00:13It is the year 570 A.D.
00:18In a forgotten corner of Arabia, a child is born.
00:22No palace, no empire, no army.
00:28His father is already dead.
00:31His mother will die before he is old enough to remember her face.
00:36He is born into a brutal world.
00:40Tribes go to war over insults.
00:42The strong rule.
00:44The weak suffer.
00:47Slaves are property.
00:49Women have no rights.
00:51But this child will not stay forgotten.
00:55In just 63 years, he will change the course of human history.
01:00His name will become the most spoken name on earth.
01:05One billion people will follow his teachings.
01:08And 1,400 years after his death, his words are still recited every single day.
01:16This is the story of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
01:20It begins in the dust.
01:30To understand his story, you need to understand his world.
01:36Arabia sat between two giant empires.
01:40Byzantine to the north, Persian to the east.
01:43Both looked at the desert and saw nothing worth taking.
01:47The desert was ruled by tribes, hundreds of them, each with its own code, its own enemies,
01:55its own blood feuds.
01:57War was not a last resort.
02:00War was a way of life.
02:02At the center of it all stood the city of Makkah.
02:06At the center of Makkah stood the Kaaba.
02:09A house built, tradition says, by the prophet Ibrahim for the one God.
02:14By the 6th century, that house held 360 idols.
02:20The Quraysh tribe controlled it, and they had turned faith into prophet.
02:25They were the merchants, the elite, the powerful.
02:29Into this world of idols and inequality, a boy named Muhammad was born.
02:35Before he could walk, his father was already dead.
02:39He arrived in the world, already carrying loss.
02:52As was custom, the infant Muhammad was sent to the desert.
02:57A Bedouin woman named Halima nursed him.
03:00She said blessings followed him from that day.
03:04Her dry camel gave milk.
03:06Her flock grew.
03:09At six, he returned to his mother.
03:12Weeks later, she died.
03:16An orphan.
03:18At six years old.
03:21His grandfather took him in.
03:25Two years later, his grandfather died, too.
03:32His uncle, Abu Talib, raised him next.
03:35A kind man, but a poor one.
03:39Young Muhammad grew up on the margins of Meccan life, watching, thinking, noticing everything.
03:49And people noticed something about him, too.
03:53He never lied.
03:56He never lied.
03:57In a city built on clever deals and exaggeration, that made him rare.
04:01They gave him a title.
04:04Al-Amin.
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04:06Trustworthy.
04:06He became a merchant.
04:09He traveled far.
04:10He saw other cultures, other beliefs.
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05:13made all of this and why he did this for years then one night in the month of ramadan in
05:22the year
05:22610 ad something happened he felt a presence then a command
05:30ikra read he trembled he said he could not read again ikra and then words came not from him through
05:47him words about creation about knowledge about one god muhammad ran from the cave his heart pounding
05:57he thought he was losing his mind he burst into his home and found khadijah cover me cover me he
06:07said
06:08she wrapped him in a cloak and held him until the trembling stopped then he told her everything
06:17most people would have questioned his sanity khadijah did not she had known him for 15 years
06:26his honesty his kindness his care for the poor she told him god would never abandon a man like him
06:35she was the first to believe and the mission had begun
06:51the early years were not glorious they were brutal muhammad's message was simple one god and all
07:01people are equal for the powerful men of maka that was dangerous their wealth ran on idols and inequality
07:11so they fought back not with words with violence
07:18a slave named bilal became one of the first muslims his master pinned a burning rock to his chest demanding
07:27he give up his faith bilal said one word ahad one one god through the pain he kept saying it
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07:43ahad an elderly woman named sumaya refused to abandon her faith too she was killed for it the first
07:54martyr of islam some believers fled to abyssinia for safety others stayed and endured
08:03then the quraish placed a total boycott on muhammad's clan no trade no food no marriage
08:11for three years his people survived in a mountain ravine eating leaves to stay alive
08:18then came what he called the year of sorrow khadijah his wife of 25 years died weeks later his uncle
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08:32protector died too he was now truly alone he walked to a nearby city typh hoping for support its people
08:43threw stones at him until his feet bled he sat down alone and bleeding and he prayed not for revenge
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08:56the people who had hurt him this was the lowest point of his life and then something extraordinary happened
09:14in one night tradition says muhammad was taken on a journey beyond the physical world from mecca to
09:23jerusalem then through the heavens he met the prophets who came before him he returned changed grounded ready
09:35soon after the quresh plotted to kill him so muhammad slipped out of mecca at night with his closest friend
09:43abu bakar and traveled 300 miles to a city called yathrib this journey is called the hijra the migration
09:54it is so important that the islamic calendar begins from this moment yathrib was renamed medina a city of
10:04the prophet there muhammad did something remarkable he built a society he drafted a constitution
10:13granting rights to muslims jews and arab tribes alike a multi-faith city in the 7th century
10:21he united tribes that had fought each other for generations
10:26but the quresh were not done they sent armies at badr 313 muslims defeated a force
10:36three times their size at uhud they suffered losses but survived at the trench 10 000 enemy
10:45soldiers came to destroy medina the muslims dug a trench around the city and the siege failed
10:53then came a moment of pure strategy muhammad signed a treaty with the quresh his own companions were
11:02furious the terms looked like surrender but within two years that treaty let islam spread across
11:10arabia unopposed the quresh eventually broke it themselves so muhammad marched on makkah with 10 000 men
11:22the city that exiled him tortured his people killed those he loved
11:27surrendered surrendered without a single battle
11:38he entered makkah as a conqueror
11:43then he did something that stunned everyone he forgave them he stood before the same people
11:52who had made his life unbearable and said today there is no blame upon you go for you are free
12:05two years later in his 63rd year muhammad stood before 100 000 people at his farewell pilgrimage
12:16he gave a sermon that still reads like it was written for today
12:21no race is superior to another he said except in righteousness
12:27every person's blood and property is sacred he said he called for justice for women he ended all
12:36interest-based debt he asked the crowd have i delivered the message 100 000 voices answered yes
12:50three months later he fell ill he gave away everything he owned to charity his wife aisha held him as
13:00he died
13:08his last words were with the highest companions he was gone
13:15within 100 years the civilization he inspired stretched from spain to central asia it preserved the
13:25knowledge of the ancient world while europe sat in darkness today 1.8 billion people call themselves
13:33muslim his name is the most common name on earth the historian michael hart once ranked the 100 most
13:41most influential people in history he placed muhammad at number one not for religion but for impact
13:50an orphan from the desert who changed the world i made this video because some stories are too
13:59important for textbooks alone if one moment in this story stayed with you tell me in the comments
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