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Muhammad often meditated in the cave of Hira near the summit of the Mount of Light, Jabal al-Nur. At the age of forty, he received his first revelation through the Archangel Gabriel, (Jibrail), while meditating on Jabal al-Nur (Mount Hira). This revelation which became known as the Quran, continued for the next twenty three years. Muhammad believed that the message he received from Archangel Gabriel sura by sura was the same one which Allah had sent down to the earliest humans. It contained a description of the way of life which Allah had established for people to follow while they lived here on earth. By agreeing to follow this way of life, people would essentially be submitting themselves to Allah. The name of this way of life was simply "submission". In Arabic this is "Islam". In Islam, the Quran and the living example of the Prophet satisfied both mind and heart and formed the foundation of a way of life where the spheres of law, economics, and politics surrendered to the central creed of the oneness and uniqueness of Allah.
The Quran (Qur'an, Koran, The Nobel Qur'an), believed to be the last revealed Word of God by the Muslims, was the primary source of their practice and faith. A record of the exact words revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad through the Archangel Gabriel, the Quran holy book was memorized by Muhammad, recited to his Companions to memorize, and written down by scribes, who cross-checked it during his lifetime. The Quran was written in an early form of classical Arabic. After a short opening prayer, there are 114 suras (chapters) with thousands of ayat (verses) which were arranged by size beginning with the longest suras and ending with the shortest ones.
Noted by Muslims for its grace and poetry, the Quran
provided guidelines for doctrine, worship, law, proper human conduct and an
equitable economic system. The Fatiah, the opening chapter of the Quran, was
central to Islamic prayer.
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