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Muslims believe that Muhammad is the last and greatest of all Prophets because he was a great example of how humans should live and all must strive to have the same experience that Muhammad had. Muhammad first met Allah when he was 40 years old and was meditating in a cave on a nearby mountain when Allah appeared in the form of a prophet of his, Gabriel. Gabriel came and ordered him to read from a scroll. Although Muhammad was illiterate, he was still able to recite the words from the scroll. It was from then on that Muhammad had complete faith in Allah. The city of Mecca is sacred to Muslims because it was in Mecca that Muhammad first preached Islam. Jerusalem is sacred to Muslims because this was where, according to Muslim that Muhammad ascended into heaven upon a white horse. The Qu’ran is significant to Muslims because it is the sacred books about the teaching of the prophet Muhammad. The Sunna is significant because it is a collection of six collections of traditions, known as the six Sound Books, which contain a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of traditions that had been in circulation. T