What Everyone Can Learn from the Life of Prophet Muhammad
What legacy will you decide to leave for your children?
By Eric Pierni
Nearly two billion individuals are presently observing the holy month of Ramadan (in 2021, it began the evening o April 12 and will end the evening of May 12th). Muslims around the world will be fasting during daylight hours in reverence to the period in which their sacred text, Qurʾān, began to be revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
I am not Muslim. Nor am I particularly religious. Yet, as a secular man raised in the West, there is much I have learned and resonated with when exploring the life of one the most influential leaders to have ever lived.
What lessons can we all learn from the life and story of the Prophet Muhammad?
Genealogy
Muhammad shares the same ancestral roots as do all Christians and Jews. His lineage traces him back to Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, who he bore with Hagar is the patriarch of Islam and from whom Muhammad is a direct descendant.
Muslims around the world turn towards the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia five times a day in prayer to face their most venerated site, the Ka’bah. The black granite cube…
