Why is Muhammad important to Muslims?

Answer 1

Answer

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the last and final messenger of Allah sent for the guidance of all humanity.

When Prophet Jesus (PBUH) left his late followers were misleaded by the emperer in 4th century contradicting the commandments of Allah and teachings of all Prophets which is GOD IS ONE but those in 4th century changed it in to 3 gods in 1.

Therefore Allah as he already prophesized the last messenger to humanity, sent him at a time when it was needed.

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has brought a solid proof and evidence for his prophethood which is the AMAZING QURAN.Which is full of scientific facts which were unknown to scientists but were mentioned in the Quran 1400 years ago.

Every prophet (PBUH) had a miracle to prove his prophethood, Muhammad (PBUH) also proved it to the Jews, pagans and Christians at his time by spliting the moon in half and also by bringing the EVER LASTING MIRACLE which is the Holy Quran.

The prophet Muhammad is the founder of the religion of Islam and the primary author of the sacred scripture the Quran.

There are approximately 1 billion Muslims (followers of Islam) in the world today.
Because He is a prophet of one of the major religions ISLAM
Muhammad (pbuh) was a prophet of Allah in line with the earlier prophets such as Adam, Noah, Abharam,David, Moses, Jesus etc(peace be upon them all). He is the last prophet of Allah and Muslims believe that no prophet will come after him.He did not come with a new religion but perfected the earlier religions.Muhammad (peace be upon him)was born on Monday 9th Rabi Al-Awwal, some say 12th (22nd April or 29th august) 571 AD in Mecca, a town in Arabia.The year was called Amul Feel (the year of the elephant). It was called so because At that time, Abraha the governer of Yemen , had invaded Mecca intending to demolish the Ka'bah in order to attract the Arab pilgrims to the mock Ka'bah he had set up in Yemen. Abraha arrived in Mecca, together with his troops in Elephants.Allah made him and his army perish by making birds drop stones on them.

Muhammad's (pbuh) fathers name was Abdullah Bin Abdul Muttalib and he was the chief of his clan Banu Hashim.He died in Yathrib before Muhammad (pbuh) was born.His mothers name was Aminah Bint Wahab.

When Muhammad (pbuh) was delivered Aminah said with great joy,"Since the day I carried my son in my womb, until I bought him forth, I never suffered the least pain.I never felt his weight and should not have known the state I was in, if it had not been that after I conceived and was about to fall asleep, an angel appeared to me , saying 'Dost thou not see that thou art pregnant with the Lord of thy nation and the prophet of all thy people?Know it full well.' At the same time a streak of light ,darting out of my body,went up northwards, unto the land of Syria.

"When the day of my deliverance came due ,the angel appeared to me again and gave me a warning : 'When thou shalt bring forth thy child into the world thou must utter these words : 'For him I implore the protection of Allah, the Only One, against the wickedness of the envious,' thou shalt call him by the name of Muhammad which means The Lauded, as he is announced in the Torah and the Injil , for he will be lauded by all the inhabitants of heaven and earth.' "

When the planet Al-Mushtari (Jupiter) passed,a line of light darted for the second time from Aminah's body in the direction of faraway Syria and it illuminated the palace of the town of Busra.At the same time other prodigies astonished the world : The lake Sowa suddenly dried up , a violent earth quake made the palace of Chosroes the Great tremble, and shattered fourteen of its towers ; the Sacred Fire kept alight for more than a thousand years ,went out, in spite of the exertions of the Persian worshipers and all the idols of the universe were found with their heads bowed down in great shame.

When Muhammad (pbuh) came into this world , he was devoid of all pollution , circumcised naturally , and the umbilical cord had been cut by the angel Gabriel himself. The atmosphere of the city to infants, the leading citizens wee in the habit of confiding their children to Bedouin wet nurses who bought them up in their Babyaland.

Shortly after the birth of Muhammad (pbuh) about a dozen women belonging to the tribe of Bani Sad , all bronzed by the bracing breezes of their country ,arrived in Mecca, to seek nurse lings.Upon one of them devolved the honor of suckling the Prophet of Allah.And she was Haleema, signifying "the gentle".

