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Muhammad prayed route from the idolaters to the Prophet
As a young man Mohammed Arab idols. Then God appeared to him and he changed his life. His change is a mystery to this day.
Mohammed was probably the end of August 570 was born in Mecca. Early orphaned, he was raised initially approached by Bedouins in the desert. Then took him to relatives in Mecca and he worked as a camel driver, moved by caravan through the area between Syria and Yemen. In 595 met the absolutely destitute Mohammed know the rich widow Khadijah. He quickly became "managing" and lovers of the much older woman. Thus began his social advancement. Khadijah would legitimize the relationship with her young gallant, but her father saw only Muhammad in a brazen Erbschleicher and refused to vote for marriage. Now, "a farce in the old Arab style" followed, said Mohammed's biographer Essad Bey. Chadidjas alcohol an affectionate father was transferred to him in a drunken stupor and then abgeschwatzt his approval. When he was sober again, he swore his unwelcome son-in-blood revenge, but died soon after. With asset-validated Chadidjas Mohammed shiny Shops and counted, and soon to the notables of Mecca. This merchant Republic was then a remarkably tolerant community.
There was indeed a central shrine, the "Kaaba, a square building in which a supposedly rested by Abraham sunken stone. Around the Kaaba were more than 350 statues and symbols of gods, idols and saints. In Mecca could be saved each according to his faith. Mohammed also prayed to the Arab idols. But from 610/11 occurred in his personality changes. They were so serious that it puzzled today about the causes. "Often he was seen with sunken cheeks and fevered eyes wander aimlessly in the country," says an old report. "His clothes were torn, his hair unkempt, for days he did not touch any food."
On the Hira mountain in the east of Mecca, Mohammed studied home visions. He claimed that stones and rocks would threaten him with the howling, hysterical fits, and was often sat trembling in fear caves. To his wife Khadijah, he said, "I do not know if I pursued a good spirit or a demon." In desperation he wanted to commit suicide. But when he was about to fall from a cliff, a being called Allah spoke to him and said he was chosen "as a herald of the truth of my word."
Mohammed began proselytizing in Mecca, first in the immediate family. First, he converted his nephew Ali, a child of ten years, then his wife Khadijah. This was followed by Abu Bakr, a business partner, according to chronicles "a wit and skillful teller of stories slippery. After two years he had convinced all the eight people from Islam. Mohammed drove it into the public. He was angry sermons, threatened soothsayers and magicians in the courtyard of the Kaaba. Mohammed's appearance seemed even in the tolerant Mecca disturbing. They had offered him: "Put the statue of your God in the Kaaba and worship him as much as you want. We will not disturb you. " But
Mohammed refused. Since there were no prisons in Mecca, they recommended him almost leave the country. Went from 613 to the new prophet for three years Bedouin tribes. He said that the Archangel Gabriel had asked him: "Proclaim your faith in the whole world!" Sons of the desert appeared friendly, but not particularly impressed. Only after the Archangel Mohammed gradually a whole canon of faith, the "Koran" had dictated, was won by the followers of Islam. In Mecca, indeed, the Prophet was booed after every sermon and ridiculed. In the summer of 622 Muhammad
eventually moved into the city of Yathrib, where his Islamic faith had met with approval. Soon it was called the place "Medinat en-Nebi" (City of the Prophet), or Medina. Here, Muhammad called for "holy struggle" (jihad) against the Meccans. This fight has evolved from bloody robbery on caravans. From the loot Mohammed was regularly fifth as private property. The Meccans had to stop driving, pulled 624 with a 900-strong army of Gen. Medina and suffered a defeat at Badr. They were no match for Muhammad's total warfare. The Prophet had ordered, inter alia, in enemy territory, the poison according to the law of the desert sacred wells or spill.
In March 625, the Meccans had learned and defeated Muhammad's army at Mount Uhud. In Medina, was subsequently established a reign of terror. Any man who did not convert to Islam, was executed, his family sold into slavery.
627 had to die all the Jews of Medina. Mohammed behaved "like a merciless avenger, a bloodthirsty tyrant." His private life was scandalous to trains. were named after Chadidjas death in 619 he married 14 women, the Mothers of the faithful. " In public, they had to wear a veil, which later became the general Islamic practice. Stir 621 The wedding of the 50-year-old Mohammed provided with the only nine years old Aisha, which brought a dowry of their toys into the marriage. In fact, he had already wanted to marry Aisha as a six-year-old, what the father having regard to their "time of maturity" was stopping just short. Despite his excessive consumption Mohammed wife never got a son. His unresolved succession would eventually lead to a split in Islam between Sunnis and Shiites.
Through his suggestive eloquence, and above all the promise of a paradise after death for all orthodox men Mohammed won more and more followers. 630 Mecca capitulated almost without a fight in front of his troops. The Prophet turned out to be magnanimous victor, he spared the lives and property the enemy. Only on religious matters he was intolerant. The 350 idols were destroyed, those who do not convert to Islam came, had to face the death penalty. When Mohammed felt his end approaching, he pulled him from the hated Mecca to Medina again. He died on 8 June 632nd One of his last command was: "Expel all infidels from Arabia!
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