ملخص الجهاز:
Dr. Muhammad Legenhausen writes of this dichotomy in the following manner: This is not to deny the historical person or to oppose the historical person to the idealization, for there is a single person who appears in history who was orphaned and raised by an uncle and experienced all the details of the life of the famous religious leader of Arabia some six hundred years after Christ (peace be upon him), but at the same time is one who was appointed by God and given a mission of warning and bearing the glad tidings of divine mercy and sovereignty, and again, is the same person who is the pure light of God’s first creation and for the sake of whom the entire world has been created.
Hence the differences between the Islamic madhÁhib can potentially be good if they are seen to be different paths to, and aspects of, the total and comprehensive prophetic substance and Sunnah—such ways as are traversed by Muslim scholars and mujtahidÐn in their arduous journey of love and rapture towards the holy Prophet (Ò).
Clearly the most common of all human and Islamic principles is the Prophet (Ò) and his continued presence through the streams of walÁyah that manifest themselves as springs of pure life-giving water throughout the breadth and span of the Muslim world and history.