I have often wondered as to how any muslim can emulate a man such as Mohammad?

I take it you have read the Qur'an? The translation into English (The Koran) published by Penguin in 1956 by N.J. Dawood has been replaced by a translation by Tarif Khalidi in 2009, also by Penguin, which is actually better, but neither of them give the impression that he was a thug (an Indian non Muslim sect) a cad, which is defined as 'a familiar spirit', 'an unbooked penger whose fare the driver of a coach appropriated' or more recently, ' a person who is lacking in the finer instincts or feelings - 1838) or a m murderer.