Thread by @Ubaidbinriyaz

@Hadithoftheday 40 years old.
At age 40, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ began to have revelations from Allah.
The first revealed verse to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was "Iqra" which means read/recite.

@Hadithoftheday When Prophet Muhammad ﷺ recieved first revelation,& after the encounter with Jibrael A.S, He ﷺ was trembling with fear.
When he was forty & Khadijah fifty-five, Muhammad ﷺ suddenly appeared at their house in the middle of the night, trembling with fear and saying, Cover me up

@Hadithoftheday Khadijah R.A was very alarmed to see him in such a state. Quickly she wrapped a blanket around his shoulders and, when he had calmed down, she asked him to describe exactly what had happened. +

@Hadithoftheday He told her how a being whom he had never seen before - in fact it was the angel Jibreel A.S - had suddenly appeared to him and had said, “Read!”
But I cannot read, he had replied, for he was unlettered and could neither read nor write. +

@Hadithoftheday “Read!” the angel had repeated, clasping Muhammad ﷺ close to his chest.
“I cannot read,” he had repeated. “Read!” the angel had repeated, firmly embracing him yet again.

@Hadithoftheday What shall I read?” he had asked in desperation, and the angel had replied:

"Read, in the Name of your Lord who created, created man from a clot, Read, and your Lord is the Most Gracious, Who taught with the pen, taught man what he did not know." (Qur’an 96:1-5)

@Hadithoftheday And so began a lifechanging event. Not just his life, but from that point onwards, the course of mankind took a different turn. Although Muhammad ﷺ did not fully realise it at the time, this was the beginning of the revelation of the Qur'an and the Prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