Guillaume--Life of Muhammad.pdf - Radical Truth

The Lzfe of l\luhammad
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have those who tollm\' me. j n. -' b k 'Have you surrendered? For
to the gentile (converts) who h~~'~ ~o i O~tl" uided and if they turn their
if thev have surrendered they wd e r gl' y g h e And God sees
backs'" it is only incumbent on thee to de lver t e messag .
(His) servants.'
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revelatIOns an, I e I 'S ' 0 God possessor of sovereignty, I.e,
J'ustice' as far as the wores, ,- ay, 1 d mong them 'Thou
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gn'est sovereignty a v. d b h m l'hou wilt· in Thy hand IS
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good/ i.e. there IS n~ ?od but . ee. a d O\ver 'Thou causest the night
but Th~u can do thIs In th~ :naJe~trh;an~ bri;gest forth the living from
t o pass mto day and the day mto g h 'And 'fhou nurf
h r'" 'bv t at power,
the dead and the dead rom t g C I\.m ,.,;:. '1 as power to do that but
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Thou; I.e. thoug 1 gave "th I ad healing the sick, creatmg
they say that he is God ~uch as ralsmg I ~ta~e him thereby a sign to men
birds of clay, and declanng th~~~~:';~vherewithI sent him to his people,
and a confirmatIon of hIS prop I'" hh 1d from him such as appomt-
M . t and power WIt e
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ing kings by a prophetIc comma; an lth day into night and bringing
making the night to pass m~o ~y:nd defrom the living and nnrturing
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affair of 'Imran's \vifc and ho\\' sffhe ~al ;.~ Y havdvo\ved him and made
in my womb as a consecrated a enng, l.e. 1
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The Life of "~luhammad
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him entirely devoted to God's service subservient to no worldly interest.
'Accept (him) from me. Thou art the Seer the Knower. And \vhen she
\vas delivered of him she said: 0 my Lord, I have given birth to a fcmale~
and God knew best of \\'hat she \vas delivercd~and the male is not as the
female,' i.e. the two were not the same when I vowed her to thee as a
consecrated offering, 'I have called her Mary and I put her in Thy keeping
and her offspring from Satan the damned.' God said; 'And her Lord
accepted her \vith kindly acceptance and made her grow up to a goodly
growth and made Zachariah her guardian' after her father and mother
were dead (3 28),
He mentions that she \vas an orphan and tells of her and Zachariah and
what he prayed for and what He gave him \vhen He bestO\ved on him
Ya1)ya. Then He mentions ~Iary and how the angels said to her, '0 l\Iary,
God hath chosen thee and purified thee and chosen thee above the WOmen
of the worlds, 0 Mary, be ohedient to Thy Lord and prostrate thyself and
bo\v with those that bO\v', saying, 'That is some of the tidings of things
hidden. \Vc reveal it to thee. Thou Wast not present with them,' i,e. thou
wast not with them 'when they threw their aJ:rows to know which of them
should be the guardian of 1\'1ary' (3 2
9).
Later her guardian \\'as Jurayj, the ascetic, a carp,enter of B. Isra'll. The
arrow came out for him so he took her, Zachariah having been her guardian
heretofore. A grievous famine befell B. Isra'I1 and Zachariah was unable
to support her so they cast lots to see who should be her guardian and the
lot fell on Jura}]' the ascetic and he became her guardian. 'And thou wast
not with them \vhen they disputed,' i.e. about her. He tells him about
what they concealed from him though they knew it to prove his prophcthood
and as an argument against them by telling them what they had concealed
from him.
Then He said: 'Then the angels said: 0 .\Iary, God giveth thee good
tidings of a word from Him whoscnam,e is the :\Tessiah Jesus, Son of 2\Iary,'
i.e. thus was his affair not as you say concerning him, 'illustrious in this
world and the next,' i.e, with God 'and of those who are brought near. 1
He will speak to men in his cradle and as a grown man, and he is of the
righteous ones,' telling them of the phases of life through \vhich he would
pass like the other sons of Adam in their lives young and old, although God
marked him out by speech in his cradle as a sign of his prophethood and
to show mankind where his pO\ver lay. 'She said, 0 my Lord, how can
I have a child when no man hath touched me.' He said: Thus (it will be)
God creates what He will,' i,e. He does what I-Ie wishes, and creates what
He wills of mortal or non-mortal. "Vhen He decrees a thing He merely
says to it Be' of what He wills and how He wills 'And it is' as I-Ie wishes.
Then He tells her of His intention in regard to him: 'And He will teach
him the book and the wisdom and the Torah' \\-hieh had been with them
from the time of 1\10scs before him 'and the Gospel,' another book which
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