When the Full Moon Rose Upon Us

When the Full Moon Rose Upon Us: The Biography Continues

Why return to a biography whose events we already know? Perhaps each reading brings us closer to the Prophet peace be upon him, or reveals treasures we missed before.

His life has become part of memory and identity. However far we stray or whatever identities we adopt, something within us remains connected with it. We return as though checking that the unspoiled child inside us is safe: and that we ourselves are still, in some way, well.

Perhaps, too, when others try to misrepresent his life, returning to it reassures us that its meaning remains beyond their reach.