Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

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Membaca buku ini kita dapat merasa lebih dekat dengan Nabi Muhammad SAW, menyegarkan kita untuk mengingat sejarah dan perjuangan beliau. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print. Muhammad is a true work of art, as enthralling and engrossing as the best of novels with the difference that this is no fiction but fact.

This revised edition, which represents the final updates made to the text before the author's death in 2005, incorporates important additions about the Prophet's expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. One of his disciples, Abu Dharr of the Bani Ghifar tribe organized highwaymen to waylay the caravans of Mecca but would offer to give back what he had taken on condition that the traders would testify to the oneness of god and the prophethood of Muhammad – in other words, accept Islam (p.Though written in an archaic style, it is comparatively new, having published for the first time in 1983. Muhammad exiled two Jewish tribes named Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadir while splitting their wealth among his followers and taking one-fifth for himself. The Times said "this work is widely recognized as the most readable account of the life of the Prophet to date. I can't comprehend how anyone with an objective mind could ever praise this book to an English non-Muslim audience living in the 21st Century. Hamzah’s violent retaliation on Abu Jahl for mocking the prophet assured the Quraysh of the new religion’s proneness to violence.

Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet Muhammad in the English language, Martin Lings’ Muhammad: His Life Based to the Earliest Sources is unlike any other. With the coming of Ramadan, I decided to put it upon myself to read another book on the Biography of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. H]e did us injury and wrote poetry against us; and none of you shall do this but he shall be put to the sword — Muhammad, in reply to complains about Ashraf's murder. If Allah can let these many people be massacred, then he should immediately revoke his title of Ar-Rahman, the most merciful.Reading through this book and learning more and more about Muhammad only made your original idea more firmer. I was curious to read it but I heard 2-3 stories in it were very inaccurate, which I found interesting and makes me want to read it more. With the magic of his pen, the author makes all the historical personalities of his book come alive… The skill of narration is enhanced throughout the book with the most regal and dignified English, inspiring the sense of majestic grandeur essential for any literary work dealing with Divine and Eternal Truths.

However, don't forget to remember the acts of barbarity committed by him: the exiles of Jews, followed by the massacre of all the men of an entire tribe named the Banu Qurayza; the way he and his companions divided up the women between them, as if they were mere objects; the words he had spoken in favor of military actions against nonbelievers; his insatiable thirst for wives; his even greater insatiable thirst for power and grandiose; his behavior which resembled that of a violent cult leader; his actions towards the Jews, Christians, and the Arab pagans; the Quranic revelations, which on more than one occasion seemed to you to be giving Muhammad exactly what he would want if he was acting out of purely political and economical interests; and finally, his marriage with Aisha when she was six years old. This is my second read of Lings’ classic biography, and after reading several other works from the same author, it becomes obvious how the universal essence which he sees also shines through in how he views the life of the Prophet (s.Lings illustrates these examples from the start of Islam, which he states to be founded “on the basis of the ritual purification and prayer” (47) through the establishment of the ideal community at Medina. Despite having settled comfortably in Egypt, Lings was forced to leave in 1952 after anti-British disturbances. Jarang nak baca naskhah bukan fiksyen tapi tertarik nak hadam jalan cerita kehidupan Rasullah dari awal kelahiran hingga wafat dan kebetulan ada cabaran bacaan Ramadan. When the clans in his own tribe of Quraysh could not come to terms on who should be privileged to carry the sacred black stone inside Kabah, he intervened with an ingenious plan which was acceptable to all. Perinnialist Poison in Martin Lings' Biography of the Prophet: A Discussion with Martin Lings" (PDF).