The Life of the Last Prophet

The Life of the Last Prophet is the first album Yusuf Islam released after leaving the Western pop music business in 1978, when he was known as Cat Stevens; it came out on 1 April 1995 on Mountain of Light/Jamal as a spoken-word audio production. ^{1 2} After that time he recorded only albums with Islamic themes, including recordings for children such as A Is for Allah. ¹

The article describes the album as an attempt to give praise to the Prophet, and to reach young people and those who wish to understand more about Islam, and to explain why so popular a commercial artist left the business at the height of his career. ¹

It opens with the call to prayer and an introduction and follows the life in thirty-four sections: the lone orphan, the trustworthy, the Black Stone, the cave, the night journey, the five daily prayers, Medina, "the first constitution", the migrants and helpers, Badr, the truce of Hudaybiyya, the letters to rulers, the opening of Mecca, the farewell pilgrimage and the Prophet's death, closing with a supplication and the song 'Tala'a al-Badru 'Alayna'. ¹ Between them come recitations of suras, which the museum points to and never types, among them the opening of al-'Alaq, al-Fatiha, al-Ikhlas and the opening of al-Isra'. ¹

• English Wikipedia, 'The Life of the Last Prophet', revision 1365631373 of 23 July 2026, relying on the artist's website. ¹
• Wikidata item Q7747220. ²