Two bright aspects of the Prophet's (pbuh) eventful life
So let us concentrate our attention to two very important aspects of his eventful and chequered life. One of them is the holy Prophet's (pbuh) timely and pragmatic action for preservation of the holy Quran for the posterity and its authenticity.
According the author of the well-known book, "The Bible, the Quran and Science" Dr Maurice Bucaille, "Not a single Gospel was written down at the time of Jesus (they were written down long after his earthly mission had come to an end." Dr Bucaille further adds "the situation is very different for the Quran. As the revelation progressed, the Prophet (pbuh) and the believers following him recited the text by heart and it was also written down by the scribes in his following as and when they were being revealed from time to time for a long period of 22 years up to his death (610-632AD)."
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Mentionable, for the first record of all the 114 Suras (Chapters) and 6236 Ayats (verses) of the Quran extremely diverse materials like wooden tablets, leather, parchment, camel's scapula etc. were used during the lifetime of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh). Subsequently due to initiative of Hazrat Umar (RA), the future second Caliph, the first Caliph Hazrat Abu Baaqar (RA) issued an order to all the concerned persons to deposit all those diverse materials to Bibi Hafsa (RA) and she kept them under her safe custody. The third Caliph Hazrat Usman (RA), it may be stated, entrusted a commission of experts who knew the whole Quran by heart for recension of the scriptures and they were finally able to produce the holy Quran after a thorough and critical revision. The third Caliph Hazrat Usman (RA) sent copies of such recension to various centres of the Islamic empire including Istanbul and Tashkent.
One may now go there and see them with their naked eyes.
One may state with emphasis all the copies of the holy Quran bear the date, time and place of revelation of all the 114 Suras (Chapters) including part of the Suras. From the point of view of authenticity the holy Quran is certainly unique.
Now we may divert our attention to another very bright aspect of the eventful life of the Prophet (pbuh). And this is with regard to his love for humanity. At the time of establishment of the first Islamic republic in Medina a charter was executed which is known as the "Medina Charter". History records that this Charter is the first ever written constitution of the world on the basis of which a country was successfully governed by the holy Prophet (pbuh) some 1400 years ago from now.
Such a republic was established with the representatives from among the Muslims, Jews and idolaters. According to Clause 4 of the Charter the Muslims, Jews and the idolaters had the liberty to follow their respective religions, and no one would interfere in proper discharge of their respective religious duties and rites. The kind-hearted and considerate Prophet (SM) was not unmindful of the interests of the non-Muslims.