An illustrious background of a civilization provides a perspective for the present. Painting an image for people of interest. Often we reflect on the most recent events, to evaluate our current positions. For example, in the twenty-first century the Islamic world made a much more notable entrance than ever before. In the United States, more than 1,200 mosque and nearly 8 million Muslims (Staryer 2013) are in the States. Making a much more notable entrance with the 9/11 attacks, military action against Afghanistan and Iraq, and the killing of Osama bin Laden, gave the world a notice of Islam growing role in the world. With these recent events in mind, how can individuals understand the present development if Islam, without understanding the …show more content…
When he was young, he lost his parents and was taken cared by his uncle. He eventually grew up to be a caravan merchant and married his boss; a rich widow named Khadija. As a comptemptative man, he was deeply troubled by the gap of the “greedy” rich and the “honest” poor. Who at the time was sickened by corruption and inequalities of Mecca. He will often go to the mountains and meditated until he was with drawled. In 610, on his daily meditations, he had a religious revelation. He was visited by the Angel Gabriel to tell him, that he was the final prophet to Allah (God). Intentionally very overwhelm by the situation, it was his family and friends that motivated him to recite the revelations, which was later recorded in the Qur’an. The Qur’an is the Muslim holy book complied of Muhammad’s divine revelations. The message of the Qur’an was recited by Muhammad was a radical reforming religion; a religion that sought to restore monotheism after individuals strayed from Allah’s teaching. The Qur’an acknowledges Moses, Jesus, and Abraham as prophet, but in the viewed of Muslim. Muhammad was the final prophet to herd the strayed to submit to Allah. The Qur’an was very different from to other religions. For example, it was written from the words