Prophet Muhammad

mankind. During the ensuing thirty-three years of his prophethood, Mohammad proved that God’s trust in him had not been misplaced, for he carried out his prophetic duties with the highest imaginable degree of integrity. There could have been no conceivably superior fulfillment of the responsibilities entailed by prophethood. It is thanks to the Prophet that God’s Book, the Quran, as communicated to him by God’s Angel, has been handed down to us in pure and pristine form, thus making it possible for us to find in His Scriptures a clear description of all those qualities and observances, which our Lord requires of us. In the Quran, God converses with us in human language, and, if His words are as clear to us today as at the time of their utterance, it is because of the special care taken by the Prophet and his companions to ensure that God’s Book would be preserved in its original form, unmarred by interpolation, alteration or omission. Not only did the Prophet receive God’s Revelations, but he also practiced them to perfection throughout his entire life. He thus provided a living example of how Quranic teaching should be followed. They are recorded in the traditions of the Prophet, the Sunnah for all to follow. It was easy for people to see and