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The Life And Teachings Of Muhammad Mohammed

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Heather Williams HIS 1163 Fall 2015 28 November 2015
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The Life and Teachings of Muhammad Muhammad is well known for being the well-respected founder and prophet of the Islamic faith.
Muhammad was born in the city of Mecca into the Quraish tribe around 570 A.D. His uncle and grandfather raised him, because his mom and dad both passed away when he was very young. His father died before he was even born, while his mother died when he was only six years old. As a teenager, he was a camel driver who worked between Arabia and Syria. When Muhammad was a little older he started working as a merchant. Soon after starting to work, he fell in love and married one of his employers whose name was Khadijah. They were married for twenty-four years until her death. Over the twenty-four years he and his wife had six children together. The merchant life was really good to him. He became a wealthy and respected trader. When Muhammad was forty, he started having visions that would change his entire life. located in Mount Hira, to do his meditating In 610 A.D. he started having wild visions. Muhammad believed that the angel, Gabriel, came to him and proclaimed that God himself had an important message for him. He went home and told his wife that he had either gone mad or became a prophet. Little did he know at that moment, the visions he had would lay the foundation for the entire Islamic religion. After a while of contemplating what had happened, he believed that God had called on

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