Archived7th century timelinePeace Annie, Islam began with Adam. Islam means “submission” and the word Muslim means “one who submits to the will of God” All historical records available show that Muhummad (pbuh) had made only three trips outside Makkah before his Prophethood: i.At the age of 9 he accompanied his mother to Madinah. ii.Between the age of 9 and 12, he accompanied his uncle Abu-Talib on a business trip to Syria. iii.At the age of 25 he led Khadija’s Caravan to Syria. It is highly imaginary to assume that the Qur’an resulted from the occasional chats and meetings with the Christians or Jews from any of the above three trips. There are also logical grounds to dispute this claim: i.The day-to-day life of the Prophet was an open book for all to see. In fact a revelation came asking people to give the Prophet (pbuh) privacy in his own home. If the Prophet had been meeting people who told him what to say as a revelation from God, this would not have been hidden for very long. ii.The extremely prominent Quraish nobles who followed the Prophet and accepted Islam were wise and intelligent men who would have easily noticed anything suspicious about the way in which the Prophet brought the revelations to them - more so since the Prophetic mission lasted 23 years. iii.The enemies of the Prophet kept a close watch on him in order to find proof for their claim that he was a liar - they could not point out even a single instance when the Prophet may have had a secret rendezvous with particular Jews and Christians. iv.It is inconceivable that any human author of the Qur’an would have accepted a situation in which he received no credit whatsoever for originating the Qur’an. Thus, historically and logically it cannot be established that there was a human source for the Qur’an. Furthermore, it should be noted that Muhammad was illiterate, as Allah himself testifies: "And thou was not (able) to recite a Book before this (Book came), nor art thou (able) to transcribe it with thy right hand: in that case, indeed, would the talkers of vanities have doubted."[Al-Qur’an 29:48] Allah (swt) knew that many would doubt the authenticity of the Qur’an and would ascribe it to Prophet Muhummad (pbuh). Therefore Allah in His Divine Wisdom chose the last and final Messenger to be an ‘Ummi’, i.e. unlettered, so that the talkers of vanity would not then have the slightest justification to doubt the Prophet. The accusation of his enemies that he had copied the Qur’an from other sources and rehashed it all in a beautiful language might have carried some weight, but even this flimsy pretence has been deprived to the unbeliever and the cynic. Allah reconfirms in the Qur’an in Surah Al A’raf chapter 7 verse 157: "Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in their own (Scriptures) in the Law and the Gospel" The prophecy of coming of the unlettered Prophet (pbuh) is also mentioned in the Bible in the book of Isaiah chapter 29 verse 12. "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned."[Isaiah 29:12] The Qur’an testifies in no less than four different places that the Prophet (pbuh) was illiterate. It is also mentioned in Surah A’raf chapter 7 verse 158 and in Surah Al-Jumu’a chapter 62 verse 2. Also the Arabic version of the Bible was not present at the time of Prophet Muhummad (pbuh). The earliest Arabic version of the Old Testament is that of R. Saadias Gaon of 900 C.E. - more than 250 years after the death of our beloved Prophet. The oldest Arabic version of the New Testament was published by Erpenius in 1616 C.E. - about a thousand years after the demise of our Prophet. Because there are Similarities between the Qur’an and the Bible does not necessarily mean that the former has been copied from the latter. In fact it gives evidence that both of them are based on a common third source; all divine revelations came from the same source - the one universal God. No matter what human changes were introduced into some of these Judeo-Christian and other older religious scriptures that had distorted their originality, there are some areas that have remained free from distortion and thus are common to many religions. The ignorance of some is amazing. If you call yourself Christian after Christ (even though Jesus never called himself a Christian) we Muslims do not refer to ourselves as Mohammadans. We don’t worship Mohammad, he was only a prophet. We are Muslims. We only worship the One true God. There were many reasons that Muhammad married Aisha. However, to go into them in detail will take too much time. Never the less, I will provide you with a good article that will, God willing answer all your questions on Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha: http://www.muslim-answers.org/aishah.htm Three times a day? It would be nice to for the author to look like they have some sort of knowledge on Islam. 600? In Islam, there’s no such thing as patriotism. Our prophet Muhammad was never patriotic towards being an Arab. Unless the author means that he was proud of being a Muslim. Annie, what I recommend you to do, is to read the history from Muslim sources ( there’s no point reading it those who are against Islam), and you will soon come to know of the patience and justice Muhammad showed to the Jews and Christians, and that because of his kind treatment, many accepted Islam. In one hadith, Prophet Muhammad said that for “those who kill the Jews and Christian without justification ( a justification is for example if a Jew or Christian purposely kills another human being) let him be assured that he will not even smell the fragrance of paradise” (without repenting offcourse). And there are many other hadith like this one, illustrating the rights of the Jews and the Christians. Jesus did not die because he had a purpose, which was to come back to this world. But he too will die. The Quran tells us that ever soul shall taste death. Both men and women will recieve what they desire in heaven. If one wants to drink wine, then he/she will get it. I should point out that the wine in heaven and this worldly wine is not that same. As Allah says in the Quran that what heaven has to offer is nothing like that of this world. The Jinns are another species that live among us. They too will be judged accordingly. There are Muslim Jinns, and to us they are our brothers and sisters in Islam. Prophet Muhammad was sent not only to mankind, but to the Jinn too. There are many verses in the Quran and the hadiths that speak of the Jinn. And Allah knows best! Peace and Blessings be to the Believers |
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