Islam

Muhammad's Birth

570

Muhammad was born in Meca, a desert settlement with a spring that was ignored by the Parisian/Roman war. It was the site of an annual religious pilgrimage to the "Kaabah", a large cube containing over 360 deities, which represented the beginning of creation and the center of the earth.

Muhammad's early life- 570 to 610.

570

His parents died when he was an infant, so his clan and relatives raised him. He travelled Arabia and neighbouring countries to trade with his uncle, where he earned the titles of "the trustworthy one" and "the righteous one". Because of these titles, he was hired as a caravan leader by a wealthy widow who soon became his wife and the mother of his six children.

First Revelation

Dec 24, 610

On Mount Hira, where he often went to meditate, he was visited by the Angel Gabriel who commanded him to begin reciting. Gabriel told Muhammad the words of Allah, which Muhammad remembered word for word due to his state of ecstasy.

Mecca Struggles

Dec 24, 610

The entire settlement relied on the economic burst of the religious pilgrimage, and since Muhammad preached that there was only one God, his Tribe and the entire settlement turned against him. His life was in danger.

Hijra

Dec 24, 622

Medina offered to protect Muhammad from prosecution and harm. Muhammad took the Islamic in Mecca with him, and their migration was called the Hijra.

Return to Mecca

Dec 24, 630

Mecca was battling with Medina, and they had also broken the truce Muhammad had negotiated. Soo, Muhammad marched on Mecca with a large force of converted Meccans and other Islamists, and Mecca gave up without a fight and decided to accept Islam. Muhammad then gave pardon to all.