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please i want every one answer me because i need different points of views on this religous concept

This question needs to be on the discussion board. You are asking for a personal opinion, and those are often based on emotion rather than on objective fact.

Your question is also what is called a "hot-button topic." It is likely that commentators will begin to debate with one another rather than sticking to answering your question. Are you sure you want to open that Pandora's box?

In my opinion, Islam and its prophet are like all other religions and their founders (if any).

Like many other religions, Islam claims that its founder was divinely inspired and that its doctrines are the ultimate truth.

All the religions can't be right because they disagree.  So my opinion is that religions are all just the attempts of people to comprehend something that is ultimately behond human comprehension.  And the founders of the religions are all just people who THOUGHT they knew what God wanted.

I could be wrong and one of the founders of a religion may have THE truth.  But I doubt it.

I imagine that many people in the West equate Islam with violence.  As I understand it, Islamic scholars disagree on the meaning of jihad and who may be subjected to it.  If Islamic scholars disagree on this, I certainly can't know who is right.

I believe, that Islam differs from other major religion of the world in that it was deliberately started as a separate religion by its founder, while many other religions such as Christianity and Hinduism evolved out of ideas propagated by its early leaders, rather than started deliberately as a new religion. Though such religions may project one single person as its originator, the ideas and books of that religion are result of  contributions of many people who carry forward the ideas of the originator, much after he is no more. For Example, the new testament of Bible, considered the primary source of guidance for Christianity, is compilation of teachings of Jesus Christ by his close disciples, written after he ceased to exist in bodily form.

In contrast the the holy book of Islam, the Koran, was written by Prophet Muhammad in his lifetime and presented as the final and the ultimate truth. While this has the advantage of being more in line with the ideas of the originator of the religion, it also makes it difficult to make changes in the religious beliefs of people with the need of changing times. I think it is because of this that many leaders of Islam continue to support archaic practices like right of men to have four wives, The right of men to divorce their wives by by just saying so three times, and in insistence on women covering their complete body including face in front of men.

In reply to #4:

In correction to the post written by Krishna-agrawala, I would kindly like to respond to your written statement(s). The Koran was NOT written by Prophet Muhammad. These words are Allah's (Islamic name for God) words. Of course the koran was sent one chapter/section at a time and it took twenty three years to have it completely sent. And of course it was compiled into a book and held sacredly back then til today and will continue to do so.

Also in response to Krishna's post, for a great many American Christians (especially on what we call the "Religious Right" which has great influence within the Republican Party) it is not and should be easy to change religious beliefs with changing times.

Krishna says that the New Testament is written by Jesus close disciples but many American Christians believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, not of people.  So they most definitely believe that its meaning should never change -- this can be seen in American debates over the rights of homosexuals.

You can also see this idea in the continuing refusal of the Catholic Church to allow female priests.

So I do not think Islam is different from Christianity in this sense.  There are moderate Christians and moderate Muslims who do not believe in the older ways, but there are traditionalists in both religions who still hold very much to the old ways.

In reply to posts #5 and #6, I would like to humbly state that I am not in a position to either agree or disagree with their respective claims that Koran or Bible are record of words of god.

But I do hope that writers of these two post at least agree that there must have been some human beings who first converted these words of God in to the books like Koran and Bible. As per my understanding of the word writer, such people are still entitled to the credit of being writers of these books, even if the their contents were inspired or conveyed directly by God.

In reply to #7:

As I stated in my first post, I totally agree with your statement.  I said in that post that I believe that religions come from people who THOUGHT they were divinely inspired.

What I am saying in my post #6 is simply that many Christians who have more traditional views than mine do not agree my point of view.  I meant to stress that many Christians hold as strongly to the Bible as Muslims to the Koran.  Therefore, I would argue that you cannot say that Christianity is a more flexible and less dogmatic religion than Islam.

See, I told you so!

In reply to #9:

IMHO, we are sticking to the topic regardless of the tone of your post.  We are talking about what Islam is like and comparing it to other religions.