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Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad was the founder of the Islam religion. Considered by Muslims to be a messenger of God, Muhammad was born in 570 and his revelations from God make up the verses of the Qu'ran, the sacred text at the center of Islam. Muhammad died in 632 at the age of 62. Ask questions here about his life and his founding of one of the world's major religions.
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Why do people write SAW after Muhammad?
S.A.W. is the abbreviation for the Arabic phrase salla Allahu alaihi wa-sallam. It means "may Allah pray for him and salute him," and is a respectful phrase used only with the name of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Western Muslims who speak English often use the abbreviation "P.B.U.H" instead of "S.A.W." - PBUH stands for "Peace Be Upon Him."
Why was tge year the prophet was born caleed the year of elephant?
The year when Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W.) was born is referred to as Year of Elephants. That year, Abraha, an Roman commander marched towards Mekkah with a big troops consisting of elephants. He aimed at destroying the Ka'aba. As the Holy Quran narrates, a flock of ababeel bird carried baked clay in their beaks. they threw the clay on the elephants and the elephants were turned into ashes.
What are differences of the ten commandments and the five pillars of Islam?
The Five Pillars of Christianity or the Five Pillars of Islam have no similarities to the Ten commandments. However, the Seven Pillars of Judaism are more "alike" to the Ten Commandments. Because, of the Fourth Pillar of Judaism: Law, which is the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings; the Old Testament, which includes the Ten Commandments.
How did muhammad's successors extend Muslim rule?
The Islamic empire expanded through conquest. Islam as a religion spread both due to the imperial growth and due to peaceful conversions of those outside of the empire.
After many years of wandering alone in the desert, having his brain destroyed by
syphilis, Muhammad was completely insane. Near death he came upon a dung beetle that he believed was god. He spent several months talking with the dung beetle before blind luck had him find his way home again. Unfortunately his insane rantings were mistaken for the words of god, and we have had to put up with that
huge problem for the last 1000 years or so.
Islam does not trace its ancestry back only to Hazrat Abraham (AS). However, the last Prophet of Islam Hazrat Muhammad (May peace be upon him) was the grand, grand son of Hazrat Ismaiel (AS)m who was the son of Hazrat Abraham (AS).
Islam is the heavenly religion It is not limited to any particular region or country. The first Man and Prophet of Almighty God Hazarat Adam (AS) started Islam Religion. Islam is the set of rules given by Almighty God to the Prophets from time to time for the guidance of humans, especially when they turned astray. These rules were given to Hazrat Adam (AS), Hazrat Noa (AS), Hazrat Abraham (AS), Hazrat Moses (AS), Hazrat Jesus Christ (AS) and the last of the series of Prophets Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (May peace be upon him). He was born in Makka, Arabia in 570 AD and started preaching Islam in 610 AD when the first verses of the holy Qur'an were revealed to him.
Thus Islam is the heavenly religion given step by step as human society advanced. It was completed at the last Prophet but the message of all the Prophets (May peace be upon them all) was the same: ONENESS of Almighty God Who alone is the Creator, Sustainer, Provider and Ruler of all the worlds He has created. He has No Son, No Parents and No Partner or Associate. The idea of Trinity was Not given by Hazrat Jesus Christ (May peace be upon him). It was invented much later. There have been about 1,25,000 Prophets who preached the message of Almighty God to human beings. Thus Islam is as old as human history on the earth.
Why did hazrat Muhammad saw married hazrat ayesha ra so young?
Answer 1 (Shia Muslim view)
According to Shia Islam the 6 years age for marriage of Aisha is not authentic and her real age at marriage has been 17-21 years.
Answer 2 (Sunni Muslim view)
A few comments about Muhammad's marriages are in order.
Muhammad married his first wife, Khadijah, several years before his announcement as a prophet of Islam. Khadijah was a reasonably well-to-do woman of Makkah and was 15 years his senior. Muhammad was 25 and Khadijah was 40 at the time of their marriage. This loving and caring monogamous relationship continued for 25 years until her death.
