Islam Case

Islam is the religion of Muslims. Islam began in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia to be precise) revealed to Muslims by the prophet Muhammad (Pbuh). The word 'Islam' is Arabic meaning submission and obedience. It is the second most popular religion and was practised between 650 and 1500AD. Muslims believe that there is only one God who they call Allah and that Allah is internal (never born and will never die). Allah made everything is omniscient and omnipotent. Allah sent prophets to teach and tell people how he wanted to them to live. Islam is often said to be related to the faiths Judaism and Christianity because of the similarity of prophets, stories and message. However the most important prophet to Muslims is Muhammad (Pbuh) because he was the founder of the religion.

The prophet Muhammad

Muhammad was born in the city of Mecca which today is known as Saudi Arabia in 570AD. His father had died before he was born and his mother died when he was 6 years old. He was then brought up by his grandfather and later his uncle in Mecca. As a man Muhammad was very honest and a good hearted man. He worked for a woman named khadijah who was a very wealthy trader then when he was 25 he married khadijah. Muhammad's happiness did not last long. Mecca was becoming a very unsafe, frightening place. People were gambling, drinking, fighting steeling money form the poor but worst of all the people of mecca began to worship idols. All these this were wrong to Muhammad and so he would escape and find peace in a cave in the mountains outside Mecca.One day when Muhammad was reflecting and meditating in the cave he had a vision where an angel came to him with a cloth with words written on it . This angel was called The angel Gabriel. The angel Gabriel said to Muhammad "Recite!" but Muhammad could not read. However the angel continued to command Muhammad to recite. Muhammad then began to read the words on the cloths and was able to understand them and began to read them aloud. He stood and walked out of the cave and the angel said "Muhammad you are the messenger of Allah". Muhammad was frightened by what had just happened and told his wife what had happened and she was the first person that believed the message had come from Allah. Muhammad began to preach the word of Allah in Mecca but the people didn't like what Muhammad was telling them. They didn't like that Muhammad was telling them that