{"id":95,"date":"2009-04-26T04:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T09:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/?p=95"},"modified":"2016-01-18T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:44:41","slug":"is-muhammad-a-false-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusandjews.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/26\/is-muhammad-a-false-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Muhammad a false prophet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Muhammad a false prophet? There have been many religions and cults that have made claims of\u00a0receiving\u00a0special\u00a0revelations by means of a person who was to be a mediator or moderator of truth. Yet we must try to find out and discover which of these situations\u00a0are\u00a0discernibly\u00a0true and which ones are myths and falsehoods. Anybody \u00a0can make claims to divine revelation but at some point these claims must be challenged to see if they are verifiable and if they will stand up under \u00a0the scrutiny and challenge of further\u00a0criticisms. After all a testimony is only as good as the credibility of the witness or person.\u00a0If you were going to establish a person as a legitimate\u00a0witness\u00a0in a court of law the first thing you would have to determine is their competency level. Could\u00a0their\u00a0testimony be counted as trustworthy based on the\u00a0reliability\u00a0of their\u00a0character or would they be seen as an unfit witness.
\nI suppose the first thing I would like to consider is the character of the originator and founder of the religious \u00a0movement \u00a0that is defined as Islam.
\nMuhammad was a person who had become devoted to the \u00a0meditation and contemplation of\u00a0spiritual\u00a0matters. These encounters finally \u00a0led Him into a\u00a0experience\u00a0with a\u00a0spiritual\u00a0being in whom He thought was possibly a Jinn. These matters were so pressing on Him that He contemplated suicide twice and didn\u2019t know whether He was to be regarded as a poet or a madman because of these revelations. Also early Islamic sources state that He was under Satanic influence when He wrote Sura 53 which would cause me to question the legitimacy of all His claims to divine inspiration. Moreover Muhammad at one point late in his life said that he was the victim of a magic spell that lasted about a year and according to Ibn Ishaq he mentions Muhammad as being bewitched during this time and Bukhari adds that the spell made him delusional.
\nWe also see questions\u00a0within\u00a0his\u00a0personal\u00a0attributes\u00a0and\u00a0character as a whole. He used force and coercion by means of military conquest when necessary to further his exploits as related to propagating His beliefs. This was a religion that would take on the very form and\u00a0definition\u00a0of jihad or \u201cHoly War\u201d in order to maintain its influence and control and that is still the\u00a0strategy\u00a0behind Islam today. It began with bloodshed and it continues to shed blood today. So we see a religion that finds its identity not based on the elevated plane of the human expression of love but rather it is centered on the base traits of human mastery which leads to the destruction and\u00a0exploitation of humanity.
\nAlong side of this abuse of power is his questionable sexual behavior as taking advantage of a child named Aisha whom he marries and then later consummates the marriage when she is only 9 years of age before she even reaches puberty. He also allows for polygamy, but supposedly through a special revelation, he alone has the privileged right to take nine wives apart from the prohibition of Quran 4:3 which limits the number to 4. Another matter is the scandalous marriage with Zaynab by which his adopted son Zayd divorced her so that Muhammad could take her for his wife as a result of him being sexually aroused when accidentally seeing her nearly naked due to an untimely visit to see his adopted son. In addition to this Muslims can have sex with captive women without marrying them even when their husbands are still alive. Muhammad also permitted his followers to practice a form of prostitution called Muta, which is still practiced today, in which a Muslim could pay for sex, marry her for a short time and then divorce. Lastly concerning the violation of women rights he also allowed for a light beating if it was deemed necessary.
\nAt this point it wouldn\u2019t take much of a cross examination to find out that this religion was being established by a questionable person who lacked stability.
\nThere have been others that in the course of history \u00a0have used a political an some times a religious platform to further their purposes and ideals. Many of these ideals have lead to the extermination and genocide of the human race based on a prejudice and intolerance that is beyond mere human influence and capabilities. Something that is so crass that it can only be described as being demonic in nature. People like Stalin and Hitler who were false prophets had achieved absolute authority that would \u00a0absolutely\u00a0corrupt them and lead these evil geniuses to carry out their\u00a0plans\u00a0of destruction. Its amazing how people would rally behind the likes of the charismatic leadership of Hitler who may have been mentally unstable himself. We all are bewildered and look at these atrocities today and wonder how is it humanely possible for something of this magnitude to happen even in the 20th century and why do people\u00a0believe the lies and the\u00a0propaganda to the point of complete deception. Unfortunately this same phenomenon is still happening today\u00a0with the likes of Islam. Its a\u00a0madness\u00a0that is infecting the likes of every aspect of humanity and culture. People are being lulled into supporting its claims and causes not realizing the grip of it destructive clutches in which one day it will inevitably come to ruin much like Hitlers regime.
\nThe whole world recognized the depth of darkness behind the veil of these vile and wicked men and the great wrongs and crimes they committed to our world society which found \u00a0them guilty in the most extreme sense. Islam is a religion \u00a0with a growing worldwide influence that has infected mankind in epidemic proportions. Yearly there are thousands of people who wrongfully suffer and die because one man had a dream of questionable inspiration.
\nWill you really continue to follow this path of\u00a0death\u00a0and\u00a0destruction? If you are a\u00a0practitioner\u00a0of Islam I would ask you just to simply put aside your tendency to defend what you regard as holy just long enough to look seriously at the evidence and to pray to God to reveal to you \u00a0the one who came to give life and life more abundantly namely Jesus.
\nMatthew 7:15-16<\/strong><\/p>\n

15\u00a0\u201cBeware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16\u00a0You will recognize them by their fruits.<\/p>\n

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How to know God<\/a><\/p>\n

Muslim Resources of Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n

Islam and Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version\u00ae (ESV\u00ae) Copyright \u00a9 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2007<\/p>\n

Permission granted by David Woods for excerpts taken from the article on \u201c Muhammad and the Messiah\u201d in the Christian Research Journal Vol.35\/No.5\/2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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