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Norhiyah Mohammad Noor
Siti Fatimah Mohd Tawil
Junaiza Jarjis
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Muhammad: The Ideal Prophet
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Every prophets of Allah came to this world together with specific
duties according to the time and people in which they were sent to.
Isaac and Ishmael while Abraham and Jesus were sent as the heralds
virtue and goodness for the guidance of mankind till the Last Day,
not only for his particular time and people. In this book, the author
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Zoroaster of Iranian, Buddha, Confucius, and prophets like Noah,
details of their lives and doings from the chain of history. The
works were also proven to be written long after the death of those
writings were even fictitious for having the mixtures of fables and
sent down from Allah through him has proven Prophet Muhammad
This book also compares Islam with the religion of Jesus and the
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Muhammad S.A.W. which is the most practical, comprehensive and
perfect.
Tabiy’in is the people who had seen and conversed with some
Tabiy’in periods stretch from the first century of Hijrah until 150
from the second phase of the narrators. The third period extends
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Nadwi further extends the discussion on the narrators to the
principles include the narrator from whom the narration was handed
fully known. The scholars also need to satisfy about the moral
the two major sources of Islam that is al-Quran and the books of
ahadith. Other than these two, the biography can be referred from
Prophet s.a.w), the books of history associated with the life and time
by al-Bukhari.
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It also can be derived from the works describing the miracles and
the books known as shama’il which portray the moral, the habits,
manners and character of the Prophet and finally, from the books
law makers and conquerors there is not one the events of whose life
are more true and more detailed than those of Prophet Muhammad.”
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He is very detail in explaining the perfection of prophet’s life by
Siratun-Nabi. The aspects covered on the books are like the daily
endorsed the Prophet, it was just a point that is pointed out by Allah
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be presented in the full light of the day and to maintain the ma’sum
increasing our love to him. Indeed, he was the only perfect man that
that suited any aspects of human life first to be easy accepted by the
can serve as a standard for every class of the people acting under
examples are not mere fictions but actual facts. Prophet Muhammad
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is a great mu’allim that has a comprehensive character. He is
time, he was the one who practices what he had preached. Indeed, in
his life even though he held the high status as the messenger of
life style.
observer. He was also a good husband to his wives and good father
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to his children. In short, he never failed to illustrate everything he
had preached using his own life as an example. It can be shown that
it was not the last word of God, where in the Qur’an Prophet
And that is not all; the message brought by the Prophet is universal,
that is for all nations from his prophecy until the end of this world.
which comprises of 2 parts: the faith (imãn) and the action (‘amal).
All the scriptures of the religion prior to Islam address the first part
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life, hell and heaven, day of judgement, angels, worshipping actions,
Nadwi next lined out the 11 commandments that Islam perfected for
the Mosaic Law in Torah, whereas the latter has only 7. He then in
universe, the fact that man is born sinless (unlike Christianity) and
In the final chapter, Nadwi brings his audience to the three causes of
astray where prior to Islam, the Aryans, the ancient Hindus, the
female. On the other hand, the Semites, the ancient Hebrews and the
pointed out the Qur’anic verse that cleared all these misconceptions
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“Say, He is Allah, the One! Allah, the eternally
divine attributes into separate deities, like the Hinduism where they
reached 330 million figures! Its pantheons’ hands alone showed the
power the Hindus are trying to express. The Christians too have
made 3 attributes out of one that is the Father, the Holy Ghost and
countless.
idea of giving one god for righteous deed and another for anything
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Zoroaster who created twins out of this concept. Prophet
there is only one God who is the author of whatever occurrence that
pain would advance them to more piety and purity of soul. The
Allah and His Eternal love showing that worship essentially consists
the Lord and Master of the world. It is uplifting one’s heart to God
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in complete surrender to actions that are demanded like fasting,
colour and creed, caste and race. The practice of the Jews to look
down upon others while having the dogma of being the chosen ones,
and the ancient India that regards all other nations and races as
in conduct.”
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As a whole, Nadwi has efficiently brought forward every essential
verses engaged with Qur’an, Torah and the Bible were transcribed
Muhammad as the most ideal prophet that has ever been sent.
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Reference
http://teacher.scholastic.com/wrItewIt/bookrev/index. htm
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