Middle East

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the life of Muhammad who lived in the tenth century.
The life of the prophet Muhammad is filled with visions of angels bestowing the guidelines of faith that Muslims, to this day, abide and live by. The Muslim equivalent to the Christian Bible is the Quran or Koran, as it is more commonly known. Muslims abide for the most part by the Koran and it permeates every aspect of their life. The Arabs saw “simplicity in the vast confusion of the Quran” (Payne 67). They believed that Muhammad was a prophet sent from God who would unite man under the only “One God” (Payne 69). The teachings that there is only one true God and that salvation can only be gained by abiding by the rules of the Koran are repeated constantly throughout the teachings of the book. The followers of the Muslim faith have almost no other choice but not to believe or even consider the validity of any other religion.
In the Muslim religion there are five rules to the faith: the profession of faith, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage. The people’s unwillingness to st...