Islam
...as it did. Muhammad was born in Makkah, present-day Saudi Arabia in 570 C.E. According Kishlansky “Muhammad grew up poor and was also an orphan raise by relatives (200). He is the model for humanity of all walks of life to follow until the Last Hour. God sent him as a mercy for the worlds. Prophet Muhammad (an Arab and a descendant of Abraham) received divine revelations (The Holy Qur’an) over a periosaid that Islam, in essence calls man away from the worship of creation and invites him to worship only its Creator. He is the only one deserving man's worship as it is only by His will that prayers are answered. If man prays to a tree and his prayers are answered, it was not the tree, which answered his prayers, but Allah who allowed the circumstances prayed for to take place. Traditionally, they lived on the Arabian Peninsula, but the language and culture of the Arabs spread throughout the Middle East with the expansion of Islam. Arabic is the language of the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam. Today more than 200 million Arabs live in nations around the world. Arabs constitute the substantial majority of people in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Today more Muslims live in Indonesia, far from the Arab world, than in any other nation. The Arabs were interested in learning and in other cultures. Western Europe was in a period often called “the dark ages” b...