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Give an account of how Muhammad was called to be a Prophet of Islam and explain what was special about Muhammad's message.
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Give an account of how Muhammad was called to be a Prophet of Islam and explain what was special about Muhammad's message. In 610 CE, in the month of Ramadan, when Muhammad was about 40, he had a life changing experience. He was praying, as he often did, in a cave, on Mt. Hira, also known as the 'Mountain of light', about 5 km from Makkah, when he heard a voice calling his name and saying 'Iqra', which means 'recite'. He saw a roll of silk, with letters of fire on it, and the voice commanded him to recite the words written, but he could not, he was illiterate. These words came from the Qu'ran (Surah 96, verses 1-5). The voice belonged to the angel Jibreel (the archangel Gabriel), he asked Muhammad to recite 3 times, but each time he told him he could not. Muhammed was distraught, he really...
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