
"preferentiality", Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) has abundantly got more
than one authority in hand (with no need to separate the three
common authorities as "separation" has a common phenomenon as
it occurs now in man-made systems) but rather remained
acceptable by the people as a result of the availability of the
guarantees which keep safe and secure all these properties
which he enjoys as an infallible prophet and as a leader
containing all the details of the heavenly constitution" the
holy Quran" with all its sub-titles, origins and principles
that relate to it especially, those which have lots to do with
the rights and duties of the people; besides his ability to
convince people about the necessity of showing absolute
obedience to the tasks of which they are in charge as well as
paying due respect to their rights and organizing their
interests via his honorable common tools of the so-called "
Al-Sunna Al-Nabawiya." i.e. the prophetic legal deeds.