#5 – Muslims Worship Prophet Muhammad
The word “Islam” means “surrender/submission”, and the word “Muslim” refers to the “one who surrenders/submits”. This is the key to this religion. Muslims surrender or submit to the one and only one God. They believe that no other deserves to be worshipped than God.
Muslims do not worship Prophet Muhammad. He was a messenger just like the other prophets, including Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus and others. Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was the last messenger who came to deliver divine guidance to the entire mankind.
“And Muhammad is no more than a messenger; the messengers have already passed away before him” [Quran, 3:144]
In short, Prophet Muhammad is not the founder of Islam rather he just continued to deliver the divine guidance of the many previous messengers of God or Allah.