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Mohammad the Messenger of Allah May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon Him

(His early life, his life at Makkah, his life at Al-Madinah, the biography of his Companions, his military expeditions, the spreading of Islam, his morals and miracles, and some replies to the objections of Orientalists.)

Written by Mohammad Ridha Translated by Dr. Mahmoud Salami

MOHAMMAD THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH

Book Author’s Preface

Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon the last of the Holy Prophets and Messengers, our Master Mohammad, the Arab Prophet, the Illiterate, and the Faithful.

His light shone from Revered Makkah and enlightened the whole of mankind, cleared away the legion of darkness, obliterated Paganism, destroyed the idols, and through his efforts, the pillars of monotheism and the foundations of faith are firmly laid.

Virtues are also spread due to the guidance of the course of his life and the enlightenment caused by his teachings.

Thus, this book is just a drop of the sea of the Prophetic biography. In writing and organizing it, I primarily intended it to be a lesson and a reference book for the students of Islamic history.

I spent a lot of effort in studying, researching and investigating everything written about this topic which is really so wide and has a lot of ramifications, and upon which scholars have spent their entire lives from the old times till today.

I have used the most reliable sources available and verified and checked everything I found problematic or could be a site of disagreement, and I have gathered all that was lost and scattered within books. Indeed, I did not limit myself to biography books, which, in themselves, are very numerous.

I depended, however, on the various interpretations of the Holy Quran, the reliable Hadith books, the biographies of the Prophet’s Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), and also on Arabic language dictionaries.

While I was researching and studying the various Orientalists’ books on the Prophetic biography I stopped here and there considering and thinking about their methods of research, their narration of events, and when they sometimes differ and some other times have similar arguments. Some of them were really fair and they were the fewest, and I have quoted them a lot and recited their opinions to defend the Creditor of the Islamic Law.

Others were moderate in their opinions but their comments contained some objections and hidden tints or taunts; some of these dubious comments cannot be overturned, refuted, and corrected historically unless they are carefully studied along with and in relation to the entire Islamic history, a study which should be detailed and dependent on the Islamic original and pure sources.

Some other Orientalists have no aim but to attack Islam out of pure bias and hatred, such as those groups of missionaries who do not aim at anything except corrupting peoples’ faith. We cannot call these missionaries real scholars;

they are in reality only false merchants who ascribe to and falsely charge Islam and its generous Prophet with a lot of fables and false stories and lies which are totally untrue and have nothing to do with the Prophet, false stories that exist only in their stubbornly biased imagination and general prejudice.

Therefore, after considering and studying the Islamic historical facts, I was forced to translate to Arabic readers some of these dubious comments and false objections.

I replied to them depending on the true original sources in such a way that these replies abolished and shallowed down all these dubious and doubtful remarks the Orientalists have made.

My replies are also meant to purify the souls and selves of the readers from the dirt of doubt and that they should return back to the right guidance and follow the clear evidence and faith.

Thus, it is quite clear that to leave these biased, resentful, and prejudiced extremists who hate Islam or trade with its name sow the seeds of corruption and publicly spread the lies and false evidence without confronting them and truly defending Islam and the facts with the weapons of scholarship and true science and the establishing of shining evidence and sharp poofs would be unforgivable negligence and slackness which should be refrained from by everyone upon whom God bestows a sound mind.

The resources and the springs from which the Prophetic biography is drawn are plentiful, but at the same time are scattered within books of general history, literature, language, medicine, and astronomy.

One may find in these books valuable researches and discoveries which normally are not found in biography books. Thus, in order to pick and gather these fruits, we need to do a great deal of careful research and patient investigation which really demands great efforts and a long and hard time.

Moreover, concerning biography books, as every researcher, scholar, and editor knows, they are not easily organized so that any student may find what he wants such as verifying and confirming the dates of incidents, events, and their sequences.

A student may also want to know the locations of countries and places and to spend more time considering the biographies of certain men in a clear and obvious picture.

These biographies are either elongated in such a boring manner or abridged and shortened in a defective state. Indeed, such books lack suitable and plentiful indexes which at least contain one book of Hadith. These biography books also contain indexes of personal names, names of men, tribes, women, and places. In addition to that, there is a general index of subjects.

 Therefore, I worked through these indexes, edited them, and organized them according to their kind or type to make it easier for researchers to go through them.

 I have done this because the researcher’s time may not allow him to go through the whole book from beginning to end in order to just explore a certain topic in mind.

In addition to all this, biography books contain plenty of redundant insertions, deviations from the main subject, contradictions, and differences which are everywhere in these books and which no reader is able to extract from them a true incident or a reliable, trustworthy, and sound opinion.

This is the state of Arabic books in our hands. Indeed, some writers at the present time have gone into analyzing the character of the Messenger of Allah (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in a psychological fashion on the assumption that he is a normal person.

This, however, might lead to a lot of falsifications and digressions and the effacement of historical facts and deforming them. It is so because the biography of the Messenger of Allah is not like any other biography of a normal person or a great man among great men on whose lives and behavior the principles of psychology can be