Table of Contents

The Prophet Sent as a Mercy; Why Prophets are Sent; Characteristics of Prophets; The Essentials of Prophethood; Prophet Muhammad as Husband and Father; Prophet Muhammad as Educator; The Military Dimension; A Universal Leader; Other Dimensions of His Prophethood; The Sunna and Its Place in Islamic Legislation; Establishing the Sunna; The Companions and the Tabi'un; Index.

About the Author

Known by his simple and austere lifestyle, Fethullah Gulen, affectionately called Hodjaefendi, is a scholar of extraordinary proportions. This man for all seasons was born in Erzurum, eastern Turkey, in 1941. Upon graduation from a private divinity school in Erzurum, he obtained his license and began to preach and teach about the importance of understanding and tolerance. His social reform efforts have made him one of Turkey's most well-known and respected public figures during the 1960s. Gulen has spent his adult life voicing the cries and laments, as well as the beliefs and aspirations, of Muslims in particular and of humanity in general. He bears his own sorrows, but those of others crush him. He feels each blow delivered at humanity to be delivered first at his own heart. He feels himself so deeply and inwardly connected to creation that once he said: "Whenever I see a leaf fall from its branch in autumn, I feel as much pain as if my arm had been amputated".