I testify that there is no god but Allah and I testify that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.īook I: Islam’s beginning, Islam’s genesis, is archetypal as we shall see - birth and reception of a new Faith is a universal story - but it is, as well, also specific in its genesis to a particular people within a specific physical environment. Muslims, represent the most wide diversity of color, class and cultures, but its foundation of belief has an underpinning singularity of a unified testimony, which is, concisely, “faith in one God,” in Arabic: “Allah.” This unity of faith is revealed in the prayers Muslims recite five times daily, recited at specific times wherever they reside and the prayer begins for all with these words: In the Muslim world of varied dispositions, Islam is molded to fit its conditions.
Islam is like Jacob’s coat of many colors. And then Book III, relates the many challenges to Islam and demonstrates Islam’s amazing resiliency to meet crises not only from a world poised against Islam, but from within the world of Islam, as well. It introduced the events surrounding His Announcement and Call to Islam, as revealed of God, which means submission to “Will of God,” also, “Peace.” Book II carries Islam into its expansion through its rulers of the caliphate years. To bring Book III into context, a refresher of the first two volumes of Mighty Wind of Islam may be helpful.īook I scanned the era of the “Dawning of Islam” where, upon the Arabian Desert, and spanning the days of the lifetime of Muhammad, the Prophet of God sojourned among the tribes and unified them.
In the palace of Abdur-Rahman Emir of Cordoba - 800 CE Book III
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