They threw stones at him until his shoes filled with blood. They starved him and his family for three years. They drove him from his home. And when Jibreel عليه السلام offered to destroy them all, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said no. This is the story of suffering you’ve never truly understood—and it will break you.
The Quran declares that Allah ﷻ sent Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) as “a mercy to all the worlds”—not just to believers, not just to Muslims, but to all of creation. His life exemplified this divine mandate through acts of compassion toward enemies, kindness to animals, generosity to strangers, and mercy even to those who persecuted him. Understanding the Prophet’s universal compassion reveals why Muslims revere him, why non-Muslims who study his life often become Muslim, and why his example remains relevant 1,400 years after his death.