The Satanic Verses Part II

I finished the section of Satanic Verses that pertains to Mohammed. I have no idea what happened. The book is english. I am literate.

My only understanding is that Mohammed was being told by the ArchAngel Gabriel how to convert a village from their Gods to Islam. He goes back and forth trying new tricks and making compromises with the leaders of the current dominant religion. Mohammed excepts their Gods as members of his religion and lowers the prayers from 40 to 5 times per day. Frustrated Mohammed starts fighting with Gabriel. Gabriel knocks him unconscious. When Mohammed comes to, he decides that it was the devil who had told him the first set of laws he had given the village. However, it was someone called Ba that gave him both sets of laws.

I don't get it.

I think the Ayatollah just wanted to scare everyone from writing about Islam. All he did was increase sales and popularity of an ambiguous writer that the lay person cannot understand.