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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PROPHET
Book Title In The Footsteps Of The Prophet
Book AuthorMuhammad Tariq Ramadan
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In The Footsteps of The Prophet – Lessons from the Life of Muhammad Tariq Ramadan   Countless biographies of the Prophet Muhammad already exist.

From classical sources (such as the works of Ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham) to more recent accounts of the life of God’s Messenger, as well as other renowned works by Muslim scholars over the course of history, it seems that everything must have already been said over and over again and that the subject matter must necessarily have been exhausted.

So why should we undertake yet another attempt?

 The present biography does not aim to compete with classical sources (which indeed arc its source material), disclose any new facts, or provide an original or revolutionary reinterpretation of the history of prophethood and its context.

The aims of the present study are far more modest, though it does not make them any easier to achieve. The Prophet Muhammad occupies a particular place in the life and conscience of Muslims today, just as he did in the past.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE PROPHET

According to them, he received and transmitted the last revealed book, the Quran, which repeatedly insists on the eminent and singular position of the Messenger of God, all at once a prophet, a bearer of news, a model, and a guide.

He was but a man, yet he acted to transform the world in the light of Revelation and inspiration he received from God, his Educator (arRabb).

That this man was chosen and inspired by God but also fully accepted his own humanity is what makes Muhammad an example and a guide for the Muslim faithful.

 Muslims do not consider the Messenger of Islam a mediator between God and people. Each individual is invited to address God directly, and although the messenger did sometimes pray to God on behalf of his introduction community, he often insisted on each believer’s responsibility in his or her dialogue and relationship with the One.

Muhammad simply reminds the faithful of God’s presence: he initiates them into His knowledge and discloses the initiatory path of spirituality through which he teaches his Companions and community that they must transcend the respect and love they have for him in the worship and love they must offer to and ask of the One, who begets not and is not begotten.

To those who, in his lifetime, wanted miracles and concrete evidence of his prophethood, Revelation ordered him to reply: “I am but a man like yourselves; the inspiration has come to me that your God is One God.

 This same Revelation also informs the believers, for eternity, of the singular status of this Messenger who, while chosen by God, never lost his human qualities: ”You have indeed in the Messenger of God an excellent example for he who hopes in God and the Final Day, and who remembers God much.

These two dimensions-the man’s humanity and the Prophet’s exemplarity-serve as the focus of our interest in the present biography. This is not going to be a detailed account of historical facts, great achievements, or famous wars. Classical biographies of the Messenger give abundant information about such matters, and we see no profit in dealing with them exhaustively.

Our attention is mainly focused, throughout the narration of the story of his life, on situations, attitudes, or words that could reveal Muhammad’s personality and what it can teach and convey to us today. When Aishah, his wife, was once questioned about the Prophet’s personality, she answered: “His character [the ethics underlying his behavior] was the Quran.4

Since the Book addresses the believing consciousness through the ages, it seemed essential to observe how the man who best incarnated it in his behavior could “speak” to us, guide, us and educate us nowadays. The initial idea was, therefore, to plunge into the heart of the Prophet’s life and draw out its timeless spiritual teachings

. From his birth to his death, his life is strewn with events, situations, and statements that point to the deepest spiritual edification.

Adherence to faith, dialogue with God, observing nature, self-doubt, inner peace, signs and trials, and so on are themes that speak to us and remind us that basically, nothing has changed. The Messenger’s biography points to primary and eternal existential questions, and in this sense, his life is an initiation.

The second type of lesson can nevertheless be drawn from the historical events that filled the Prophet’s life.

In the seventh century, at the heart of a specific social, political, and cui rural environment, God’s Messenger acted, reacted, and expressed himself about human beings and events in the name of his faith, in the light of his morals.

Studying his actions in this particular historical and geographical setting should enable us to throw light on a number of principles about the relation of faith to human beings, brotherhood, love, adversity, community life, justice, laws.

We have therefore endeavored to approach Muhammad’s life from the perspective of our own times, considering how it still speaks to us and what its contemporary teachings are. The reader, whether:

Muslim or not, is thus invited to look into the Prophet ‘s life and follow the steps of an account that is strictly faithful to classical biographies (as far as facts and chronology are concerned) but which nevertheless constantly introduces reflections and comments, of a spiritual, philosophical, social, judicial, political, or cultural nature, inspired by the facts narrated.

 The choice to focus on certain events rather than others is of course determined by the wish to draw out teachings that speak to our lives and to our times.

 In each section of the (deliberately short) chapters that make up this book, the reader will notice constant movements between the Prophet’s life, the Quran, and the teachings relevant to spirituality and the present-day situation that can be drawn from the various historical situations. Our aim is more to get to know the Prophet himself than to learn about his personality or the events in his life.

What is sought are immersion, sympathy, and, essentially, love. Whether one believes or not, it is not impossible to buy to immerse oneself in the Prophet’s quest and existence and recapture the pulse the spirit-that infused his mission with meaning.

This is indeed the primary ambition of this work: making of the Messenger’s life a mirror through which readers facing the challenges of Our time can explore their hearts and minds and achieve an understanding of questions of being and meaning as well as broader ethical and social concerns.

 This book is intended for a larre audience, both Muslim and non Muslim.

The text is academically rigorous in regard to classical Islamic Sources, which we hope makes it useful to scholars and the Islamic sciences. By contrast, the narrative, interwoven with reflections and meditations, is

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