With all due respect, was Muhammad, the founder of Islam, a Jew like Jesus was when he started out on his path

Question

I never heard anything about this before, and I know Jesus Christ was a Jew, so I ask, was Muhammad also a Jew?

Again, no disrespect, I sincerely have a desire to learn about the beginning of Islam

Answer 1

No, he was an idolater, and a member of the clan (Quresh) which controlled the idol marketplace known as the Kabba. He married a very rich widow from a Christian family and soon afterwards, started preaching against idolatry and for monotheism.

Mohammad attempted to claim lineage to Ishmael by making up a story about Ishmael being the father of all Arabs, and also a story about Abraham coming down to Mecca to build the Kabba as the altar for the purpose of sacrificing his son for God.

The Bible says it was not Ishmael to sacrificed at Mecca, but Isaac at Mount Moriah. Muslims cry "The Jews changed that part of the Bible!", but the Dead Sea scrolls suggest otherwise.

The reason Mohammad claimed lineage to Ishmael is to make himself part of the covenant made between Ishmael and God, when they were sent to Paran (which is between Israel and Egypt). Ishmael took an Egyptian wife, so it appears Arabs already existed prior to Ismael. Mohammad wanted so much to be a prophet. He was a very charismatic and imagintive salesman. It's a shame he managed to fool so many people into believing he was a prophet.

By God's will, 80% of the world still believes otherwise, even after 1400 years of Islam trying to replace all other religions with itself.

Answer 2

No, he was not founder of Islam, he was the last and final prophet of Islam nothing more

Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true "natural religion", and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God's prophets and messengers. Muslims believe that all of God's prophets, which include Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, brought the same message of Pure Monotheism. For this reason, the Prophet Muhammad was not the founder of a new religion, as many people mistakenly think, but he was the Final Prophet of Islam. By revealing His final message to Muhammad, which is an eternal and universal message for all of mankind, God finally fulfilled the covenant that He made with Abraham, who was one of the earliest and greatest prophets. Suffice it to say that the way of Islam is the same as the way of the prophet Abraham, because both the Bible and the Qur'an portray Abraham as a towering example of someone who submitted himself completely to God and worshipped Him without intermediaries. Once this is realized, it should be clear that Islam has the most continuous and universal message of any religion, because all prophets and messengers were "Muslims", i.e. those who submitted to God's will, and they preached "Islam", i.e. submission to the will of Almighty God.

Answer 3

Muhammad wasn’t a Jew (whether the word Jew means race or a religion).

Muhammad was an Arab. Arabs had believed in the one true God of Abraham from ancient time. Abraham was a father of many nations including Arabs, Jews, & others. Among the Arabs who believed in the faith of Abraham before the time of Jesus & Muhammad was Moses’ father in law (the priest of Median).

Arabs during the early centuries AD became pagans (Idols worshipers). It began when an Arabic chieftain went to Syria, which was part of the Roman empire, and saw statues of the Roman Gods. He was impressed by that culture, & he bought a statue to bring to Arabia for people to worship. Soon he made a powerful impression on other Arabic tribes & they decided to have their own Gods represented by statues.

Muhammad was born later in the late 6th century. He had never worshoped any of those idles. & in the Age of 40 he call his people to disregard those multiple Gods, & believe in the one true God of Abraham, which is what Islam is all about.

Answer 4

First of all i would like to say that it's so nice to come on 'YA' and for once hear a respectful questions towards Islam by a non-muslims. Thankyou!

As for your question, Muhammed (s.a.w) belived in only one God from the very start even though nearly all his community belived in Idols. There were christians and jews around him but even then..no he wasn't a jew.

Islam is also according to us muslims, not a new relgioin, but is something that all prophets (Adam, Abraham(Ibraheem), Moses, (Musa) and Jesus (Isa) have been spreading through out the wolrd from the beginning of time.

Answer 5

No Muhammad(PBUH*) was an Arab. Muslims believe that Muhammad(PBUH*) is the last and final messenger that ALLAH(SWT) sent to mankind. Muslims also believe that Islam is the religion of God; that God chose Islam for all mankind(see Sura 5 in the Qur'an) and that Islam is the religion from all the Prophets from Adam to Muhammad(PBUT*) and the Prophets who are not named(PBUT*). Yes Muslims also believe that Jesus(PBUH*) was a Muslim and a Prophet of ALLAH(SWT) sent to teach his people Islam just like all the other prophets(PBUT*) before him.

Answer 6

Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdul Muttalib, of the tribe of Quraysh, was born in Makkah fifty-three years before the Hijrah. His father died before he was born, and he was protected first by his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, and after his grandfather’s death, by his uncle Abu Talib.

