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A Brief Essay On Who Is Muhammad?

A Brief Essay on Who Is Muhammad?

Throughout my life I have come to believe that Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. I have put my trust, my soul, and myself in Islam; it has not guided me astray nor has it guided me to beliefs that are illogic to the social norm's ability of understanding. Raised as a Muslim, some might say I had no choice but to be a Muslim. On the contrary, Islam itself has promoted in its holy book, the Quran, the need to search and know other religions. How can you know if you have the right religion when you don't know about other religions? But after studying Islam and other religions I have come to the conclusion that Islam is the most complex when it comes to finding the origins of its latest founder in this case Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Ibn Abdalmuttalib (peace and blessings be upon him).
In this paper I will discuss Muhammad's life according to scholars of Islam and why we can accept their information instead of regarding them as mythical. This paper is meant to describe Muhammad by the best possible sources using the Quran as the holiest source or as undistorted evidence to prove the ahadith. In this paper I am not arguing whether the Quran is God's words but for a moment let us accept that fact in proving the existence and validity of Muhammad's life.

Starting from our father Adam, God created the first human. Without doubt Adam accepted God's presence. The holy books of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all include this major creation of the first human being. According to the Gospel and Torah:

So God created man (Adam) in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

As people we do not think of Adam as a Prophet or a Messenger first, but rather as a human. Paintings and cartoons today display Adam as a man barely shading his shame with leaves. Is it because he was sent with no holy book, we do not think of him as a prophet or a messenger? Or is it because...