2. WARM UP You have five minutes to complete the crossword puzzle. Try your best with the terms you know it will be check at the end of the lesson. Don’t lose it, it would be useful as your vocabulary terms tool. When you’re done with the crossword puzzle we are going to watch an introductory video about the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

3. Muhammad is best known to be the founder of Islam religion. He is regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet.

4. GEOGRAPHY OF MUHAMMAD’S HOMETOWN Muhammad was born in 570ce in the city of Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula in western Saudi Arabia. The city of Mecca was 45 miles away from the Red Sea and it is in the Eastern side of a large dessert that takes up most of the Arabian Peninsula being part of one of the hottest and driest regions in the world. He was born belonging to the Hashemites, ruling the Quraysh tribe that was located to a nearby mountain cave of Hira.

6. His name means “highly praised.” Born to a poor merchant family. He became an orphan at the age of 6. He was raised by his paternal uncle Abu Talib. Under the guardianship of Abu Talib, Muhammad worked as a shepherd and began to earn a living as a business man and a trader. When he was 9 years he joined his uncle on a caravan to Syria. He worked as a camel driver between Syria and Arabia that would then defined his career in the years ahead.

7. Muhammad adult years Muhammad established a career managing caravans on behalf of merchants. Through his travels Muhammad came into contact with people of many nationalities and faiths, including Jews, Christians and pagans. He married a wealthy Mecca widow 15 years older than him, Khadijah. They were married for 24 years and Muhammad took no other wife that Khadijah until her death.

8. MISSION An angel came to visit him at a cave in Mount Hira in 610 when he has 30 years old. Angel taught him verses that the scribes recorded as the Qur’an. He said people had abandoned the true faith instead of worshiping God alone. His mission was to make people worship Allah as their only God and to pass the moral, ethical, legal, and social laws. He made people see him as only a prophet. NOT an angel, nor God, he didn’t know his mind, nor made miracles.

9. MUHAMMAD’S FAITH  Came to be known as Islam, which means “person who submits.”  Those who followed his faith were known as Muslims, meaning those who have accepted the message of peace by submission to God.  Muhammad’s first few followers were his family and closely related friends.  Muhammad’s followers and himself experienced a lot of trouble when spreading the Islam religion and believing in it.  By the end of his life Muhammad had several thousand followers.

10. HIJRA Persecution continued to exist until Muhammad received some welcome news from Yathrib. He had gained followers in the city of Yathrib because the city was in need of a strong leader and proposed Muhammad to take that job. Muhammad and his followers in Mecca were planning an escape to Yathrib. They finally escaped in 622, and this event is celebrated by Muslims as the Hijrah which means “the great emigration”, The date that it occurred, is when the Muslim calendar begins. Yathrib was renamed as Medina “the city of the prophet.” In Medina, Muhammad proved himself an able politician and statesman as well as a prophet.

11. 1.Muhammad 2.Islam 3.Muslim 4.Medina 5.Yathrib 6.Hijra 7.Khadijah 8.Mecca 9.Prophet 10.Gabriel

12. WRAP UP Complete the outline and we will check it in a minute.