Through the use of a flawed analogy, Christians arrived at the erroneous conclusion that Muslims worship Muhammad. Since Christians worship Jesus, they reasoned that Muslims must also worship Muhammad because they worship Jesus.
For such a long period of time, people have been calling Muslims by the incorrect name “Muhammedans,” and this is one of the reasons why!

In response to that, I would like to point out that Muhammad, like Jesus (peace be upon them both), never claimed to be divine. He exhorted people to worship only the All-Powerful God, and he repeatedly emphasized their shared humanity in order to protect them from making the same mistakes that Christians have made regarding Jesus.

The Prophet Muhammad instructed his followers to refer to him as “the Messenger of God and His slave” so that he would not be elevated to the status of deity. Muhammad was selected to carry out the final mission of God’s messengers, which was not to deliver the message verbally but rather to demonstrate it through his own life.

He was a man of the highest moral character and he brought the Truth from God, which is the Pure Monotheism of Islam, so Muslims love and respect him for both of these reasons. Even when Islam was still in its earliest stages, God revealed to Muhammad that he “was sent as a mercy to all of mankind,” which informed us that the message of Islam would eventually reach a large number of people all over the world.

Authentic Muslims make every effort to emulate the noble behavior of Muhammad (peace be upon him), but they do not pay homage to or worship him in any way. Respecting and loving someone does not equate to worshipping them, despite the fact that Muslims are taught to respect all of the prophets and messengers that God has sent throughout history.

True Muslims are aware that all acts of worship, including prayer, must be directed solely toward the All-Powerful God. It is sufficient to say that the act of worshipping Muhammad or anyone else in addition to the Almighty God is regarded as the gravest transgression in the religion of Islam. Even if a person claims to be Muslim but worships and prays to a deity other than the Almighty God, their Islam is invalidated and rendered meaningless because of this.

The Islamic faith is summed up in a document called the Declaration of Faith, which makes it abundantly clear that Muslims are instructed to worship only God. The following is an excerpt from this proclamation: “There is nothing worthy of being worshiped except for Almighty God, and Muhammad is the Messenger and Servant of God.”