How can one reconcile the Prophet's hadiths that include cursing and reviling individuals, such as the Hadith of the Battle of Tabuk and the Hadith of Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), with his سيرته (biography/conduct) which calls for gentle speech, purity of language, and refraining from reviling people?

The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, was characterized by forbearance and purity of speech. The Holy Quran and the Torah mentioned these qualities. The Prophet was not harsh, nor severe, nor a reviler, nor obscene, nor a curser. Rather, he was a mercy to the worlds, and his mercy encompassed Muslims and others.

Nevertheless, this mercy did not prevent some instances of severity from him in specific situations necessitated by circumstances, such as: 1. His role as the guardian of the Muslims, who needed some severity to reform the condition of the people, establish justice, and implement the Sharia, as in the punishment for adultery. 2. Achieving the status of complete strength that Allah established for him as an example, where reform combines encouragement and deterrence, and fear and hope. His anger would appear when the sacred limits of Allah were violated, and he would seek vengeance for Allah through them. 3. Occasionally, some unintentional cursing or imprecation might issue from him, or what he deemed deserving of it, and Allah would make it a purification, mercy, and expiation for whoever was cursed or reviled by him among the believers. This does not contradict the fact that he was not obscene or a curser; rather, it happened rarely, and he would ask Allah to make it a mercy and expiation.