What Were Muslams Before Mohamed?

Question

How did that religion evolve and where did that religion go after Mohamed? Were there doubters and where did they go?

Someone please give me an informed answer!!

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Answer 1

Arabia before Muhammad was populated by various Arabic-speaking people. At that time the majority of Arabs followed polytheistic religions, although a few tribes followed Judaism, Christianity (including Nestorians) or Zoroastrianism. The city Mecca was a religious center for some of the northern Arabian polytheists, as it contained the sacred well of Zamzam and a small temple, the Ka'aba.
The founder of Islam, Muhammad, had been familiar with Christianity through his wife's cousin, who was a Christian. Muhammad was familiar with the New Testament of the Christians and the Old Testament of the Jews, and with Zoroastrianism. And in his travels as a merchant he had become familiar with Arabia's Hanif movement, which was neither Jewish nor Christian but had discarded the worship of idols and traditional polytheistic religion.

Similar to some Christian ascetics in Syria, Muhammad occasionally withdrew to meditate in a cave outside of his hometown, Mecca. There, according to legend, at around forty years of age, he began hearing messages from God via the angel Gabriel. Muhammad decided that the god he knew as Allah was also Jehovah, the god of the Jews and Christians. He claimed to foresee the end of the world, a day of judgment, when the dead would be awakened, when all would be judged according to their deeds and sent to either paradise or eternal flames.

Muhammad saw his faith as monotheistic, like that of the Hanif, Christians and Jews. And like the Christians he saw the world between God and humanity as occupied by angels and demons. He saw the future as in the hands of God, and he felt it was his duty to convert people to what he called "submission to the will of God" and to warn his fellow Meccans of God's Final Judgment. The word Islam means submission to the will of God.

Muhammad proclaimed that God had chosen him to preach the truth, that he was God's final and foremost messenger, superseding the message proclaimed by Jesus




Exactly like Christan history, people liked what Mohamed preached. I call Christianity and Muslims cousin sisters. They almost have the same ideology except, one group follows Jesus and other one follows Mohamed.

Answer 2

Mohammed was the last prophet.
They were still Muslims even before Mohammed because they were many Prophets (including Jesus) before that revealed the message of Allah.

After Mohammed is where the major split in Islam occurs between the Shia and Sunni. At a place between Mecca and Medina, Prophet Mohammed said whoseever Mowla I am, Aly is their Mowla. Sunnis interpreted Mowla to mean friend, Shia intepreted it to mean leader. So for Shia Muslims, there were Imams that were direct descendants of Prophet Mohammed. With sunnis there wasn't.

Answer 3

The majority of people in Mohammed's area were polytheistic pagans, although there was a minority of Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians. A great many people disbelieved Mohammed. Many believed he was crazy. The local merchants found him to be a threat and attempted to take him and his followers out through violence.

The pagans are largely gone from the area now, either converted or killed. A small number of Zoroastrians remain, mostly in and around Iran. Christians and Jews remain a minority.

Answer 4

Before Muhammad received revelation from Allah through Gabriel, he was a Hanif, ie believer in the ancient religion of Ishmael the son of Abraham. There were a group of Hanifs who carried on this belief through generations, worshiping Allah and while they may not be against the idols outwardly, they do not worship them either.

The Quran also identifies all the prophets and true followers of them in the past among the Israelites and other tribes to be Muslims too, like Noah, Abraham, Moses and Christ.

Muhammad lived amongst the pagan Arabs who never knew anything about the Israelite prophets and their laws, for example. Gabriel brought Muhammad the first revelation when he was 40 of age, during the latter’s seclusion in the Hira Cave out of Mecca. Muhammad’s first ministry in Mecca was done secretly and privately to his close family members and friends, before he was told to publicly announce it to all Mecca.

This period lasted 13 years, and the revelations that came down at this time mainly deals with matters of faith, theology and history of the other prophets and peoples of the past.

Never did Muhammad rose up against the pagan Meccan majority amongst the minority Muslims at that time. They withstood all insults, sarcasm, threats and even torture in the time leading to his migration to Medina where his whole Bani Abd al-Mutalib clan including the non-Muslims were ostracized and prevented from all social transactions including the purchase of food. This is one lesson all Muslims of this day must remember.

It was during this time that his first wife 15 years his senior and his uncle Abu Talib passed away. They have been very instrumental in supporting Muhammad’s early phase of mission.

Muhammad was warmly accepted in Medina once he migrated there. It was a cosmopolitan city with the Auzz and Khazraj clans who accepted Islam, plus a few Jewish tribes. There were doubters or hypocrites too who mingled with the Muslims but while the Holy Messenger knew who they were, there were pretty much ignored.

Revelations by Allah to Muhammad at this age dealt mainly with Islamic legal matters like praying,(solah), fasting and tithing among others.

After Muhammad’s death about a year after the conquest of Mecca and mass conversion of the Arabs into Islam, Abu Bakr was elected the first Caliph. Those who opposed him include the hypocrites who did not repent and are now exposed as they refused to pay tithe to the new leader. Abu Bakar waged war against these Khwawarij (The Dissenters) whose traces of teachings or influences historians say survive to this day in the form of the Wahhabbis and Obaidiyyahs in the Arabian peninsula.

There were also those who opposed Abu Bakr being the leader those who claim to be the party of Ali, the fourth Caliph and Muhammad’s son-in-law. Ali remains as one the main spiritual inheritors of Muhammad as far as Sufi groups including the Sunnis are concerned.

Thus the factions in those days were mostly politically motivated rather than religious. And God knows Best.

Answer 5

Mohammad turned Islam from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Basically Philistines a rebellious people after the manner of Ishmael !!!
From all that Mohammed had said they were killed and have been doing those murderous acts for 700 years since !!!

Answer 8

they belived in the ancestors gods when mohamed saved them

Answer 9

Christians converted by the sword.

Zoroastrians

Fire worshippers

Sun worshippers mainly.

Answer 10

They worshipped stones and still worship the black stone in the Kaaba at Mecca.
All other stone worshippers who refused to convert to Islam were murdered.