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The Life of the Messenger • Part One: A Look at the Social and Political Life of the Prophet Muhammad
The Life of the Messenger is a pioneering work that details the life of the Holy Prophet of Islam. This text looks into the life of the Prophet and it weaves an intricate and complex narrative of the factors which influenced the struggle for the spread of Islam. Through extensive research, Shaykh Rasul Jafariyan has been able to craft together many details which were not widely known before. This is the first time that a book of this caliber and depth has been translated and it constitutes one of the most detailed Jafari researched biographies of the Holy Prophet in the English language.
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247 pages, Paperback
Published April 26, 2020
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October 12, 2020
A highly engaging book that contextualizes the social & the political spectrum at the time of the Prophet. The people to whom the message of unity, justice and kindness was being preached were living in a clan-based society where the clan was always right and there was no construct of justice permeating the Arabian Peninsula. Wars were as common as you can imagine. The people used to live in constant fear albeit full of pride.
The women had no position in the society to the extent that sometimes the female child was buried alive. The only identity that mattered was of the clan and members boosted their egos dwelling in the praise of their genealogy. To this society, a Prophet continuing the succession of great Prophets Jesus, Moses, Abraham was born to turn this society into one of culture, poetry, knowledge, kindness and to draw flat lines across race/clan/gender where the status of an individual was based on piety and kindness.
The book details on the harshness, bitterness, and the disheartening events that Prophet had to face to be able to bring unity to the society. Quraysh, Prophets own kith and kin made his life excruciatingly difficult, cropping up scheme after scheme to hurt him physically, mentally, and emotionally. The aristocratic class used to the idea of their massive egos could not bear a man asking them to bow down their heads to the creator of the Universe.
Unfortunately for us, societies move in flux and it took two steps forward and then decades later after the Prophet died took one step back. This has been ongoing since the death of the Prophet.
The women had no position in the society to the extent that sometimes the female child was buried alive. The only identity that mattered was of the clan and members boosted their egos dwelling in the praise of their genealogy. To this society, a Prophet continuing the succession of great Prophets Jesus, Moses, Abraham was born to turn this society into one of culture, poetry, knowledge, kindness and to draw flat lines across race/clan/gender where the status of an individual was based on piety and kindness.
The book details on the harshness, bitterness, and the disheartening events that Prophet had to face to be able to bring unity to the society. Quraysh, Prophets own kith and kin made his life excruciatingly difficult, cropping up scheme after scheme to hurt him physically, mentally, and emotionally. The aristocratic class used to the idea of their massive egos could not bear a man asking them to bow down their heads to the creator of the Universe.
Unfortunately for us, societies move in flux and it took two steps forward and then decades later after the Prophet died took one step back. This has been ongoing since the death of the Prophet.
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