As a young boy he traveled with his uncle in the merchants’ caravan to Syria, and some years afterwards made the same journey in the service of a wealthy widow named Khadijah. So faithfully did he transact the widow’s business, and so excellent was the report of his behavior, which she received from her old servant who had accompanied him, that she soon afterwards married her young agent; and the marriage proved a very happy one, though she was fifteen years older than he was. Throughout the twenty-six years of their life together he remained devoted to her; and after her death, when he took other wives he always mentioned her with the greatest love and reverence. This marriage gave him rank among the notables of Makkah, while his conduct earned for him the surname Al-Amin, the “trustworthy.”

The Hunafa

The Makkans claimed descent from Abraham through Isma`il and tradition stated that their temple, the Ka`bah, had been built by Abraham for the worship of the One God. It was still called the House of Allah, but the chief objects of worship here were a number of idols, which were called “daughters” of Allah and intercessors. The few who felt disgust at this idolatry, which had prevailed for centuries, longed for the religion of Abraham and tried to find out what had been its teaching. Such seekers of the truth were known as Hunafa (sing. Hanif), a word originally meaning “those who turn away” (from the existing idol-worship), but coming in the end to have the sense of “upright” or “by nature upright,” because such persons held the way of truth to be right conduct. These Hunafa did not form a community. They were the non-conformists of their day, each seeking truth by the light of his inner consciousness. Muhammad son of Abdullah became one of these.

Answer 7

No brother................Muhammad(PBUH) was not at all the founder of Islam.
According to over belief............Islam was the only one religion.......started with creation of Adam (PBUH) and Eve (PBUH)........islam is submitting your will to Allah ........so it started with creation of man.........and Judaism and Christianity were just different levels of Islam..............and Islam was completed by Allah's final messenger..........Muhammad (PBUH).
Its just like when you have to teach someone any thing........u start with basics and then by time u keep on increasing the knowlidge level........as to learn english first we have to learn alphabets and then step by step we learn whole language............Similar is the case with Islam.........it was sent in different levels................first Probhet....Adam, then Noah, then Abraham..........final level was completed by Muhammad.
So according to Islam..................Jews at their time were muslims.......but when Jesus(PBUH) was sent........they should have followed him......and at times of Jesus(PBUH).......christians were Muslims.........But when Muhammad (PBUH) then Islam was completed by him.........so all previous levels were canceled and now Islam is the final belief.
To get a complete answer you should consult some authentic book......
Hope u r satisfied with it

Answer 8

Muhammad's line had been traced back to Abraham, the founder of the Jewish race. But the Jewish come through Abraham's son Issac.

Muhammad was a Arab, who came through Abraham's son Ishmael, who he had through one of his servants (Hagar).

The Arabs are not considered to be Jews.

Answer 9

You may or may not know, that Ibrahim as. is a father of two others Allah's Rasul (Rasul is Apostle). One of them is Ismail, the son of Siti Hajaar, and another is Ishak (or Isaac) the son of Siti Sarah. Maybe not much know Ismail as Ibrahim's son, because when Ismail was just born, Allah swt. told Ibrahim to send Siti Hajaar and Ismail to an empty land near what we now call Makkah to prevent from jealously that born from Siti Sarah (Ibrahim as. first wife) to Siti Hajaar (who was married to Ibrahim by Sarah's offer to Ibrahim, because Siti Hajaar was Sarah's servant, and Siti Sarah found herself didn't give any son to Ibrahim as.). The place where both of them were left by Ibrahim as., in that time, is the place with no water. And so, poor both of them cannot have any water and Hajaar than went back and fro through Safa Hill and Marwa Hill. But when she came back, she found water source that miraculously came out from the sand that Ismail disturbed. The water source became wider and wider and it still there this day, called Zam Zam. From that day on, born the society of Makkah. It is Ismail as. who built the Ka'bah with his father, Ibrahim as. Ka'bah was built to be the place where muslim will pray to. And Ibrahim as. and Ismail as. as other Rasul are, is the Apostle of Allah, the Only God and the Creator. Muhammad saw. was a descendant of Ismail as. He was the great-great-great grandson of Ismail as. from Abdullah bin Abdul-Muththalib and Aminah binti Wahab, both not Jew and belief in Allah SWT. And he is not the founder of Islam. Muhammad saw. is a human, like all of us, who was the bringer of Allah's messages and came to this world to completed Allah's holly book, such as: Zabur, Taurat, and Injil (or Bible). Holly Qur'an is the completion and perfection of other Holly Books, and in Holly Qur'an, there is the teaches and subject that also contained in Zabur, Taurat, and Injil. And it is not wrong to say that other Holly Books was changed, because there were a lot of versions for Bible only, but there were only one version of Holly Qur'an, and this version is the very same version from the first day it was sent to all of human being in this world.

N.B. I, basically, am not a person who like to violate other's beliefs. But when my belief was being violated, I will have no hesitation to answer them who violated my belief, no matter who is it.

Answer 10

No, he was the descendant of Ishmael, the illegitimate son of Abraham. Jesus is in the line of Isaac, the Son of Promise, the legitimate son of Abraham.