Muhammad: Childhood and Youth

Note from Shawakat Al-Tuni:"I was held captive for a long time by my own weakness. It was a very weighty endeavor for someone as insignificant as me to write about someone great like you. Therefore, I became anxious whenever I intended to begin this work, and whenever I began, I was plagued with doubts. I paused whenever I took a step forward until my children, who were studying in various secular institutions, requested me to tell them about you. I sat with them at night and told them stories about you. When I finished telling my stories, I saw tears flowing from their eyes, out of the love that they had for you in their hearts. When I saw that my children, who were a small part of your large community, longed to hear your stories, I wanted to present the fruit of my love and deliberations about you—our beloved and blessed Prophet—to all the Muslim and non-Muslims, the Arabs and the non-Arabs alike, so that I could shed some light—however small—on one aspect of your childhood and earl