This essay aims to understand the nature of prophetic life as a prophet. It discusses the role of the prophet in various capacities not restricted to a spiritual or religious reformer. It considers the role of the prophet mainly religio-political and establishes the link between Islamic religion and politics while providing detailed information on the essential features of political Islam. It also discusses ways in which the prophetic biography can be emulated today. It looks at how the prophet initiated a spiritual call completing it into a political, social, and economic paradigm. The writer demonstrates that prophetic biography was not only personal Islam but also political Islam, that is when there are enough able sincere Islam adhering Muslims suitable to form a polity then political Islam shall be the framework for this Muslim polity. The research has been analytically historical and sociological in nature referring to classical Islamic history books as there isn't much specific biographical data about the Islamic Prophet found in the Quran. Thus, the majority of prophet Muhammad's biography that the Islamic tradition maintains is found outside of the Quran in the literature referred to as seerah (Arabic for "biography"). The Kitab al-maghazi, or "Book of [the Prophet's] Military Expeditions," written by Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq (d. 767–768) is arguably the most influential work in the genre. But this work only survives in later reworkings and abridgments, the most well-known of which is Seerat Muḥammad rasul Allah (the "Life of Muhammad, the Messenger of God") by Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham (d. 833–834).
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