It has been emphasized in the two classes I've attended of the study of Koran with John Walker, our discussion leader, that we are to use Muhammed's life as our exemplar, according to Islam doctrine.
I raised the point that we cannot do so, since we live in the Twenty-Second Century A.D. and Muhammed lived centuries ago. The fiction that one can essentially carry out the habits and routines of a person living in another age is preposterous, not worthy of intellectual discussion.
In Christianity, we are given the exhortation from Jesus to take up our cross and follow Him. But this edict is not to be taken literally; and no Christian thinks so, it would seem.
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