Ahmad Shameem

The Life of Muhammad (with Urdu translation) Volume 1 - The Life of Muhammad: Propaganda and Truth (with Urdu Translation) Ahmad Shameem

The earliest Arab histories, written in the 7th and 8th centuries by al Waqidi, al Tibri, Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Husham, and Ibn Sa'ad, supported by relevant verses of the Qur'an, are greatly differentiable in length and analyses from the modern Islamic propaganda history. The Islamists teach short, purged, and grossly exaggerated versions to produce preachers, jihadis, and propagandists to spread Islam. However, the earliest histories, based on hundreds of thousands of meticulously gathered reports of the people of the period, and contemporary poetry and prose provide a much more detailed and realistic account.
From among these earliest records, Muslim and non-Muslim scholars agree that Ibn Husham's (d. 833) compilation of Ibn Ishaq's (704-767 CE) biography of Muhammad is the most complete. Ibn Ishaq travelled widely to collect accounts from those who had witnessed the events or learned about them from Muhammad's contemporaries. Over decades, he painstakingly gathered information and wrote it.
The earliest Arab historians portray a picture of Muhammad with attributes of an early 7th century Arabian leader, who adopted the title "Allah's Apostle," where, in tribal Hejaz and Najd, it was customary to use this title in order to gather support from tribes and people. Others who used the same title were Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid ibn Noufal of the al Asad tribe, Musaylima ibn Habib of the Banu Hanifa, Al Aswad al-Ansi of the Banu Ans, Sajah bint Al-Harith ibn Suayd, of the Banu Taghlib, allegedly, a scholar named Saf ibn Sayyad and many others. This was because in those days the title "Allah's Apostle" embodied the same meaning and status among the Arabs as that of a great political leader in modern times. Because the tribes of these others "prophets" were not militarily as strong as Muhammad's followers were, they faced defeat and left him to be the only "Allah's Apostle." Afterwards, historically, many kings and leaders attributed their authority to God, such as the Mughal kings called themselves "the light of Allah" or "the shadow of Allah"; the Iranian leaders called themselves "the sign of Allah" or "the spirit of Allah" and the Ahmadi caliphs use the title "the hand of Allah."
These earliest books show that modern Islamic propaganda does not reflect the reality of the Arab society and culture of Muhammad's period. There are glaring contradictions between the earliest Arab records and modern Islamic myths. This book tells the story of Muhammad, Islam, the Qur'an, and the Arabian society of the period as truthfully and originally as the available records make it possible.
This edition of the book includes its Urdu translation alongside the original English version.