PROPHET MUHAMMAD Peace be upon him p2

PROPHET MUHAMMAD Peace be upon him p2
 

Until he reached thirty years of age, Muhammad was almost a stranger to the outside world. Since the death of
 his grandfather, authority in Mecca was divided among the ten senators who constituted the governing body of
 the Arabian Commonwealth. There was no such accord among them as to ensure the safety of individual rights
 and property. Though family relations afforded some degree of protection to citizens, yet strangers
 were frequently exposed to persecution and oppression. In many cases they were robbed, not only of their goods,
 but even of their wives and daughters. At the instigation of the faithful Muhammad, an old league called the
Federation of Fudul, i.e.  favors was revived with the object of repressing lawlessness and defending every
weak individual   whether Meccan or stranger, free or slave   against any wrong or oppression to which he might
be the victim within the territories of Mecca.
When Muhammad reached thirty five years, he settled by his judgment a grave dispute, which threatened to plunge
the whole of Arabia into a fresh series of her oft recurring wars. In rebuilding the Sacred House of the Kaba in A.
D. 605, the question arose as to who should have the honor of raising the black stone, the most holy relic of
 that House, into its proper place. Each tribe claimed that honor. The senior citizen advised the disputants to
 accept for their arbitrator the first man to enter from a certain gate. The proposal was agreed upon, and the
 first man who entered the gate was Muhammad  Al Ameen. His advice satisfied all the contending parties.
He ordered the stone to be placed on a piece of cloth and each tribe to share the honor of lifting it up
by taking hold of a part of the cloth. The stone was thus deposited in its place, and the rebuilding of the
 House was completed without further interruption.
It is related that, about this time, a certain Usman, Ibn Huwairith, supported by Byzantine gold, made an
 attempt to convert the territory of Hijaz into a Roman dependency, but the attempt failed, chiefly through
the instrumentality of Muhammad.
These are nearly all the public acts related by historians in which Muhammad took part in the first fifteen
years of his marriage to Khadijah. As for his private life he is described to have been ever helpful to the
needy and the helpless. His uncle Abu Talib had fallen into distress through his endeavors to maintain the old
position of his family. Muhammad, being rather rich at this time by his alliance with Khadijah, tried to discharge
part of the debt of gratitude and obligation which he owed to his uncle by undertaking the bringing up
 and education of his son  Ali. A year later he adopted  Akil, another of his uncles sons.