Muhammad, now over 50 years of age, married a relatively aged woman by the name of Saudah. It is thus important to note here that Muhammad's twenty five prime youth years were spent in purely monogamous relationship with a lady 15 years his senior. This speaks volumes about this man's piety and loyalty in spousal matters as well as about the fact that his later marriages could not have been motivated by any human wild sexual desires.
In 620-621 A.D, he and his devout companions migrated from Makkah to Medina. Then a couple of years later, he married Ayesha, a daughter of his closest companion, Abu Bakr, in the 3rd Hijrah (Islamic calendar-623-24 A.D). This information coming from diverse historical and Hadith sources is widely agreed upon and therefore can be, a priori, considered authentic. Based on this information, and a host of other related bits and pieces detailed below, it can be shown that Ayesha could have been at least 16-19 of age at the time of her marriage with Muhammad (PbuH). The following is the detail of the analysis of these historical and Hadith accounts.
1. Several books of Hadith (Al-Bukhari and Al-Muslim, Abu Dawood, among others) and Islamic history (Tabari, among others) report that Ayesha was married to the Prophet at 6 but her marriage was not consummated until she was 9. Although, this information is widely quoted and found in many Hadith and history books, it must be noted that most of this information has come from a single person, Hisham bin Urwah, who is the last narrator of this Hadith Isnaad (chain of narration) on the authority of his father. Thus, this Hadith is primarily a single Hadith. Some other narratives mention the same Hadith but their narration has been found weak and unacceptable. In general, a Hadith has more credibility if it is narrated by more people independently from diverse chains of narrators. In this case, there is basically only one source.
2. Despite the abundance of information available during the 71 years that Hisham bin Urwah lived and taught in Medina, it is rather odd that no one else-not even his famous pupil Malik ibn Anas-reported Ayesha's age from Hisham in Medina. Furthermore, all the narrators of this Hadith were Iraqis. Hisham is reported to have moved to Iraq in his later years. An extensive list of biographical sketches of all narrators including these Iraqis is available in some books.
3. Yaqub ibn Shaibah is reported to have said, "narratives reported by Hisham are reliable except those that are reported through the people of Iraq". Malik ibn Anas (d. 795), a student of Hisham in fact discredited all narratives of Hisham that were reported through people of Iraq.
(Tehzibu'l-tehzib, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Arabic, Dar Ihya al-turath al-Islami, one of the most well known books on the life and reliability of the narrators of the traditions of the Prophet (PbuH), vol 11, pg 48 - 51).
4. It is reported that Hisham bin Urwah's memory suffered in his later years to the extent that some of the traditions reported from Hisham bin Urwah could not be trusted for authenticity.
(Mizanu'l-ai`tidal, by Al-Zahbi , Arabic, a book on the life sketches of the narrators of the Hadith, Al-Maktabatu'l-athriyyah, Sheikhupura, Pakistan, Vol 4, pg 301).
5. Even though Ayesha is reported to have been born about eight years before Hijrah (around 614 A.D.), one can find another narrative in Bukhari (kitabu'l-tafseer) whereby Ayesha is reported to have said that she was a 'young girl' at the time of revelation of the 54th chapter of the Qur'an which came 9 years before Hijrah (around 612 A.D). Thus, according to this tradition, Ayesha was a young girl (Jariyah-as she calls herself and not an infant in which case she would be sibyah). Additionally, this narrative stands in direct contrast to the one reported on Ayesha's age by Hisham bin Urwah. This puts Ayesha's age significantly higher than 9 as reported by Hisham bin Urwah-possibly 15 or even higher. Obviously, if this narrative is held to be true, it is in clear contradiction with the narratives reported by Hisham ibn Urwah. There is no compelling reason as to why this tradition should be considered less accurate vis-Ã -vis Hisham's narrative).(Sahih Bukhari, kitabu'l-tafsir, Arabic, Bab Qaulihi Bal al-sa`atu Maw`iduhum WA'l-sa`atu adha' WA amarr).
