what are you know about prophet mohammad?
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Muhammad was born around 570 C.E. in Mecca into the powerful Quraysh tribe and the respected Banu Hashim clan.  Muhammad was orphaned at a young age and so he had different caretakers throughout his formative years.  His father, Abdallah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, died before Muhammad was born and his mother Amina died when he was only six years old.  His grandfather Abd al-Muttalib took over his care, but died two years later.  From then on, Muhammad was cared for by his uncle Abu Talib.  \nMuhammad started out as a shepherd, but he eventually became a merchant.  In his twenties, he met Khadija, a wealthy widow, and became the manager of her caravan.  She was impressed with him because of his integrity and success as a merchant, so she proposed to him, and he accepted.  This marriage greatly improved Muhammad’s financial situation and may be considered somewhat of a turning point for him as up until that time he was a humble orphan.\nMuhammad grew to be concerned with some of the practices he observed among his fellow Arabs.  Some of the pre-Islamic Arabs buried infant girls alive, apparently to avert economic hardship and to avoid the risk of the daughter developing a bad reputation, which would be a scar on the family.  As an orphan, it is no wonder that Muhammad felt a special compassion for these infants, other orphans, widows, the poor, and other social outcasts.  \nMuhammad took to retreating on a regular basis to Mount Hira, where he would meditate inside of a cave.  It is here during one of these retreats that Muhammad the Prophet was born.  He began to receive revelations which frightened him terribly at first.  A voice told him that he was the messenger of God and eventually the presence revealed itself as the angel Gabriel.  Gabriel instructed Muhammad, “Recite!”  Muhammad objected that he was unable to recite, but when Gabriel insisted, he asked, “What shall I recite?”  Then Gabriel revealed to him the very first verses of what would come to be known as the Qur’an, meaning “recitation.”  Muhammad thereafter continued to receive verses until he died.\nHis wife Khadija believed in Muhammad’s message, and soon a few others also converted to the new religion of submission to Allah.  But by and large, in the early years of his Prophethood, the people of Mecca were angered by his teachings.  He criticized the religion of their fathers and had it not been for the protection of his uncle Abu Talib, Muhammad may have been greatly persecuted.  In fact the rest of the Muslims, who were mostly of lower classes, were persecuted to the extent that many emigrated to Abyssinia.  \nIn 619, Abu Talib died, leaving Muhammad without a protector.  His supportive wife Khadijah also died this same year.  These challenges and tragedies in his life did not deter the Prophet, and he continued to receive guidance from Allah.  In one of the most celebrated events of Muhammad’s life, he was sleeping near the Ka’ba when he saw the angel Gabriel come.  The angel cut Muhammad open, removed his heart and entrails, washed them in a golden basin, and placed them back into his body.  Then Gabriel brought Buraq, a magical horse, who took Muhammad on a journey through the sky to Jerusalem.  From there he was taken up through the seven heavens where he reached God Himself.  \nSome men from the city of Yathrib came to Mecca for the pilgrimage in 620, where they met Muhammad and were impressed with him.  They needed a strong leader who could arbitrate in their city, where the tribes were at war.  These men embraced Islam and invited Muhammad to be their leader.  In the year 622, several Muslims emigrated to Yathrib, which came to be known as Medina.  Muhammad himself escaped death to travel to Medina in that same year which was so pivotal that it marked the start of the Islamic calendar.  \nThis move was so important because it was in Medina that an authentic Muslim community, the umma could be established away from the danger of Mecca.
