![]() ![]() In fact he was so sure that he could only be majnun, literally possessed by a jinn, that when he found himself still alive, his first instinct had been to finish the job himself, to leap off the highest cliff and escape the terror of what he had experienced by putting an end to all experience. At worst, possession, and he had been seized by an evil jinn, a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic nation had begun, beginning a. At best it must be a hallucination: a trick of the eye or the ear, or his own mind working against him. In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever. On the contrary: he was convinced that what he had encountered could not be real. In short, Muhammad did none of the things that might seem essential to the legend of a man who had just done the impossible and crossed the border between this world and another-none of the things that might make it easy to cry foul, to denigrate the whole story as an invention, a cover for something as mundane as delusion or personal ambition. Not even the whole of the Quran fully revealed, but only a few brief verses. No sense of his absolute, foreordained, unquestionable role as the messenger of God. ![]() Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. ![]() No elation, no ecstasy, no golden aura surrounding him. Read reviews and buy After the Prophet - by Lesley Hazleton (Paperback) at Target. There were no choirs of angels, no music of the heavens. He did not run down shouting “Hallelujah” and “Bless the Lord.” He did not radiate light and joy. “He did not come floating off the mountain as though walking on air. ![]()
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