When she finaly does talk about our prophet SAW, She admits that not much is known about him SAW, before at the age of 40.Now this is the most significant part of the story,i think. Prophet Muhammad SAW was given the task of propherthood at the at of 40 and above.Why him, and why so late ,one will ask?My assumption naturally of course, is Allah has 'ordained' him with this task from the start.I mean given his extraordinary family history backround. An orphan all the way.First his father dies i think when he was a todler, then his poor mother could not afford a baby sitter of their distinguished tribe of Qurayish and was sent to live with a destitute nanny from a lower tribe. There he lived a couple of years and i am sure was shaped completely from there.Later, he goes to live with his mom and she dies not from their reunion.Then, he goes to his belovedgrand father who dies after two years.Then he his adopted by his uncle-- who will die a none believer in the end.(this part i remember from dhuksi days , but i am sure its in the end of the book as well)When i say 'ordained' i say his life was deseigned to be like this from the start- he was given this unique, upbringing that shaped his life.Not a typical man who came from a normal stable home.His challenges in life during his youth shaped him to be an extraordinary man.Of course his heart is something u are born with.
Essentially- my point is Prohphet Muhammahd PBUH was a fine living example man before he became a prophet.He was naturally endowed with the gift of a good heart, honesty and just plain good old loveable humanbeing.I think this is my lesson from the book so far.You HAVE TO strive to be a good humanbeing first--a kind humanbeing, a loving one and above all--a good muslim. Muslim by action not mouth or preaching, none of this arabman' shitzling.
If you mix a good natural humanbeing with a good muslim, muaamiin-- u are definitely scoring BIG with Allah subhanaah waa tacalah. Other facts in the book:
Bilaal - whom from Dhuksi days all i knew was a black man with a beautiful voice was from Ethiopian formerly known as abyssynia.
Isn't that shocking?-Khadija proposed to Prophet Muhammad SAW first.She was in her late 30s.
-Prophets uncle refused to give his daughter to him,before he married Khadija, because he was rich enogh.
-tribalism began from arabs. First it was purely for human survival mode, but as human multiplied it became more narrowed towards --'your kind' vs 'those kinds'
-abd' in arabic means slave. - I always knew --'abiid' was slavery--but abd' is close to 'Abdi ma ha??
This my question-- since the name abdi' is very synonymous in somalia--could Somalia or Somalis be actually bastard of these merchant arabs coming to east africa from business and of course sleeping with the african madoow women in old ethiopia??I mean-- that is how Bilaal got to arab land right?
Could the famous Darood a foreign arab climbing a tree, be, be actually almost true?? I mean the climbing of the tree was a bit sensationalized of course, but he was a merchant who married a dir--code word for a bantu looking woman.(since all dir and madow and ugly ma ha?)
Your thoughts??
AS to Kambuli---well--- 
It is the particular 100, that perfect pitch rounded number that irks u. Well how about --i say i am at page 163 now. Good enuf odd number for u, macaanto? 