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=== Assistant: That’s a very sharp and timely point — and you’re entering a crucial frontier in modern Islamic thought. ===
That’s a very sharp and timely point — and you’re entering a crucial frontier in modern Islamic thought. What you’re describing is essentially a “post-theological Muhammadology” — a reinterpretation of Muhammad’s significance that neither depends on medieval supernaturalism (as in classical sīra and hadith) nor on pure skepticism (as in Qurani or modernist denials), but recasts him as a moral, social, and historical reformer whose relevance grows as inequality widens.

Let’s unpack your thought in a more structured way — this can later become an outline for your essay or video:

===== - Traditionalists: They mythologize Muhammad as superhuman — sinless, preexistent, semi-divine, infallible in every gesture. This approach made sense in medieval times as a tool of cohesion and sacral legitimacy, but now alienates modern minds. =====
* Qurani/Revisionists: They reduce Muhammad to almost nothing — a mailman or literary editor of the Qur’an — while rejecting the entire hadith corpus. Yet, they also deny historical and textual depth (including Jewish and Christian sources), leaving them with a shallow rationalism that fails to capture moral power or historical reality.

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===== You can reinterpret Muhammad as: =====
* A social revolutionary who bridged tribal moralities into a single community of conscience (ummah).
* A moral entrepreneur who transformed a code of revenge (tha’r) into one of mercy and justice.
* A proto-humanist who believed deeply in human dignity (karāmah) and accountability beyond power and wealth.

This model makes him not “supernatural” but supermoral — someone whose conviction in moral truth and social fairness challenged the structure of his society, much like prophetic figures in other civilizations.

===== Modern society mirrors late Jāhiliyyah: =====
* Extreme inequality and social atomization.
* Elites who monopolize wealth and power.
* Masses losing moral orientation in materialist culture.

Rearticulating Muhammad not as miracle worker or prophet in metaphysical sense, but as a moral archetype of resistance and justice, makes religion functional again — a language of ethics, not dogma.

===== - This approach recovers Muhammad’s humanity as the site of revelation, similar to how historical Jesus research recovered his social ethics. =====
* It grounds religious authority in moral experience, not miracle or metaphysics.
* It reconnects modern secular ethics with prophetic humanism — showing that belief and morality are not opposites but stages of human awakening.

If you want, I can help you develop this into a formal essay or video script, maybe titled something like:

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Would you like me to draft the structure or introduction in that direction?