What Others Say
From WikiIslam
To summarize the accusations against Muhammad or other prophets[1]
1. He is a madman.
2. He forged the Quran.
[16.101] And when We change (one) communication for (another) communication, and Allah knows best what He reveals, they say: You are only a forger. Nay, most of them do not know.
[25.4] And those who disbelieve say: This is nothing but a lie which he has forged, and other people have helped him at it; so indeed they have done injustice and (uttered) a falsehood.
3. The Quran has multiple authors (25:4, above).
4. He is a liar. (25:4 and the verse below).
5. He tells stories of the ancients. (25:5)
6. He was a man deprived of reason. (25:8)
7. His knowledge of the Bible was faulty. (3:65)
8. He believes everything he hears. (9:61)
9. The word mock/mockery/mocked/mocking appears 29 times in the Quran.
The Quran provides the Islamic perspective, instead of the perspective of those who were critical. One wonders how the prophet would have responded to such critical accusations. The Quran shows that the prophet tried to avoid being questioned, which suggests that he was unable to adequately answer what was being asked.
[5.102] A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then became disbelievers on account of them.
[2.108]Rather you wish to put questions to your Apostle, as Musa[2] was questioned before; and whoever adopts unbelief instead of faith, he indeed has lost the right direction of the way.
[33.53] O you who believe! do not enter the houses of the Prophet unless permission is given to you for a meal, not waiting for its cooking being finished-- but when you are invited, enter, and when you have taken the food, then disperse-- not seeking to listen to talk; surely this gives the Prophet trouble, but he forbears from you, and Allah does not forbear from the truth And when you ask of them any goods, ask of them from behind a curtain; this is purer for your hearts and (for) their hearts; and it does not behove you that you should give trouble to the Apostle of Allah, nor that you should marry his wives after him ever; surely this is grievous in the sight of Allah.
Narrated Aisha:
Once the Prophet was bewitched so that he began to imagine that he had done a thing which in fact he had not done.It seems doubtful that Muhammad was bewitched but if he hallucinated about activities then it is possible that he hallucinated about prophecies. If he was bewitched, then perhaps some of his prophecies occurred when he was bewitched.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ This expands on what Ali Dashti wrote: “23 years: A study of the prophetic career of Mohammad” (F.R.C Bagley, translator), Mazda Publishers (paperback) 1994, p30.
- ↑ Musa is Moses
