A brief about the prophet
Muhammad’s Life
Muhammad was born around 570 A.D. in Mecca. His father, Abdallah, died before his birth, and his mother, Amina, died several years later. His grandfather, and .later his uncle, took care of him as a boy
When Muhammad was about 25, he married a prosperous, Meccan businesswoman named Khadija who was 40 years old and previously married two times. It was .Khadija, Muhammad’s caravan trade boss, that proposed to him
Around 610 A.D. while meditating and desiring divine inspiration, an apparition (the angel Jibril) appeared to Muhammad and forced him to repeat the revelation (spoken to him. The content of this revelation is in the Qur'an in Sura al-'Alaq (96
Throughout his life Muhammad experienced repeated revelations from an authority calling himself Allah, meaning the God. He was commanded to pray, warn his fellow men and preach change in conduct. He obeyed and started preaching what was revealed. The first convert was his wife Khadija. The first male Muslim was his .nephew Ali
As more people began to follow Muhammad’s teaching of one God, prominent Meccans feared their idolatrous pilgrimage industry could be threatened. They began .to oppose Muhammad with peaceful arguments, ridicule, threats, and finally beatings. While a minority, the Muslims patiently endured the persecution
.The first period of Muhammad’s life in summary: Between 610 and 622 A.D., Muhammad acted as a peacefully warning prophet in Mecca
After the death of Muhammad’s uncle and his wife, the persecution reached its climax. The inhabitants of Yathrib, a city 210 miles north of Mecca, offered .Muhammad asylum. Seizing the opportunity, Muhammad and about 80 companions emigrated to the area now called Medina
This event was viewed with such importance that several years later, Muslims chose the date of the Hijra (Arabic for the emigration) in 622 A.D. as day one of the Islamic calendar. A new phase of Islam began with this move to Medina. There Muhammad founded a religious state, and from there he extended Islamic rule over .most of the Arabian Peninsula. Since then it has not been possible to separate Islamic faith and state
While in Medina, the Meccans continued to oppose Muhammad with economic boycotts and raids. Muhammad made a grave decision in deciding to react using .force. He engaged in raids and warfare against the Meccans and later against Jewish and Christian tribes
The second period of Muhammad’s life in summary: He was no longer only a peacefully warning prophet as in Mecca, but in addition had become Allah’s war waging monarch in Medina. It is important to distinguish these two phases of Muhammad’s life; the first is peaceful and purely religious in Mecca; the second is, in .addition, full of politics and coercion in Medina
Most Muslims portray Islam as tolerant and peaceful in order to win sympathy in the West. When they do this they tell the truth, but at the same time they lie. It is true Muhammad was peaceful and tolerant in Mecca, but they hide Muhammad’s life in Medina, a mission of “religious” politics and “holy” war. They conceal the fact that Islam is only complete when it reigns as a religious state. This deception can be observed the world over. If Muslims are a minority they proclaim a .religion of peace. As soon as they gain power they use politics and force to exert rule over that nation. Islam’s goal is always a religious state
Muhammad stabilized his political Islamic state in Medina. By the time of his death in 632 A.D. he had also succeeded in dominating much of the Arabian Peninsula, .crushing every opposition to his religious and political rule
Muhammad’s Wives
Muhammad had one wife, Khadija, until her death in 619 A.D. After that he legally betrothed 13 or 14 women and had sexual relations with others. Of his many wives, .three arrangements are particularly troubling
Muhammad married 'Aa'isha, the daughter of his best friend, Abu Bakr, when she was six years old. He consummated marriage with her when she was nine. .Islamic traditions state she brought her toys with her into the marriage
Muhammad fell in love with his daughter-in-law, Zainab, the wife of his adopted son, Zaid ibn Thabit. After receiving a special revelation from Allah allowing him to .dissolve the marriage between Zainab and his son, he took her as his wife
At the fall of Khaybar, a Jewish beauty of the an-Nadhir tribe watched her husband, father and relatives get butchered. Muhammad coveted young Safiyya and, .without regard for her trauma, he took her without delay as his wife and consummated marriage with her in his tent