Muhammad
...different religious perspectives. At the age of twenty-five, he met his future wife Khadijah; the couple went on to have six children. While meditating at Mount Hira, the angel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad in a vision. The angle told him that he was a prophet of God, and that he was to spread God’s message to all of His people. Muhammad was reluctant to follow this order until his wife became his first disciple, forming the Islamic religion; many more began following the prophet’s teachings. Today Islam is the second largest religion in the world. Gabriel told the prophet many revelations. Believers in the Islamic religion began documenting these revelations into a book known as the Koran, also spelled Qur’an. The standard Koran was organized under the reign of Catiph Uthman. Contemporary Muslims use the Koran’s teachings as a religious guide. They consider it as the highest authority in Islamic law. All Muslims memorize pieces of the Koran; several memorize the whole work by heart. Although the revelations were revea...