Limitations of the Study & Recommendations for Further Research

In such a limited time of this research, it would be impossible to have covered every value that the Prophet addressed during his twenty-three years of Prophet hood and in the thousands of writings about him in the Ahadith. Because of the fecundity of writing about the life of the Prophet, the time would not allow to explore all the values the Prophet addressed.

Another limitation of the study is that the researcher is an observing Muslim and therefore the textual analysis can be subjective. On the other side of the coin, being a Muslim, the researcher would be an insider to address the values of Prophet Muhammad. The researcher’s whole life is to learn, understand and practice the values that Prophet Muhammad delivered through his public communication.

To address the issue of values in the public communication of the Prophet Muhammad in details, the researcher recommends that specialists in the science of Ahadith and Communication specialists should work together and study in depth the values exhorted in the public communication of the Prophet. A study to clarify the ethics and values in Islam is needed, especially in the West where the religion of Islam is misunderstood among many westerners.

The researcher recommends a comparative study between the values in the public communication of Prophet Muhammad and the values in the public communication in the West. That study could shed the light on the similarities and differences between the Islamic cultures values and the western cultures values.


The researcher recommends a focus group study between two groups. The first group should be composed of a variety of people representing different Islamic cultures and find out how much of the values that the Prophet Muhammad addressed have been applied in their daily life activities. The second group should be composed of variety of people from the western world. The focus group participants could identify and agree on specific values in public communication representing ideologies of the western world and find out how much these values are applied by this group in their daily life activities. A comparison between the two groups (Moslems and Westerners) and the application of their values in daily practice would yield very interesting results.


The research on this topic has made the researcher aware of the need for a type of encyclopedic treatment of the values that the Prophet addressed. The profound impact that the Prophet’s teachings have had on all humankind led the researcher for an exploration in particular the values that he set forth, specifically the values involving character of the individual and the values of the community at large.

The findings in this research suggest there are many additional opportunities to study the public communication of Prophet Muhammad and the values he espoused while demonstrating transformational leadership.

Recommendations for future research include seeking the Prophet’s words in all written texts and their application in modern times to the time of writing and delivery by Muhammad. The writings on each value are plentiful enough to suggest that each value the Prophet addressed could be a topic of research by itself.

Finally, this research suggests that a comparison of applying the values of the Prophet’s speeches between females and males is worthy of consideration, and a comparison of non-Moslems applying the values suggested by Muhammad and the adoption of Western values by observing Moslems would be beneficial to understanding better the impact of Muhammad’s leadership and speeches on the global community.