History Of Muhammad Details
A
child, Muhammad, is born in a merchant family in Mecca. His clan is
prosperous and influential, but his father dies before he is born and
his mother dies when the boy is only six.
Entrusted to a Bedouin nurse, Muhammad spends much
of his childhood among nomads, accompanying the caravans on Arabia's
main trade route through Mecca.
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A widow, Khadija, considerably older than Muhammad, has sufficient
faith in him to entrust him with her business affairs; and when he is
twenty-five, they marry. For the next fifteen years or so he lives the
life of a prosperous merchant. But he develops one habit untypical of
merchants.
From time to time he withdraws into
the mountains to meditate and pray. In about the year 610 he has a
vision which changes his life; and changes world history.
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It is on Mount Hira, according to tradition, that the archangel
Gabriel appears to Muhammad. He describes later how he seemed to be
grasped by the throat by a luminous being, |
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