Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

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Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, "Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources" owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. Muhammad killed him after the Battle of Badr fearing that if he was left alive, he might "continue his evil actions. Lings remains faithful to the classic biographies of the Prophet, dating back to the times of the companions, and incorporates Qur’an verses and Hadith seamlessly into his narrative.

Based on the sira , the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet's life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Before the appearance of this book, Western languages lacked almost entirely a comprehensive and authentic account of the life of the Prophet Muhammad… Lings has produced a superb narrative that in its sobriety and dignity of style, and its scrupulous and exhaustive fidelity to authentic and reliable sources, constitutes a major addition to Islamic literature in English.

The author wanted to be known by his adopted Muslim name in later life, but the publishers of this book continues to use his old Christian name as some kind of a ruse to attract people belonging to other religions. Just before his death he gave an interview on this topic, which was posthumously made into the film Shakespeare's Spirituality: A Perspective. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophet’s expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states.

The first line was acceptable to Muslims, but Uthman ibn Mazun of Jumah took strong exception to the second. Bringing their own unique and counter-balanced personalities to proceedings they ask questions such as: what is happiness? His contribution to Shakespeare scholarship was to point out the deeper esoteric meanings found in Shakespeare's plays, and the spirituality of Shakespeare himself. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings' "Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources" is unlike any other. Clearly, this Seerah/biography by Lings gives a very good account of the noble prophet Muhammad (PBUH-SAW) and portrays him as a living, talking and walking Qur’an during his life on this earth and a mercy to the worlds and everything that is in it.Along the way, they’ll unlock wisdom for those of us navigating our own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match. Jewish scholars also did the same, which shows the common thread of ecclesiastical etiquette that binds the three religions.

My advice to those that would like to pick this up is, don't make this the first book that you read on Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم's life, and most of all, don't make it your last. Some of them kept the collected hair until they died and some reverently pressed his hair against their eyes and face. One of his disciples, Abu Dharr of the Bani Ghifar tribe organized highwaymen to waylay the caravans of Mecca but would offer to give back what he had taken on condition that the traders would testify to the oneness of god and the prophethood of Muhammad – in other words, accept Islam (p. Muhammad is a true work of art, as enthralling and engrossing as the best of novels with the difference that this is no fiction but fact.I instead recommend Karen Armstrong's book on Muhammad that focuses more on the message and philosophy of Muhammad and its revolutionary nature. Yea, that indeed I do,” said ‘Uthman, for he had heard him speak again and again of the merits of fasting and of night prayer. A distinctive element of the biography is the vivid, approachable narrative style, [5] which is fast moving and flows fluently. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money.

Hamzah’s violent retaliation on Abu Jahl for mocking the prophet assured the Quraysh of the new religion’s proneness to violence.

With the coming of Ramadan, I decided to put it upon myself to read another book on the Biography of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. The narrative does not feel like an original English text, which is expected when facts are heavily borrowed from early Arabic texts.