The Extensive Function of Prophet Muhammad on the Islamic Faith

Muslims believe that Islam is a faith that has always existed and that it was gradually revealed to humanity by many prophets, but the final and complete revelation of the faith was made through the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century CE. The desert city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia Muhammad was born in Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Muhammad was born in Mecca in Saudi Arabia in 570. He was a deeply spiritual man, and often spent time in meditation on Mount Hira. The traditional story of the Qur'an tells how one night in 610 he was meditating in a cave on the mountain when he was visited by the angel Jibreel who ordered him to recite. Once Jibreel mentioned the name of Allah, Muhammad began to recite words which he came to believe were the words of God.

Prophet Muhammad is the prophet and founder of Islam. Prophet Muhammed and the religion he founded not only effected the culture but he also had a major influence politically, socially, and economically. Prophet Muhammed changed almost every aspect of life in the middle east and around the world, —this is especially true outside of the Western world. Followers of Islam believe in full submission to God and this submission is practiced in the secular realm. Of the five pillars of Islam, one (the zakat) has a direct effect on economic policy and ethics. The culture of Islam has shaped economic and business guidelines In the Islamic World and continues to do so because of the teachings of Prophet Muhammed. Cultural ideals attributed to the Qur’an or the Prophet Muhammad, have been a vital source for economic and business practices that have helped to shape the history of many Islamic nations, and are the guiding creation of policies that have come along.

Islam’s original principle is the common or joint possession of property amongst the slaves of God, so that each one takes according to his needs, the basic needs of a traveler passing through this life to the next true and lasting life it is also important to note that this statement is made in a section titled “Capitalism Is Not an Original Precept In Islam”. Taha references Muslims as ‘slaves of God’, or submitters, who should have their needs met and then contribute to the needs of others. Much of this communal nature is attributed to the tribal history of many Islamic peoples, and the descendants of these people still have an egalitarian outlook on the world in which they live.

Another way you can tell Prophet Muhammed impacted and inspired culture is his followers who are called Muslims are not allowed to make money in ways that require little or no work, the Qur’an states: “They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: In them is great sin, and some profit for men; but the sin is greater than the profit”, gambling is usually illegal and frowned upon in Islamic societies because it is too easy to attain wealth through it. In Prophet Muhammed teaching, work is a very important topic in the Islamic culture, not necessarily for economic purposes in the Western sense, but because it allows for prosperity for everyone and is an example of activities rewarded for them now and in the afterlife. So theses changed over there during after Muhammad.

Before Prophet Muhammad, Arab society had racial biases against non-Arabs just as American society had up till the 1960’s. The Prophet managed to purify these primitive sentiments by his personal example. His closest companions Bilal bin Riba (an Abyssinian) and Salman Farsi (a Persian) were both former slaves who went on to command enormous respect in the first Muslim society. In his famous last sermon, the Prophet declared “a white has no superiority over black, nor does a black over a white, except by piety and good action”.

Another big thing The Prophet did was trying to preach religious freedom, because he himself was driven out of his own city for preaching his religion, his followers were persecuted or killed and their bodies were mutilated. Yet, he himself forbade retaliation in kind or the holding of slaves except as prisoners captured in such conflicts. His instructions for humane treatment of prisoners during a conflict were exemplary: no women, children, hermits or other non-combatants were to be harmed and that prisoners or slaves were to be fed the same food and clothed the same clothes as the Muslims themselves. It is not surprising that his humane teachings quickly won the hearts of his former enemies which rapidly led to the conversion of Arabia to Islam. Islam’s global spread and appeal owed itself to Prophet Muhammad’s social reforms. Unfortunately, over the centuries his teachings have been obfuscated and violated much as any other faith or movement. Thus, the misconduct of some Muslim extremists today often makes it difficult to put the historic struggle of Prophet Muhammad for humanitarian causes in context.

Lastly the last thing I would love to touch on that the Prophet Muhammed did impact on his society during his life was the fight for women’s rights. In the pre-Islamic society, some proud pagans practiced ‘honor’ killings and female infanticide to offset their ‘shame.’ The numerous reforms which the Prophet instituted in the 7th century included the end of ‘honor’ killings, the right of a woman’s approval in her marriage, her right to ownership of private property, to seek unilateral divorce if the husband was abusive and to re-marry as a widow or divorcee. Some of these rights did not exist even in the West until the early 20th century. Moreover, as the Prophet taught, while a husband was supposed to provide for his wife, the wife was under no obligation to share her wealth or property with the husband. Critics point out cruelties in Muslim societies today where women are forced to veil or to marry abusive husbands. Ironically, the violence against women today is exactly the same as the one which the Prophet ended in his society.