[1] al-Sirah al-Nabawiyah by ibn-Hisham p301
PART III
ERUPTION OF CORRUPTION
On problems in the story of founding Islam,
and an attempt to understand its truth and its reasons
In the desert you grew,
and youhave been cruel to us
We cried, but the dead,
they do not hear the voice
Source: Wikimedia
14. The Old Tale .. Grew a Tail
The three Abrahamic religions were established anciently by people who were all from the Middle East. Their successors were mighty, aggressive and expansionist; so they kept moving their armies which held a belief that gave them divine authority, in addition to many missionary trips of advocacy and preaching, until the followers of these religions became the majority of mankind.
The founders of Christianity built their belief on the belief of the Jews, and relieved themselves of the burden of implementing the law of beheadings, hand abscission, crucifixion, and torture; but they acknowledged the validity of the Jewish belief and that the atrocities they committed in the Old Testament were by command from the Lord. Christianity is a belief without a law, based on a myth and texts that are pervaded with ignorance and negated by cosmic facts.
And the founders of Islam based their belief on the belief of the character of the father, named
“Ibrahim” or “Abraham”:
{Then We revealed to you: “Follow the Creed of Abraham, he of pure faith, he was not among the idolaters”} 16:123 Q
{Say, “My Lord has guided me to a straight path, an upright religion, the creed of Abraham the Monotheist, who was not a polytheist.”} 6:161 I
{And who is better in religion than he who submits his face to Allah, being a gooddoer, and follows the Creed of Abraham, pure in faith? Allah took Abraham for a close friend.} 4:125 Q
{Who would forsake the religion of Abraham, except he who fools himself? ..} 2:130 I The inherited story says that Abraham was a person born in Iraq 4000 years ago; the god chose him and had him as a friend. He is the father of Ismail and Isaac; that is, he is the father of the Arabs and the Jews. This gives the Jews (and the Arabs also) privilege and justification of imperiousness and arrogance toward the rest of the nations, by saying “our father was the friend of God” and we are
“God’s chosen people”.
{O Children of Isra’il! remember My favour wherewith I favoured you, and that I preferred you over the world.} 2:122 D
The story was issued by the ancient Jews; and a holistic, neutral view makes us see that it is a purposeful story.. its aim is that the Jews give themselves the right to conquer the land of the Canaanites and others, arguing that a great god granted it to their father and that they must retrieve the property of their ancestors; so this would be a strong incentive for their people that charges them with enthusiasm and boldness to invade that land, occupy it, and massacre its men, so that they can enjoy the wealth and women.
The Arabs took advantage of this story also for a similar purpose, but their ambitions swelled and their aggression worsened, so they went too far and invaded many lands and extended their dominance over them, including the lands that the Jews took, on the basis that God got angry on the Jews and cursed them and preferred the Arabs to them.
{They say: “Be Jews or Nazarenes and you shall be guided” Say: “No, rather the Creed of Abraham, the upright one. He was not among the idolaters”} 2:135 Q
{The people most deserving of Abraham are those who followed him, and this prophet, and those who believe. Allah is the Guardian of the believers.} 3:68 I
{.. He has chosen you and has not laden a burden upon you in religion, being the Creed of Abraham your father. He has named you Muslims ..} 22:78 Q
The strange thing is that the Bible contains two different stories: one in the Book of Genesis narrates the treaty of the god with Abraham and promising him that his offspring will own the land of Canaan, and the other one in the Book of Exodus and elsewhere narrates the god’s liberation of the Jews from the enslavement by Pharaoh, and his treaty with their leader Moses that they obey him,
and he protects and supports them if they stormed the land of the Canaanites promised to their father Israel. Researchers have hypothesized that the story of Abraham and the story of Moses are two myths without historical confirmation, written in a late stage (the Persian period in the fifth century BCE) by two conflicting groups of Jews: the group who remained in Judea district during the time of the Babylonian captivity; they wrote the story of Abraham to attribute the land to their “father Abraham”, and the group of returning exiles; they wrote the story of Moses to take the land on the pretext that the god had inspired Moses to take it because it was the promised land for their father Israel the son of Isaac the son of Abraham. [1][2]
Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that the details of the two stories do not fit the time periods to which they’re attributed (in the second millennium BCE); they rather fit a period closer (first millennium BCE). [3] Also the archaeological finds contradict those details; an Israeli archaeologist acknowledged this in 1999. [4]
In the book “The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives” (1974), Thomas Thompson, a literary scholar, relied in his argument on archaeology and ancient texts, and his thesis focused on the lack of sufficient evidence that the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Israel lived in the Bronze Age (second millennium BCE). And he noticed that the circumstances of the story in the Torah are similar to those of the first millennium BCE.
