The life of Muhammad

By Sally Malm

    

Collaborating author

    

He was orphaned at the age of 6, his uncle rescued Muhammad from slavery, and he gave him a job in his successful caravan business.  By marrying a woman who was successful in his business, Muhammad saw for himself how the main Quraysh families lived.  

He was arrogant, irresponsible, stingy and arrogant, he believed only in wealth and did not take responsibility for people outside his elite inner circle.  Muhammad saw this decline in traditional values ​​as a threat to the existence of his tribe.  

He believed that social reform should be based on a new spiritual foundation, even though he had no idea before the revelations that implementing these changes would be his destiny.

    

Less than a hundred years after Muhammad's death, the first Muslim historians began to write about his life.  These were Muhammad ibn Ishaq (d. 767), Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi (d. 820);  Muhammad ibn Sa'd (d. 845) and Abu Jarir al-Tabari (d. 923).  

These scholars rearranged their narratives from oral traditions and primitive documents, and through their efforts we know more than any other prophet about Muhammad.

It should be noted, however, that the stories of Muhammad's life were written in accordance with modern principles, and that they included wonderful and mythical stories that can be misinterpreted today.  

As we have pointed out with the Axis Wise Men, the Old Testament, and the Gospel stories, such stories should not be taken literally.  

According to Raza Aslan, there is no God, only the origin, evolution and future of Islam.  

They answer the questions: What does it mean to be a prophet?  Whether the stories of David's childhood are true or not is what these stories tell our prophets, our Messiahs, our kings: They have a sacred and eternal work that God created.

    

Not much is known about his childhood, but according to tradition, Muhammad was born in Mecca in 570, the year known as the Year of the Elephant, and Mecca miraculously survived.

    

Tradition has it that Abrahah, the Abyssinian Christian ruler of Yemen, conquered Mecca with a group of elephants brought from Africa. 

Abrahah's goal was to destroy the Kaaba and turn the Christian church in Sanaa into a new religious center in the Arab world.  The frightened Quraysh never saw an elephant, less than a whole flock, so they left the Kaaba unprotected and fled to the mountains.  

But as he was about to attack, the sky darkened like a flock of birds, each throwing rain at the invading army with stones in its beak, forcing it to retreat.

Mohammad Quresh Hashmi was of the descent.  There are many stories about his childhood and childbirth, which are presented in a story that is similar to the Christian story of Mary: The mother of Mohammed, a widow named Amina, one day tells him: "You are the Lord of this nation.  Well, I guarded it.  All evil, and then appointed him Muhammad.

Mohammed was orphaned at the age of ten when his mother died, and Abdul Muttalib accompanied his grandmother, who was in charge of providing water to the pilgrims in Zamzam.  

But when he was eight years old, he too died and, along with his aunt Abu Talib in Hazrat Muhammad, put his coffee in a successful business, so he escaped slavery or debt, which many people experienced.  Have done.  

He was an orphan in the same story as Samuel and others in the Old Testament who was on a business trip to Syria, when Muhammad was only nine years old when a Christian rabbi named Bahria confessed to being "the messenger of God."  From the world ”.

At the age of 25, when Mohammed was still unmarried and dependent on his aunt, he met his then cousin, Khadija, a beautiful widow who was probably thirty years old at the time.  Khadija was unusual for a woman of her time, a respected member of the Mecca society and a successful businesswoman in her own right.  

According to Ibn Hisham, despite his poor social status, Mohammed was known for his "truth, integrity, and nobility of character", and Khadija ordered him to take a convoy of goods to Syria and sell it.  

When he returned home with more income than expected, he offered her a wedding and she was pleased, so he took his place and entered the society of Mecca.  Although polygamy was common in those times, Mohammed and Khadija were married for 25 years until their death.  

They had six children.

As an orphan, Mohammed knew how easy it was to stay out of Mecca's religious economic system.  His marriage and business was going well, now his life was prosperous.  He himself believed that even though large families of the Quraish believed in one God, this belief had no value in their lives.  They forget that it all depends.  Now when he was rich, he laid his hands on Mariah's worst villain and figured out the best things: he was arrogant, irresponsible, careless, and selfish.  They were selfish, they no longer believed in wealth, and they did not care about themselves.

The cave is located on Mount Al-Noor, where Muhammad was given his first revelation according to the Muslim faith.

Because the decline of traditional values ​​of Muhammad threatens the existence of his tribe.  He was convinced that a new spiritual foundation had to be laid for social reform to take effect.  

As a merchant, Muhammad often came into contact with Jews and Christians.  According to the sage Iqbal Ali Shah, Muhammad "studied other religions well."  He knew that his people, even though they believed in God, did not have holy books.  

Laws that were religious and social “books” were developed that controlled their behavior from morning to evening.  There was no such thing among his people, so their lives were in chaos, very tired and incapacitated, and in danger of destroying the whole tribe.

Prior to the revelations, he had no idea that his destiny was to implement these important changes.  He belonged to a small tribe, and Hashim and the sages say that, like the other prophets before him, at first he had nothing to do with what was happening to him and was very upset;  

Even without the intervention of Khadija “Muhammad”.  “Maybe it all ended with his plan and the story would have been very different,” Raza Aslan wrote.