Question

Prophet Muhammad is the founder of Islam.
A) True
B) False

Answer 1

Hint: Muhammad was born into Mecca’s most powerful tribe, the Quraish, around 570 A.D. After Qur’an, the most important Muslim texts are the sayings and life descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad.

Complete answer:
The rise of the Islamic religion is essentially linked with the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims believed him to be the last in a long line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus. After the holy book of the Qur’an, the most important Muslim texts are the sayings of the Prophet (hadith) and descriptions of his way of life (sunna).

Muhammad was born into Mecca’s most powerful tribe, the Quraish, around 570 A.D. He is referred to as the prophet and founder of Islam.

In 610 A.D., in a cave in Mount Hira, located north of Mecca, he got a vision in which God was speaking to him through the angel Gabriel. He commands Muhammad to become the Arab prophet of the “true religion”. It was the start of a lifetime of religious revelations, which he and others collected and referred to as the Qur’an. These revelations provided the basis for the religion of Islam. Muhammad considered himself as the last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition, and he adopted the theology of these older religions while introducing new doctrines. The teachings that were inspired by him also brought unity to Arabia’s Bedouin tribesmen, an event that had sweeping outcomes for the rest of the world.

By the summer of 622 A.D., he had acquired a considerable number of converts in Mecca. Then he fled to Medina, a city some 200 miles north of Mecca, where he was offered a position of considerable political power. At Medina, he constructed a model theocratic state and administered a rapidly growing empire. In 629 A.D., he returned to Mecca as a conqueror. During the next two and a half years, various disparate tribes of Arab converted to his religion. By his death on June 8, 632, he was the effective ruler of all southern Arabia, and his missionaries, or legates, were active in the Eastern Empire, Persia and Ethiopia.

Thus, the correct answer is Option A. True i.e., Prophet Muhammad is the founder of Islam.

Note: The Kaaba, meaning cube in Arabic, is the holiest shrine in Islam. It is located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is a square building, elegantly draped in a silk and cotton veil. All Muslims aspire to undertake the hajj, also referred to as the annual pilgrimage, to the Kaaba once in their life if they are able. Hajj and five times prayer in a day are two of Islam’s five pillars, the most fundamental principles of the faith.