Know your Prophet

A short post, but it is what is on my mind right now

  Since the death of Sayidna Muhammad (salaallahu aleihy wasalam), people of other faiths have asked us Muslims the same exact questions...Why did your prophet marry a young girl, why must women cover and not men...We have all heard them before.
Why is it that, after being asked the same questions for the past 1400 years, we still cannot answer them? Not for lack of information, nor for wisdom, nor guidance, have we failed to lay out the truth.So what is it that renders us unable, leaves us looking incapable of representing our deen?
I have personally heard some of these question being asked right in front of me and had to hold myself back from whacking not the one who questioned, but the one who gave the ignorant and ill thought out answer right upside the head. And woe to the one who stands in the face of a human and is visibly ashamed of his deen! If you knew your religion, knew the answers and wisdom behind each and every decree of your religion and action of your beloved prophet, you would shrink away from no one.

"Allahuma Saly 3ala Sayidna Muhammad"
Every day when on our knees, we pray to Allah and repeat this phrase. As a friend use to say to me, you only pray for those you know and love. So... do we know the great man whose name is frequently on our tongues? Can we comfortably say that we KNOW his character and his personality. If we did, these questions would not make even the meek among us flinch.
I implore you reader, and remind myself before anyone else, to know what is being asked and what is the truthful answer. Do not hide your deen, Allah (subhanahu wa'tala) has wisdom unmeasurable, and surely if you can rely on him for your breath than you can stand by His decree. There is infinite meaning behind every one of Allahs (subhanahu wa'tala) commands, and it is not for us to impose our petty human way of thinking upon them.

KNOW YOUR PROPHET...KNOW YOUR DEEN...AND BE PROUD