6. According to many narratives, Ayesha participated in the battles of Badr and Uhud. No one younger than 15 was allowed to accompany the Prophet's army in the battle of Uhud. This applied across the board to all participants, men and women alike. The battle of Uhud took place around the 2nd Hijrah, a time line close to her marriage with the Prophet. Obviously, she was at least older than 15 at that time.
7. A narrative regarding Ayesha's participation in the battle of Uhud is given in Bukhari, (Kitabu'l-jihad WA'l-siyar, Arabic, Bab Ghazwi'l-nisa' WA qitalihinna ma`a'lrijal; that all boys under 15 were sent back is given in Bukhari, Kitabu'l-maghazi, Bab ghazwati'l-khandaq WA hiya'l-ahza'b, Arabic).
8. Most historians have consensus on the age of one of the oldest female companions of the Prophet, namely, Asma, the elder sister of Ayesha that was ten years older than Ayesha. It is also reported in Taqri'bu'l-tehzi'b as well as Al-bidayah WA'l-nihayah that Asma died in 73 Hijrah when she was 100 years old. Clearly, if Asma was 27 or 28 years old at the time of Hijrah, Ayesha was 17 at the time of Hijrah and 19 at the time of consummation of her marriage with Muhammad. (For Asma being 10 years older than Ayesha, see A`la'ma'l-nubala', Al-Zahabi, Vol 2, Pg 289, Arabic, Mu'assasatu'l-risalah, Beirut, 1992. Ibn Kathir confirms this fact, [Asma] was elder to her sister [Ayesha] by ten years" (Al-Bidayah WA'l-nihayah, Ibn Kathir, Vol 8, Pg 371, Arabic, Dar al-fikr al-`arabi, Al-jizah, 1933). For Asma being 100 years old, see Al-Bidayah WA'l-nihayah, Ibn Kathir, Vol 8, Pg 372, Arabic, Dar al-fikr al-`arabi, Al-jizah, 1933). Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani also has the same information: "She [Asma (ra)] lived a hundred years and died in 73 or 74 AH." Taqribu'l-tehzib, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, Pg 654, Arabic, Bab fi'l-nisa', al-harfu'l-alif, Lucknow).
9. Tabari informs in his treatise on Islamic history that Abu Bakr had four children and all four were born during the pre Islamic period. The pre-Islamic period ended in 610 A.D, a fact that makes Ayesha to be at least 14 years of age at the time of her marriage around 623-624 A.D.
(Tarikhu'l-umam WA'l-mamlu'k, Al-Tabari, Vol 4, Pg 50, Arabic, Dara'l-fikr, Beirut, 1979).
10. Ibn Hisham, the historian, reports that Ayesha (ra) accepted Islam quite some time before `Umar ibn al-Khattab which only means that Ayesha (ra) accepted Islam close to the time of first revelation (around 610 A.D). This means she must have been at least a young girl at that time. Assuming she was barely 6 or 7 at that time this information puts the age of Ayesha at 20 or more at the time of her marriage with Muhammad (623-624 A.D.), (Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, Ibn Hisham, vol 1, Pg 227 - 234 and 295, Arabic, Maktabah al-Riyadh al-hadithah, Al-Riyadh).
11. Tabari reports that before migrating to Habashah, Abu Bakr planned to hand over his daughter, Ayesha to Mut'am's son to whom she was engaged. But fearing persecution by the Quraish, Mut'am refused and his son divorced Ayesha. The migration to Habashah happened 8 years before Hijra. Obviously, at the time she was ready to take on responsibilities as a wife (possibly 9 or 10 years of age). If she married Muhammad in the 2nd Hijrah (623-624 A.D), she could not be less than 19 years of age (a secondary reference for this argument is: Tehqiq e umar e Siddiqah e Ka'inat, Habib ur Rahman Kandhalwi, Urdu, Pg 38, Anjuman Uswa e hasanah, Karachi, Pakistan).
