Muhammad (c. 26 April 570 – 8 June 632; also transliterated as Mohammad, Mohammed, or Muhammed; Arabic: محمد‎), full name: Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (Arabic: محمد بن عبدالله بن عبد المطلب ‎) was a leader from Mecca who unified the tribes of Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God. Muslims believe that Islam was not his own invention but was revealed by God, and most consider him to be the last prophet of God Muslims thus consider him the restorer of an uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets.

Born in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married by age 25. Being in the habit of periodically retreating to a cave in the surrounding mountains for several nights of meditation and prayer, he later reported that it was there, at age 40, that he received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender" to Him (lit. islām) is the only way (dīn) acceptable to God, and that he himself was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets.

Ava Muhammad (born 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is a American Black Muslim. She is a prominent member of the Nation of Islam. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, in 1975. She is a member of the New York Bar Association. A Lawyer, Minister and also the National Spokesperson for the Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Ava Muhammad is the first women Minister in the history of the NOI. "Perhaps the most visible contemporary example of female activism is the work of Minister Ava Muhammad, appointed in August 2000 as the national spokesperson for Minister Farrakhan." She is the first woman to serve in this position within the Nation of Islam. She is the first member of the Nation of Islam to be ordained as a minister, with Donna Farrakhan Muhammad and three others being ordained later.

She married Darius Muhammad in 1988. A Lawyer, Minister and also the National Spokesperson for the Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Ava Muhammad is the first women Minister in the history of the NOI. In the Islamic world women are not allowed to become imans or ministers, but Minister Louis Farrakhan change that when he made Ava Muhammad the first woman Islamic Minister in the world in 1998. Ava Muhammad is the highest-ranking woman in the history of her religion. Her current job is among the most prominent in the nation—a post formerly held by Malcolm X and current Nation leader Louis Farrakhan--and since 1998 she has also served as minister of the Atlanta mosque, one of the country's largest. Minister Ava Muhammad is also a member of the Muslim Girls Training (MGT).^{[citation needed]}