Practice #80 - Muhammad

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Okay, so I've been reading this book called The 100. It's basically a book that lays out

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the 100 most influential people in human history, like the people that have swayed the tides

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of human achievement, history, advancement, all of the above. So people like Jesus Christ,

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Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Isaac Newton, all these people have radically transformed history and

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human nature as well. Not human nature, but human lives. And so I just started reading

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it because I'm really interested in how people, I just want to learn kind of like about their

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lives and like more than half the people on the list I've never even heard of. And the

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other half I don't even know like why necessarily I have vague ideas of why they might be on

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the list but I don't actually know why. And it's basically like 600 pages long so it's

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going to take me a long time to read and it's not my main book that I'm reading right now.

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So I'm basically only reading two chapters a day at the moment and I started yesterday.

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I read the first two people. Number one was surprising. Most people would put Jesus Christ

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at number one but Jesus Christ wasn't actually until number three. So I want to go through

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over the next couple weeks and actually talk about what I've learned about each person.

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Now the chapters are really short. They're like six page summaries of their life, what

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they did and why they belong at this rank on the list. So it's very vague and if I'm

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interested in a specific person I'm definitely going to read their biographies but without

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further ado the first person on the list was Muhammad, the person who created Islam. And

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he is someone that I was kind of curious about for a little bit now and it actually really

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surprised me because he was a literate when he was a kid. Like he was a literate. He could

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not read. And then he went on his life completely normal person, nothing remarkable. Like he

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didn't have any remarkable skills or anything that I could tell from the book. He basically

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no one really thought anything of him until he was 40. So the first 40 years of his life

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not really much happened. And then he got this message in his mind and then he started

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to realize oh, like people around me are studying or worshiping many gods but this message in

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his mind brought him aware of the fact that there is like brought him aware of that there

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is one God. So he basically now believes that there is one all encompassing omnipotent God

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and not just like hundreds of gods. So he basically starts preaching. He's in the city

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of Mecca I think and he starts preaching to just a few people. He builds like a small

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following but most people are actually annoyed by him because think about this. He is basically

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preaching to a bunch of people who believe in many gods that there is only one. So put

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yourself in their shoes you'd be a little annoyed. Imagine if, okay let's say you're

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a Christian imagine if someone starts preaching to you that there are many gods. That's kind

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of how they felt and the city was actually like their religion kind of was, I've only

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read like six pages of this so I could be getting some of the facts wrong but and this

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goes for all of the future people that I talk about over the next couple weeks and by the

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way the episodes are not going to be happening daily because I practice five times a day

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so they're going to be spread out. So it might be over the next couple months for you guys

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but that's only if you're listening on the podcast on the YouTube channel you can go

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and look at them as they're being posted. So going back to the story he starts preaching

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to a small crowd and the government starts to be like oh this guy's a little dangerous

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let's try and like get rid of him. So Muhammad fearing for his life flees north 200 miles

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to a different city where they actually like what he's saying and he has a lot more say

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and influence and they actually give him a highly influential position in the government.

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This is when he's like 40, 50, I don't know. So they give him this really good position

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in the government and he starts preaching like he's built a very large following and

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in the geography of the location there is this kind of little group of warriors and

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then they're surrounded by a bunch of countries that are against them that alone on any ordinary

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day these warriors would be extinct if they started a war. But Muhammad he basically created

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this whole religion he was a religious leader and a secular leader so that's important because

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he created this religion and he's leading in like actual politics and government so

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he is extremely powerful and he sets forth this huge movement and he writes a book called

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the Quran and later after he dies which is soon after this people organize the Quran

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and put it into a written text which is the religious textbook like the actual it's kind

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of like the Bible for Islam. So this people start studying the Quran they start living

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they start converting and then this group of warriors are actually like inspired and

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now they actually start conquering everyone. So eventually the followers kept rolling the

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momentum built by Muhammad and started conquering all of the neighboring countries and created

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a, they conquered a massive empire the largest empire to date ever since that moment the

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largest empire to date and they were all converted to Islam. So imagine that literally

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an entire continent are now in this new religion this guy is extremely influential and that's

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not even the story. There still are millions tens of millions of followers of Islam today

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and it's there's a huge like group of countries that are still all like mainly Islamic. So

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this guy Muhammad he is the number one most influential speaker or not speaker but influential

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person in history and I actually start I'm actually starting to agree because let's talk

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about Jesus. Jesus was just a religious leader he was not a secular leader and Jesus I actually

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never knew this but Jesus was actually not responsible for the widespread movement of

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Christianity. He was responsible for the morals and values of it but it was Saint Paul I believe

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I Saint Paul is number six on the list which I'm very excited to learn about him because

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I'm pretty sure he was a murderer I don't know yet but Saint Paul was one who wrote

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like the new a lot of the New Testament and was really responsible for the widespread

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of Christianity. So it was Jesus and Saint Paul now Muhammad did it all and he caused

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massive amounts of countries to be conquered created an entire empire because of his influence.

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So that's Muhammad and the fact that he started like he didn't actually begin to do something

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until he was like 40 years old is extremely like inspiring eye opening and it makes me

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realize that you can achieve immense results in a like you can actually achieve immense

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results in this world it's actually crazy.