What are the five factors that build Human beings?

The Jesuits say, ‘Give me your child until the child is seven years old and after that, wherever the child goes, he will remain a Jesuit until the end of his life.’

A mother nourishes the human spirit giving depth, subtlety and feelings to it. Her special gestures give the nursing child its first lesson.

The second factor in building a human being is the father who constructs other dimensions of the child’s soul. The third factor which builds the form and clear dimensions of the human being is a school.

The fourth is environment and society. As the environ­ment is powerful and greater, it will have more effect on human beings. For example, the effect of the environment differs from a person who lives in a village to one who lives in a big city.

The fifth factor in building human beings is the general culture of the nation or the general culture of the world.

Therefore, five moulds or dimensions exist which, in total, make the framework into which the human spirit is poured and later extracted.

Education takes a special shape which is given to the human spirit for particular goals because if a person receives no education he or she grows in a way which proves to be useless for society and our aims. We give the person shapes so that when he or she grows up, they are useful to society.

But in the life of the Prophet of Islam, which should be the greatest factor of personality in the transformation and change of history, none of those above mentioned factors influenced his spirit.

Actually, it was the intention that no shape be imposed upon him; no form of artificial discipline is given to him as is normally given to a human being in his own time and through his own environment.

He had been sent to break all idols and if he himself had grown into one, he would not have been able to accomplish his mission.

It would be possible, for example, that he become a great physician but in the Greek mould or become a great philosopher but in the Iranian mould or become a mathematician but in the moulds suitable to that time.

However, he has been sent on a mission to grow in an environ­ment empty of culture and civilization and not to accept any of these moulds.

That is why, as he opens his eyes, he does not see his father but the hand which should take him away from any form by leading him into the desert.

It was the custom of Arabs at that time to take their children to the desert until they were two years old in order to spend the period of breast feeding in the desert and then return to the city and grow near their mother.

But Mohammad had just the opposite experience. As soon as he is taken to Mecca, he is returned to the desert.

He lives there until he is five years old. His mother dies soon afterwards. These particular devices for developing children are put aside and kept at a distance so that he can later break the Greek, Arab, Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian moulds and create a new mould, a new shape.

Again on the excuse of being a shepherd, fate leads him from the city into the desert so that the city and the environment of the city do not print their suitable or favourable moulds upon his spirit which should flow freely.

Because the spirit of society does not influence him, he develops in a society which is actually a part of general culture. He is unlettered. The school and its mould are not imposed upon him.

We see that the greatest encounter of the personality which is to have this great mission is to keep him removed from all schools of thought, all moulds which are acceptable in his time which moulds people to be like them.

This happens so that the man who has to destroy all fire temples, close all academies and build mosques in their place.

The man who must break all racial, indigenous and regional moulds, will himself have no particular mould before he is born so that one of the first dimensions is not imprint­ed upon him.

His mother is kept at a distance from him so that the kindness and caresses of a mother will not influence his spirit through the delicateness of a lyric poem, for it must become hard and powerful.

He is born into a dry peninsula which is far from any general culture so that this Great Spirit takes no culture, civilization or faith into itself.

The spirit which must patiently bear and bring about this most unusual mission, cannot take form in any normal mould.

This constraint is the greatest possible benefit which could be bestowed upon this personality who must play the principal role in this unparalled event of history.