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Muhammad(P) & Lies

M S M Saifullah

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Last Modified: 1st September 1999

Assalamu-alaikum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:

On 9 Jun 1997, Jeremiah McAuliffe wrote:

> Jochen Katz was asked:

> There was also a question in my post Jochen, can't you answer it? Who

> do you say Muhammad was? Tell us. I've asked you this question a

> number of times. You've never answered it.

Actually this question has been answered by the pals of Jochen a few centuries ago.

And Jochen will not answer this because his motive is "Inter-Faith Dialogue". But let

me help Jochen and others out of this "Inter-Faith Dialogue". Most of us may not have

heard the word Maometis derived from Mahomet. the word Maometis means The

number of the beast, i.e., 666 stuff . When the Christian polemics started a few

centuries ago strong vituperative language was poured out upon Muhammad(P) headed

by Maracci, Prideaux and others. The word Mahoun and Mahound means

Muhammad, imagined in the middle ages to be a pagan God. In Scottish this word

means the devil.[1]

We have to agree with the Orientalist W Montgomery Watt when he says:

Of all the world's greatest men none has been so much

maligned as Muhammad. It is easy to see how this has come

about. For centuries Islam was the great enemy of

Christendom, for Christendom was in direct contact with

no other organized states comparable in power to the

Muslims. The Byzantine empire, after losing its provinces

in Syria and Egypt, was being attacked in Asia Minor,

while Western Europe was threatened through Spain and

Sicily. Even before the Crusades focused attention on the

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expulsion of the Sarcens from the Holy Land, medieval

war-propaganda, free from the restraints of factuality

was building up a conception of 'the great enemy'. At one

point Muhammad was transformed into Mahound, the prince

of darkness. By the eleventh century the idea about Islam

and Muslims current in the crusading armies were such

travesties that they had a bad effect on morale. The

crusaders had been led to expect the worst of their

enemies, and, when they found many chivalrous knights

among them, they were filled with distrust for the

authorities of their own religion.[2]

A few centuries ago the Prophet(P) was called the pagan God, the number of the

beast i.e., the devil. This was the work of those Holy Ghost inspired Christians. These

Christians also said that the Prophet(P) was a Child Molester, a Keeper of Harem and

an anti-Christ. The great lies of the Crusades against the Prophet(P) and Muslims can

even be seen in the so-called classics The Adventures Of Don Quixote.

Coming back to the modern age, we will still find Christians like Jochen calling the

Prophet(P) Child Molester although in a politically correct language. Go to Hyde Park

Speakers' Corner (London, UK) on Sunday and you will find Christian

fundamentalists calling Allah, the Moon god and repeating the same age old polemics

like the Prophet(P) was a Child Molester, a Keeper of Harem and an anti-Christ.

Basically, nothing has changed from then till today. The "Crusades" are still there

although wrapped up in a deceptive way. So do not get fooled by Jochen's "Inter-Faith

Dialogue" or "Christian-Muslim Understanding". All these are lies and damn lies.

Being on the soc.religion.islam for more than two and half years, I can testify that.

And regarding, the "Crusades" they are still here but people like Jochen shed

crocodile tears. Now one can say that Katz is falsely being accused of what he has not

done! A book is recommended by Katz called The Original Sources Of The Qur'an.

Apart from talking about the highly speculative sources of Islam, this book concludes

in a fashion which is not too unexpected from a missionary:

But it (i.e., Islam) certainly does not contain a single

new or lofty religious conception, and its general tone

is all too faithful a reflexion of a carnal and sensual

nature of its founder. To use an Oriental simile is not

perhaps inappropriate in speaking of such a thoroughly

local and Oriental religion as Muhammadanism. Islam

therefore may aptly be compared with:

That bituminous lake where Sodom flamed.[3]

Before this paragraph Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall describes the matrimonial relations of

the Prophet(P). This is about how Muhammad(P) had 'acquired' wives as well as the issue

of Zayd and Zainab.

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There are, however, people who have studied the life of the Prophet(P) as well as Islam.

They do not have an axe to grind like Tisdall. Montgomery Watt after examining the

various charges of voluptuousness, apart from others, heaped on the Prophet(P)

conludes that:

In his day and generation Muhammad was a social reformer,

indeed a reformer even in the sphere of morals. He

created a new system of social security and a new family

structure, both of which were a vast improvement on what

went before. In this way he adapted for settled

communities all that was best in the morality of the

nomad, and established a religious and a social framework

for the life of a sixth of the human race today. That is

not the work of a traitor or a lecher.[4]

Thomas Carlyle, who was among the first people to speak against the Christian lies

against Muhammad(P) says:

Our current hypothesis about Mahomet, that he was a

scheming Imposter, a Falsehood incarnate, that his

religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins

really to be now untenable to any one. The lies, which

well-meaning zeal has heaped around this man, are

disgraceful to ourselves only. When Pococke inquires of

Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon,

trained to pick peas from Mahomet's ear, and pass for an

angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was

no proof! It is really time to dismiss all that.[5]

Missionaries just do not stop at the Prophet(P) himself. There is also something

interesting about the Noble Companions of the Prophet(P) that Tisdall has to say

Whether Abu Hurairah, surnamed The Liar, has spoken the

truth in asserting that he heard this passage quoted by

Muhammad may well be doubted.[6]

Who calls Abû Hurrairah a lair? A Christain missionary or a Muslim? And this is all

there in the book recommended by Jochen. If he thinks that Muslims will sincerely

believe that spreading lies against Islam are over, he is sadly mistaken.

And Allah knows best!

References

[1] William Geddie (Ed.), Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, W & R

Chambers, Ltd, p. 640.

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[2] W Montgomery Watt, Muhammad At Medina, 1956, Oxford At The Clarendon

Press, p. 324.

[3] Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, The Original Sources Of The Qur'an, 1905, Society For

The Promotion Of Christian Knowledge, London, p. 280.

[4] W Montgomery Watt, Op.Cit, p. 332.

[5] Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & The Heroic In History, 1993,

University Of California Press, p. 38.

[6] Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, Op.Cit, p. 210.

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