What are the origins of Islam?

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The prophet Muhammad laid down the foundations for Islamic faith, but the roots go all the way into Judaism and Christianity as well. Just as the Christian God is really the Hebrew God+Jesus as messiah, Allah is the same god as well, but with Jesus as a prophet and Muhammad as a prophet.

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Here is some information I gathered from a book entitled,"Mankind's Search for God," published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. The book contains deep information, including history of most of the world's major religions. Information on how to get a free copy of the book can be obtained at www.watchtower.org

"Muḥammad was born in Mecca (Arabic, Makkah), Saudi Arabia, about 570 C.E. His father, ‛Abd Allâh, died before Muḥammad’s birth. His mother, Âminah, died when he was about six years old. At that time the Arabs practiced a form of worship of Allâh that was centered in the Mecca valley, at the sacred site of the Ka‛bah, a simple cubelike building where a black meteorite was revered. According to Islâmic tradition, “the Ka‛bah was originally built by Adam according to a celestial prototype and after the Deluge rebuilt by Abraham and Ishmael.” (History of the Arabs, by Philip K. Hitti) It became a sanctuary for 360 idols, one for each day of the lunar year.

"As Muḥammad grew up, he questioned the religious practices of his day. John Noss, in his book Man’s Religions, states: “[Muḥammad] was disturbed by incessant quarreling in the avowed interests of religion and honor among the Quraysh chiefs [Muḥammad belonged to that tribe]. Stronger still was his dissatisfaction with the primitive survivals in Arabian religion, the idolatrous polytheism and animism, the immorality at religious convocations and fairs, the drinking, gambling, and dancing that were fashionable, and the burial alive of unwanted infant daughters practiced not only in Mecca but throughout Arabia.”—Surah 6:137.

"Muḥammad’s call to be a prophet took place when he was about 40 years of age. He had the custom of going alone to a nearby mountain cave, called Ghâr Ḥirâ’, for meditation, and he claimed that it was on one of these occasions that he received the call to be a prophet. Muslim tradition relates that while he was there, an angel, later identified as Gabriel, commanded him to recite in the name of Allâh. Muḥammad failed to respond, so the angel ‘caught him forcefully and pressed him so hard that he could not bear it anymore.’ Then the angel repeated the command. Again, Muḥammad failed to react, so the angel ‘choked him’ again. This occurred three times before Muḥammad started to recite what came to be viewed as the first of a series of revelations that constitute the Qur’ân. Another tradition relates that divine inspiration was revealed to Muḥammad like the ringing of a bell.—The Book of Revelation from Ṣaḥîḥ Al-Bukhârî.

"Muḥammad founded his new faith against great odds. The people of Mecca, even of his own tribe, rejected him. After 13 years of persecution and hatred, he moved his center of activity north to Yathrib, which then became known as al-Madînah (Medina), the city of the prophet. This emigration, or the hijrah, in 622 C.E. marked a significant point in Islâmic history, and the date was later adopted as the starting point for the Islâmic calendar.

"Eventually, Muḥammad achieved dominance when Mecca surrendered to him in January of 630 C.E. (8 A.H.) and he became its ruler. With the reins of secular and religious control in his hands, he was able to clean out the idolatrous images from the Ka‛bah and establish it as the focal point for pilgrimages to Mecca that continue down to this day.—See pages 289, 303.

"Within a few decades of Muḥammad’s death in 632 C.E., Islâm had spread as far as Afghanistan and even to Tunisia in North Africa. By the early eighth century, the faith of the Qur’ân had penetrated into Spain and was at the French border. As Professor Ninian Smart stated in his book Background to the Long Search: “Looked at from a human point of view, the achievement of an Arabian prophet living in the sixth and seventh centuries after Christ is staggering. Humanly, it was from him that a new civilisation flowed. But of course for the Muslim the work was divine and the achievement that of Allah.”

There is a tremendous amount of information in this book about Islam, including information about the writing of the Quran, and also the various sects within Islam.

All false religion started from ancient Babylons Tower of Babel, when God confused their languages and people scattered throughout the earth and took their religious beliefs with them.

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