Five Distinctions
Granted to the Holy Prophet
Narrated by Jābir, Allāh be pleased with him: The
Prophet of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be on him)
said: “I have been granted five distinctions which
none of the Prophets was granted before me.
Firstly, I have been reinforced with awe
extending as far as a month’s journey, secondly
the entire earth has been made for me a
mosque and a means of purity, thirdly, the
booty of war has been made lawful for me; it
was never made lawful before me; fourthly, I
have been granted the honor of intercession
with the Lord and fifthly, while Prophets before
me were commissioned to their particular
people, I have been sent to the entire
mankind.”
(Bukhārī)
Explanatory Note
In this Ḥadīth our Chief (may my life be dedicated to his
service) has detailed five distinctions granted to him
exclusively which go to show his exalted station and the
abounding mercy of Allāh the Excellent on him.
His first distinction is the divine gift of awe extending to
as far as a month’s journey. [The] history of Islām furnishes
strong supporting evidence showing how notwithstanding
his apparently slight physical frame and unostentatious
living, an enemy would tremble in awe before him, surely a
God-given gift. Even it so happened on many occasions that
the enemy planned to attack Medina and as the Holy Prophet
(peace of Allāh be on him and His blessings) sallied forth
with a small group of companions, to meet him, he (the
enemy) fled on the first alarm. Again when the Holy Prophet
(peace of Allāh be on him and His blessings) addressed a
letter to the Roman Caesar inviting him to accept Islām and
the Caesar learnt further details about him he exclaimed,
“If I could go and pay obeisance to this
Messenger of Allāh, I would indeed consider it
a great honor if he permitted me to wash his
feet.”
The second distinction of the Holy Prophet is that the
entire earth has been made a mosque for him. As a result of
this, a Muslim can offer Prayers anywhere as and when the
time for his Prayer comes and he does not require a special
place for worship like followers of other faiths. This was
necessary in order to facilitate the extensive campaign of the
Muslims to carry the message of Islām all over the world.
Similarly, the earth was made for him the means of
purification. A minor aspect of this is the fact that in the
event of non-availability of water, a Muslim can perform
Tayammum in place of Wuḍū. This combination of water
and earth is in keeping with the creation of Adam who was
created, according to Qur’ānic idiom, out of moist earth.
His third distinction is that, as against the laws of earlier
religions, which required the war booty to be burnt, the
Islāmic law allowed the Holy Prophet to use the booty that
fell in his hands, as lawful. The wisdom underlying this was
firstly to stop this needless wastage of national wealth, and
secondly to teach aggressors the lesson that if they did not
desist from oppressing others, their own wealth would be
taken away from them and given to the oppressed; and
thirdly to provide the weak among Muslims with a source of
strength in the Islāmic defensive wars.
The fourth distinction of the Prophet is the grant to him
of the highest office of intercession. Shafā‘at literally means
‘mate’ or ‘like,’ and according to the idiom too it does not
mean common prayer. Instead it signifies the special office
held by a favorite of God by virtue of his dual role, on the one
hand, of close contact with God and on the other of his near
association with men. He is entitled to intercede with the
Lord. The gist of this intercession would run as follows: “O
God, in the name of your past favors to me and my heartfelt
solicitude for the good of your creatures (or some particular
individual from amongst them), I beg and pray that have
mercy on your poor frail creatures and grant them your
forgiveness,” urging, on the one hand, the plea of his special
contact with Him and on the other the heartfelt solicitude for
the welfare of His creatures (or for that matter a particular
person), begging thereby of Him mercy for His frail creatures
and His forgiveness. In this connection, the Holy Prophet
(may peace of Allāh and His blessings be on him) says, in
another Ḥadīth that when, on the day of Judgment, the
people will be seized with extreme panic and consternation,
despairing of all others, they will ultimately turn to him, and
then, he will intercede for them with God, and that, his
intercession will be accepted.
The fifth destination of the Holy Prophet is that whereas
the former prophets were sent to particular peoples for
particular periods of time, he was raised for the entire world,
for all peoples and for all times. This is a special
characteristic and a great distinction indeed. The result was
that his God-granted mission extended to every people, to
every country and to every age and he was declared the
perfect and Perfected manifestation of God. In other words,
it meant that as God of the entire world is One, through His
appointment, there was likewise one prophet for the entire
mankind.
Allāh! Bless Muḥammad and grant him and his offspring
peace.

Gentle man tell the whole world about the beauty of your own prophet, if you are sincere

This is a beautiful piece ma sha Allah.

BUt Op should modify it to make it more readable.