was born in 570 C.E. to Abdullah and Aminah. Muhammad began preaching in Mecca around 610 C.E. He made slow progress in the beginning. Many of the more powerful and wealthy citizens scorned Muhammad and his preachings. The preachings and teachings of Muhammad frightened and angered the Meccans. Some of the Meccans plotted to kill Muhammad, but their assassination attempt failed. After the assassination attempt, Muhammad fled to the city Yathrib, now known as Medina in 622 C.E. Muhammad and his followers returned to Mecca and occupied the city in 630 C.E. Because of Muhammads beliefs in one god, he and his followers destroyed all the Weems 4idols in the shrine and turned the area around it into a Muslim temple of worship. With all of these major changes, the Meccans finally acknowledged Muhammad as the final prophet and accepted the religion of Islam.At the age of 25, Muhammad married Khadija, a rich Kurai*censored*e widow, and prospered as a trader between Damascus, Busra, Mecca and Yemen (N.I. Matar, 13). Khadija was fifteen years older than Muhammad. Muhammad accepted work from Khadija and had led a few caravans for her. Credit should be given to Khadija for Muhammads success with Islam because it was her wealth that enabled him to spend a significant amount of time in religious meditation and isolation. Even though she was some years older than her twenty-five-year-old employee and had been married twice, she asked him to marry her (Phipps, 35). The Quran or Koran is the sacred text of Islam, believed to contain the revelations made by Allah to Muhammad. All Muslims study the Quran. The Quran is the final evidence of the Divine origin of the Prophets mission (Phipps, 9).The holy Quran is a collection of the divinely inspired utterances and discourses (Ahmed, 16). It is composed of some 300 pages which are divided into 114 Surahs (chapters). The general tone of the holy Quran is sombre and meditative. It is a dialogue b...
