Prophet Muhammad

For those seeking solace from the trepidations of this world, Prophet Muhammad:The Sultan of Hearts is a thoughtful work of reflection and comfort.This two-volume comprehensive narrative of enchanted times recollectingthe “Prophetic” summoning introduces the readers to Prophet Muhammad’ssīrah (biography) within a lucid and flowing stream of emotion. More thansimply an effort to record events, stating who said what and did what basedupon whose narration, as many of the traditional biographies tend to do, thiswork infuses events with meanings and feelings. As the authors indicate, thepurpose is not to speak about the Prophet, but to “let him be observed in hisown actions” (p. xvi), creating thereby an “awareness” of his life not as a solefigure, but “in connection with his companions” in order to “present a lifemodel that has been miraculously constructed” (p. xvi).This sīrah is not about reinterpreting events. In fact, a great deal of whatit says falls back on the earlier and primary biographies of such figures as IbnHisham, Ibn Sa‘d, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Abd al-Barr, and al-Tabari, as well as thenine Sunni canonical Hadith collections (p. xvii). Its claim to novelty is notdue to this “synthesis” alone, but more to its focus on the Prophet’s life in societyas a member of that society, rather than on the wars in which he engaged,as if those events were the most significant aspects of his mission (p. xiii).The authors’ intention, as they put it, is not simply to speak about the Prophetin their own descriptions, but rather to observe him in his own actions. Hismulti-dimensional personality is brought forth not only as a Prophet, but also ...