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Today is our Prophet Muhammad's birthday and we must remembered this event until end of time. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad S.A.W who was brings Islam into the world ,restored back everything that has been done by the human according to Allah's laws. Prophet Muhammad S.A.W shows us how beauty is Islam that can give us inner peace and outer peace to whole  society. 

We as the Muslim must be grateful as we were born into the world with Islam inside. But we must remember, although we are already muslims , we need to act as Muslims according to Islam's Laws that has been ordered to us by Allah S.W.T.

In today society, many of people claimed themselves as Muslims or Islam , but do they asked themselves , what have they done to make themselves as Islam? Are they follow all "Rukun Islam" that has been ordered to them?

I'm as a Muslim will try to improve myself from day to day and i would like to remind my Muslims's friends to remember what we've been told by Allah S.W.T. 

Till our last breath, we must remember that.

I would like to share an article that i got from Jakarta Post regarding our beloved Prophet Muhammad's Birthday. 

Enjoy the reading.

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Making Muhammad a role model

Donny Syofyan, Padang | Mon, 02/14/2011 9:55 AM | Opinion

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We are grateful that we will be able to commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). This is an event that will be remembered until the end of time, and one that will continue to inspire Muslims and the world, provided that Muslims emulate him and follow his teachings and conduct.

In a world faced with continuous turbulence, we recall Muhammad as an incomparable savior, one that managed to bring the world and all within it to peace and prosperity. His contribution in this matter can never be denied. This is indeed due to do his leadership style, which managed to save his followers by, among others, making people brothers in Islam regardless of their skin color or race.

If this leadership style is adopted, Muslims will never be in conflict or at war among themselves, as has happened in the Arab world. Their unity would grow stronger and prosperity would be easily secured.

Muhammad’s leadership and morals should be referred to as a lesson, as otherwise it is meaningless to only celebrate his birthday but ignore his teachings. Some of Muhammad’s exemplary character traits include patience, mercifulness and gratefulness.

His patience can be observed by how he controlled his temper, pain and sufferings from the Quraisy in his earliest mission of dakwah (propagation). In spite of strong opposition, the Prophet Muhammad remained patient and managed to spread Islam. Muhammad was also very forgiving and not someone who was vengeful. He did not harbor grievances despite the agony he was put through.

Although Muhammad was a compassionate ruler and spiritual leader, many do not know that he had an extraordinary sense of humor. Indeed, the Prophet laughed and joked.

The Prophet smiled often and would make jokes with members of his community. For example, when once an old woman came up to him and asked for paradise, he replied, “Old women do not enter paradise.” The woman started crying. As she started leaving the room, the Prophet, showing his subtle sense of humor, stopped her and said, “Old women will become young before entering heaven.”

On another occasion a man approached the Prophet and asked him for a camel ride. The Prophet said, “I would give you a camel’s child.” The man said, “O Messenger of Allah. What will I do with a camel’s child?” The Prophet smiled and said, “Is there any camel that is not the progeny of a camel?”

Seen from his complete characteristics, Michael H. Hart does not exaggerate in his classic book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History (1992 edition), saying that Muhammad is considered to have played a far more important role in the development of Islam than any figures of any other religions. The Prophet was responsible for both the dissemination of the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. He also played the key role in proselytizing the new faith and establishing the religious practices of Islam.

Beyond admiration, blasphemy had always been part of the history of Muhammad. Thicker books can be written on blasphemy committed by people, such as scholars of Orientalism, and other people who simply hated him. 

In 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the name of free speech. This sparked Muslim outrage and violent protests across the globe. In 2008 Serbian company BeoBooks ordered bookshops to withdraw a novel about the Prophet Muhammad’s love life that had already been halted by US publishers after protests. The company had 1,000 copies of the novel printed and sent out to bookshops, but ordered their recall under pressure from Islamic leaders.

It was not a wise move to publish an image of the Prophet with words he never uttered. The uncivilized behavior was clearly an insult to the revered leader. It was expected for Muslims to feel both sad and angry when such a great individual is reduced to a laughing stock and made a mockery of.

However, Muslims are advised not to react wildly to such destructive actions that would make them fall victim to the tactics and tricks of Islamphobic groups who will always try to incite anger and would like to see Muslims in chaos. The current attack on Ahmadis is actually not in line with the Prophet’s way of tackling tension and disparity.

Despite the feeling of unease and sadness, Muslims are reminded that Prophet Muhammad never taught his followers to hurt others. History has shown that the Prophet was neither reckless nor aggressive when handling such situations. He was known for being patient and calm in the face of insults and pain, never lowering himself to the same level as his enemies.

The more important question to answer is this: When all ceremonies for the traditional celebration of 
the Prophet’s birthday — which was not something that he himself taught — are over, will we retain the spirit of Muhammad by making him a role model?


The writer, a graduate of the University of Canberra, Australia, teaches at Andalas University, Padang.