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Quran and Muslim Masculinity…

It is the conclusion of the fouth day of Ramadan. After reading the Quran for a few hours today, it really is the definition of Muslim Masculinity. It is where we men are trying to aspire towards in the completion of our Manhood. When the wife of the Prophet (s) , Aisha (r) was asked (after the Prophet (s) had passed away), "What was the Prophet's (s) character like?" She simply said "He was a walking Quran." As far as I believe in my heart, every man should be like the Prophet (s) or they should die trying to be like him. He was simply the ultimate man. It is he (s) who I base the Masculine Development Model upon. Why would I pick anyone else?

The Prophet Muhammad (s) is the prototype for human character and he is criterion of all manhood of all time throughout the human race. Why? Firstly, he is the Prophet chosen by Allah to save us all by conveying the perfect way to live. Secondly, the Quran that was revealed to him to convey that perfect way of living which many Muslims try to read cover to cover throught this month of Ramadan. There is a finite amount of words (approximately 2000 distinct words compose of approximately 77,701 words from cover to cover). Yet, everything, however you want to define everything is inside that book, whether we know it or not. It is quite simply the greatest book there is. Every single word is the word of Allah.

If your really read that book, and I mean read it, and you see what it is saying and what it is talking about, then someone who can embody all that must have a connection to the supernatural that is beyond our imagination. Remember the final phase of the Masculine Development Model. It was Submission. The prophet's (s) level of submission (as far as my awareness will take me) was to a point where he annihalated all impurities inside himself (pride, anger, lust, greed, etc.) and had unlimited access to the power of Allah. It is as if God gave him an unlimited amount of blanks checks to where he could use for his sake in this world and in the world of the unseen. It is because he embodied this book, the Quran.

I am reading it in arabic and it really sounds beautiful to the tounge and to the ear. It has everything I need to be a man in the Quran. It tells me how to treat other men, how to treat our women, how to treat our families and the community. It tells us how to treat ourselves and how to treat other creation. It tells us the importances of respect and how to respect Allah first and foremost. Then it says how to respect the prophets (peace be on them all). The interesting thing about the Quran is that it was a direct conversation from God to the Prophet Muhammad (s). Every word in the book was directed to him, other believers in god, and to all mankind and the rest of creation. God knows our nature as males and what we need to do to finally get to our goal of being complete men for the Sake of God. We must play our role in this greater scheme of creation and become the Men that we are supposed to be. God said that we are his viceregents of the earth. It means that we are actually his representatives and we are supposed to treat the earth and all that is contained in it like God himself would treat it. That again is the ultimate and last stage of Manhood, but to get to that level we must perform proper Submission becasue to obtain the power to be a representative of Allah on planet earth, we men will need the power given to us directly and only from Allah that can sustain the creation in the way that it was meant to be handled.

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