12. A famous Sunni imam, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, reports in His Musnad, that after the death of Khadijah, Khaulah came to the Prophet (PbuH) and advised him to marry again. She had two propositions for the Prophet: Either Muhammad could marry a virgin (bikr), or he could go for woman who had already been married (thayyib)". Khaulah named Ayesha for a virgin (bikr). It is common knowledge that the term bikr in the Arabic language refers to a well formed lady and not to a 9 year old, playful, immature lass. If she were nine, the word used by Khaulah would have been jariyah and not bikr.
(Musnad, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vol 6, Pg 210, Arabic, Dar Ihya al-turath al-`arabi, Beirut).13. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani has reported that Fatimah, Muhammad's daughter, was five years older than Ayesha and that Fatimah was born when the Prophet was 35 years old. Thus, Ayesha, according to Ibn Hajar, was born when Muhammad was 40 and consummated her marriage when he was 54 or 55. That makes Ayesha at least 15-16 years of age.
(Al-isabah fi tamyizi'l-sahabah, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Vol 4, Pg 377, Arabic, Maktabatu'l-Riyadh al-haditha, al-Riyadh,1978)
Answer 3 (non-Muslim view)
It was nothing very unusual for children to be married. In most cultures throughout history, marriage contracts have been finalized between two children or between a child and an adult. So the fact that Muhammad married A'isha when she was six was fairly normal in seventh-century Arabia. People did it all the time.
What was unusual was the fact that Muhammad consummated the marriage when A'isha was only nine. In most cultures, a marriage is not consummated until both spouses have passed puberty. Aisha did not reach menarche until she was 14 or even 15, and she was definitely not physically mature at nine. She couldn't cook, either, so she was not ready for marriage, even by the standards of her own culture.
Muhammad's original plan had probably been to wait until Aisha menstruated, simply because that was the way things were usually done. It was Aisha's father, Abu Bakr, who suggested that she move in with Muhammad early. We don't really know why Abu Bakr made this decision. Perhaps it was because they had just moved to Medina, and he was worried that his friendship with Muhammad might fade away now that Muhammad had many new supporters. Perhaps it was because Aisha (like many of their family) had just recovered from a fever, and Abu Bakr was worried she would become sick again and die before she married Muhammad. Perhaps it was because Abu Bakr had just married a young wife (probably not as young as Aisha but much younger than himself) and had therefore revised his ideas about the appropriate age for marriage.
It seems odd that Muhammad accepted Abu Bakr's suggestion. We would expect a prophet to correct his friend's morality and tell him that his offer amounted to child abuse. Probably Muhammad agreed to consummate the marriage simply because he could.He was no longer being persecuted for his faith but was the leader of a thriving religious community. He could say, "Allah allows this," and everyone would believe him.
We know that Muhammad found Aisha very attractive. She was a pretty girl, had a lively personality and was very intelligent. He doesn't seem to have been at all sorry that Abu Bakr let him live with A'isha when she was only nine.
Answer 4
Hint on the non Muslim Answer View
I wonder the written information in this answer is based on what references. How did they know the age of A'isha although there was no recordings of age at that time. what they can say if they know that A'isha was engaged to another man before being engaged to prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). She was not married to the other man as he was not Muslim.
Answer 5
Aisha was 19 years old when she got married. This was in the year 2 A.H. or around year 624 AD. Prophet Mohamed was around 54 years old when married with Aisha (he was born in year 570 AD). See related links and related question below for more information.
A few comments about Muhammad's marriages are in order.
Muhammad married his first wife, Khadijah, several years before his announcement as a prophet of Islam. Khadijah was a reasonably well-to-do woman of Makkah and was 15 years his senior. Muhammad was 25 and Khadijah was 40 at the time of their marriage. This loving and caring monogamous relationship continued for 25 years until her death.