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Have you read this book and what are your view or answers to the list below from this book?\n\nThe Truth About Muhammad \nby Robert Spencer \n\nMeet the real Muhammad:\n\n\nMuhammad's bizarre reaction to his first "revelation": "I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself"\n\nThe heretical Christian who convinced Muhammad he was a prophet – and may have taught him his erroneous views of Christianity\n\nIslamic borrowings from Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism – and Muhammad's enraged replies to charges that he borrowed material rather than received actual divine revelations\n\nThe "revelation" that allowed Muhammad to marry his beautiful daughter-in-law\n\nThe strange incident in Muhammad's life that makes it virtually impossible to prove rape in Islamic countries today\n\nThe real "Satanic Verses" incident (not the Salman Rushdie version): how Muhammad's attempt to win over his opponents ended with his saying he had been inspired not by God, but by Satan\n\nHow the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed – with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage\n\nThe first year of the Muslim calendar: not when Muhammad was born or became a prophet, but when he became a warlord\n\nHow Muhammad used the graphic lure of Islamic Paradise to urge his warriors to fight furiously to extend his rule\n\n"Kill every Jew who comes into your power": why Muhammad became so angry with both Jews and Christians – with disastrous consequences that are still playing out in the world today\n\nThe momentous command by Muhammad that led to good being identified with anything that benefited the Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them --without reference to any larger moral standard\n\nMuhammad's child bride – and the terrible consequences his marriage to a nine-year-old still has in the Islamic world\n\n"This is the caravan of the Quraysh possessing wealth. It is likely that Allah may give it to you as booty": how Muhammad gave divine sanction to the Muslims' bloody raids\n\n"War is deceit": the permission Muhammad gave his followers to lie in order to gain an advantage over their enemies\n\nHow Muhammad broke the principal treaty he entered into, again setting a pattern for Muslim states thereafter\n\nMuhammad's commands to his followers to wage perpetual war against non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians\n\nMuhammad on women's rights: women "are prisoners with you having no control of their persons"\n\n"If justice is not to be found with me then where will you find it?" Why Muhammad still stands for Muslims as the supreme model for human behavior\n\n"I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula, and will not leave any but Muslims" – and other statements by Muhammad that contemporary jihadists take very seriously\n\nIslamic tolerance? The onerous tax burden and other discriminatory regulations mandated for non-Muslims under Islamic law\n\nHow Muhammad ordered the killing of apostates from Islam\n\nThe massacre of a Jewish tribe by Muhammad that was invoked by modern-day jihadists at the beginning of Israel's July 2006 operations against Hizballah in Lebanon\n\n"Embrace Islam, and your lives and property will be safe": Muhammad's threatening letters to the rulers of the lands around Arabia\n\nMuhammad's frequent avowals that the Muslims would overcome the empires bordering on Arabia and one day stand as masters of the world\n\n"I have been made victorious with terror" – and other statements of Muhammad on his deathbed\n\nSix steps that American leaders can and must take in order to protect our nation from Islamic jihad terrorism
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He was not a prophet of God.He was in fact the messenger of Lucifer: Muhammad said as much when he recounted his experience with what he called Angel (Jabrial) who was in fact Lucifer himself:Muhammad never,ever talked directly to God. He only talked to (Jabrial AKA Lucifer):\nEven Jesus warns us that false prophets would rise up after him:
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Jesus is the true Son of God. Mohammad is nothing but a false prophet.
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Well, since God does not answer us directly, and answers our prayers to do so only through his moving in mysterious ways programme, it is impossible to answer your question.\n\nStill, we can guess. And that's what any theologian does for a living. Makes guesses and presents them as infallible facts.\n\nSome people say Mohammad was not and could not be illiterate. He was the son of prominent aristocracy in Mecca, he was in trades business which at least compels you to learn aritmetics, which requires knowledge of written symbols. \n\nBesides Mohammad is considered an intelligent and curious person, it is quite improbable for a person of his grade to be ignorant of letters in the *then* cosmopolite cultural atmosphere of Mecca.  \n\nFurthermore some people consider the word ummi does not mean illiterate, but a person who have not read other holy books (old and new testament) in existence. This one I think is plausible. Because Mohammad is usually mocked by others as an impostor who copies "the ways of the old" and its texts. So it is only natural for Mohammad to call himself ummi, a person who does not know about these books, so he can not possibly copy them for his purposes.\n\nEventually since Islam needed a miracle and had to suppress this obvious connection, invented "the illiterate prophet, who by the sheer will of Allah learns to read and write" story. It caught on.\n\nIt even sound very convincing when you think of Koran as a piece of literature. How can an illiterate man write this beauty? Obviously it is the word of god, etc.\n\nHowever Koran is a very disconnected book, that can hardly stick to a point, full of redundant terms and meaningless drivel. It's very easy to imitate, and even a poet during Mohammad's time imitated one book that reads like Koran as an answer to the challenge, only to be executed for doing so. It quickly killed away the opposition, leaving true believers who can not praise the book more.\n\nAnyhow, ın short we can say: even if Allah picked Mohammad, an illiterate man to be a prophet, it's not strange. Many people believe without reading, an illiterate prophet won't hurt sales that much.
