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A review by molekkasa
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
3.0
This was a sandwich. I was upset throughout the middle parts of the book, but the beginning and ending helped. A 2.5. will add more later.
Growing up as a Muslim in a predominantly Islamic country, we were taught from the beginning of our Prophet Muhammad. His humble beginnings, his soft spoken words and bringing a lot of changes back in the day. This is a person that every Muslims look up to and respected
His early years was a good read, how he became to be and the challenges up to the revelation.
The middle part though. I felt everything was flimsy and made me angry a lot of times. There was no mention on how he changed the landscape of the society at the time. The good that he brought, the things that made him be that respectable person that he is. There was no explanation to the changes he made on women's perception, in fact the only thing that was mentioned was the many wives that he got without a proper explaination (in fact it sounds that all the men, not just the Prophet, in there were only thinking of getting more wives).
What frustrates me even more was how the book was written without proper explaination. For example when there are issues arose, it's only written that the Prophet smiled without saying anything to solve the problem. It portrays Him as someone who happens to have abilities that people are astounded with and not much else. At one point I even felt like He sounded like a cult leader. There was no meat and it's so frustrating to read.
The last parts of his years were ok but honestly I couldn't get pass the middle which infuriates me so.
Growing up as a Muslim in a predominantly Islamic country, we were taught from the beginning of our Prophet Muhammad. His humble beginnings, his soft spoken words and bringing a lot of changes back in the day. This is a person that every Muslims look up to and respected
His early years was a good read, how he became to be and the challenges up to the revelation.
The middle part though. I felt everything was flimsy and made me angry a lot of times. There was no mention on how he changed the landscape of the society at the time. The good that he brought, the things that made him be that respectable person that he is. There was no explanation to the changes he made on women's perception, in fact the only thing that was mentioned was the many wives that he got without a proper explaination (in fact it sounds that all the men, not just the Prophet, in there were only thinking of getting more wives).
What frustrates me even more was how the book was written without proper explaination. For example when there are issues arose, it's only written that the Prophet smiled without saying anything to solve the problem. It portrays Him as someone who happens to have abilities that people are astounded with and not much else. At one point I even felt like He sounded like a cult leader. There was no meat and it's so frustrating to read.
The last parts of his years were ok but honestly I couldn't get pass the middle which infuriates me so.