The Prophet Muhammad

The Prophet Muhammad (SM)
A simple Guide to his Life

This book not only describes the life of the Prophet
Muhammad but also analyses in depth the message
conveyed to us by his life.
The author lays enormous emphasis on the fact that
the Prophet Muhammad went out of his way to
follow a policy of peace throughout his life,
contrary to the misconception that a significant part
of his life was spent on warfare.
The Prophet Muhammad was supremely successful
at both the religious and secular levels. The
exemplary life he lived can serve as an unfailing
guide to right thinking and right living even in this
modern age.

THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET
The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn
Abdul Muttalib, who was born in Makkah in 570
A.D. and died in Madinah in 632 A.D. received the
prophethood at the age of forty. We give here a
brief sketch of his life.
Muhammad, may peace be upon him, was still in
his mother?s womb when his father Abdullah died.
A few years after his birth, his mother too passed
away. In accordance with the ancient Arab custom,
he was looked after by a Bedouin woman, Haleema
Sadia. Being an orphan, he was taken charge of by
his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib. After the latter?s
death, Muhammad?s uncle, Abu Talib, who was a
merchant, became his guardian. The Prophet
accompanied him on certain trading journeys. At
the age of twenty-five he married a Makkan widow,
Khadijah bint Khowailid, who was forty years old
at the time.
When the Prophet was forty years old, he received
his first revelation from God, in the cave of Hira
near Makkah, where he often used to go in search of
solitude. It was here that the Angel Jibril (Gabrial)
came to him for the first time and gave him the
good tidings that God had chosen him as His
Prophet. The first few verses revealed to him on this
occasion form part of chapter 96, titled „The Clot? in
the Quran