The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)

by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

He used to devote most of his time, and Ramadan in particular, to worship and meditate on the universe around him.

When he was forty, the peak of one’s life -- and it is said that this is the age when Prophets were always ordered to disclose their Message -- signs of his Prophethood began appearing on the horizons of his life. Among these signs were that stones in Makkah would greet him with salutations of peace (Salam). He would not have a dream except that it would become reality, as clear as dawn: this lasted for a period of six months. The period of Prophethood was 23 years, so this six-month period full of true visions constituted an integral part of the forty-six parts of Prophethood. In Ramadan, in his third year of solitude in the cave of Hira’, Allah’s Will desired His mercy to flow on earth and Muhammad (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was honored with Prophethood, and the light of Revelation burst upon him with some Verses of the Noble Qur’an.

The first initiation of revelation for Allah’s Messenger (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) assumed the form of true dreams that would strikingly come true all the time.

When the bewilderment diminished, the flags of truth were raised, Allah’s Messenger (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) knew for certain that he had become the Messenger of the Great Lord.