Comparative Theology, Part 14

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Comparative Theology, Part 14 – �Non-Christian Religions: Islam, Part 5

Objectives:

1. To look at the doubts in Mohamed’s life
2. To see the doubts regarding the integrity of The Koran
3. To study the doubts of the integrity of The Hadith (the important stories - Hijab, Liquor, Masjid El Aksa, etc.)
4. To see Islam’s negative implications on the world

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Many Doubts About Mohamed

1. Doubts about his birth
2. Doubts about his marriage
3. Doubts about his prophecy (locals)
4. Doubts about his message (adjacent tribes and different states)
5. Doubts about his message because of personal behavior

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1. Doubts About His Birth

1. His biography is not mentioned in The Koran
2. The Koran mentioned his name only 4 times
3. The 4 successive kings/caliphs did not write his life story

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

Mohamed ibn Ishaq, Baghdad/Iraq (767 AD or 761 AD)

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• Mohamed’s death was on June 8, 632 AD
• Mohamed Ibn Ishaq wrote the first biography of Mohamed in a book around 135 years after his death, the 4 caliphs, and all of Mohamed’s generation
• No eyewitness can confirm the details in this book
• Later, Mohamed Ibn Hisham edited the book and re-published it under his name (this is the only source about Mohamed’s life)
• Then, the original book, written by Mohamed Ibn Ishaq, was lost

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

Mohamed ibn Ishaq, Baghdad/Iraq (767 AD or 761 AD)

• The prophet was born around 570, AD in Mecca (now in Saudi Arabia). His father died before he was born and his mom did not raise him up but gave him away to a nursing mother from different tribe. When the nursing mother returned Mohamed to his mother who sent him again far away to different tribe to be raised up - then she died
• Later, as a young man, Mohamed was raised his uncle. At 25 years old, Mohamed married Kadijah, a 40 year old rich businesswoman, and he ran her business of trade between Palestine, Syria, and Mecca
• After 15 years, when Mohamed was 40 years old, he claimed a strange man appeared to him in a vision and his wife interpreted this vision as an angel (Gibril) - It is his wife Kadijah who convinced him of the vision!

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

Mohamed ibn Ishaq, Baghdad/Iraq (767 AD or 761 AD)

• Mohamed went around claiming he is the long awaited prophet who Jesus talked about – the seal and the best of all prophets
• Mohamed told stories from The Old Testament, but the people did not believe him and frequently doubted him, so he left Mecca with a group of poor followers and slaves to near by city
• Mohamed formed an army, went back, and attacked his own people in Mecca and killed 70 and arrested 70 who paid a fee to be released
• Then, Mohamed started to attack the neighboring tribes and take over their possessions

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

Mohamed ibn Ishaq, Baghdad/Iraq (767 AD or 761 AD)

• Many people followed Mohamed either out of fear for their lives or because of the loot from the victories over other tribes
• Mohamed walked with an army to Palestine to free it from the Romans but did not fight; however, he made a big propaganda and many others followed him thinking he is the new leader of the land
• Mohamed became the prophet, military commander, and the king - at the same
• Mohamed waged series of wars against other tribes
• Mohamed married 9 wives and had 11 female slaves
• Mohamed died at age 62 ( ~ 632 AD)

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

• Mohamed’s father married his wife for 3 days and then left for a business trip to Palestine-Syria region
• When he returned, he did not come to see his wife or young child, but instead he went to his cousins and lived with them
• A careless father who went to a different tribe in a different area

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1. Doubts About His Birth Cont.

• Mohamed’s mother claimed that he is born from rich family in Quraysh/Mecca
• Mohamed’s location claimed to be Mecca; however, her tomb in a different city (Anbaar)
• There is no known birth-place for Mohamed in Mecca
• Mohamed asked God to forgive his mother’s sins, but God did not forgive her sins – so we should wonder
• Which sin(s)?
• Why did God not answer his request?

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2. Doubts About His Marriage

• Mohamed ran the business of Kadijah – his rich businesswoman wife
• Kadijah was widowed to 2 previous rich husbands, and she requested to marry Mohamed, but her father refused; so, Kadijah threw a party and got her father and friends drunk and in the morning the marriage was already done
• Kadijah was 40 years old and Mohamed was 25 years old when this happened
• Kadijah was a close follower of Waraka Ibn Nawfal who was planning to spread the Nestorian heresy among the Arabs using one of the local tribes

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• Mohamed was the right person at the right time

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy

• His own tribesmen doubted him to as a prophet and questioned him many times
• Every prophet in the past has come with a miracle, what is Mohamed’s?

