Initially Muhammad abided by the peaceable and tolerant words of the Mecca Quran.

Undaunted, upon his arrival in Medina Muhammad continued his preaching and search for converts.

So, he and his core converts to Islam made their way to Medina. This lead to his being forcefully requested to depart Mecca. With time, Muhammad became more vocal as he was probably very frustrated that so few were willing to accept his preaching of Allah. When people are happy and things are going well, people are usually not open to change as change may upset the balance or whatever that gives them this comfort and wealth. The major obstacle in Muhammad’s efforts was that times were economically very good and most people were quite content with their current way of life. Either way, Muhammad set about to preach his revelations and gain converts, mostly from among Christians and Jews. In many ways I see the Mecca Quran as an attempt at a compromise that would appeal to those Jews who found merit in the Christian teachings but refused to release from Jewish traditions while also appealing to those Christians who were not totally comfortable with having left so much of Judaism behind.

But in the Mecca Quran the idea of an eye for an eye was replaced by a more Christian philosophy. Where Christians no longer followed much of the Rules of Kashrut, the Jewish dietary laws, the Quran reinstated many of these laws. In my most humble opinion the Mecca Quran formed a basis for a religion that bridged some of the gaps and controversies between the Christians and the Jews. This earlier part of the Quran also dictated many of the rules that individual Muslims must perform and abide in their day-to-day lives. The Mecca Quran was all about tolerance, tranquility, spirituality, acceptance, and inner cleansing through submission to the word of Allah. This added to the secretive mystery that was spun around the Quran making its reading less straightforward to non-Muslims. By not ordering the Surah in their chronological order one must refer to the Hadiths and other Islamic texts to discern the original order as Muhammad received his visions from Allah. This will have importance later in this article. The problem is that the Surah in the Quran are not placed in chronological order, but are ordered as shown here, along with the city of origin of each Surah. A majority of the Surah in the Quran were written in Mecca with the rest written in Medina. Both were transcribed as told by Muhammad to a scribe, as Muhammad was illiterate as were a majority in his day. This lead some scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to refer to the Quran by its two parts, the Mecca Quran and the Medina Quran. The older Quran was written in Mecca while the later Quran was written in Medina.

The Quran as we know it today is in reality two quite different books.

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