The Lives of Jesus and Muhammad in Respect to their Religions

The Lives of Jesus and Muhammed

Jesus and Muhammed were the founders of two of the world 's three most prevalent religions , Christianity and Islam respectively (the third major world religion , of course , is Judaism . Both Jesus and Muhammed are considered to be prophets and many of the tenets of Christianity and Islam are based on the way they lived their lives . While their early lives were vastly different from each other , the way in which they established their religions and the hardships they endured in doing so were remarkably similar p

Jesus and Muhammed 's early lives were very different . One could have predicted that Jesus would become involved in religion , but Muhammed was more likely to have spent his life as a caravan trader . While Jesus was according to Christian doctrine , born to a virgin and destined for the life of a prophet , Muhammed 's father died before he was born and his mother died as well when Muhammed was six years old (Burak , 2008 Muhammed was ultimately raised by relatives without any documented religious instruction , while Jesus was raised by Mary and his very birth celebrated as a religious event . Little is known about either of the prophets ' lives before they began preaching . Jesus 's life takes a mysterious jump from birth to the age of thirty . It is known that his parents returned to Nazareth on the king 's s (that everyone must return to the town in which they were born , and that they fled Egypt during the slaughter of the first born sons (Wikipedia .org , 2008 . As for his later years , it is assumed that Jesus worked with his father as a carpenter , and Muhammed as a caravan trader . While Jesus never married , Muhammed was married to Khadija (fifteen years his senior ) for many years

Even before Muhammed became a prophet , he expressed a concern over the way his peers were living their lives . He objected to the idolatry that dominated the lives of the polytheists who lived in Mecca at the time , and he had little use for the materialism and other forms of heresy that were a part of everyday life . As for Jesus , little information is known about his life from the time he was born until his baptism at the age of thirty . However , both prophets made a significant impact on the areas in which they lived when they began preaching Muhammed had to contend with the polytheism that dominated the area of Arabia at the time . Individuals worshipped idols at the Kaa 'ba , and Muhammed 's revelations denounced this practice . Jesus , however , had to contend with Judaism , a long-established and respected religion . In spite of the initial resistance , however , both Jesus and Muhammed persisted in pursuing their respective religions . Both found followers or disciples to help spread the word . In Muhammed 's case , his followers documented his revelations and gathered them into two books : the Qur 'an which is the Muslim 's holy book , and the Sunna , a guide to...