The Moral Principles before the Prophet’s Mission; MoralPrerequisites for Accepting the Prophet’s Invitation

Exploring the moral principles in the early Islamic era, this paper seeks to explainthat Pre-Islamic Arabs’ acceptance of Islam was gained by, in addition to theProphet’s good character, some moral values and principles institutionalized inthe inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. To understand better what was going onin the early period of Islam, it would be necessary to recognize the element of“invitation”. Its assessment can lead us to realize the epistemological relationbetween Islam and some moral principles. In this paper, I claim that it was notpossible for people to accept the Prophet’s invitation if there had not been certainmoral beliefs, and to accept Islam they needed to believe in some moralprinciples. Appealing to historical cases and analyzing moral concepts, I attemptto show that principles such as “loyalty”, “honesty”, and “benevolence” weregenerally accepted by the audience of divine revelation before Islam and it wason the basis of these values that the Prophet successfully managed to invitepeople.