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1. Mohamed was illiterate and now can read
2. Mohamed’s book, the Quran, is the best book every written without any errors
3. God will not give Mohamed miracles because the older generations did not believe in miracles
4. l-Isra’ wal-Mi’raj journey – a dream about a trip to heaven and leading all the prophets in a prayer

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

• Mohamed claimed that he was illiterate before Gibril appeared to him and now he can read

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Rejection:

• Mohamed definitely knew how to read and write because of his job as businessman and the multiple trips to Syria and Palestine

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

• Mohamed’s book, the Quran, is the best book every written without any errors

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Rejection:

• The Koran has many mistakes
• Wrong events in The Koran - Abraham offered Ishmael and not Isaac
• Wrong names in The Koran – Jesus is Essa and Goliath is Talot
• Wrong persons in The Koran - Haman appeared during Moses' time
• Wrong stories in The Koran – the cave people who survived 400 years wheras the true story about 400 People were hidden from Isabel, the evil queen, during Elijah’s time

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

• God will not give Mohamed miracles because the older generations did not believe in miracles

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Rejection:

• The older generations believed in Moses because of miracles
• The older generations believed in Elijah because of miracles
• The older generations believed in Elisha because of miracles
• The older generations believed in Jesus because of miracles
• The Jews became Christian because of St. Peter’s miracles

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

l-Isra’ wal-Mi’raj Journey

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• Mohamed dreamed one night that angels came to him, opened his chest, washed his heart, and then he rode on a horse with wings from El Kabba to Masjid El Aksa (not yet built). From there, he ascended to 7 different heavens, met with different people like Abraham, Moses, and Essa where Gibril escorted him to God who ordered him to make his followers do 500 metanias per day; so, he went down and back up again and negotiated with God who changed the order to 50 metanias per day!

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

l-Isra’ wal-Mi’raj Journey

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

l-Isra’ wal-Mi’raj Journey

Mohamed claimed to see these people in each heaven:

• 1st Heaven = he saw Adam & Eve
• 2nd Heaven = he saw John the Baptist and Jesus
• 3rd Heaven = he saw Joseph
• 4th Heaven = he saw Jonah
• 5th Heaven = he saw Aaron
• 6th Heaven = he saw Moses
• 7th Heaven = he saw Abraham
• 8th Heaven = he saw The Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden

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3. Doubts About His Prophecy Cont.

• l-Isra’ wal-Mi’raj Journey

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Rejection:

• It was only a dream
• There are no eyewitness
• None of his wives, friends, or followers witnessed it
• There is no actual/physical proof
• There was no temple or mosque at Jerusalem at that time because Titus, The Roman Leader, destroyed the temple at 70
• The current Masjid was built after death Mohamed by ~ 40 years

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4. Doubts About His Message

• Adjacent Tribes and Different States

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• The locals doubted Mohamed’s message because he only told them old Jewish stories
• The non-Arab people in Palestine-Syria did not believe Mohamed because of the violence, war, and killing by the sword against the non-followers

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5. Doubts About His Character

Mohamed’s personal behavior:

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1. Mohamed hired a local poet to curse some villagers who ended up cursed him
2. Mohamed waged wars against other tribes in the forbidden months
• The Arabs agreed among themselves not fight in certain months
3. Mohamed took vicious revenge on his own people when got the chance by killing and stealing
4. Mohamed killed men from nearby tribes and raped their wives in the same day
5. Mohamed forced his son in-law to divorce his wife so he can marry her
6. Mohamed married Eish when she was 9 years old

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Comparative Theology, Part 14 – �Non-Christian Religions: Islam, Part 5

Objectives:

1. To look at the doubts in Mohamed’s life
2. To see the doubts regarding the integrity of The Koran
3. To study the doubts of the integrity of The Hadith (the important stories - Hijab, Liquor, Masjid El Aksa, etc.)
4. To see Islam’s negative implications on the world

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Koran

The Koran and Science:

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• The sun orbits/rotates around the earth
• The earth was created before the sun
• The sun sets in a muddy hot lake
• There are 7 earths and 7 heavens
• The steel will talk
• The flies talk

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Koran Cont.

The Koran and Science Cont.:

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• The Koran claimed that the heavens store snow, ice, and rain
• King Solomon talked to birds
• King Solomon controlled the demons
• Mohamed’s urine is profitable and healthy to drink

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Koran Cont.

The Koran and Geography:

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• The Koran ignores the desert’s nature (sands, sun, scarce water, etc.) and thoroughly talks about green meadows, rivers of water, milk, and honey as if it was not written to local people living in the desert
• There are some words in The Koran written in an old Syrian language, not the Arabic language

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Koran Cont.

