Method of the Holy Prophet (s.a) concerning promoting Islamic unity

The Prophet (s.a) who was responsible for delivering the teachings of Islam, provided mankind with comprehensive and ethical Islamic teachings including unity of Islamic nations. He delivered this message using social and intellectual capacity of the nations. Consequently, some of the Prophet's strategies were reflected in the form of Islamic culture not so long after He delivered the message. The capacities and specifications of Islamic culture moved His message beyond boundaries and time. Therefore, it was expected that the Islamic culture and Islamic unity, (as one of the elements of Islamic culture), develop and increase equally; however, after demise of the Prophet (s.a) this part of the Islamic culture, like the other parts was neglected. Using analytical-historical method, this paper assesses the issue of Islamic unity in the attitude and behavior of the Prophet (s.a) and explains His major measures for preparing the belief-related, ethical and behavioral groundworks in Islamic culture for Islamic unity. The Prophet's (s.a) major strategies for preparing the culture of Islamic unity were namely, informing people, fighting against extremism and bios behavior, rejecting sectarianism, promoting monotheism as the main axis of unity, presenting common human rights, and applying Islamic ethics.