Hey bro, just so you know the muslims were persecuted, tortured & killed in Mecca for over 10 years without retaliating before they migrated to Medina where they were welcomed. The Meccans still waged war against them until eventually they won & entered Mecca. After entering the city the prophet didn't commit any reprisals & allowed those who wanted to stay (regardless of their faith) to stay & those who wanted to leave to leave. He never coerced anyone into the religion.
He did marry Aisha about 9 or 10 years of age who after his death became one of the most influental & important person in Islamic history. She was also the daughter of his oldest friend & first leader after him. This was over 1,400 years ago & wasn't uncommon to marry so young...including in Europe. The Byzantines for example had 'child brides'...700 only years ago! of course this is unacceptable nowadays & rightly so but things were different in those times. If you read his biography you'll find that he was really amazing...nothing like those scumbags you see on TV ranting & spewing shite! take it easy pal
Muslim" is an
Arabic word meaning "one who submits to
God" (Well, who can tell us what the is? the Clerics, of course. It is a Pope based cult in that respect)
The first Islamic year beginning in
622 AD during which the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra.
In 630, Muslims conquered
Mecca. Muhammad died in June 632.
Under the Rashidun
Main article:
Rashidun conquests
Conquests of Muhammad and the Rashidun
Under the Umayyads
Later conquests
The following four passages in the Quran were revealed before Muhammad’s Hijrah (Emigration or Flight) from Mecca to Medina in AD 622. He has to show patience because he has no military power. The last passage in this section was revealed in Medina, when he indeed has a lot of raw power.
(1) Muhammad at Mecca
25:4-6
The disbelievers say, "This can only be a lie he [Muhammad] has forged with the help of others"—they themselves have done great wrong and told lies—5
and they say, "It is just fables of the ancients, which he has had written down: they are dictated to him morning and evening. 6
Say [Prophet], "It was sent down by Him who knows the secrets of the heavens and earth. He is all forgiving and merciful." (MAS Abdel Haleem,
The Qur’an, Oxford UP, 2004, both insertions are mine)
83:13 ...
[W]hen Our revelations are recited to him, he says, "Ancient fables!" 14
No indeed! Their hearts are encrusted with what they have done. 15
No indeed! On that day they will be screened off from their Lord, 16
they will burn in Hell, 17
and they will be told, "This is what you call a lie." (Haleem; see Sura 8:31)
March 624: Al-Nadr bin al-Harith
Before Muhammad’s Hijrah, he used to sit in the assembly and invite the Meccans to Allah, citing the Quran and warning them of God’s punishment for mocking his prophets. A Meccan named Al-Nadr bin al-Harith would then follow him and speak about heroes and kings of Persia, saying, "By God, Muhammad cannot tell a better story than I, and his talk is only of old fables which he has copied as I have." On other days al-Nadr would interrupt Muhammad until the prophet silenced him.
It was al-Nadr’s bad fortune to join Mecca’s army, riding north to protect their caravan, which Muhammad attacked at the Battle of Badr in AD 624. This battle pitted about 320 Muslims against about 1,000 Meccans, near the north-south trade route following the Red Sea. The story-telling polytheist was captured, and on Muhammad’s return journey back to Medina, Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, at Muhammad’s order, beheaded him, instead of getting some possible ransom money. He was one of two prisoners who were executed and not allowed to be ransomed by their clans—all because he harassed Muhammad and wrote poems and told stories critiquing him.
Source: Ibn Ishaq,
The Life of Muhammad, (trans. A. Guillaume, Oxford UP, 1955, 2004), pp. 136, 163, 181, 262, 308. Reputable historians today consider Ibn Ishaq to be a reliable source of early Islam, though they may disagree on his chronology and miraculous element