This describes the perfect compassion and mercy towards his community of God's Noble Messenger (Peace and blessings be upon him).'According to sound narrations, when at the terror of the resurrection everyone, even the prophets, will cry out for themselves, God's Noble Messenger will demonstrate his compassion by call­ing out: "My community! My community!"³

3.Bukliäri, TawhTd, 36; Tafslr, 17; Sura, 5; Fitan, 1; Muslim, Iman. 326,327; Tirmidlii, Qiyama, 10; Därimi, Muqaddima, 8.

So too, as is affirmed by those who disclose the realities, when he was born, his mother heard among his sup­plications the words: "My community! My commu­nity!" Then the whole story of his life, as well as the kindly conduct which he propagated demonstrate his perfect benevolence and clemency. Also, by evinc­ing an infinite need for the innumerable prayers of his community he showed a boundless compassion, for he showed that out of his perfect compassion he was concerned with the happiness of all of them. So you can understand how lacking in gratitude and conscience it is not to observe the practices (Sunna) of so kind and compassionate a leader.

While performing the universal, general duties of his prophethood (niibiivvet), God's Noble Messen­ger (Peace and blessings be upon him) showed great kindness in particular, minor matters. Superficially, his doing this appears incompatible with the supreme importance of prophethood and its func­tions. But in reality, such minor matters were the tips or samples of a chain which would be a means of fulfilling a universal and general function of pro­phethood. Therefore the greatest importance was given to the sample for the sake of the mighty chain.

For example, the extraordinary gentleness God's Noble Messenger (PBUH) showed towards Hasan and Husayn in their childhood, and the great impor­tance he gave them, was not only out of love, natu­ral kindness and family feeling; it was rather because they were each the tip of a luminous thread of the function of prophethood, and the source, sam­ple, and index of a community of great consequence that would receive the legacy of prophethood.