Muhammad dies June 8, 632 A.D. in Medina #16

Muhammad dies June 8, 632 A.D. in Medina

In the third month of the eleventh year of Hijra, Muhammad fell sick and layed in the house of his wife Ayisha in Medina.  The recent death of his infant son, Ibrahim weighed his spirits down, and the poison he had consumed at Khaibar still bothered him. A short time after returning from Medina there were signs of serious illness in him, and his mind became somewhat unhinged by fever.  During this time his faithful servant Abu Muwaihibah says that during a fit late at night he accompanied Muhammad to the cemetery called El-Bahia, where Muhammad asked forgiveness of the dead who were buried there.

While dying, Muhammad said; "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand". Reference: Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 2977

A little after midday of 8 June, 632, the 62 year old Muhammad stretched himself gently and was no more.  Later in the night his followers dug his grave on the same spot where he breathed his last.  They spread his red mantle on the bottom of the grave, and his body was lowered into it.  The grave was made level with the floor, and brickwork was added.  Muhammad's tomb is now close to the mosque of Medina.  Six mosques have stood on the same site as the present one.

The so-called "Prophet of Peace" who the Qur'an (Koran) commanded to fight 26 battles, and who planned no less than 86 expeditions against innocent people (only the battle of the Ditch was defensive) was no more.  He gave no prophecies and performed no miracles.  Within a century after Muhammad's death, Muslim armies had reached as far as India in the east and Spain in the west.  They gave two choices to the people they encountered; either convert to Islam or die.

“THE BLOODIEST STORY IN HISTORY”

Will Durant in his The Story of Civilisations, describes the Muslim invasion of India as “probably the bloodiest story in history.” The North Western region of India is called the Hindu Kush (“the slaughter of the Hindu”) as a reminder of the vast number of Hindu slaves who died while being marched across the Afghan Mountains to the Muslim slave markets in Central Asia. The Buddhists were also targeted for destruction. In AD 1193 Muhammad Khilji burned to the ground their famous library and the Buddhist stronghold of Bihar.

And History is now repeating itself.