Muhammad, now over 50 years of age, married a relatively aged woman by the name of Saudah. It is thus important to note here that Muhammad's twenty five prime youth years were spent in purely monogamous relationship with a lady 15 years his senior. This speaks volumes about this man's piety and loyalty in spousal matters as well as about the fact that his later marriages could not have been motivated by any human wild sexual desires.
In 620-621 A.D, he and his devout companions migrated from Makkah to Medina. Then a couple of years later, he married Ayesha, a daughter of his closest companion, Abu Bakr, in the 3rd Hijrah (Islamic calendar-623-24 A.D). This information coming from diverse historical and Hadith sources is widely agreed upon and therefore can be, a priori, considered authentic. Based on this information, and a host of other related bits and pieces detailed below, it can be shown that Ayesha could have been at least 16-19 of age at the time of her marriage with Muhammad (PbuH).
Finally, it must be pointed out that Ayesha's age at the time of her marriage has never been an issue. If it were, his enemies must have picked up on this issue as they did to him on some other issues. Also, the reader must note that none of these Hadith reports concerning Ayesha's controversial age of marriage with the Prophet goes back to the Prophet himself. In other words, it is not the Prophet himself who said Ayesha was 6 or 9. These reports came from a single individual and the Iraqis reported from him when he grew old and his memory started failing.
In conclusion, this article is an attempt to prove that the books written 200-300 years after the death of Muhammad, while providing a good deal of historical information about him are not free from faulty, less than perfect and self-contradictory materials. These should not be taken as the final word for a Muslim. There is a Final Word for a Muslim and that is the Book of God, the Holy Qur'an-the book that defines the marriageable age for a man or woman when he or she attains soundness of judgment (Al-Qur'an 4:6). If Muhammad is a model for mankind, if he followed the Qur'an all his life, if Allah stands witness to his rock-solid character, there is no way that he could have taken a 6-9 year old, immature young, playful girl as a responsible wife.
The Prophet (S.A.W)was always keen to help the poor by giving them what he had, and when he could not find anything, he would ask his companions to help,He wanted every individual in the society to care for others and to help them as much as they could afford.He treated the poor with mercy and kindness, and he used to give them whatever he could, although he, himself, was poor. He also used to teach his companions to have mercy upon the poor as well. Consider his kind, sweet words:
"O son of Adam! It is better for you if you spend your surplus (wealth), but if you withhold it, it is evil for you. There is (however) no reproach for you (if you withhold the essentials) for a living. And begin (charity) with your dependants; and the upper hand is better than the lower hand." (Muslim)
Because the Prophet realized the severity of the crisis of poverty and its attenuating impact on people, he supported the poor and even lived amongst them.
Yet, he realized that poverty is quite a great trial. Therefore, he used to supplicate to Allah:
"O Allah, I seek refuge in You from disbelief and poverty." (Abu-Dawud)
"Steady us in our faith, and protect us from poverty." (Muslim)
His life was not that different from the lives of the poor. Lady Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, narrated:
"The family of Muhammad did not eat their fill for three successive days till he died." (Al-Bukhari)
He also said:
"If anyone gives as sadaqa (charity) the equivalent of a date from that (earning) earned honestly, for Allah accepts that which is lawful, the Lord would accept it with His Right Hand, and even if it is a date, it would foster in the Hand of the lord, as one of you fosters his colt, till it becomes bigger than a mountain." (Al-Bukhari)
Nothing is more delighting to me than this that Uhud should be of gold for me, and no dinar is left with me out of it before three nights pass except a dinar which I would set aside for the repayment of debt upon me." (Al-Bukhari)
The Madinan society was generally poor, and therefore, to list all incidences and narrations that demonstrate the Prophet's mercy is impossible. Yet, we are trying to clarify the picture by giving examples, and those who seek more detail can refer to the Sunnah.