The Koran and History:

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• Adam built the Masjid el Alksa in Jerusalem which was rebuilt by King Solomon and renamed (Solomon’s Temple)

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Rejection:

• Adam never built anything and never had the idea, tools, or resources to build a house!
• The first building was by Noah’s Ark

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Comparative Theology, Part 14 – �Non-Christian Religions: Islam, Part 5

Objectives:

1. To look at the doubts in Mohamed’s life
2. To see the doubts regarding the integrity of The Koran
3. To study the doubts of the integrity of The Hadith (the important stories - Hijab, Liquor, Masjid El Aksa, etc.)
4. To see Islam’s negative implications on the world

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Hadith

• The Kaaba (Saudi Arabia) was built by Abraham who offered his son Ismael on it

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Rejection:

• Abraham lived in the Jordan and walked three days with his son (4000 km / 2485 miles) and built the Kaaba and came back…

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Hadith Cont.

• The time gap between the two mosques is 40 years…
• Mohamed meant that the time gap between Adam and Abraham is 40 years

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Hadith Cont.

The Koran and The Hijab:

• Mohamed visited Abu Baker and liked one of his female servants and Abu Baker gave her to him
• Next week, Abu Baker visited Mohamed and liked one of his female servants, and Mohamed refused and mentioned it is a must that the prophet’s women wear a Hijab

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Hadith Cont.

The Koran and Prohibiting Liquor:

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• Mohamed and his friends went to see his uncle
• Hamza, who was drunk, cursed them saying that they are the servants of his fathers and grandfathers
• So, Mohamed banned all types of liquors; however, they are present in heaven waiting for the good Muslims as a reward

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Doubts About The Integrity of The Hadith Cont.

• Abu Harraria was a famous Hadith teller
• He mentioned over 5,300 Hadith’s in less than 3 years which is approximately 1766 in a year and therefore 5 in a day

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• It turns out that he was a poor beggar who spent time around Mohamed’s household looking for food
• The other Caliphs, like Abu Baker and Omar Ibn El Khtab, despised Abu Harraria so much so that he was arrested by Omar Ibn El Khtab who confiscated his wealth and deposed him from his post

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Comparative Theology, Part 14 – �Non-Christian Religions: Islam, Part 5

Objectives:

1. To look at the doubts in Mohamed’s life
2. To see the doubts regarding the integrity of The Koran
3. To study the doubts of the integrity of The Hadith (the important stories - Hijab, Liquor, Masjid El Aksa, etc.)
4. To see Islam’s negative implications on the world

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Islam’s Negative Implications

1. The destruction of many books, scrolls, villages, buildings, antiques, and artifacts across the Arab world including the famous Alexandrian Library which was considered one of the famous landmark of the world
2. The killing of thousands of innocent men who defend their countries against Islamic invasion
3. The kidnapping, enslaving, and raping of thousands of women
4. The theft of countries’ wealth and return to the Caliph
5. The imposition of unethical taxes, Jizhia, on non-Muslims to keep them alive
6. The use of military action, Jihad, on Muslims everywhere/anytime to fight the non-Muslims

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Islam’s Negative Implications Cont.

6. The beginning of the never-ending hatred toward the Jewish peoples
7. The imposition of primitive and harsh punishments for simple crimes such as cutting a hand for theft, stoning for adultery
6. It does not consider new methods of crime such as scams, technological hacks, embezzlement, white-collar crime, etc.
8. The encouragement of child marriage - Eisha married Mohamed when she was 9 years old
9. The encouragement of polygamy
10. The passiveness toward slavery
11. The push for women to stay home and quit work

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The Final Conclusion on Islam

• Waraka Ibn Nawfal, a Nestorian monk/priest, desired to spread the Nestorian version of Christianity among the Arabs using one of their local tribes
• Kadijha, Mohamed’s frist wife, presented Mohamed as the candidate to be the local prophet to lead this ministry and he closely followed Waraka’s instruction
• Mohamed was faced with great disbelief and disrespect from his own tribesman
• For 3 years after Waraka’s death, Mohamed could not find any material to preach and tried to commit suicide; then, he decided to immigrate to the neighboring city, Medina, to form an army and impose his belief by force
• Once successful, many joined Mohamed to stay alive/greedily look for loot from war such as money, clothes, swords, women, etc.

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The Final Conclusion on Islam Cont.

• Islam was a local and small religion in the desert to the local Arabs 1400 years ago

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• Its concepts and beliefs might have some similar stories with The Torah and The Bible, but its core values and dogma is entirely different

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• A deep and thorough study of the old books reveal many hidden secrets and the actual truth regarding Islam

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Comparative Theology, Part 14 – �Non-Christian Religions: Islam, Part 5

Objectives:

1. To look at the doubts in Mohamed’s life
2. To see the doubts regarding the integrity of The Koran
3. To study the doubts of the integrity of The Hadith (the important stories - Hijab, Liquor, Masjid El Aksa, etc.)
4. To see Islam’s negative implications on the world

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