Seerah= The life of Prophet Muhammad (Sallahu 'aliyhi wassalam). Discover some known as well as unknown figures about beloved Prophet Muhammad ((Sallahu 'aliyhi wassalam)

1. Introduction to Seerah
Hamdullah
F.E.L., MBA, M.Phil
Department of Social Sciences
Riphah International University,
Islamabad

2. •
• And there has been no nation which was
not visited by a warner.
•
• We sent to every community a messenger ,
saying: “Worship Allah and keep away
from the taghut”

3. •
• This is a warner of warners already sent.
•
• You are indeed one of the messengers.

4. •
• Say to them, “I am not a novel
Messenger.”
•
• Muhammad is no more than a Messenger;
other Messengers have already passed
before him.
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5. •

6. • O Muslims say to them, “We believe in
Allah and the Guidance which has been
sent down to us and which was sent to
Abraham, Ismail, Isaac and Jacob and his
descendants and which was given by their
Lord to Moses and Jesus and to other
Prophets. We do not discriminate against
any of them and we have completely
surrendered to Allah as Muslims.” Then if
the believe the way you have believed,
they have the right guidance.

7. •
• As a matter of fact, it is the great favour of
Allah to the Believers that He has raised
up in their midst from among themselves a
Messenger who recites to them His
Revelations, purifies their lives and
teaches them the Book and Wisdom,
though before this these very people had

8. Islam: A Movement
• Its Ideology
• Its Leaders
• The only role-models for this kind of
movement
• The difficulty
• The scarcity of information about olden
prophets

9. • The difficulty
• The scarcity of information about olden
prophets
• The sayings of Jesus in New Testament
• The only source of clear and complete
guidance
• Complete and authentic details, from the
early stages to the establishment of Islamic
State and its form, constitution, interior
and exterior policy,

10. Why Seerah
• Ship and its commandant
• Historical examples of
• Hindus (they lost the seerah of their
prophets first)
• Where they ended
• Christians (they ignored the book first)
• Where they ended

11. True Nature of Prophethood

12. Human Autonomy
• Faculties of knowledge, thinking and
understanding,
• Sense of goodness and badness
• Freedom of choice and will
• Freedom of action
• All this is for his examination

13. • Instruction to remain Muslim (obedient)
• Deviation
• Administration of guidance along with the
autonomy
• The covenant

14. •

15. • And, O Prophet, remind the people of the time,
when your lord brought forth from the loins of
the Children of Adam, their descendants and
made them bear witness about themselves. He
asked them, “Am I not your lord?” They
replied, “Most certainly, Thou alone art our
Lord; we bear witness to this.” This we did lest
you should say on the Day of Resurrection,
“We were unaware of this thing,” or lest you
should say, “our forefathers started the practice
of shirk before us and we were born after them
to their descendants: dost Thou, then, punish us
for the sin that was committed by the wrong
doers?”

16. Need for Prophet/Prophethood

17. •
• Allah has taken upon himself to show the
Right Way, when there exist crooked ways
too. He would have guided all of you
aright, if He had so willed.

18. The Argument
I. Many divergent ways of thought and action
are open for man to choose from
II. Obviously, all these divergent ways cannot
be straight, because there can be only one
reality.
 Brief Explanation of the Concept of Reality
 Brief Explanation of Straight Way
 The importance of Aqaaid/Tenets of Faith,
because they are the expression of the only
reality, the only right theory, and the only right
way based on the reality and right theory.

19. The Argument
III. Therefore, there can be only one right
theory of life which is based on the reality.
IV.Therefore, there can be only one right way
which is based on the right theory of life
and which is based on the reality.
V. The knowledge and the choice of the right
theory and the right way is the most
important need of man.
Rather this is the most basic and real need
of man.

20. The Argument
VI.This is because all other things fulfill his
needs as a higher level animal only
VII.But this is the greatest necessity of his life
as human being and without its fulfillment
his life would be an utter failure.
VIII.The real human need

21. The Argument
IX.Now, it cannot be expected that Allah
Who made so many provisions, and on
such a large scale, for the fulfillment of the
animal life of man, did not make any
arrangement for the fulfillment of this real
and greatest necessity of man
X. Just as He has provided for all the
necessities of his life, so he has also
provided, so he has also provided for this
greatest need of his through Prophethood

22. The Argument
XI.If Prophethood is denied then it should be
pointed out in what way Allah has fulfilled
this basic need of man.
XII.Experience of centuries has shown that
mankind has always blundered whenever
it has chosen a way of life by itself.

23. The Argument
XIII.Reason, intellect, faculties
 They have suggested many divergent ways,
and this is the proof of their failure.
 They are limited and cannot be depended for
the choice of the right way of life.
 They chase the goal, very rarely set it.
 These goals are set by either personal
prejudice, bias, whim, fancy, caprice, or by
revelation.
 In pursuing the goal it has always fell prey to
temptation and has almost always violated the
principles of ethics and morality, i.e. the
principles of humanity

24. The Argument
XIV. One cannot say that Allah has made no
arrangement for this basic need of man,
for this will be the greatest misconception
of Allah that
 He may make most elaborate arrangements
for man’s animal life
 But he should leave man in the lurch to to
search out a way for himself for the
fulfillment of this most important and basic
need

25. •
• Allah has taken upon himself to show the
Right Way, when their exist crooked ways
too. He would have guided all of you
aright, if He had so willed.

26. • Why didn’t Allah will to guide all the
people aright inherently when He had
taken upon Himself to show the Right
Way?

27. • It is true that Allah could have imbued
man, like other creatures, with the inborn
instinct and enabled him to choose the
Right Way without conscious thought,
experience or teaching.
• But this would have been against His will
which was to create a being, having will
and power and freedom to follow the
Right Way or the wrong way whichever he
chose for himself

28. • This is why man has been endowed with
different means of knowledge and powers
of conscious thought, deliberation and
will, and has been empowered with the
authority to make use of all powers in him
and all things around him.

29. • Moreover, He has placed in him and all
around him such factors as might lead him
to guidance or deviation.
• All these things would have become
meaningless, had he been created
righteous by birth, and he could never
have attained the heights of progress,
which can be achieved only by the right
use of freedom.

30. • That is why Allah has chosen Prophethood
for man’s guidance, and left him free to
follow or reject a Prophet.
• This a test by means of which Allah
judges whether Man accepts the guidance
that is presented to him in a rational way.

31. •
• Moses replied: “Our Lord is He Who has
given distinct form to everything and then
guided it aright.