How did an illiterate warlord convince so many he was THE Prophet?

>>17890198 (OP)
>Romans and Persians concluding a decades long war and are exhausted
>When the Persians had taken over Jerusalem the Jews let back into the city and permitted to build the Third Temple
>Romans retake the city and expel them
>Jews flee to Edessa
>Be Muhammad
>Be Arab merchant
>Meet up with the Jews of Edessa
>Hear their plight, and they and their associates in Babylonia promise to support you financially if you help them retake Palestine and Jerusalem
>Become ruler of Yahtrib
>Pay off Arab tribal leaders and promise them immense war booty for raiding Roman Syria-Palestine
>Send out messengers with your written word (hence why the Qur'an has so many verses with the command "qul!", it was a script for them to read off of) to preach to the tribes
>Take orders from man of a foreign tongue and be instructed in the proper doctrine and what the aims of the project are (Qur'an 16:103)
>Warriors convinced they will receive rewards for obeying and punishments for disobeying
>Tribal leaders satisfied with gold and future land and wealth
Who wouldn't listen?

>>17890206
Thanks that's actually very informative

>>17890198 (OP)
>illiterate
he wasn't illiterate
>[96:4] Teaches by means of the pen.
>[96:5] He teaches man what he never knew.
>[69:44] Had he uttered any other teachings.
>[69:45] We would have punished him [seized him by the right hand].
>[69:46] We would have stopped the revelations to him.
>[69:47] None of you could have helped him.
>[98:2] A messenger from GOD is reciting pages purified.
>[29:48] You did not read the previous scriptures, nor did you write them with your right hand. In that case, the rejectors would have had reason to harbor doubts.
>[7:157] follow the messenger, the gentile prophet, whom they find written in their Torah and Gospel. He exhorts them to be righteous, enjoins them from evil, allows for them all good food, and prohibits that which is bad, and unloads the burdens and the shackles imposed upon them. Those who believe in him, respect him, support him, and follow the light that came with him are the successful ones.
they always rely on the last verse, but it doesnt mean illiterate it means gentile

>>17890198 (OP)
Coercion