![]() ![]() Now that he is a scholar in his own right, he is able to pick out the minor issues that are presented in Lings’ work, so that Muslims who approach it can do so with a sound knowledge of the criticisms leveled against it. Before he became Muslim, “Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources” by Martin Lings was one of the books he read that inspired him to convert from Christianity to Islam. I didn’t bother looking into their reasons for their thinking as I knew I would just end up wasting my time.īut today I came across an article by a great Islamic scholar of our time, Sheikh Gibril Haddad. Apparently Salafis have a negative view of his seera (But then again what do they have a positive view about) and recommend that it should be avoided. I was taken in by his eloquent use of language and immense writing style that really brought out the true beauty of the life of the beloved of God.īut as I read it, there were a couple of minor things that stood out as being quite strange. A few years ago I read the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) by Martin Lings. ![]()
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