2. The Muhammad’s meditation
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The year was 610 when 40-year-old Muhammad from Mecca, a wealthy and respected trader had a revelation, somewhere on the Mount Hira. While meditating in the cave, he received a religious vision – the God called him to be his final prophet, after Moses and Jesus among others, which was supposed to teach a new faith – Islam. Two years later, Muhammad went from Mecca to Medina, built the first mosque, thus initiating the separation of a new religion from Christianity and Judaism. Until his death, a decade later, he has converted a large part of the Arabian Peninsula to this new faith. The consequences of Muhamad’s revelation are enormous, as is the case with the next event on our list. However, among most positive things of his faith is the evident encouragement of his followers to pursue the knowledge, considering that is the best way of worshiping God – Allah. The significant accomplishments of humankind can be dated back to the Islamic Golden Age and five centuries of economic development and flourishing of the cultural works. In the time when the rest of the world was afraid of the ideas, Muslim cherished and developed them. Unfortunately, there are two sides to every coin – religious abuses and violence are well-known phenomena in history when it comes to both Muslims and Christians. No wonder this event is in our list of most important historical events that changed the world forever, right?
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