Muslim Religion Dbq Essay

In 610 Ce, a merchant trader from Mecca made one of his frequent visit to a cave on nearby mount Hira for muhammad it was a time to pray. According to Muhammad , it was on this visit to mt. hira that the archangel gabriel squeezed him hard and caused words to flow from his mouth, the words said that allah was the one god. In 610 mecca was a bustling arabian trade town it was also where arab pagans came to perform rituals at the sacred ka’ba . after receiving allahs word for two years . muhammad began to recite the received words in public. After muhammad's death in 623 all his words were written down and called the qur’an. By 622 the resistance against him was so strong that muhammad decided to leave . in 624 muhammad symbolically turned his body to the south away from jerusalem and toward …show more content…
in document f it states that heraclius had an army of about 200,000 men and muslims had about 24,000 men. by allah's help some 70,000 of heraclius man were put to death. the people of hims after their lost said “ we like your rule and justice far better than the state of oppression and tyranny in which we were . the army of heraclius we shall indeed repulse from the city “ this proves that other people were willing to convert because the muslims fight with allah and treated them better . the second reason why military conquest was a big part of the muslim religion was because the muslims changed the way ghazu worked i know this because in document D it states “ a series of ghazu raids against the non-muslims communities in the neighboring countries. the unity of the muslims would be preserved by an outwardly directed attack “ this shows that the muslims changed the idea of ghazu from raids against other tribes to raids against non muslims , this give muslims more power and made them soon spread past the arabian peninsula, these are the reason why military conquest was big to muslims