Caitie's Reviews > Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

The most important thing I got out of this book is that the institutions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism don't matter. Being God-conscious is the important thing. Focusing on the institution is like shirk.

I also learned that the prophet had a hard time figuring out what he was supposed to do, and he had to set aside his expectations and adapt to changing circumstances. He had to reflect and try to see differently than he had before.

The biggest obstacle to peace in the prophet's time was the ideology of jahiliyya, which Armstrong describes as characterized by arrogance, aggression, ignorance, and violence. I agree with Armstrong's assessment that we live in a time of jahiliyya today. Obviously, the jahiliyya attitude is self-destructive and I think it's obvious, too, that we have to seek ways of reform just as the prophet did.