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2. Muhammad never said that he was immortal or Di-
vine. Time and again, he emphasized the fact that he was a
mortal chosen by God to deliver God's Message to mankind.
Although unique and distinguished in his life. he lived like a
man and died as a man. Marriage, therefore, was natural for
him, and not a heresy or anathema.
3. He lived in an extremely hot climate where the physi-
cal desires press hard on man, where people develop physi-
cal maturity at an early age, and where easy satisfaction was
a common thing among people of all classes. Nevertheless,
Muhammad had never touched women until he was twenty-
five years of age, when he married for the first time. In the
whole of Arabia he was known by his unimpeachable char-
acter and called al-Ameen, a title which signified the highest
Standard of moral life.
4. His first marriage at this unusually late stage in that
area was to Lady Khadeejah, an old twice-widowed lady
who was fifteen years senior to him. She herself initiated the
contract, and he accepted the proposal in spite of her older
age and in spite of her beiog twice-widowed. At that time he
could have quite eastly found many prettier girls and much
younger wives, if he were passionate or after things physical.
5. With this lady alone, he lived until he was over fifty
years of age, and by her he had all his children with the ex-
ception of Ibraheem. She lived with him until she passed the