If you truely wish to know the prophet muhammed then let go of every story you heard about him and let go of all the explanations of the quran and read the quran in the orriginal arabic....he did and say exactly what he was commanded, let those who wish to follow the prophet take the words that were sent down to him to heart....Let them FIRST implement the first sunnah of the prophet, the command of Allah "Iqra" which was the first word sent down to Muhammed and thus the first sunnah...

The peace is upon all the prophets, and the peace is from Allah for the completion of their missions given by Him....

StarComm wrote: read the quran in the orriginal arabic....

How about if we don't know arabic?

Then know that the prophet never made it hard on people, but people made it hard on him....Know also that the prophet was sent as a bringer of glad news, and as a warner...

The glad news was ofcourse for those who already are thankful to Allah and do a mending work on that basis.....truely the best basis is thankfulness to Allah.

The warning is for the ungrateful who might remember to fear because there is something wrong with them....so that they may become fearing and work out of that..... "o you who have becomes secure if faith, fear Allah and speak a speech that is firm(unshakingly true) then He will better your works for you and forgive you your debts(dhunoob) and whoever obeys Allah and His sent one then such has achieved a magnificant victory"...[quranic verse] mind you that it says fear Allah and speak a dam good speech(meaning a firm speech that is true)...it does not say that you should better your works...no it says that He will then better your works for you...because when the basis of your works is fear for Allah alone you will avoid being unjust or follow anything except if you are absolutly sure it is true and good....He will show the way, not some book...

Asr for those who claim to hold the faith of islam, but practice what they believe is true islam for any other reason then to achieve peace with Allah through their faith and their works...such are the most damaging of all creatures...such are the hypocrites and their evil leaders who seek to opress the people through the religion of Allah....such are the cause of war and conflict and much suffering...such are the liars, because Allah will not accept any other way then that of engaging the peace with Him (islam in arabic, seeking peace with Allah through ones words and actions).

Truely judgement is to Allah, and He knows best what is in the heart of His slaves...and He is High elevated in Power and Knowledge and He is The Wise....no one can be higher then Him in any good characteristics....so be genereous with your good, may He be genereous towards you....mercy, forgiveness and knowledge....be genereous with these may He be genereous towards you with them also...

Do you need to know prophet Muhammed if you do not speak arabic? i do not think you do, just know that he was the bringer of the faith of peace, the faith of all the faithful and their prophets before him....the true faith. He was sent but as a mercy to the worlds....i know it is hard to recognize the prophet in those who insistingly claim to follow him....but what is useful to mankind will stay in the earth and what is not will dissappear like foam on the water when it streams...this is also a wisdom from the koran....through out history the unjust were destroyed and the "fit" slaves of Allah inherrited the earth, the increase in justice and fairness is a very recognizable path we see through the course of history and that is the course on which we will remain...