Since he was born, and for forty years,

                      people good and bad alike, called him "The truthful honest"

                      An orphan who grew up to be a merchant, traveling

                      somewhere in a harsh desert no one cared for,

                      or for its ever battling tribes.

                      Since the archangel Gabriel appeared to him,

                      initiating his prophecy, Islam has spread exponentialy.

                      Just to give up his message, they offered him all the money,

                      all the power and influence imaginable,

                      yet he declined, simply stating, that he was sent to reform people,

                      not to rule them.

                     On the day he passed away, he barely had anything

                     in his modest room, few pieces of stale bread,

                     and the clothes on his back.

                     Within a few decades from the day he announced his message,

                     the two mighty empires, Roman and Persian crumbled under,

                     the wave of Islamic civilization spreading over the old world.

                     Some researchers believe that not only the advancement

                     of the Islamic civilization and its scientific achievements

                     was the bedrock of the European civilization that followed,

                     but also in itself, the Islamic era may have been the zenith

                    of our human civilization to date.

                    Over a billion people today believe, he changed

                    the course of humanity, positively, forever,

                    and like no other man has ever done.

                    Yet till the day he passed away,

                    Muhammad didn't read.

                    and didn't write.

                    It must have been what he said.

                    Here it is.

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                   “All the prophets before me and I, are like a man

                   who build a beautiful building and made it great,

                   only it was missing a corner block of stone

                   that made people walk around it and wonder,

                   would this block of stone be placed?

                   I am that block of stone,

                   and I am the last prophet”

                                    * * *

                  “ Gabriel came to me and said:

                    Live as much as you wanted,

                    Since you are dead

                    And love whomever you want,

                    since you are leaving him,

                    And do whatever you want to do,

                    since you are to receive for it,

                    And learn that the best of the believer is waking for prayers at night,

                    and his pride is his independence of people”

                                     * * * 

                  “God perfected many men, and perfected no women but,

                   Asya the Pharoe’s wife, and Maryam(Virgin Mary) daughter of Omran”