ANGEL and MAN
THE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES OF THE FINAL PROPHET
 
Hazrat Bilâl, who had been subjected to prolonged torture merely because of what he believed in his heart, and who had been dragged through the streets of Mecca with a rope around his neck merely because he had said "God is one," used to climb up to the highest place next to the mosque and recite the call for prayers shouting "Allahu Akbar, Allâhu Akbar."
....O Lord! What an awesome grace, what a great blessing, what a great freedom!

....THE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES OF THE FINAL PROPHET
....During the time before Hazrat Muhammad Allah Almighty sent certain prophets to certain societies; these prophets communicated the divine commands only to those societies to which they had been sent, giving them good advice and summoning them only to belief.
....Some of these societies followed the advice of their prophets, which lived according to the divine commands, which worshipped God and obtained spiritual illumination and tastes became happy in this world as well as in the hereafter.
....But others did not pay heed to the advice of their prophets, they rebelled against the divine commands, and they strayed far from the path, falling into idolatry perished away.
....When the time of the last Prophet came!
....Allah Almighty declares:
...."And We have not sent thee (O Muhammad) save as a bringer of good tidings and a warner unto all mankind." (Saba, 28) Hazrat Muhammad, who escaped the oppression of the polytheists in Mecca, and who was welcomed by the people of Medina with great excitement, began performing the daily ritual prayers in the mosque along with his companions. And he educated his companions to be good Muslims in all respects.
....However, for Hazrat Muhammad, the final Prophet, all these were not enough. He was a prophet sent not merely for the people of Mecca or Medina, but for all of humanity, without discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, color, or language.
....It would not be appropriate for Hazrat Muhammad, who was sent to all of humanity, to give them the good tidings of divine mercy and to warn them against divine punishment, to seclude himself in o his mosque and give guidance only to the Muslims of Medina. He was the last Prophet, and no other prophet was to be sent after him.
....It was essential for the mission of Hazrat Muhammad, the final Prophet, to leave Medina, to call people to Islam, beginning from the neighboring tribes, and as far as any of the people he could reach.
....This was so because Allah Almighty declared:
...."O Messenger! Make known that which hath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord, for if thou do it not, thou wilt not have conveyed His message." (Maeda, 67)
....Of course Hazrat Muhammad had a comfortable life in Medina after the event of the Hegira (migration). However, he also had the duty to care about the Muslims outside Medina, since they also belonged to his community. So he could not retreat into seclusion in his house or in the mosque. Nor could he care about simply the Muslims in Medina and leave other people with their perverted beliefs and aberrant life styles. Otherwise he would have neglected his mission, and there is indeed a time when the prophets will also be questioned.
....This is why our beloved Prophet began to go outside of Medina along with his companions, at first visiting neighboring tribes and later on other tribes as well, in order to communicate to them the divine commands.
....During the Meccan period, it had been difficult for Hazrat Muhammad to continue his mission because of the pressure he had been subjected to by the polytheists of Mecca. During the Medinan period, he continued his mission, yet it still was not easy, due to the harsh conditions of the desert climate; despite all the hardships he never ceased to summon people to Islam.
....Hazrat Muhammad, did not own a private aircraft or an air-conditioned car, he competed against time on camel back.
....Drinking water that was hot from the sunlight, eating stale barley bread, he traveled through solitary deserts and strove day and night to carry Islam to the remotest corners.
....He went through many difficult times; sometimes he was hungry, sometimes he was thirsty, and sometimes he struggled against the polytheists, who did not understand him and attacked him.