He grew up in a healthy atmosphere and acquired pure speech and learned good manners. She suckled him for two years. A great event took place during his stay with Haleema.One day Gabriel and an angel ascended from the heavens.They seized hold of him and cut his chest open and took out his heart.They then extracted a clot of blood which they cast far away and washed him with Zamzam.His foster brother ran to Haleema and Haris (his foster father) to tell them what he had seen.He told them that two men dressed in pure white had cut open Muhammad's (pbuh) chest and then suddenly disappeared like phantoms.

When Muhammad went back to Mecca, Abdul Mutallib his grandfather embraced him affectionately and took him to his mother Aminah who was rejoiced on seeing her son after a very long time. Aminah kept her child with her,and his health fortified by life in the open air had now nothing to fear from the unhealthy conditions of town life.Under the vigilant eyes of the most loving of mothers, Muhammad grew up handsome and intelligent, but he was not fated to long enjoy maternal affection which no ther love can equal. On returning from a journey to Yathrib, Aminah died suddenly,halfway on the road ,in the straggling village of Al-Abwa,where she was buried.

Muhammad (pbuh), now a sorrowing orphan boy was bought back to Mecca by his caring nurse ,Umm Aiman. He was taken in hand by his grandfather Abdul Mutallib, who had always shown him great affection and the old man's love increased daily , as he saw the young lad growing up more and more like Abdullah,his father.The following anecdote gives a clear idea of Abdul Muttalib's boundless affection for his grandson ,Muhammad (pbuh):

The square in which stands the Ka'bah, where, morning and evening the citizens gathered, gossiping about their business as well as performing their devotions. Not a day passed without the servants of Abdul Mutallib throwing down a carpet in the Temple's shade ,and round the rug sat his sons, grandsons and the leading townsmen, awaiting his coming.The respect shown to Abdul Mutallib the Superintendent of the "House of Allah" was so great that never did anyone dare to put his foot even on the outer edge of his carpet.

It came to pass one day that young Muhammad (pbuh) took up a position right in the middle of the revered carpet,scandalizing the highest decree his uncles who drove him away immediately.But Abdul Mutallib was coming and he witnessed the conflict from afar."Let my grandson go back at once to where he was seated!" he called out."He is the delight of my old age and his great audacity arises from the presentiment he has of his destiny, for he shall occupy a higher rank than any person has ever attained".So saying , he made Muhammad sit by his side and fondled his cheeks and his shoulders,while in ecstasies at the least thing the boy said or did. Abdul Mutallib died at the age of ninety five ,after caring for Muhammad (pbuh) for two years,unanimously regretted by his fellow-citizens.

Then Muhammad (pbuh) was received into the house of his uncle Abu Talib.He had been chosen for this kind succor by his grandfather, for the reason that, alone among his uncles he was the brother of both Muhammad's mother Aminah and father Abdullah. He loved him too much and preferred him to his own sons.

When he was twelve years old , he visited Syria with his uncle Abu Talib and had his first exposure to Jews and Christians and apparently developed a respect for these "People of the Book." A particular incident took place during his journey which narrates as follows:

When the caravan of Abu Talib and Muhammad (pbuh) reach Busra, a place in Syria,a Christian monk called Bahira,

At the age of twenty five Muhammad (pbuh) married a widow named Khadija who was involved in trade and got him involved in it as well. She was the first wife of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the first convert to Islam. It is clear that Khadija played a vital role in supporting her husband through the first difficult years of Islam.Khadija was a wealthy woman. She controlled a trade system in Arabia,reaching as far north as Mesopotamia, which can have helped to spread Islam in its earliest history. Muhammad loved and respected her very much. She bore Muhammad several children.The most known of these is Fatima, who came to play an important role in the development of Islam.

The earliest accounts we have of him date to 750 C.E. with the book Life by Ibn Ishaq, more than one hundred years after Muhammad's death. Although this is the first and most basic source for information about the life of Muhammad for all Muslims, it does not present a very flattering portrait of him.

Surviving papyri of that era say nothing, and the coins invoke only Allah, not his Prophet. As late as the second century of the Muslim era, scholarly opinion on Muhammad's birth date differed by as much as 85 years, demonstrating that even at that point there was a great deal of variation in what people knew about Muhammad.

The focus on Mecca is also questionable. Muslim tradition teaches that Mecca was an important crossroads for trade caravans, but the location of Mecca today is not a natural stopping place for the incense route from south Arabia to Syria. Contemporary non-Muslims sources also don't make any mention of such a city, which is very strange if Mecca was indeed important for commerce and religion.

