Stages Of Prophet Muhammad's Life

The stage of prophet Muhammad’s life that I found most interesting and influential to overall psychosocial behavior was from age 6 to 12. I found this stage the most interesting because it begins at age 6 with the death of Muhammads mother, and ends at age 12 were Muhammad has learned the merchant trade and been informed of his prophecy. This stage of Muhammad’s life begins with the death of his mother at age 6, making him an orphan and placing him in the care of his grandfather. The continuous familial fluctuation and death that Muhammad had to face at such a young age must have had such an impact on him psychologically. In a study performed by Karimli (2012) the behaviors of orphans after being adopted were extremely negative, and less …show more content…
While Erikson’s theory describes this stage as the pivotal movement where children learn how to read and write in school, the main idea of this stage is for children to be able perform tasks by themselves, and gain recognition and praise for their accomplishments. Thus enabling the child to feel confident in themselves, and their abilities. During this stage in Muhammad’s life, instead of learning how to read or write, he was learning how to make a living as a merchant. As a merchant, Muhammad had to learn how to count money, as well as socialize and sell to customers. To acquire business, Muhammad needed to get people to somehow trust in him. During this stage of child development, he learned exactly how to talk and interact with others to get them to trust in him and his product. This skill would benefit him later as a prophet, because he was able to get others to trust in his …show more content…
From trading with his uncle, Muhammad was able to communicate and become familiar with many different areas of land and many different types of people. Although there were many different tribes who inhabited these lands, they all shared a common belief in Allah. This uniting view of god that all the tribes shared, allowed for them to agree to peacefully cohabitate the markets. At these markets, a common language was reinforced and spoken among the tribes allowing them to successfully trade. As a young merchant, Muhammed was able to view all these different tribes, learn from them, and learn how to interact with each of them. This interaction, during this stage of his life, was influential for Muhammad. It allowed him to learn how to interact with a vast majority of people, a very tough accomplishment, but necessary of a merchant and a future prophet. This stage of Muhammad’s life was accomplished and easily shown, as Muhammad gained the reputation of being a skillful merchant. In addition to this, his business interactions made him known as a trustworthy and upstanding man. He became so trustworthy that he was sought out to settle small disputes amongst others. In 605 A.D, after restoration of the Ka’ba, the question arose whom among the tribes should place the most holy stone. Each tribe wanted and believed they had the right to do so, therefore preluding the possibility of a war.