The Lessons And Examples that can be learned from his life

The Lessons And Examples that can be learned from his life:

If the believer is confident in his spiritual crusade, he will not practice his actions secretly, instead he will make them public; and he will not pay attention to the enemies of his call if he is sure that he can surmount them, as Umar (radiallahu 'anhu) did in his emigration. Such attitude, that of being strong enough coupled with the potency of his conviction will frighten Allahs enemies and put fear in their hearts. There is no doubt that had he Makkahns united, they could have beaten Umar (radiallahu 'anhu), but Umar's bravery put fear in the soul of each and everyone of his enemies. Each was afraid that if he were to attempt in stopping Umar (radiallahu 'anhu), his mother would then be bereaved of him, and the evildoers are misers in terms of giving up their lives as they greatly valued their existence in the world.

When the wrongdoers give up hope of resisting the call for truth and reform, and when the believers escape from their hands to become free from injustice, such people scout all means to kill the reformer. This is with the hope that by killing him, they would get rid of the person and and thus terminate his movement. This is the mentality of the evil enemies of reform in every epoch. We have seen and witnessed similar actions in our own lives.


The truthful soldier, who is sincere to the movement, is willing to sacrifice his life in order to protect his leader. In the safety of the leader is the safety of the movement itself. And in his death follows its defeat, destruction, weakness and disintegration. Ali's (radiallahu 'anhu) heroism on the night of the Prophet's emigration, may Allah be pleased with him, sleeping in the Prophet's bed and sacrificing his own life for that of the Messenger's (peace be upon him), is a spark of the bravery within him. It was not a remote possibility for the swords of the young men of the Quraysh to fall upon his head in lieu of his gesture of covering-up for the Messenger's (peace be upon him) escape. Ali (radiallahu 'anhu) did not mind that for it was enough for him that Allah's Messenger, the Prophet of the nation (peace be upon him) and leader of the movement, escapes unscathed for the benefit of Islam and to the dismay of its enemies.

The fact that the polytheists trusted Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) with their possessions, even though they were fighting against him and insisting upon his death, is an evidence that the enemies of the mission, deep in their hearts, believed in the righteousness, honesty, and nobility of the reformer. They believed that he was better off than them in his behavior and that his heart was purer than theirs. But the insensitivity or indifference of their hearts, their stubbornness, and their resolute grip towards their errant customs and beliefs aptly known as resistance to change lured them to fight against him, harm him and finally conspire to kill him.

The Prophet's grave

Source: http://www.pbuh.us