Hazrat Muhammad's (saw) Birth and Childhood (Hafta-E-Wahdat, Week of Unity)

Hazrat Muhammad (saw) was born in the year 570 CE (fifty-three years
before the Hijrah) in the town of Makkah, a mountain town in the high
desert plateau of western Arabia. His namederives from the Arabic verb
Hamada, meaning"to praise, to glorify." He was the first and only
sonof Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abd Al-Muttalib and Hazrat Aminah bint
Wahab. Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abd Al-Muttalib died before Hazrat
Muhammad's (saw) birth.The precise date of his birth is disputed among
the historians, but Ayatullah Ruhullah Musawi al-Khomeini (ra), the
founder of the Islamic revolution had declared the week between 12th
and 17th Rabi al-Awwal as "Hafta-E-Wahdat" meaning "the week of unity
amongst Muslims." Muslims all overthe world are urged to get together
and celebrate (Eid-E-Milad un Nabi) the birth of Hazrat Muhammad (saw)
for the whole week.
The year in which our Hazrat Muhammad (saw) was born is called as the
Year of Elephant (Aam ul-Feel); it is because of that famous incidence
in which the ruler of Yemen, Abraha tried to destroy Kaaba using his
army of Elephants and a vast flock of small birds like swallows,
carrying pebbles in their beaks darkened the sky and pelted them down
upon the heads of Abraha's army causing deep puncture like wounds
killing many. It is also said that at the same time for the first time
in Arabia, the diseases of typhoid and smallpox appeared, affecting
the whole army. Abraha himself suffered from smallpox, and remained
alive only until he reached Yemen and died there. This is the theme
mentioned in Noble Qur'an, Chapter 105 'Feel' (Elephant).
The tribe that Hazrat Muhammad (saw) came from was named"Quraish".
This tribe was one of the most influential tribes that governed
Muslims centuries after Islam.

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