... Muhammad had no share in his parent's wealth. It was likely that his childhood had given him the realization of tensions within the Meccan society. Muhammad was soon noticed as being a 'special child'. Sources suggest that when he was born, a bright light shone from the sky, a similarity that the origins of Christianity hold. As a child he saw angels, and soon began to receive messages of how God expected people to act. Muhammad soon began to realize that he was able to act as Gods mouthpiece to the Arab world. Eventually, Muhammad 'was given his prophetic mission'3.However it was by marriage to a rich woman named Khadijah, that he gained sufficient capital to pursue his activities as 'The messenger of God'. To consider the statement that he was equally successful in both political and religious leadership, we must concentrate both on the early years of Mohammad's Islamic ...

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