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follow His Guidance. That Guidance did not come to Prophet
Muhammad 5^ to obligate the people to do more than he did. It
< ame through him so that he could set an example for others. He
received the Message and became the first follower, demonstrating
Io the people how they should follow. Therefore, the first source
of knowledge and authority for the Muslim is the Holy Qur'an.

I he second authority is the example of Prophet Muhammad 5® as
reported in the Hadith, which reflects him as a living example of
the teachings of the Holy Qur'an.29
The Holy Qur'an says, "Verily in the Messenger of Allah you
have the best example for him who looks forward unto Allah and
the Last Day and remembers Allah much."30 It is only from the
I loly Qur’an, and the authentic record of Hadith that we can ob-
(ain full view of this model. Ten years prior to the completion of
the Holy Qur'an, Allah established in the following verse, as He
had in previous verses, that Muslims are to obey Allah [ the Holy
Qur’an] and His Messenger. The Holy Qur'an says, "O you who
believe! Obey Allah, and obey His Messenger, and those of you