Consider what the Prophet had taught Abu-Dharr, may Allah be pleased with him, although Abu-Dharr was very poor:
"Abu-Dharr, when you prepare the broth, add water to it and invite your neighbor over." (Muslim)
He also used to teach women to give their neighbors:
"O Muslim women, none of you should consider even a sheep's trotter too insignificant to give to her neighbor." (Al-Bukhari)
He wanted every individual in the society to care for others and to help them as much as they could afford.
One day, Jabir ibn-Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him, invited the Prophet to eat with him at his house. Although the Prophet was starving, he did not want to go alone. He took some of the Muhajirin (immigrants from Makkah) and the Ansar(residents of Madinah) along with him, and miraculously, the little amount of food available at Jabir's house became enough to satisfy all those who attended. (Al-Bukhari)
The Prophet was always keen to help the poor by giving them what he had, and when he could not find anything, he would ask his companions to help, not to leave a poor man without help.
Abu-Huraira narrated:
"A person came to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) and said, 'I am hard pressed by hunger.'
The Prophet (peace be upon him) sent a message to one of his wives (to procure food for him) but she said,
'By Him Who has sent you with Truth, there is nothing with me (to serve him) but only water.' He then sent the (same) message to another, and she gave the same reply, until all of them gave the same reply. The Prophet then said, 'Allah would show mercy to him who will entertain this guest tonight'
A person from the Ansar stood up and said, 'Messenger of Allah, I am ready to entertain him.'
He took him to his house and said to his wife, 'Is there anything with you (to serve the guest)?' She said, 'No, but only sustenance for our children.' He said, 'Distract their attention with something, and when the guest enters extinguish the lamp and give him the impression that we are eating.' So they sat down, and the guest had his meal. When it was morning he went to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) who said,
'Allah was well pleased with what you both did for your guest this night.'"
This was how mercy was so evident in Madinah at the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him, who never stopped giving despite his continuous suffering.
The Prophet always considered giving to be better than keeping, and consequently, he continuously gave. Among the best descriptions of his merciful attitude is what Lady Aisha narrated:
"We slaughtered a sheep and gave away most of it. I told the Prophet only a small piece was left. He then said in all his wisdom, 'All of it is remaining (through charity) but that piece'"
Such was his life and his mercy!
It should not be perceived that by the Prophet's giving and encouraging his companions to give would mean that he would accept that the poor may continue to ask for help for the rest of their lives. On the contrary he was keen on teaching the poor the importance of working to fulfill one's own needs. He wanted them to avoid the disgrace of asking and begging and enjoy the sweetness of giving.
Anas ibn-Malek, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated:
"A man from the Ansar came to ask the Prophet (peace be upon him) for charity. The Prophet asked about what he has at home, and the man said that he has some fabric which they use to wear sometimes and other times to sit on. The Prophet instructed him to bring it over. Then he asked if any of his companions would like to purchase the fabric. A man offered to buy it for one Dirham. The Prophet asked for a higher price, until a man offered two Dirhams for it.
The Prophet took the money and gave it to the poor man. The Prophet told him to buy food for his family with one Dirham and to use the other to buy and axe-head and bring it back to him. The Prophet then tied a hand to the axe-head and asked the man to use it in cutting wood, then selling it. And so the man went to cut wood and began to sell it. He collected ten Dirhams which he used for food and clothes.
The Prophet said to the man, 'This is better than asking for charity which you will be asked about on the Day of Judgment. Asking charity is permissible for only three cases; extreme poverty, paying off a large fine, or for paying blood-money in case of killing someone by mistake.'"
The Prophet's mercy upon the poor was for their own good and welfare and to help them attain true happiness. He did not only aim to feed them temporarily, but also to teach them, raise their spirits, and broaden their minds.
He wanted their welfare in this worldly life and in the hereafter as his approach was truly balanced and comprehensive; a sign of a true Prophet!
There are many reports that tell us that the Prophet led a life of poverty. Yet had he wished, he would have lived like any head of state, and nobody would have questioned his right to do so, even though his people were poor. Or at least he could have had a reasonable standard of living, ensuring that his family had whatever they needed. He would not have let them suffer hunger. This means that his poverty was a matter of choice.
