Who was Muhammad?

Question

What did he do? What became of him? When and where was he born?

Answer 1

Muslims claim that Muhammad (c.570-632 AD.) is the "Seal of the Prophets." He is the last in a long line of prophets that started with Adam, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muhammed received the final revelation from God, through the archangel Gabriel. This final revelation was later written down and then compiled during the caliphate of Uthman (c. 644-656 AD.). Unlike the Torah and Bible, Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the uncorrupted word of God.

Muhammad established the first Islamic community at Medina in the Hijaz, c. 622 AD. Islam, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, later spread from the southern boundaries of France to the Central Asian steppes. The Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates were to be the preeminent military, scientific, and political power in the "Old World" until the beginning of the second millennium AD.

Answer 2

LOL at the rollingstone guy's puerile nonsense.

I don't think anyone can truly claim to know the guy today, though many have exclusive view on the man which each will defend to death according to one's motives.

A hugely misunderstood figure by muslims and non muslims alike. In the west. he is seen as this arab dude surrounded by camels that it's pathetic how distorted the image of him is. Among muslims, he is seen as infallible, so his utterances during his era and cultural millieu is falsely regarded above questioning, which then turns religion into sheer dogmatism(taklid) He was a prophet, social revolutionary- that the main point, all these men who had come as messengers were social revolutionaries, thier duty was to eradicate ignorance and bring rejuvenation back into society, which is supposed to be an omgoing process, meaning much of what is considered to be the golden rules of Islam can be disputed and reconsidered. Before i'm brandished as a herectic yet again, there exists in islam freedom to intrepret (ijtihad)but sadly, muslims let clerics do the thinking for them and accept unquestionably despite the fact that Muhammad himself forbids the institutionalization of islam and blind faith.

Muhammad was a feminist, why else then would his much beloved younger wife be a scholar and intellectual aggresively arguing againsts men twice her age ? But people don't point out these details ya know.

I feel that Muhammad must be amazed to find out the types of folks who call themselves as his followers these days, he wouldn't be okay with it...

Answer 3

as a Muslim, i agree with Mr aspiring cook BUT i am not sure about Baha'i whether they accept Muhammad or not because the source is from wikipedia isn't it?

he NEVER claim he was god because there is only one god which is Allah. Allah has 99 and 20 characteristics. so i hope there wont be any misunderstanding :)

Answer 4

He went to mecca and became a prophet

Answer 5

THEY SAY MUHAMMAD WAS A PROPHET, YEAH, BUT JESUS
TOP HIM, BECAUSE HE WAS GOD IN THE FLESH. A GOD
ALWAYS HAS THE POWERS,THAT'S JESUS THE WORD!

Answer 6

I dont anderstand inglsh writ svenska

Answer 7

mouhamad the profect of islam? ok
he was born in meca saudi arabia .
there was a type of christian heresy there claims that jesus wasn't crucified and the priests of this heresy was out of the true church .
these priests : waraka bin noufal and al rahib bouhaira tried to make a new religion that says : yesouh or jesus wasn'r crusified .
mouhamad was chosen by them to make the new religion .
mouhamad starts to claim that God is speaking to him through Gaberiel the angel and tell him the quran < book of islam> .
mouhamad starts to build a political party around him called the islam and then built a small gov that starts to get larger and larger using wars to make other nations to become muslims by force or by swords . islam in arabic mean surrender : be a muslim or we ganna kill you .
mouhamad allowed his people to make as much as they like and to divorce if they want them mary again for sex .
mouhamad himself married about 30 women one of them was Aisha who was 8 years old when he slept with her.
the islam want to make the whole word a muslim then the muslim ruler or the khalifa rule the world .
the muslims forced jews and christians to pay aljezia : a tax on them if they want to stay christians or jews.
there is a rule in islam : any muslim person should die if he become christian .
the islam considers all the people of the world not right .
islam keeps the pagan traditional religion symbols like meca the black rock and the moon and star .
i think simply that he is a false profet

Answer 8

He was a prophet and creator of the Qram.

Answer 9

Muhammad (Arabic محمد muḥammad; also Mohammed, Mohamet, and other variants), 570-632 C.E., was an Arab religious and political leader who established Islam and the Muslim community (Ummah, Arabic: أمة) to whom he preached. He united the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula into a federation of allied tribes with its capital at Medina.

He is considered a prophet in both the Islamic and Baha'i religious traditions. Muslims do not regard him as the founder of a new religion, but rather believe him to be the last in a line of prophets of God (Arabic Allah) and regard his mission as one of restoring the original monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham and other prophets that had become corrupted (only misinterpreted according to the majority of early and some modern scholars) by man over time. For the last 23 years of his life, beginning at the age of forty, Muhammad reported receiving revelations from God delivered through the angel Gabriel. The content of these revelations, known as the Qur'an, was memorized and recorded by his followers and compiled into a single volume shortly after his death. The Qur'an, along with the details of Muhammad’s life as recounted by his biographers and his contemporaries, forms the basis of Islamic theology.

Overview

Born to ‘Abdu’llah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muttalib, Muhammad initially adopted the occupation of a merchant. The Islamic sources indicate that he was a charismatic person known for his integrity. The sources report that, in his youth, he was called by the nickname "Al-Amin" (Arabic: الامين ), a common Arab name meaning "faithful, trustworthy," and was sought out as an impartial arbitrator. During the holy month of Ramadan, Muhammad would retreat to a cave located at the summit of Mount Hira, just outside Mecca in the Arabian Hijaz. There he fasted and prayed, and would often reflect on the troubles of Arab society that seemed to affect him profoundly. In the year 610, when Muhammad was about forty, he reported being visited in the cave by the Archangel Gabriel who commanded him to recite verses sent by God. According to Islamic belief, these revelations continued for the next twenty-three years, until his death. The collection of these verses is known as the Qur'an. He expanded his mission as a prophet, publicly preaching strict monotheism, preaching against the social evils of his day, and warning of a Day of Judgment when all humans shall be held responsible for their deeds. He did not wholly reject Judaism and Christianity, two other monotheistic faiths known to the Arabs, but said that he had been sent by God in order to complete and perfect those teachings.

After initially ignoring Muhammad's call, the elites in Mecca, commercially threatened by the growing popularity of his message, persecuted Muhammad and his followers. This continued, and intensified, over more than a decade. The hardships reached a new level for Muhammad after the deaths of his wife Khadija, an early convert to the faith, and his uncle Abu Talib, an important political protector of Muhammad. Eventually, in 622, he was forced to move out of Mecca in a journey known to Muslims as the Hijra (the Migration). He settled in the area of Yathrib (now known as Medina) with his followers, where he was the leader of the first avowedly Muslim community.

Eight years of war between Mohammad and Meccan forces followed, ending with the Muslim victory and conquest of Mecca. The Muslims subsequently removed everything they considered idolatrous from the Kaaba. Most of the townspeople accepted Islam. In March 632, Muhammad led the pilgrimage known as the Hajj. On returning to Medina he fell ill and died after a few days, on June 8.

Under the caliphs who assumed authority after his death, the Islamic empire expanded into Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, North Africa, much of the Iberian Peninsula, and Anatolia. Later conquests, commercial contact between Muslims and non-Muslims, and missionary activity spread Islam over much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including China and Southeast Asia.

Answer 10

the only muhammadi reckoner's is the boxer