there are many well-known proofs and evidences that Muhammad upon whom be peace was an authentic
prophet of God and there are many also that show us that Jesus also was sent by God as well upon
whom the peace and I was looking at this text the other day the Al-Muata Imam Malik called the
first formulation of Islamic law this is a very very earlier one of the earliest collections of
authentic Hadith in the world and it says on the back cover the Imam Malik was the great jurist
of Medina in in Arabia and founder of the Maliki school of Islamic law this book this work of his
is considered by many to be after the Quran the most important book in Islam and the Al-Muata as
it's called is a complete record of the legal and social parameters and practices of the original
Muslim community in Medina and the Hadith in here are considered to be highly reliable and
very very early indeed much earlier than the collections of Bukhari and Muslim for example
and those later collectors draw on these Hadith found in this work and there's this one Hadith
I came across in section 50 53 entitled greetings which I thought was absolutely beautiful
and it tells us a great deal um about the messenger of Allah and I just wanted to read it to
you and it says here um and there's a bit here that tells you that who about the isnad basically
who received the uh the Hadith and passed it on to so and so I won't I won't recite that you can
um see it for yourself in the book um he says Malik recounts that the messenger of Allah may
Allah bless him and grant him peace was sitting in the mosque this would be in Medina of course
the mosque with some people when three people came in so you've got to imagine the scene
three people came into the mosque two of them came towards the messenger of Allah and one went away
when the two stopped at the Assembly of the messenger of Allah they gave the greeting one
of them saw a gap in the circle and sat in it the other sat down behind the circle the third turned
away and left we exited the mosque I assume when the messenger of Allah finished he said shall
I tell you about three people one of them sought shelter with Allah so Allah gave him shelter
the other was shy so Allah was shy to him the other turned away so Allah turned away from him
end quote that's the Hadith what an extraordinary story it's difficult to know what to make of it
but clearly something very deep there's a great spiritual lesson here that the prophet who just
saw three individuals as walking into two stayed one left was able to penetrate beyond the apparent
and see the hidden motives the hidden realities of these three people and also the response of Allah
himself to these people so one of them came in and then left so how do you says so Allah turned
away from him another was shy so Allah was shy to him and the other of course um came right in
and sat in the circle in the gathering itself and so Allah gave him Shelton's extraordinary insight
into the heart the human heart that the prophet had and the heart's relationship with God and
how our behavior affects our relationship with God for good or not so good and I thought that of
a beautiful snapshot or what I mean imagine living spending time in the presence of the messenger of
Allah peace be upon him it also reminds me of some stories even in the Christian gospels we
have now where Jesus upon him be peace had incredible insight into the hearts of men and
often says that in the gospels and I can quite believe that that was authentic and true even
though much else in the gospels may or may not be reliable that's a different subject of course
so just extraordinary human being he's not like the rest of us saying not like me with this
penetrating spiritual insight into the condition of our hearts and how they um and how God responds
to us um I just wanted to share that seemingly uh little Hadith and I thought it was just a window
into the authenticity of the Prophet himself and these little details these indicators persuaded
me uh once upon a time and still do that Muhammad is a prophet an authentic prophet of God because
here is a man clearly endued with extraordinary powers by the grace of God to understand the
Unseen and the human heart alhamdulillah anyway I just wanted to share that with you till next time