كلّ نبيّ في هذا الباب قرأتَ قصّته بعد أن انتهت، مكتوبةً في سورة. أمّا هذه القصة فقد كان القرآن ينزل فيها وهي تحدث: في يوم الحرب، وفي يوم الحزن، وفي اليوم الذي ظُلم فيه إنسان. فما الفرق الذي يصنعه ذلك؟
وُلد محمد ﷺ في مكة عام الفيل، يتيمًا: مات أبوه قبل أن يُولد، وماتت أمّه وهو صغير. ونشأ بين قومه حتى صاروا يسمّونه «الصادق الأمين» قبل أن يُبعث بسنين — وهم أنفسهم الذين كذّبوه بعد ذلك، لا لأنهم يظنّونه كاذبًا، بل لأن ما جاء به كان ثقيلًا عليهم. ثم نزل عليه الوحي في غار حراء وهو ابن أربعين سنة: ﴿اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ﴾.
وهنا يظهر الفرق بين قصّته وقصص من قبله. أنبياء هذا الباب قرأتَ أخبارهم بعد أن تمّت. أمّا القرآن مع النبي ﷺ فكان ينزل مع الحدث نفسه وهو يقع. نزلت آيات يوم بدر، وآيات بعد أُحُد تشرح للناس ما الذي جرى ولماذا، وآيات يوم الأحزاب والمدينة محاصرة، وآيات تبرّئ مظلومًا من تهمة قِيلت فيه، وآيات فيها عتابٌ للنبي ﷺ نفسه: ﴿عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ * أَن جَاءَهُ الْأَعْمَىٰ﴾. وهو الذي كان يبلّغها للناس بنفسه.
وهذه هي اللحظة التي ينبغي أن تقف عندها طويلًا. رجلٌ يأتيه كتاب من ربّه، وفيه عتابٌ له هو، فيقرؤه على الناس كما هو ولا يحذف منه حرفًا. ﴿وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ * لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ﴾. ولو كان الكتاب من عنده لحذف منه ما يعاتبه، ولزاد فيه ما يريحه ويرفعه. لكنه بلّغه كلّه: ما له وما عليه. وهذا وحده جوابٌ لمن سأل يومًا: من أين جاء هذا القرآن؟
وفي ثلاث وعشرين سنة تمّ الدين، ونزل في آخرها: ﴿الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا﴾. ثم مات النبي ﷺ ولم يترك ذهبًا ولا فضّة ولا قصرًا؛ ترك هذا الكتاب الذي تقرؤه أنت اليوم بحروفه نفسها لم تتغيّر، وترك سيرةً تجد تفصيلها في قسم السيرة في هذا الموقع، محطّةً محطّة وقصّةً قصّة، مع مصدر كل واحدة منها.
يقول الله تعالى واصفاً رسالة نبينا الكريم: {وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ}. أي أن رسالته جاءت لتنشر الخير والسلام والرحمة لكل الناس.
أصدق دليل على صدق الرسالة أن صاحبها بلّغ ما عليه كما بلّغ ما له.
عُرف النبي ﷺ بـ«الصادق الأمين» قبل أن يُبعث بسنين، ومن قومه أنفسهم. فبماذا يعرفك أصحابك اليوم؟ وهل يرضيك ما يقولونه عنك؟
افتح اليوم قسم السيرة في هذا الموقع، واقرأ منه قصّة واحدة، ثم احكِها لأحد في بيتك.
القرآن الكريم في مواضع، وكتب السيرة المعتمدة
ما في القرآن من خبره — كالإسراء في سورة الإسراء وحادثة الفيل في سورة الفيل — بنص الآيات، وباقي تفاصيل السيرة من كتب السيرة المعتمدة. وقسم السيرة في الموقع يذكر مصدر كل قصة على حدة.
Every prophet in this chapter you read about after his story had ended, written down in a surah. But this story had the Quran coming down while it was happening: on the day of a battle, on a day of grief, on the day someone was wronged. What difference does that make?
Muhammad was born in Mecca in the Year of the Elephant, an orphan: his father died before he was born, and his mother died while he was small. He grew up among his people until they called him "the truthful, the trustworthy," years before he was sent — and those same people denied him afterwards, not because they thought him a liar, but because what he brought was heavy on them. Then revelation came to him in the cave of Hira when he was forty: {Recite in the name of your Lord who created.}
Here is what separates his story from those before it. The prophets of this chapter you read about once their accounts were complete. But with the Prophet, the Quran came down alongside the event itself as it happened. Verses came down on the day of Badr; verses after Uhud explaining to people what had happened and why; verses during the Confederates while Madinah was under siege; verses clearing someone wrongly accused; and verses containing a reproach of the Prophet himself: {He frowned and turned away, because the blind man came to him.} And he was the one who conveyed them to people.
This is the moment to stop at for a long while. A man receives a book from his Lord, and in it is a reproach of himself — and he recites it to people exactly as it is, without cutting a letter. {And if he had made up about Us some sayings, We would have seized him by the right hand.} Had the book been his own, he would have removed what reproached him and added what would comfort and elevate him. Instead he delivered all of it: what was for him and what was against him. That alone is an answer to anyone who ever asked where this Quran came from.
In twenty-three years the religion was completed, and near the end came: {This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favour upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion.} Then the Prophet died and left behind no gold, no silver and no palace. He left this Book, which you read today in the very same letters, unchanged; and he left a life whose details you will find in the Seerah section of this site, station by station and story by story, each with its source.
The truest proof that a message is genuine is that the one carrying it conveyed what was against him as fully as what was for him.
The Prophet was known as "the truthful, the trustworthy" years before he was sent — and by his own people. What do your friends know you for today? And are you happy with it?
Open the Seerah section of this site today, read one story from it, and then tell it to someone at home.
The Quran in several places, and the established Seerah literature
What the Quran tells of him — the night journey in Surah Al-Isra, the elephant in Surah Al-Fil — is in the verses; the rest comes from the established Seerah literature. The Seerah section of this site cites a source for each story separately.