Who is Prophet Muhammad
Prophet Muhammad was born in Makkah, in Arabia in the sixth century about 1400 years ago. His father was Abdullah, the son of Abdul-Mutallib, the son of Hashem, the son of Abdi-Manef. From the tribe of Quraysh, the head of the Arab tribes. His father died while his mother was still pregnant with him. His mother Amineh died when he was six years old. After the death of his mother he was raised by his grandfather who was the head of Quraysh. His grandfather died when he was eight years old. Then his uncle Abu Tallib took care of him and supported him. Prophet Muhammad received the revelation at 40 years old while living in Makkah and stayed there in after that for thirteen years. Then God ordered him to emigrate to El-Medina, so he did. He lived there for ten years before he died there at the age of 63. He was buried in El-Medina and it is rewardable to visit his grave there.
Prophet Muhammad revived the call to Islam after Jesus was raised, and after none of the Muslim followers of Jesus were alive on Earth. Prophet Muhammad conveyed that there will be no new Prophet after him and Jesus will come back before the day of judgment to rule according to his teachings, meaning according to the teachings of Muhammad. The descent of Jesus from the sky was also revealed to the Prophet in the Quran. Quran spoke about other Prophets like Noah, Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, and Jesus. All of those Prophets were Prophets of Islam, they were Muslims, Solomon was Muslim, Moses was Muslim, Jesus was Muslim, Muhammad was Muslim. Prophet Muhammad may Allah raise his rank, exerted successful efforts in calling for Islam and was supported by Allah with miracles. By that, Prophet Muhammad proved to others that he is a Prophet and truthful. Before the death of Prophet Muhammad his companions reached about 100,000 Muslims. Today the Muslims are 1 billion. Since the time of Prophet Muhammad Muslims have kept one generation after the other conveying the teachings and following the rulings of Prophet Muhammad. Belief in Islam is not valid if one does not believe in Prophet Muhammad. Belief in Islam is also not valid from the one that says "I believe in Muhammad but not in Jesus" or "I believe in Muhammad and Jesus but not Moses", no. When we say that "I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah". We mean by that we believe in Muhammad and we believe in all the Prophets before Muhammad, but we apply the laws revealed to Muhammad because this era of time is the era in which Muhammad is the Prophet. Someone cannot be Muslim if he claims that he believes in Muhammad but denies the message of Jesus or any other Prophet. Muslims are the only people who believe in ALL the Prophets.
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