Only the early life of the Prophet Muhammad [s]
upto the beginning of revelation will be covered in
this year. The Makkan and Madinan periods of the
Prophet’s [s] mission will be covered in detail in
Grade 5. For a summary overview of his complete
life and mission you may refer to the Sirah section
of the Grade 3 book
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my faith
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ISLAM
Throughout history when man had forgotten the
noble source of his inner life and looked greedily
towards the world and its wealth, a messenger was
sent by Allah (God) to show him the way he had lost or
remind him of the precepts he had forgotten or neg-
lected.
But for a long time since the Ascension of ‘Isa (Jesus)
[a] no sign nor word from Allah had been heard. That
age saw the lowest point that human thought and activ-
ities had so far descended to, the worst that man had
ever become.
Before this, messengers had come in regular succes-
sion, but for six hundred years no message had come
from on high, no ray of hope or mercy touched the earth
from the source of all hope and mercy. There was
absolute silence.
In that cruel and corrupt age, women, children,
orphans, the destitute and slaves had few rights in prin-
ciple and even less in practice. They lived in pain and
despair, day after day, until one day Allah took pity upon
their plight and sent the greatest of all prophets, a mes-
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