Moral excellence of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Orientalist Karen Armstrong

Abstract

Praise be to Allah who revealed to us the curriculum, and brought us out from darkness to light, and showered on us the example of the Prophet’s guidance to follow. The Quran says, “Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day”. 1 A Muslim belief is there is no God except the one true God and Muhammad is the messenger and slave of God. This belief keeps the vision broad and gives social, moral and scientific standards. When belief is removed from the heart, mind and the soul, the balance of nature get disturbed and the aim of life get lost. In the pre- Islamic era the Arabs were ignorant of divine guidance, the society was suffered from oppressive paganism, and general decadence. Almighty God sent Prophet Muhammad at a time when the people of the book had deviated from the straight path, and the pagans and idol worshipers were living in ignorance. The article, "Moral excellence of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Orientalist Karen Armstrong" focuses on some aspects of the moral decline of the pre Islamic Arabs, the prophet Muhammad’s moral excellence and how the western writer Karen Armstrong2 found him in different moral values.