If the Mountain won't come to Muhammed?

Question

then, Muhammed must come to the Mountain....what does this mean, where did it originate?

Answer 1

If one can't have one's way, one must give in. For example, Since you can't come here for the holiday, I'll go to your house--if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain. This expression is based on a tale that Muhammad once sought proof of his teachings by ordering a mountain to come to him. When it did not move, he maintained that God had been merciful, for if it had indeed moved they all would have been crushed by it. [Late 1500s]

Answer 2

PHRASES if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain proverb if someone won’t do as you wish or a situation can’t be arranged to suit you, you must accept it and change your plans accordingly. with allusion to a well-known story about Muhammad told by Francis Bacon move mountains achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results.

Answer 3

This originated because Muhammad claimed a kind of 'exempt' status while he robbed, enslaved and murdered anyone who got in his way, in the name of Allah.

As scholars began to actually read the 'teachings' of the Quranic verses, they realized that Muhammad travel a great deal. roaming with tribes, siezing new countries and demanding that people convert to his self-made religion or die.

Nothing was too big, not even Mountains, and so Muhammad and his band of outlaws would not stop if what they wanted was difficult to attain. They would go to the empire they wanted in peace, sign treaties and deceive, if necessary, and then when convenient they would make the move to conquer, alway involving hatred to justify murder, violence, torture, and slavery in the name of Allah.

So this is how this saying originated, referring to the way in which nothing would stop the pirate-warlord from taking anything he desired, even countrysides that included Mountains.

Answer 4

it means Mohamed was a lazy man who didn't want to walk to the mountain

Answer 5

Nothing like that exists...