Ethical score profile
This assessment does not reduce the subject to one moral
ranking. Each dimension is scored separately from −100 to
+100 and must be read with its evidence and uncertainty.
Scorecard status:
Recalculated under multidimensional system
- Personal moral conduct
-
-12.4
Plausible range:
-27.4
to
+2.6
- Rights and dignity
-
-52.5
Plausible range:
-67.5
to
-37.5
- Nonviolence and harm
-
-60.0
Plausible range:
-75.0
to
-45.0
- Stewardship of power
-
-55.0
Plausible range:
-70.0
to
-40.0
- Wisdom and truthfulness
-
-20.2
Plausible range:
-35.2
to
-5.2
- Consequential legacy
-
-22.2
Plausible range:
-37.2
to
-7.2
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
- Evidence confidence
- C — moderate
Scope of assessment
Combined historical-and-traditional assessment. This assessment distinguishes broadly recoverable historical conduct from reports preserved in later Islamic biography and canonical hadith, whose historical reliability varies. Muhammad promoted charity, care for orphans, community solidarity, negotiated settlements and some limits on vengeance. He also became a religious, political, judicial and military ruler; led warfare; accepted slavery and concubinage; and maintained unequal rights based on sex and religious status. Traditional sources further associate him with execution and enslavement of defeated groups, marriage and consummation at an age incompatible with modern consent standards, death for apostasy and stoning.
The score evaluates documented public conduct during the stated period. It does not measure inherent human worth, does not constitute a legal verdict and remains open to correction when stronger evidence becomes available.
Reasoned conclusion
Charitable teachings and contextual reforms deserve recognition, but they do not justify a positive score. Warfare, slavery, sexual access to captives, unequal rights, concentrated authority and severe punishments produce a substantially negative ethical assessment. Uncertainty concerning later reports is reflected in confidence and the plausible range rather than by excluding those reports.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Ethical-domain scores
| Domain |
Score |
Intensity |
Confidence |
| Consequences |
+0.0 |
0.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Rights and duties |
-55.0 |
55.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Virtue and character |
-60.0 |
60.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Intentions |
-25.0 |
25.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Care |
-55.0 |
55.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Justice |
-50.0 |
50.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Wisdom and judgment |
-15.0 |
15.0
|
C — moderate
|
| Baseline ethics |
-45.0 |
45.0
|
C — moderate
|
Bipolar ethical variables
| Positive pole |
Negative pole |
Score |
Intensity |
Confidence |
Reasoning |
| Human dignity |
Dehumanisation |
-45.0 |
45.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Human dignity and Dehumanisation. |
| Care |
Neglect |
-55.0 |
55.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Care and Neglect. |
| Benefit |
Harm |
+0.0 |
0.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benefit and Harm. |
| Benevolent intention |
Malicious intention |
-25.0 |
25.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Benevolent intention and Malicious intention. |
| Justice |
Injustice |
-50.0 |
50.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Justice and Injustice. |
| Respect for rights |
Violation of rights |
-55.0 |
55.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Respect for rights and Violation of rights. |
| Courage |
Cowardice |
-60.0 |
60.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Courage and Cowardice. |
| Wisdom |
Ignorance |
-15.0 |
15.0
|
C — moderate
|
Calculated from 1 reviewed evidence item(s) concerning Wisdom and Ignorance. |
Principal positive evidence
Muhammad promoted almsgiving, care for orphans, community support, negotiated settlements and some limits on vengeance.
Principal negative evidence
These benefits are outweighed by warfare, enslavement, concubinage, unequal rights, concentrated religious-political power and severe capital and corporal punishments attributed in early and canonical traditional sources.
Evidence considered
SUG-C1
Charity coexisted with severe harm
Care for orphans and almsgiving are positive, but conduct toward defeated groups, captives and dissenters prevents a positive compassion score.
- Ethical axis
-
Benefit ↔ Harm
- Ethical direction
- Positive pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-R1
Slavery, concubinage and unequal rights
The accepted social order retained ownership of humans, sexual access to captives and unequal status based on sex and religion.
- Ethical axis
-
Respect for rights ↔ Violation of rights
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-V1
Warfare, execution and lethal punishment
Muhammad led warfare, while biographical and traditional sources associate his rule with executions, enslavement and lethal punishments.
- Ethical axis
-
Courage ↔ Cowardice
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-I1
Religious and political authority were concentrated
Revelation, legislation, military command and political authority were concentrated in one leader with limited independent scrutiny.
- Ethical axis
-
Benevolent intention ↔ Malicious intention
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-CA1
Authority lacked independent accountability
Prophetic, military, political and judicial power were combined without an external institution capable of reviewing the leader's decisions.
- Ethical axis
-
Care ↔ Neglect
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-J1
Justice included unequal and disproportionate penalties
Charity and limits on vengeance are outweighed by slavery, unequal legal status and severe punishments attributed in canonical traditions.
- Ethical axis
-
Justice ↔ Injustice
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-W1
Effective organisation served ethically mixed ends
Community organisation and welfare measures had value, but they were embedded in hierarchy, coercion and warfare.
- Ethical axis
-
Wisdom ↔ Ignorance
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
SUG-B1
Positive reforms do not outweigh institutionalised harm
Charity and solidarity do not outweigh slavery, sexual access to captives, warfare, unequal rights and severe punishments.
- Ethical axis
-
Human dignity ↔ Dehumanisation
- Ethical direction
- Negative pole
- Evidence status
- Verified
- Period
- Prophetic and political leadership, 610–632
- Affected scope
- Lithuania, Japan and Jewish refugee rescue during the Holocaust
Disputed claims
This assessment distinguishes the Qur'an, early Islamic tradition and historically recoverable conduct. Muhammad promoted charity, limits on vengeance, care for orphans, community solidarity and some reforms to existing Arabian practices. He also led warfare, accepted slavery and concubinage, imposed religious-political authority and is associated in traditional sources with marriages and punishments incompatible with modern equality.
Excluded claims
This assessment distinguishes the Qur'an, early Islamic tradition and historically recoverable conduct. Muhammad promoted charity, limits on vengeance, care for orphans, community solidarity and some reforms to existing Arabian practices. He also led warfare, accepted slavery and concubinage, imposed religious-political authority and is associated in traditional sources with marriages and punishments incompatible with modern equality.
Sources
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-B1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Qur'an 21:107
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-B1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Qur'an 33:50
— Quran.com
(Qur'anic text; online edition accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-B1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Sahih Muslim 1691a
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-B1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-C1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 21:107
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-C1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 33:50
— Quran.com
(Qur'anic text; online edition accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-C1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-CA1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Sahih Muslim 1691a
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-CA1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Sahih al-Bukhari 6922
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-CA1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-I1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 33:21
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-I1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Sahih al-Bukhari 6922
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-I1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Qur'an 21:107
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-J1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 33:50
— Quran.com
(Qur'anic text; online edition accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-J1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Sahih Muslim 1691a
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-J1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Sahih al-Bukhari 6922
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-J1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-R1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 33:50
— Quran.com
(Qur'anic text; online edition accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-R1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Sahih al-Bukhari 5134
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-R1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-V1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Qur'an 9:5–6
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-V1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Sahih Muslim 1691a
— Sunnah.com
(Canonical hadith report; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-V1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
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Muhammad
— Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Online biography; accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-W1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 21:107
— Quran.com
(2026)
Evidence item SUG-W1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
-
Qur'an 33:50
— Quran.com
(Qur'anic text; online edition accessed 2026)
Evidence item SUG-W1;
Supports the evidence item.
View source
Correction history
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