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he is a man Muslims belive he is prophet from God
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What do you need to find out about him?
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dear.He is the last imam of shias.He'll come & make peace the king of the world.he is not a prophet,he follows Muhammed(p.b.u.h) and will lead the the whole world when he comes.nobody knows where he is,but he is like sun,behind a cloud,when he comes,everywhere,every home,and every heart will be full of light,the light of God.
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Yes, I have know of Muhammad since my early teens.\n\nMuhammad (c. 570–632) (Arabic: محمد) (listen (help•info)), also transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet (following the Turkish), is believed by Muslims to be God's final prophet sent to guide all of mankind with the message of Islam. He is referred to as "The Prophet" (Arabic: النبي) within the faith. Non-Muslims generally consider him to be the founder of Islam.\nAccording to traditional Muslim biographers, he was born c. 570 in Mecca (Makkah) and died on June 8, 632 in Medina (Madinah). Both Mecca and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. The name Muhammad means "the praised one" in Arabic.\nBorn Muhammad ibn Abdullah, he is said to have initially been a merchant who traveled widely.\nMuhammad often retreated to the mountains outside Mecca, for prayer and contemplation. Muslims believe that in 610, at about the age of forty, while praying in one of these mountain caves called Hira, he was visited by the Angel Gabriel who commanded him to memorize and recite the verses sent by God. These verses were later collected as part of the Qur'an. Gabriel told him that God (Allah in Arabic) had chosen him as the last prophet to mankind. He eventually expanded his mission as a prophet, publicly preaching a strict monotheism and warning against a Day of Judgement where all humans shall be held responsible for their deeds. He did not completely reject Judaism and Christianity, two other monotheistic faiths known to the Arabs; rather he said that he had been sent by God in order to complete and perfect their teachings. Many in Mecca resented his preaching and persecuted him and his followers. Muslims believe that this was in part due to his followers' holding Muhammad's authority above that of their leaders. Eventually, persecution followed and in 622, he was forced to flee from Mecca (the Hijra) and settled in Yathrib (now known as Medina) with his followers, where he was the leader of the first avowedly Muslim community. War between factions in Mecca and Medina followed, in which Muhammad and his followers were eventually victorious. The military organization that was created by this struggle was then set to conquering the other tribes of Arabia. By the time of Muhammad's death, he had unified Arabia, spread Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula, and launched expeditions to the north, towards Syria and Palestine.\nUnder Muhammad's immediate successors, the Islamic empire expanded into Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, North Africa, and Iberia. Later conquests, commercial contact between Muslims and non-Muslims, and missionary activity spread Islam over much of the globe.\nSources\nThe main sources for biographies of Muhammad are found in Islamic documments such as the Qur'an, the Sira biographies, and the Hadith collections. While the Qur'an is not a biography of Muhammad, it does provide information about his life. The earliest surviving biographies are the Life of the Apostle of God, by Ibn Ishaq (d. 768), edited by Ibn Hisham (d. 833); and al-Waqidi's (d. 822) biography of Muhammad. Ibn Ishaq wrote his biography some 120 to 130 years after Muhammad's death. The third source, the hadith collections, like the Qur'an, are not a biography per se. In both the Sunni and Shia belief, they are the accounts of the verbal and physical traditions of Muhammad.\nSome skeptical scholars (Wansbrough, Cook, Crone, and others) have raised doubts about the reliability of these sources, especially the hadith collections. They argue that by the time the oral traditions were being collected, the Muslim community had grown and also fractured into rival sects and different schools of thought and each sect and school had its own sometimes conflicting traditions of what Muhammad and his companions had done and said. Traditions multiplied, and Muslim scholars made
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wishful thinking of mohammed - noone knows