By and large, it appears that the Muslim belief that we have accurate eyewitness reports for every aspect of Muhammad's life is not unlike similar beliefs among Christians regarding Jesus and Orthodox Jews regarding Moses. The motivation lies more in a need to believe than in a sound foundation based on confirmed historical evidence.

Given that, the following description of Muhammad's life is based almost entirely upon the traditional beliefs of adherents and not upon historically confirmable fact. However, where such confirmations exist, they will be noted.

By the time of Ibn Hisham's writings, Islam had entered into extended contact with Christianity, and some scholars suggest that Muhammad's biography was deliberately constructed in an effort to offer a contrast to the gospel stories of Jesus. Indeed, for the first two hundred years of Islam, the Arab conquerors were a minority ruling a non-Muslim majority. Some scholarship estimates that by the middle of the eighth century, Muslims constituted only eight percent of the subject populations, vastly outnumbered by Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others.

The accounts we do have suggest that Muhammad was an honest and moral man because, for example, the rich widow fifteen years his senior who had put him in charge of her trade business offered herself to him in marriage. Whatever his early life might have been like, tradition has it that as he grew older, he became more distressed at the state of society around him and regularly retired to the cave Hira' outside of Mecca. Here he would sometimes spend days at a time, contemplating life.

During one of these retreats in the year 610 C.E., at about the age of forty, Muhammad experienced "the Call," a common event for religious reformers and revolutionaries. According to his own reports, he was in a dream or dream-like state when he received instruction from God (through the angel Gabriel) on what he must believe and what he must do. These instructions were not a one-time event, however, and lasted throughout his life.

The first instruction was that there existed only one god, and that strict monotheistic belief was required of all people. The second involved socioeconomic justice for all, and the third involved the existence of a final judgment for both the just and the unjust.

Muhammad's preaching of his new revelations was not especially welcome among his fellow citizens of Mecca. Muslims today believe that this was due largely to the fact that Muhammad emphasized economic and social justice too much for the rich and greedy traders there. Even if that is true, and the preaching of these ideals did impede his efforts at first, the doctrine of zakat, or alms for the poor, was important in the development of a tightly knit community of believers - and, ultimately, of Islam's success.

After thirteen years of preaching, the small band of followers he gathered was simply not powerful enough to take control of the city of Mecca. Nevertheless, even if his standing among the city's leaders was not especially good, he must have had a good enough reputation for the city of Medina (located 200 miles north) to approach him and offer him the position of ruler there.

He thus moved his group to Medina in 622, an event which is called the hijra and marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar. In Medina he established a charter which guaranteed freedom of religion for the local Jews - but evidently he expected them to quickly convert to Islam once they heard what it had to offer, and he was disappointed when they didn't.

It is at this point where we have the only really secure date for early Muslim history, 622 C.E., which has been confirmed on coins as a the beginning of a new era. What exactly this new era meant is unclear, and there is no indication that it is the hijra of tradition. The only information that we have about it is from documents 676 and 680 C.E., two Nestorian documents which refer to 622 as the year of "the rule of the Arabs."

At this time, then, Muhammad changed the nature of the salat, the daily prayers which each Muslim must recite. Previously all Muslims had faced Jerusalem when saying the prayers, but now they all faced Mecca. This was surely connected to his disappointment with the Jews, but it may have also been connected to his hope of eventually winning over the city to his new religion. Some scholars also take this as a sign of his desire to create a national/ethnic religion for Arabs.

There are normally three reasons offered for Muhammad's interest in taking Mecca. The first was that it was supposed to be an important religious center for Arabs at the time - for his new religion to become widespread, he needed that city. Second, it was supposed to be the seat of Muhammad's own tribe, the Quraysh. If they could be won over, he could use them and their allies to further spread his message.

The third was that the Meccans simply didn't like him very much and continued to harass him and Medina in an effort to repress his efforts. The property and possessions of all of those who left with him had been seized, and a genuine state of war existed between Mecca and Medina.

Various skirmishes eventually lead to a major battle at Badr, where 300 Medinians are supposed to have defeated one thousand Meccans. Because of this, Muhammad was able to sign a treaty with several Bedouin tribes and gain their aid; but he lost it again after a defeat to the Meccans the next year.

