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The Prophet Muhammad No other person in history has had such an impact on the life of his followers, according to Muslim beliefs, than Muhammad, the last and final messenger of Allah. His life is the best example for Muslims to follow. He has shown how to obey Allah and how to live as a true Muslim. Muhammad might have shown exemplary qualities in the way he lived, but he was just an ordinary human being like everyone else. Muhammad was a man who was keen to discover answers to the deepest questions of life that the people of his day were not answering, and Muhammad was becoming increasingly distressed by the arguments and conflicts, oppression of the poor and low status of women in the society around him. Even Christianity and Judaism of his day had become corrupted and had strayed from the truth. Above all the thing that Muhammad despised was the idol worship. These statues of other gods (idols) could not talk, walk or move or anything, so how could they respond to the prayers of people? Only Allah had that power, so only He should be worshipped. Muhammad was, therefore, in exactly the right frame of mind to be the one to receive the truth and tell it to others. Muhammad was given the duty of making Islam prevail over all other systems and ways of life, to establish the truth in the world and get rid of all evil in society. The world had gone very wrong and needed setting straight in both truth and behaviour: the Qur’an was the answer. The Qur’an, therefore, includes the truth that needs no correcting or updating; these are the final words that God had to speak to humans that will not be improved upon and that do the best job at revealing what God wants and what God is like. Muhammad merely memorised and spoke the words that God revealed to him through the angel Jibril, so it is just as God spoke it. Source: Islam: Beliefs and Teachings, Ghulam Sarwar