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history of islam
“Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created, Created
man from a clot of blood.” (Quran 96:1-2)
Three times Muhammad
pleaded his inability to do so, but each time the command was repeated.
Finally, Muhammad recited the words of what are now the first five verses of
the 96th chapter of the Quran - words which proclaim God to be the Creator of
man and the Source of all knowledge.
At first Muhammad divulged
his experience only to his wife and his immediate circle. But, as more
revelations enjoined him to proclaim the oneness of God universally, his
following grew, at first among the poor and the slaves, but later, also among
the most prominent men of Mecca. The revelations he received at this
time, and those he did later, are all incorporated in the Quran, the Scripture
of Islam.
Not everyone accepted
God’s message transmitted through Muhammad. Even in his own clan, there
were those who rejected his teachings, and many merchants actively opposed the
message. The opposition, however, merely served to sharpen Muhammad’s
sense of mission, and his understanding of exactly how Islam differed from
paganism. The belief in the Oneness of God was paramount in Islam; from
this all else follows. The verses of the Quran stress God’s uniqueness,
warn those who deny it of impending punishment, and proclaim His unbounded
compassion to those who submit to His will. They affirm the Last
Judgment, when God, the Judge, will weigh in the balance the faith and works of
each man, rewarding the faithful and punishing the transgressor. Because
the Quran rejected polytheism and emphasized man’s moral responsibility, in
powerful images, it presented a grave challenge to the worldly Meccans.
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