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Answer 1:

Many liked his message and thought he was indeed God's Messenger; others were converted forcibly. As he put it himself, "Faith is in the shadow of the sword."

Answer 2:

Not sure about answer 1 because when the prophet was the first believer at the time, it was only him, and no-one was forced to believe like him.

Instead he told people what had happened to him. The Prophet then knew scripture of which he didn't know before. He know what was wriiten in the Jewish and Christian scriptures without having prior knowledge thereof. That's why it is said that the Prophet was illiterate of their scripture. The prophet was not a liar and a cheat to have made up such a story. This was of the first reasons why people believed him. later on as revelations kept coming to him, he revealed more and more about the events written in the Torah and Jesus, and issues that the jews and teh Christians were arguing about. And he also spoke against idol worship while himself coming out of a tribe where idol worship was the accepted type of believes.

Then there is also the language. At the time most of the Arabs were illiterate and only kept history by memory. When the Muhammad became prophet he recited scripture and in a form of peotry that amazed the people at the time.

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