Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
9. The Prophetic Method
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9. THE PROPHETIC METHOD
STRENGTHENING ONESELF INWARDLY
The story of Islam began in A.D. 610, when the
Prophet
Muhammad
received
his
f irst
revelation. At that time he was the only Muslim,
the only believer, in the whole world. In A.D.
622 the Prophet emigrated from Makkah to
Madinah. There he established an Islamic state,
but its boundaries were extremely limited. They
extended only to a few parts of the small town
of Madinah, the larger portion remaining under
the control of Jewish tribes and Arabs who had
not yet converted to Islam. The Prophet died
eleven years later. By the time of his death the
frontiers of Islam had spread throughout the
Arabian Peninsula and reached southern
Palestine. An Islamic empire covering 1 million
square miles had come into existence. In just
under one century Islam had advanced through
North Africa to Spain on the western front, and
from Spain to the frontiers of China in the east.
There are still signs of Islamic influence in such
far off places as Budapest, where a Muslim
