The savior is born
 

In such a dark age and in such benighted country a man is born. His parents die when he is very young and a few years later the sad demise of his grandfather occurs. Consequently, he is deprived even of that scant training and upbringing which an Arab child of his time could get. In his boyhood he tends flocks of sheep and goats in the company of Bedouin boys. When of age, he takes to commerce. All his associations and all his dealings are with the Arabs alone, whose condition has just been described. 

He is completely illiterate and unschooled. He never gets the chance to sit in the company of learned men, for such men were non-existing in Arabia. He does have a few opportunities to go out of his country, but those journeys are confined to Syria and are nothing more than the usual business trips undertaken by the Arab trade caravans. These journeys cannot have given him those conceptions and principles of religion, ethics, culture and civilization: they were non-existing in the world of those days. And they cannot have created that sublime and perfect human character which was nowhere to be found in those days. 

This noble man is totally different from the people among whom he is born and passes his youth and early manhood and attains finally his full stature. Even his worst opponents never accuse him of telling a lie. The entire nation calls him 'Al-Amin' (the Truthful and the Trustworthy). Even his opponents deposit their valuable belongings with him for safe custody. 

He is the embodiment of modesty in the mids of a society which immodest to the core. His people were uncouth, uncultured and unclean, but he personifies the highest culture and most refined aesthetic outlook. 

Surrounded on all sides by cruelty, he himself has a hearth overflowing with the milk of human kindness. He helps orphans and widows. He is hospitable to travelers. He harms no one; rather, he suffers hardship for others' sakes. Brought up in an idolatrous race, he regards nothing in the heavens and the earth worth worshipping except the One True God. He does not bow before any created thing and does not partake of the offerings made to idols, even in his childhood. 

 

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