It was the Prophet's humility, mercy and kindness that Allah spoke about: "And in no way have We sent you except as a mercy to the worlds." (Al-Anbiya', 21:107).
Is using a razor haram for women?
This is so not true. Muslim woman can use a razor as long as it is used with precaution. It is useful not just for maintaning esthetic but also for hygiene, and hygiene for Muslim women is of great importance.
What did Muhammad inspire people with?
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.
Who was muhammad's father in law?
Prophet Muhammad had four daughters with his wife Khadija. The eldest Zainab was married to Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabee, second daughter was Ruqqayah who was married to third Islamic Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan, Third daughter was Umm-e-Kulthum who married Uthman Ibn Affan after Ruqqayah's death. The youngest was Fatima who was married to prophet's cousin and fourth Islamic Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Why is there no shrine for Muhammad?
Answer:
Very good question. The reason why there is no shrine for Muhammad is the same reason why we Muslims do not draw images of Muhammad: We do not want to worship Muhammad.
We only worship God. Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him) was God's Prophet and Messenger. No more than that.
What religion is the prophet Muhammad associated with?
The religion is Islam. see related question for more information.
Did Islam treat Jews and Christians with tolerance?
He considered Hazrat Moses (AS) and Hazrat Jesus Christ (AS) his brothers and true prophets of Almighty God. These two were the first he expected to help him and embrace Islam. He entered into pacts with them. Some of the Jews and christians did accept Islam but most of them didn't, rather they took up arms against he Muslims, especially the Jews conspired against the Muslims.
Who was the founder of Islam that died on June eighth 632?
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) died on the 8th of June 632 AD. However, Prophet Muhammad is not Islam religion founder. Islam religion is God religion per God Quran revelation to prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel (Jibril) in year 610 AD.
See question listed below for more information.
Why is Muhammad called the seal of the prophets?
Muhammad PBUH is the seal of the prophets & this made the message of Islam the last universal message from the Almighty God to the all mankind & the Holy Quran as an everlasting miracle among his miracles PBUH which addresses the hearts & the minds of people in all feilds. Muhammad PBUH assured the message that all the prophets who proceeded Him came up with which is the Monotheism; to believe & worship the only one God with no one associated to Him.
Did Muhammad worship hubal or other idols?
Prophet Muhammad destroyed all the idols around Kaaba that were worshiped by pre-Islam people.
What was the death of Muhammad?
Mohammed's death was actually a detriment to the early spread of Islam.
Most importantly, the death of Muhammad split the Muslims into two political factions over who should succeed him as Caliph or leader of the Muslims. There were a large minority who supported Mohammed's nephew 'Ali and were called Shi'at 'Ali (شيغة علي) and a majority who supported Mohammed's father-in-law, Abu Bakr. They argued about who should be Caliph after Muhammad's death with the majority winning out. This division still exists as the majority have become the Sunnis and term Shi'at Ali has contracted to Shiites in modern terminology.
However, once the succession had been resolved, 'Ali asked his supporters to remain loyal to Caliph Abu Bakr and the two political groups remained relatively allied until the Islamic Civil War 30 years later. A more pressing issue would face Caliph Abu Bakr, though. A large minority of Arab tribes had seen converting to Islam as a loyalty pact to Mohammed as opposed to an eternal religion. As a result, when Mohammed died, they considered themselves "released" from Islam. Caliph Abu Bakr was then forced to fight a civil war in Arabia to reunify the seceding Arab tribes into a unified Islamic region. It was not until Caliph Abu Bakr had quelled this dissent that Islam could spread under his successor, Caliph 'Omar.
Who was the founder of Islam and the name of the holy city where he was born?
Allah (God in English) is the founder of Islam. Islam in its universal sense was founded by start of universe creation. However, Islam per Quran revelation to prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was started in year 610 AD.
prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) was a orphan, his father was dead before he was born and his mother died when he was 4 or 6 years old.
