BIOGRAPHERS OF THE PROPHET

This psyche of the biographers can be understood from this narrative. Many youngsters frequented a popular library to read the newspapers. It was quite encouraging to see them here and it was presumed that they were interested in world news. An interaction with them revealed that they were unemployed youth seeking job vacancies. Their reading was confined to things of their interest, the employment column and appointments page. Such was the case of the Muslim biographers, whose study of the Prophet’s life was confined only to their interests. Non-Muslim biographers present a different angle. Their objective study helped them identify the fundamental mission of the Prophet as a Messenger but being nonbelievers, it was not their concern to follow this Sunnah (practice) of the Prophet. So, the principal mission of the Prophet remained neglected in the later periods of history. Muslim biographers state that the Prophet’s purpose was to spread the message of Islam but they were unable to convey the true significance of the Prophet’s role as being the Messenger of God. Likewise, although the non-Muslim biographers acknowledged the fact that the Prophet’s mission was a messenger of God to mankind, they could not engage in this mission as it was not their concern. Hence, the principal mission of the Prophet has remained obscured. o The principal mission of the Prophet remained neglected in the later periods of history. Final Abode Death reminds us that the present world is not our final abode. We have to prepare ourselves for the world Hereafter. Death is only a reminder of the fact that everyone is doomed to enter the other world.