How Did Muhammad's View Of Monotheism

The given prophecy outlines his role as the prophet to bring about a new form of monotheism to the Middle East. However, Muhammad does not recognize this until his wife, Khadija, takes him to her cousin, a Christian monk. At first, Muhammad does not take any steps to spread this religion and indeed takes more prompting from God to finally spread his religion across Mecca. After this forced reminder from God, Muhammad takes on the role of an outspoken prophet for monotheism. Unfortunately, ancient Mecca was not well suited for the views of monotheism. Many Meccans were used to worshipping their own tribal gods just as their fathers had before them and for a new man to force his way into the established tribal hierarchy while spewing derogatory views against their own gods was taken poorly. For this reason, the Meccan tribal leaders forced Muhammad and his few followers out of Mecca and into Medina. However, Muhammad did not take this as a defeat and instead used it as a chance to form his own system of government and strengthen his army against the Meccans. This continued on for some time until Muhammad gathered a large enough army and engaged in three brutal

Here we see Muhammad not acting as just a religious figure but a political and social one: he does not seek to solely change the religions of the Meccans but also transform the way the government operates and social hierarchies form. Muhammad no longer accepts the fractured tribal system that constantly had bloody skirmishes for greater respect. Again, to take this as a solely religious mistake would be obscuring the whole picture. Muhammad was concerned with transitioning other Meccans to his religion but he was more attentive to the damage constant tribal warfare was doing to his community. In this sense, Muhammad used religion as a vehicle to transform the societal and political norms of his