PPT Slide
Muhammad was twenty-five years old. He was known all over Makkah. People knew that he was fair, decent and honest with a clear conscience, so they nicknamed him Al-ameen, the honest.
Khadija was a noble rich woman of Quraysh. Each year Khadija hired some men to trade for her. She loaned money to merchants and made them her partners in trade and profits. That way she guaranteed that they would be honest in their business. On the day Khadija was making arrangements with the merchants, Abu Talib met his nephew Muhammad. Abu Talib said to him, “I am a penniless man. Business is getting very bad for we have had a couple of bad years. Now we have to trade. The caravan is preparing to leave and Khadija, the daughter of Khuwaylid, is hiring men to trade for her. Those men make lots of money. Why don’t you go and ask her to hire you. She will give you preference over the others for she has heard a lot about your decency.”
Muhammad said, “Maybe she is going to suggest that herself.”
His uncle said that he was afraid she might hire someone else if they did not ask. Muhammad refused to ask her. He did not want to ask people to do things for him.