I imagine weights of immense responsibility being put on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with this one verse:
يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ
“Oh Messenger, deliver all that has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not do so then you would have failed to deliver His message...” - Quran (5: 67)
What does a person do with such weights? A person of honor like our prophet would carry them, lift them with all his might, and carefully put them in their place. He fulfilled his duty. He did however have another option though. The verse clearly says that the other option was to not fulfill God’s message. But the existence of that option didn’t debilitate the Prophet from his mission. It made him work harder to get it done right. Talk about working under pressure.
Can you imagine him hearing this verse being recited out loud by his fellow companions? Or by his wife even? Or his children? Imagine that pressure. But that pressure kept him going to spread the message of God.
His wife Aisha is reported to have said that if there was one verse that the prophet would have wanted to hide from the Quran it would have been this one statement. Can you imagine how overwhelming this verse was on him?!
While failure was a possible outcome, Prophet Muhammad knew the only thing he could do to prevent failure was continue to work. And I believe that’s a lesson for us all: Do not allow the possibility of failure to stop you from persisting on what you’re working toward. As you keep pushing, the possibility of failure surely diminishes, and success becomes unquestionable.
Look at the legacy of Prophet Muhammad today and the mercy he has embedded into this world. Certainly, he has fulfilled the message, and we are witnesses to that fact.
يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ
“Oh Messenger, deliver all that has been revealed to you from your Lord, and if you do not do so then you would have failed to deliver His message...” - Quran (5: 67)
What does a person do with such weights? A person of honor like our prophet would carry them, lift them with all his might, and carefully put them in their place. He fulfilled his duty. He did however have another option though. The verse clearly says that the other option was to not fulfill God’s message. But the existence of that option didn’t debilitate the Prophet from his mission. It made him work harder to get it done right. Talk about working under pressure.
Can you imagine him hearing this verse being recited out loud by his fellow companions? Or by his wife even? Or his children? Imagine that pressure. But that pressure kept him going to spread the message of God.
His wife Aisha is reported to have said that if there was one verse that the prophet would have wanted to hide from the Quran it would have been this one statement. Can you imagine how overwhelming this verse was on him?!
While failure was a possible outcome, Prophet Muhammad knew the only thing he could do to prevent failure was continue to work. And I believe that’s a lesson for us all: Do not allow the possibility of failure to stop you from persisting on what you’re working toward. As you keep pushing, the possibility of failure surely diminishes, and success becomes unquestionable.
Look at the legacy of Prophet Muhammad today and the mercy he has embedded into this world. Certainly, he has fulfilled the message, and we are witnesses to that fact.
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