Prophet As a Symbol
(Fawad ahmed, Bahawal Pur)
Quran states about Prophet (Pbuh) that there is
a praiseworthymodel in Prophet (Pbuh) for you. This verse is another answer to a basic need which man needs a model in guidance way.Muslims living in the
very early period of the Islam, had visited the Prophet (Pbuh); so they could understand how Prophet could be a model. When
they saw the Prophet (Pbuh) was a man like them with all the human characteristics, so they were able to take pattern from
him by the attention to his identical and practical way.
When we take distance from the period of that Hazrat, we just face with the way
quoted from that Hazrat. The question is, how the way of that Hazrat, who lived
in 1400 years ago, could be a model for modern people? And what a Muslim must do
when he obeys Hazrat-e-Mohammad (Pbuh) in his private and social behaviors,
according to Quran. And how we can consider Prophet (Pbuh) as an acceptable
symbol for a modern man?