Ar Raheeq Al Makhtum [The Sealed Nectar] BY: Saifur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri 1

CONTENTS:

Location and nature of Arab Tribes

Location of the Arabs

Arab Tribes

Rulership and Princeship among the Arabs

Rulership in Yemen
Rulership in Heerah
Rulership in Geographical Syria

Rulership in Hijaz
The Reasons of this war have been illustrated in three versions
Rulership in Pan
-Arabia
The political situation

Religions of the Arabs

The Religious situation

Aspects of Pre
-Islamic Arabian Society
Social life of the Arabs

The Economic Situation

The Lineage and Family of Muhammad (Peace be upon him)

The prophetic Family

Muhammad’s Birth and Forty years prior Prophethood
His Birth

Babyhood
Back to his passionate Mother
To His compassionate Grandfather

Bahira, the Monk
The Sacrilegious wars
Al-Fudoul confederacy
Muhammad
’s Early Job
His Marriage to Khadijah
Rebuilding Al-Ka‘bah and the Arbitration Issue
A Rapid Review of Muhammad
’s Biography before commissioning of the Prophethood

In the Shade of the Message and Prophethood
In the Cave of Hira
’
Gabriel brings down the Revelation
Interruption of Revelation
Once more, Gabriel brings Allah’s Revelation
Some details pertinent to the successive stages of Revelation
Proclaiming Allah, the All
-High; and the Immediate Constituents

Phases and stages of the call


The First Stage
Strife in the Way of the Call

Three years of Secret Call

The Early Converts

As
-Salat (the Prayer)
The Quraishites learn about the Call

The Second Phase, Open Preaching

First Revelation regarding the Preaching

Calling the Closest Kinspeople

On Mount As-Safa
Shouting the Truth and the Polytheists
’ Reaction