Mohammed

By Essad Bey

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3929345676
• ISBN13: 9783929345674
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Bridges Pub
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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Prophet Muhammed became the revered symbol of dignity which he endowed his people with---just as the

The book appear to be well-researched. The coming of the Prophet signaled a radical social transformation for the Arabs of Hejaz-Arabia. At the time of Muhammed's birth in 571 southern Arabia, and especially Hejaz, was a sink of iniquity and idolatry. Mecca, the chief city of Hejaz, which got its name from the Sabean word for "sanctuary," had grown rich both as a caravan station on the land route from southern Arabia and as a center of pilgrimage for every kind of idolatrous worshiper. At the age of twenty-five Mohammed had grown to full manhood and maturity. He was a man of excessive energy and striking appearance. He had a kindly smile, but seldom laughed out loud, and his eyes became radiant when he was excited. These looks, plus the reputation he earned as an honest trader, appealed to a rich widow named Khadija, who was also in the mercantile business, and led her to propose marriage to the young up-and-coming merchant. Meanwhile, Muhammed in his desert hideout was experiencing new tragedy and triumph. Khadija died in 617. At first Muhammed stayed with some followers, whom he called Ansar, the helpers, in a suburb of the city of Yathrip, he build the first mosque for the worship of one God, "Allah". While Islam was flexing its newly developed muscles, its Prophet began to all--some say from the effects of a poison he had eaten two years before, although his symptoms suggest that he was suffering from pneumonia. In 632he went to Mecca and, with an obvious premonition of death, told his followers, "I have concluded my mission, O God, I have delivered Thy message." On his return to Medina he fell sick and a few days later he died in the arm of his wife , Ayesha. some of Muhammed biographers have shrouded his life in so much mythology that the real explanation of his influence has been obscured. Stripped of its mystique and of the miracles with which legend has sought to interpret his successes poses the question: How could one man have led so many of his fellow to disavow their life of idolatry and pleasure for the stern and austere path of the true faith of Islam? The answer is two fold. First, Islam, with its proclamation of God's will, appealed to the simple, practical Arabs, whereas the subtle Greek intellectualism that had developed in Christian teaching by the 7th century after Jesus of Nazareth did not. Secondly, as with every successful revolutionary, Muhammed touched on the raw nerve of the masses who were not privileged to share in the pleasures of life (exactly as the current corrupt and depraved Saudi family has been exploiting the crowd and depriving them of sharing in the oil wealth of the country)! For with Muhammed's spiritual message there was a call to social revolution every bit as clear as the writings of Karl Marx or the super-charismatic speeches of the Arab's champion nonpareil Gamal Abdel Nasser, who dedicated most of his life for his peoples emancipation. And just as President Nasser did in the 20th century, so Prophet Muhammed was able to uplift the Arabs and give dignity in being a Moslem. Arab