The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
The Prophet of Islam and other Prophets
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which has no precedent in ancient history.
According to this plan, the Prophet Abraham
settled Ismail and his mother Hajira in a desert in
Arabia. It was at that time an uninhabited valley far
away from the centres of civilization. Here the
environment was totally natural. Thus it was
possible to raise a generation, cut off from the
atmosphere of idolatrous civilization, which would
retain its God-given nature intact.
Abraham’s plan fructified and when Ishmael grew
up, he married a virtuous lady of a Bedouin tribe.
With this union, the generation desired by God
began to take shape in this desert world. In this
atmosphere there were only two things required for
intellectual training-internal human nature and the
outer universe created by God “with Truth.” (14:19)
In this healthy and favourable atmosphere
generation succeeded generation over a long period
of two thousand five hundred years. This
culminated in the final Prophet being raised among
these people. His was a historic generation, which
produced those high-calibre individuals, noble
souls known as the
sahaba,
the Prophet’s
