ABSTRACT
Muhammad was reared among his cousins and the boys of the tribe, different only in his being orphaned of both parents and by the fact of a poverty that afflicted alike both ward and guardian. He had no tutor for his education, no teacher to care for his instruction. His contemporaries had grown up in the days of ignorance and his companions were sworn idolaters. As he grew in years, Muhammad came more and more to love solitude away from society and the familiar world, alone with his thoughts and reflections. He felt the need for devotion and to take refuge in God, with quiet entreaty, to find the solution of his great pre-occupation. The attitude of the common people was tied to the evil whims of the ruling few, whose minds in turn were veiled by lust of power, unheeding of the claims of a poor illiterate like Muhammad.
