Islam

The world of the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was one of great division and turbulence, with a number of gods, including Allah, which the people variously worshipped. Smith describes the society into which Muhammad was born as "barbaric." Political and economic turmoil "made this chaotic situation even worse." The "prevailing religion [which included a number of gods] was providing no check whatever" on the personal and social actions of the people. Smith describes pre-Islam religion of the time as "animistic polytheism." In other words, it was a society and a world in which human beings did not know their place in the world, except to pursue their separate and selfish ends. They had no guiding God and they had no effective leader whose word was authoritative or effective. Smith concludes that "the time was ripe for a deliverer."

Islam includes five pillars, the first of which is "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet." The religion founded by the Pr

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