The life of Muhammad end of part 2

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Muhammad was not only a religious, but also a ______118____ leader.

He wrote a _________119_______ to make a state based not on family ties, but on ______120_______ interest.

Important was respect for the lives, the properties, places of worship, and respecting the relationship between the descendants of ________121_________.

This was not a religious state, but a _____122____ state and the government and rulers were ________123_______ to the laws.

It lays out the _______124______ and the rights of citizens. It does away with the customary practice of ______125___ and the practice of private justice.

Everybody was _________126_________ before the law, whether Muslim or non-Muslim.

Many non-Muslims believe that by discarding this constitution after the ____127____ of Muhammad, Muslims defied the example that he gave.

The Meccans still __________128__________ Muhammad.

He then said that it is alright to defend oneself against attacks. This is what is known as a ______129_____ war.

It’s a question of survival. So Muhammad attacked the ________________130___________.

The Meccans and Medinans battled at _____131_____, and Muhammad won.

This made his position in Medina much __________132________.

Muhammad and his followers saw their victory as a sign of Gods _________133__________.

Muhammad then received a revelation to change the ______134_____, the direction of prayer, from ____________135_____________ to Mecca.

It marked the emergence of a new and proud ___________136__________: that of the Muslims.

Like this, they could __________137__________their faith from the other religions that had come before.

But this move was also symbolic for the ___________138____________ relationship with the Jewish tribes of Medina.

They couldn’t accept Muhammad as a ________139________ of God.

Muhammad expected their support in his conflict with Mecca, but they had ___________140___________ ties with Mecca

Because he was afraid they would turn against him, he surrounded a Jewish village and ______141_______ the inhabitants.

Muhammad might still have hoped for ___________142___________ with the other Jews.

But they didn’t side with Muhammad in the battle of _______143____, because it was the Sabbath.

In the final ‘battle the trench’, the last Jewish tribe of the _____________144_____________ sided with the Meccans from the inside of Medina.

Muhammad ordered 800 men of this tribe to be _______145________.

This incident has led critics to brand Muhammad as a blood thirsty _____146_____, willing to use all violent means in order to maintain his rule.

It’s also seen as the origin of much of the __________147____________ in the Islamic world today towards Jews.