Muhammad was a revolutionary and broke many customary ways and beliefs. Muhammad's revolution affected all aspects of life. His peace put an end to disputes between families, tribes and nations, but above all with all human nature. For Muhammad, religion was a global concept. It was also a set of dogmas and doctrines alone with rituals and ceremonies. Religion was a way of life for Muhammad. He came to elevate humanity to a higher place of peace and progress. Before the rise of Islam, Arabia was a deserted wasteland that was once a great trading city, now fallen on hard times. Arabia is the last of the inhabited lands to the south, and is the only country that produces frankincense, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon and laudanum. (1) The population was divided into rival tribes and clans that worshiped local gods. A wide variety of Bedouin cultures based on camel and goat herding had developed over the centuries in the uninhabitable desert areas. Cities and agriculture flourished on a limited scale. The camel nomads, organized into clans, dominated the peninsula. Although urban Islam had come under pressure from the writers of Muslim civilization, the Bedouin world, to which the religion arrived, shaped the career of its prophet, his teachings, and the spread of new beliefs. Mecca and Medina were great extensions of the tribal culture of the camel nomads. Their populations were linked to kingship by the Bedouin peoples. Bedouin pastoralists occupied most of the habitable parts of Arabia. Farmers and city dwellers created small communities in the western and southern parts of the peninsula. Foreign invasion in Bedouin raids had almost destroyed civilization before the birth of Muhammad. Mecca, located in the mountainous regions along... middle of paper... Both in his revelations and in his personal behavior, Muhammad joined his followers in being kind and generous to people, including slaves. It prohibited the rich from exploiting the poor through unrealistic rent or loan interest rates. In his last sermon he states: “Remember, one day you will appear before ALLAH and answer for your actions. So be careful, do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.” (3)The teachings of the prophet and the revelations of the Quran were soon incorporated into a vast body of law. This regulated most aspects of the lives of the Muslim faithful. They lived in a manor that would prepare them for the final judgment that in Islam would determine fate in eternity a strong but compassionate god with a strict but socially oriented body of laws set impressive standards for social interaction between adhering to new faith.