SOME EXAMPLES OF THE PROPHET’S, S.A.W.S., CONCILIATORY CONDUCT

Abstract

If we examine the time of Revelation, we ll notice that it has been completed during the period when the Prophet s, s.a.w.s, was between the ages of forty-five and sixty-three. Allah s wisdom lies in the fact that, during that particular period of his life, no one could attribute him with youthful euphoria and imprudence or senility and physical and intellectual weakness. It is exactly from this fact that all the, Wahyyinspired, Prophet s wisdom, insight, ingenuousness and sagacity come from. Allah Himself tells us that, with the Qur an (Kitab) he also gave wisdom (Hikmat) to the Prophet: ... To you Allah reveals the Book and wisdom and teaches you that you did not know. , Allah s blessing to you is great! , ...He sent out to the unlettered the Prophet, from amongst hem, to tell them His verses and to cleanse them and to teach them the Book and wisdom, for before they were surely in a clear error... . Most of the Islamic scholars hold that this wisdom comprises the entire Prophet s, s.a.w.s., Sunna. The Prophet, s.a.w.s, exceptionally exhibits this wisdom, so he is not hasty, incautious, does not act irrationally or inflexibly. To the contrary, there are numerous examples of the Prophet’s gradualness, flexibility, approachableness, considerateness and foresight, from which we must learn every time; the way he behaved towards the Bedouin, who urinated in the mosque, his behavior towards Muaz, r.a., when he forbade him to spread the hadith, his not punishing those who do not commit Shirk, his giving up on putting Ka’ba back on the Ibrahim’s foundations, his accepting the allegiance from the Sekif tribe even though they conditioned it on not paying the Zakah and not joining in the Jihad efforts, his not identifying the Munafik in public. Through spending time with the Prophet, s.a.w.s, who showed them in practice the way to present Islam to the masses, his ashab gained the same feeling for conciliatory approach. They often advised others: “Talk to the people on their own intellectual level; would you rather they argue about lies with Allah and His Prophet!?” It is up to us to learn from these examples and beautify our lives with wisdom and insight.