During all of this, Muhammad accused local Jewish tribes of conspiring to aid Mecca. After Badr, the Medinese Jews were attacked and forced to emigrate to Syria. After the defeat at Uhud, the Nadir tribe of Jews received the same fate. Two years later, after a failed Meccan siege of Medina was over, the Qurayza tribe of Jews was attacked and all the men were killed.

Eventually, eight years after the hijra, Mecca was forced to negotiate a peaceful surrender to Muhammad and almost all citizens became Muslims. Thereafter Mecca would remain a center of devotion for Muslims all over the world. During the next two years, Islam swept across Arabia with most cities voluntarily joining, but a few remained stubborn and had to be brought in by force.

On June 8, 632 (eleven years after the hijra), Muhammad died. By the 640s, Arabs possessed most of Syria, Iraq, Persia, and Egypt. Thirty years later they were conquering parts of Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia.

Answer 2

Prophet Muhammad is important to Muslims for the following main reasons:

• Prophet Muhammad is the prophet of the Islam religion.
• Prophet Muhammad received the Qur'an revelation from God (Allah) through the Angel Gabriel (Jibril).
• The first pillar of Islam's five pillars is to witness that there is no God (Allah) except one God and that Muhammad is His messenger and prophet.
• The sayings and practices of prophet Muhammad (called Sunna) is one of the two main sources (the first source is Qur'an) of Islamic rules and teachings.
• Prophet Muhammad was honored by God in Qur'an in many occasions
• Muslims were commanded by God in Qur'an to praise him whenever mentioned and say, peace be upon him.

Another answer:

The Prophet PBUH is important to Muslims because he is the Messenger of Allah. He is the leader of the religion of Islam and the last Prophet. He was and still is the best example of a Muslim and he helped guide us on the religion of Islam.
He is the prophet who conveyed Quran; as received by him from God through the angel Gabriel; to his followers. He is the model of all good morals and conducts. His obedience is a very basic Islam teaching per God command. Refer to question below.
Because he is the prophet of Islam who brought revelation and guidance from God to mankind; he is the ideal example for all humanity to follow his way in all aspects (morally, family life, millitary, etc).

Answer 3

The last and final prophet that God sent to humanity was the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad explained, interpreted and lived the teachings of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad is the greatest of all prophets for many reasons, but mainly because the results of his mission have brought more people into the pure belief in One God than any other prophet.

Even though other religious communities claimed to believe in One God, over time they had corrupted their beliefs by taking their prophets and saints as intercessors with Almighty God. Some religions believe their prophets to be manifestions of God, "God Incarnate" or the "Son of God".

All of these false ideas lead to the creature being worshipped instead of the Creator, which contributed to the idolatrous practice of believing that Almighty God can be approached through intermediaries. In order to guard against these falsehoods, the Prophet Muhammad always emphasized that he was only a human-being tasked with the preaching of God's message.

He taught Muslims to refer to him as "the Messenger of God and His Slave". To Muslims, Muhammad is the supreme example for all people - he was the exemplary prophet, statesman, military leader, ruler, teacher, neighbor husband, father and friend. Unlike other prophets and messengers, the Prophet Muhammad lived in the full light of history. Muslims don't need to have "faith" that he existed and that his teachings are preserved - they know it to be a fact. Even when his followers only numbered a few dozen, Almighty God informed Muhammad that he had be sent as a mercy to all of mankind.

Because people had distorted or forgotten God's messages, God took it upon Himself to protect the message revealed to Muhammad. This was because Almighty God promised not to send another messenger after him. Since all of God's messengers have preached the message of Islam - i.e. submission to the will of God and the worship of God alone - Muhammad is actually the last prophet of Islam, not the first.

May Allah enlighten your heart, have a nice day.

Answer 4

Prophet Muhammad is significant because he is a model for all the ideals of all aspects of life:

• The religious leader
• The State's man
• The warrior
• The father
• The grandfather
• The husband
• The purchaser
• The merchant
• The Judge
• The negotiator
• The peaceful
• the ideal morals
• ... etc

Answer 5

Because he is the prophet of Islam and he went with angel Gabriel on a buraq (like a horse) from Mecca to Jerusalem in one night. Normally it would take much longer since they didn't have cars or planes.

Answer 6

Because he is prophet of a large nation .