Black Spirituality Religion : PROPHET MUHAMMAD...

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Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah (saw), an illiterate man of humble origin, promulgated Islam, one of the world's greatest religions, and became an effective political leader. Today, fourteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.

Muhammad was born in the year 570 AD, in the city of Mecca, in what is presently southern Saudi Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from civilization. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother died when he was six years of age. He was fostered in modest surroundings. He attended sheep herds and was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married Khadijah, a wealthy widow. He was the utmost in honesty since his childhood.

Most Arabs at that time were pagans, worshipping many idols. During his trading expeditions, Muhammad learned of one, omnipotent God who ruled the universe. When he was forty years old he received the revelation and inspiration from God through the archangel Gabriel, ordering him to spread the true faith, the Muslim faith, the faith of his forefather, Abraham. For three years Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Later he started revealing the message to his tribe (Quraish). As he slowly gained converts, the Meccans began considering him as a danger to their customs, traditions, and positions among other tribes. Around 622 AD, fearing for his safety, he was inspired by God to flee to Medina, where he gained many followers and supporters (Hijrah).

In Medina, Muhammad's following grew rapidly and Islam started spreading everywhere. A series of battles were fought between the people of Medina and Mecca (Badr, Uhad, Khandaq), and this war ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca. During the next two-and-a-half years of his remaining life, the Arabian Peninsula witnessed a rapid conversion of Arab, Jewish, and Christian tribes to Islam...

You can read the entire biography at:

http://www.mtmcenter.org/resource_biog.htm
 
Peace,

I've covered this so much, and with you as well Sopdet (on Daveyd), that it gets quite ridiculous...

Although there are no cemented accounts of exactly how old Ayesha was when she married the Prophet (pbuh), the age most accepted is 9 years of age...

Now, you say you put ur trust in archealogy (however u spell that), and so I must assume, you are a student of history as well...

History should have shown you that back then, girls became women as soon as they started menstruting...a woman usually starts this process at the age of 9-12....God, in His Infinite Wisdom, has made it so that when a woman starts menstruating, she is able to bear children, and thus can start a family....in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, a woman is marriageble as soon as she starts mensturating...the Prophet (pbuh) and the daughter of one of his closes friends Abu Bakr, Ayesha, were "betrothed" for a period of a few years until Ayesha became a woman...as soon as she did so, she joined her husband, Muhammad (pbuh), in Medina..before that she and the Prophet (pbuh) had never had any 'relations'....keep the fact that the Prophet (pbuh) has not done any wrong, since the Prophets of Allah (pbut) are always righteous (i.e Jesus (pbuh) was sin-less), the fact that Muhammad (pbuh) did not do anything wrong within the boundaries of his society......

it's only when you look ati it from this society's view that people think it akward...but back then, women were married at 9 years of age...the life span was not long, plus, it was the custom...

So, really, what is the purpose of your question???

oh, and before you mention Maryam the Coptic wife of Muhammad (Pbuh), do look at what I've posted on the other site...


PEACE
 

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