From a very early age, Muhammad learned Arab values such as treating people with compassion and respect, and honesty. He kept these ideas close to him in his early life when he suffered many loses. His father died before he was born and his mother, when he was still young. He lived with a family of nomads, his grandfather and his uncle. When he was passed over to his uncle, an esteemed merchant, he got to see one of the trade routes that his homeland was so famous for, for the first time.