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Mohammad had 9 wives all together.  (see explanation below)\n\nHe did not personally kill anyone.  Not even in battle.  He did not wage war on anyone.  The battles that he was involved in were waged against him by the corrupt rulers of Mecca.  He was preaching for equality and abolishing slavery and calling to the worship of the One and Only God, Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.\n\nThe Meccan leaders were profitting quite a bit from the practice of idol worshipping.  They also practiced slavery, gambling, and many other things that God forbids.  They had a lot to loose if people started listening to him.  They chose to fight him to maintain their status and power.\n\nThe reason people thought he was a prophet is the same reason people thought that Abraham, David, Moses, and others were prophets.  He came to call people to denounce the worship of idols, dissolve distinctions between people and establish brotherhood among all, abolish slavery, stop gambling, and put to an end many of the corrupt things the people were doing at the time.\n\nBut the biggest single reason people thought he was a prophet was the Quran.  This revelation did not sound like it came from man; it sounded divine.  Also, before the message was revealed to him by the Angel Gabriel, he was known to be a very kind and trust-worthy person among the Arabs of Mecca.  Plus the fact that he was illiterate which meant that he would have been incapable of producing such marvelous text.\n\nMany agree that Prophet Muhammad is mentioned in the bible.  Jesus (peace be upon him) speaks of a comforter, "the spirit of truth", which will come and lead the people to the worship of the One and Only God.  Many argue that this comforter is the holy spirit.  Well, if I'm not mistaken, the holy spirit is the Angel Gabriel who was the deliverer of the message to Prophet Muhammad.\n\n======== Why 9 wives ========\n\nAs far as his marriage to 9 wives, we have to understand what was going on at the time; each of these marriages was for a reason.  Many of them, the prophet married for protection of these women.  Either their husbands died in battle, or they were old and needed care.  \n\nOthers were for strengthening ties between the different tribes.  There would be ill feelings between certain tribes if the prophet married from one and not the other.  The prophet also married a lady called Mary the Coptic.  She was Christian, and he wanted to let the Muslims know that it would be OK to marry women of the book (i.e. Jews and Christians).\n\nCould he be called a man of fleshly desires because of this?  I say not.  The reason is when he was 25, he married Khadija (who was 40).  He stayed married only to her until her death 25 years later.  If he was truly a sexual deviant (wal-iazu billah), then he would have had many exploits at his prime.  It is also reported that some of his marriages were only to give the women that title; nothing more.\n\nSo before we rush to judgment, let's first understand what was going on at the time and look into it before we hasten to a bad conclusion.  After all, this was 1400 years ago, and he was sent to what may be the most corrupt people in history.\n\nAnd God only knows best.
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Yes he did.\nHe clearly predicted the arrival of a Prophet after him. Only he called him by the name "Ahmad" instead of "Muhammad".\nMost Arabs here will notice that no mistake in the prediction was made, since Ahmad and Muhammad both mean the same thing "The praised one".
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Hi Peter, you will find much information on this just by entering mohammed into your search bar.
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Allah is God. the Creator, the God of Heaven and Earth and every thing in between. AKA, YHWH, Jehovah.\n\nAbu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) is the closest friend of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), he was the first Muslim ruler after the Prophet Muhammad (632–634). While Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor (caliph), chosen by the people, indeed, the first of four righteous Caliphs (Rashidun),\n\nAbu Jahl AKA Amr ibn Hisham: Abu Jahl was one among the leaders of Quraish, and among the chieftains that in varying degrees kept a relentless hostility towards the Muslims.\n\nAbu Sufyan ibn al-Harb was one of Muhammad's staunchest opponents who became a sahaba (companion) of Muhammad.\nHe was the leader of the Banu Umayyah (Umayyad) clan of the Quraish tribe and was the chieftain of the entire Quraish tribe, making him one of the most powerful men in Mecca during the lifetime of Muhammad.\n\n\nAbu Ṭalib ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muṭṭalib: was married to Fatima bint Asad and was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad. His real name was Imran but he is better known as Abu Talib because he had a son named Talib. Abu Talib raised and supported the Prophet Muhammad while he was a young man.\nfull brother of Muhammad's father 'Abdullah ibn 'Abdul Muttalib, who had died before Muhammad's birth.\n\nIn 576, Abu Talib took care of Muhammad after the death of Aminah bint Wahab, Muhammad's mother. Abu Talib also protected Muhammad against other sub-clans of Banu Quraish, who were the enemies of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed.\n\nOther sources say that Abu Talib took care of Muhammad after the death of Shaiba ibn Hashim (c. 497 – 578), Muhammad's grandfather and Abu Talib's father, when Muhammad was 8 years old.\n\nWhen Muhammad was a child, Abu Talib was head of the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraish tribe. Once Muhammad got older, he took responsibility for Abu Talib's son Ali ibn Abu Talib. Abu Talib had a trading caravan business with Syria.\n\nWhen Muhammad was 20, he began to work for Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, who had a thriving caravan business. At age 25, Muhammad married Khadijah, a wealthy woman. While most sources claim she was a 40-year-old widow, others claim she was younger and unmarried.
