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Islam

The Prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca in 570 C .E , both his parents died when he was very young and was left to be raised by his paternal grandfather 'Abd al Muttalib ) and later on by his paternal uncle (Abu Talib . Muhammad joined his uncle and became a merchant and trader . At the age of twenty five he married a rich merchant widow , named Khadijah who proposed marriage to him . Muhammad and Khadijah had six children together four daughters and two sons but both sons died early in their infancy . During the

month of Ramadan he would often retreat to Mount Hira to meditate , it was during one of his many retreats that Muhammad received the first revelation from the Archangel Jibril (Gabriel Muhammad was forty at the time . The Archangel Gabriel came and visited the Prophet Muhammad upon Allah 's command to reveal to him the Ayat (in English the term is best rendered as `verses these Ayat were revealed to the Prophet over a period of twenty-three years

The revelations received by the Prophet Muhammad were never one continuous text , they were sometimes just a few verses , other times he would receive only part of a chapter and at other times he would be given a complete chapter . Some revelations were given to the Prophet in response to an inquiry made by the non-believers . Since the Prophet could not write he memorized the verses as soon as they were revealed to him and he would later recite...

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