The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Prophetic Guidance for the Modern Age
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PROPHETIC GUIDANCE FOR THE
MODERN AGE
The Qur’an tells us that the Prophet of Islam was
sent as “a mercy for all mankind” (21: 107). There is
nothing mysterious about this. It is a natural reality,
which can be understood by making an academic
and rational study of it.
When a human being is born, he finds himself in a
world, which is astonishingly vast and complex.
How man has to relate himself to his world and
how he has to form his ideas are matters of which
he is totally ignorant. Neither is his birth
accompanied by a guidebook, nor does he find a
board set up on some hill-top inscribed with the
necessary guidelines, which he is to follow.
That is why man continues to grope in the dark,
finding only scraps of knowledge to lay his hands
on.
Science and philosophy are two such cases in point.
What is philosophy? Philosophy is an attempt to
discover the secrets of the universe at the academic