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By the way, Prophet Muhammad is mentioned BY NAME in Song of Solomon 5:16 - In original Hebrew it says "Hiko Mamitakim, Vikuloh MUHAMMADIM Zehdudi vizahrei Bayna jerusalem"...\n\nUnfortunately the translators of the Bible translated the the Name Muhammadim to Altogather Lovely..\n\nFurthermore there are many other prophecies of Prophet Muhammad in the Bible which are fitting Prophet Muhammad like a glove and not to the Holy Spirit..\n\nFor more Information, contact me at shiekhtm@yahoo.com
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Who is Muhammad (PBUH)?\n\n    Muhammad (PBUH), was born in Makkah in the year 570, at a time when Christianity was not yet fully established in Europe. Since his father died before his birth, and his mother shortly afterwards, he was raised by his uncle from the respected tribe of Quraysh. As he grew up, he became known for his truthfulness, generosity and sincerity, so that he was sought after for his ability to arbitrate in disputes. The historians describe him as calm and meditative.\nMuhammad (PBUH) was of a deeply religious nature, and had long detested the decadence of his society. It became his habit to meditate from time to time in the Cave of Hira near the summit of Jabal al-Nur, the 'Mountain of Light' near Makkah.\n\nHow did Muhammad (PBUH) become a prophet and a messenger of God?\n    At the age of 40, while engaged in a meditative retreat, Muhammad (PBUH) received his first revelation from God through the Angel Gabriel. This revelation, which continued for twenty-three years, is known as the Quran.\n    The Mountain of Light where Gabriel came to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).\n    As soon as he began to recite the words he heard from Gabriel, and to preach the truth which God had revealed to him, he and his small group of followers suffered bitter persecution, which grew so fierce that in the year 622 God gave them the command to emigrate. This event, the Hijra, 'migration', in which they left Makkah for the city of Madinah some 260 miles to the north, marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar.\nAfter several years, the Prophet and his followers were able to return to Makkah, where they forgave their enemies and established Islam definitively. Before the Prophet died at the age of 63, the greater part of Arabia was Muslim, and within a century of his death Islam had spread to Spain in the West and as far East as China.\n\nExamples of the Prophet`s sayings\n    The Prophet said:\n\n    'God has no mercy on one who has no mercy for others.'\n\n    'None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.'\n\n    'He who eats his fill while his neighbor goes without food is not a believer. '\n\n    'The truthful and trusty businessman is associated with the prophets the saints, and the martyrs.'\n\n    'Powerful is not he who knocks the other down, indeed powerful is he who controls himself in a fit of anger. '\n\n    'God does not judge according to your bodies and appearances but He scans your hearts and looks into your deeds.'\n\n    'A man walking along a path felt very thirsty. Reaching a well he descended into it, drank his fill and came up. Then he saw a dog with its tongue hanging out, trying to lick up mud to quench its thirst. The man saw that the dog was feeling the same thirst as he had felt so he went down into the well again and filled his shoe with water and gave the dog a drink. God forgave his sins for this action.' The Prophet was asked: 'Messenger of God, are we rewarded for kindness towards animals?' He said, 'There is a reward for kindness to every living thing.'\n\nTo to the person who said we do not know if he existed:  Proof lies in Hadith, the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).  The fact that Islam exists today is proof that Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon) existed.