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Three major traditions influenced the development of Islam. The most important was the monotheistic tradition of Judaism and Christianity. The next most important were the endemic Arab henotheist religions, like Rahmanists, and Arab monotheists, the Hanifs. The final group is Zoroastrianism.
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The answer you are most likely looking for is MONOTHEISM, since most schools try to stress that Muhammad's concept of monotheism was revolutionary in the Arabian Peninsula. However, this is actually false. There were significant numbers of Jews, Christians, and Hanifs (Arab Monotheists) who lived contemporaneously with Muhammad. All of these groups believed in only one god and all of these groups self-identified as Arabs (when they lived in the Arabian Peninsula).
The actual major difference between Islam, the religion preached by Muhammad, and other Arabian Faiths was its DETERMINED ICONOCLASM. Iconoclasm is the idea that idols, icons, and other religious images should be destroyed and viewed as great sins. Almost no Arab groups were iconoclastic. The only other serious iconoclasts were the Jews (Christians and Hanifs maintained icons). Now, while Judaism is also iconoclastic, Judaism held no requirement that it was their duty to destroy the idols, icons, and other religious images that belong to Non-Jews. Muhammad specifically wanted to destroy all icons and religious images, regardless of whose religious images they were.
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In pre-Islamic Arabia, people were Pagans n worshipped hand-made idols o.0 the people were not good as tehy did very wrong n immoral things such as -burying baby girls alive -drinking n gambling n prostitutions -making black people 'slaves' n beating them n selling them these are just som of the things...
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They were polytheistic, following a number of local gods/goddesses. Many were animists (believers in spirits) or henotheists (people who believed in one superior god and numerous lesser gods). Many of the tribes worshiped animal-like statues and moon goddess.
Poetry and language were very important to them, and towns would hold poetry competitions.
Tribal and kinship affiliations were the most important part of a person's identity and was the ultimate basis of society, leading to many wars over trade routes by different tribes that wished to profit from them.
There were people who were nomadic, semi-nomadic and completely settled. An individual clan would have members in all three areas.
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People of Arabia used to kill their daughters when born and they buried them alive in their childhood no good for a women to be born
But when Islam came they give respect and a rank to women they made women equally with men due to which Arabs has fight with Muslims.
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The Arabs before the influence of Islam were Jews and Christians and Pagans and Nomadic tribes who believed in several Gods. Women were just objects of desire and had no rights and the Arabs were arrogant, cruel, barbaric and uncivilized race always fighting with frequent tribal rivalry. Female children were buried alive as they were not welcomed and accepted by the Arab men. With the emergence of Islam things gradually changed, law and order prevailed, women were given more rights and respectability and trade and commerce flourished.
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No. Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and grant him peace, grew up in a pagan society. At the age of forty, he began to receive Divine Revelations, and established the newest instance of monotheistic religion, Islam.
Mohammed was not a Jew by his own admission and by birth. Mohammed certainly had a lot of contact with Jews in both Mecca and in Yethrib (today's Medina) and knew much of the Jewish Holy Beliefs, but he never considered himself Jewish. The only connection he had to Judaism, religiously, was that he asserted that he was the Jewish Messiah, something Jews almost unanimously flatly rejected.
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Answer 1
Asalam o Alaikum.
Firstly when referring to Muhammad (pbuh), you should always add 'pbuh (peace be upon him) or 's.a.w (sallallahu alihi wa alai wasalam' as signs of respects.:)
Now answering your question, he (s.a.w) did face a lot of opposition during his lifetime. The major evidence of this is when he (s.a.w) went to Taif to preach the locals Islam, they pelted him with stones to the point that he (s.a.w) bled to his feet. They chased him out of the town, mocking and ridiculing him. But to his (s.a.w)'s greatness, he (s.a.w) forgave them all and prayed for them that Allah (s.w.t) guides them to the straight path.
His (s.a.w)'s prayer was fulfilled when after ten years, the whole of Taif had embraced Islam.
And secondly, the local Jewish Makkans wrote ridiculous poems about Muhammad (s.a.w) insulting him, his family and his religion. They also plotted to kill him but Muhammad (s.a.w) was told about this by Allah before they came searching for him and he (s.a.w) fled to Medina with his followers to seek shelter.
While he was living in Mecca, the locals banished his tribe and the followers of islam to the valley of Banu-Hashim. Where they stayed for 3 years eating leaves and grass.
So basically Muhammad (s.a.w) was tormented both physically and mentally by the locals, but after he had conquered Makkah (23 years after the first revelation) he (s.a.w) stood at the Ka-aba and forgave his bitterest enemies in public.
Answer 2
The only evidence proferred in Answer 1 is: (1) stone-pelting in Taif by non-believers, (2) Jewish Meccans who wrote unflattering poetry, and (3) the Hijra from Mecca to Medina.
There are much better indicators of Mohammed's difficulty of converting Jews, Christians, and Henotheist and Pagan Arabs, such as the following.
1) Meccan Ministry: During all fourteen years of his Meccan ministry, when Mohammed had no political power and could only sway people by argument, he had only 150 followers. Mecca was an incredibly diverse city with innumerable religious groups as well as unassociated monotheists called Hanifs. This should have been low-hanging fruit, but Mohammed only garnered resentment and stone-pelting.
2) Relations with Jews: Another indicator would be how nearly every Jewish tribe Mohammed tried to convince laughed in his face and asked him serious questions about his claims. The Islamic tales only retell the occasional story of the Jew who converts, but not of the several Jewish tribes that remained largely intact until Mohammed saw fit to slaughter or exile them from his territory. He was clearly unable to convince the majority of them.
3) Relations with the Christians of Najran: In 631 C.E. Mohammed held negotiations with the Christian community of Najran. He did not seem to convince any of them to become Muslims. In fact, Najran would not see its Christian community diminish in any way until Caliph Omar forcibly evicted them.
4) Ridda Wars: When Mohammed conquered Mecca in 630 C.E., many Arab tribes converted to Islam. However, when Mohammed died in 633 C.E., a number of these tribes "unconverted". In their view, their acceptance of Islam was a confederal pact, not an acceptance of a religion. Now that Mohammed was dead, the pact was over, since he did not leave proper successors. If Mohammed had actually convinced the tribes that his religion was proper, they never would have left. Caliph Abu Bakr was later "forced" to reconquer the "unconverted" tribes and make them realign towards Islam.
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