MOHAMMED’S MISSION ON EARTH

At the age of three (3), with a brother who was shepherding a few animals. The young Mohammed explains to them that two men dressed in white had come and laid him on the ground and that they had opened his chest and extracted something from him. According to Muslim tradition, the two men dressed in white would be two angels, sent to purify the heart of the child, destined to be a prophet and to put the seal of prophecy between his shoulders. Around year 610 for the first time, the angel Gabriel appears to him in the “Hira” cave. He used to go there to meditate. Angel Gabriel transmitted the word of God to him by revelation. Mohammed who who was 40 years old then began to transmit the verses that he claimed to be revealed by Allah and dictated in Arabic by angel Gabriel. This declaration went on successively for twenty-three years. The revelations were made punctually or regularly according to the facts of the life of the prophet and the community of believers. The said declarations ended up forming the Koran, which he now took time from the beginning to teach orally. In 622, Mohammed reorganized Yathrib which finally become Medina. He played the role of religious, political and military leader simultaneously. He based himself on the two Arab tribes and the three Jewish tribes living there. A constitutional-pact (Constitution of Medina) governed the relations between the different religious communities that lived in the city, guaranteeing in particular to all the citizens the freedom of conscience. Nevertheless, these new orders came to thwart the interests of the notables of the city of which `Abd Allah Ibn Ubayy Ibn Salûl, the leader of the movement of the "Hypocrites", and those of the Jewish tribes of Medina, who lived from arms trafficking. In 623, as a military leader, he had his first victory