In the book “Abraham in History and Traditions” (1975), John Van Seters examined the stories of the three patriarchs, and argued that the names, social statuses, and messages strongly suggest that they were Iron Age creations (kingdoms in the first millennium). [5][6]
Some researchers reached a conviction that the Abrahamic belief is only the belief of the Torah narrators, and they attributed it to “Abraham”. Anyway, the Torah was authored by many people far apart in time, starting from the eighth century BCE (after the time of King Solomon), [4][7] and was compiled, prepared, and decided on its content after 450 BCE. [8][9]
In the scientific evidence and the discovered facts of the universe, there’s what certainly proves that the content of the Book of Genesis about the nature of the universe is invalid. [7][10] And since it is false, it is likely that the story of Abraham narrated in it.. is fictional too.
In the Quran.. the story has a vagary that is a flight of fancy:
{And when Abraham said: ‘My Lord, make this a land secure. [...] ‘Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a barren valley near Your Holy House; our Lord, in order that they establish the prayer. Make the hearts of people yearn towards them, ..} 14:35-37 Q
{And when Abraham and Ishmael raised the foundations of the House ..} 2:127 Q
Muslims agree that this is the Kaaba in Mecca, south of Hijaz.
But the story in the Bible says that the god blessed the land of Palestine and sanctified it, and directed Abraham to settle in it, and granted it to him and his offspring; and his wife bore for him Isaac, and the bondwoman bore for him Ishmael; and that he expelled the bondwoman and her son to satisfy his wife.
It is not right that this expulsion would have been done by him traveling with the two all this distance from Palestine to the south of Hijaz. And it is not right that he would leave the land which his god blessed and sanctified behind his back, and depart and build the Kaaba in the south of Hijaz.
Thus, it is either that the narrative in the Quran is wrong.. a mere legend, as well as what has been woven around it, such as the myth that the one who dug the Zamzam well was Gabriel or Ishmael the infant, or that the place of the present-day Holy Mosque is not the original place mentioned in the Quran (as chapter 15 shows).
His real name is unknown. The word Abraham in Aramaic means merciful father. And “Abram” in Chaldean means high father. And “Avraham” in Hebrew means father of a multitude. If this is its original meaning then of course it would not be the name that was given to him upon birth.
The story says that Abraham had great confrontations; as he dared to destroy the idols, and the king summoned him and argued with him, then he ordered to burn him, so he was set on fire, but he did not burn, then he immigrated to another land, then he led hundreds of soldiers in a battle against an invading army and defeated them, so the king of that land met him and thanked him, then a situation happened to him with the king of Egypt, and the ruler of Palestine, and other important events[1]
But the archaeologists have spent years exploring, and have not found any reliable trace to prove that he existed in reality; and with the start of the 21st century, they had given up hope of that. [11] Even the tablets that were discovered in 1974 in the ancient city of Ebla in northern Syria, the statement that their texts include the names of the first prophets is an allegation that came from one researcher who rushed to speak out with enthusiasm, then others replied to him denying that, and that it is merely similarity of names and wrong reading of the language; and a big controversy arose among a number of researchers, which concluded that the texts of these tablets have nothing to do with what’s mentioned in the Bible, nor do they prove that its characters are real, and that their role is marginal in evangelical archaeology. [12][13]
If we assume for the sake of argument that the story is true, we find that the personality of
“Abraham” is suspicious, anomalous, and eccentric (perhaps due to schizophrenia) [4]:
• He committed incest; as he took Sarah as his sexual partner, despite being his half-sister.
• He became a wittol, because he was a coward. He feared for himself, and allowed the king of Egypt to take his wife from him, on the basis that she was his sister.
• He became a wittol again, years after the first time. He feared for himself, and he allowed the ruler of Palestine to take his wife from him.
• In addition to his sister Sarah, he had sexual relations with the maid Hagar and mistress Keturah.
• He expelled his own son and the mother of his son, drove them away, and left them lost in the wilderness until they were about to perish.
• He committed the crime of attempted murder, and almost slaughtered his own son.
• The story states that he had 8 male sons, and does not mention that he had daughters; perhaps because the ones who authored it were male chauvinist Jews.
• He committed a sinister act.. named “circumcision”; which is a surgery with a sharp object and cutting part of the penis of a human being, whether a baby or an adult. This bad rite is against nature; and even from the religious perspective, it is altering what “Allah” created and contradicts with him as “He who perfected everything He created”. 32:7 I
and the saying of Satan: {‘.. I will prompt them to alter the creation of God.’ ..} 4:119 I (To verify this.. imagine that you are lowering your underpants in front of a stranger who then cuts a part of your organ while you’re looking!)
It is harm to the child and a violation of his right to his body unnecessarily, and removing a useful part of the body -all its parts are useful- benefits include the protection of a sensitive organ from friction; which is related to the nervous system and sexual ability.
The way the followers of the Abrahamic (Hanifi) belief have things is like saying: Yes, “Allah”
perfected everything, praise be to Him; but only this part of the body is bad, not suitable for purity, and it must be surgically removed! (What’s with you? How do you cerebrate?)
[1] Wikipedia Arabic & English – Abraham
[2] Wikipedia Arabic – The Exodus
[3] An Israeli archeologist doubts the idea of the Promised Land – BBC Arabic
[4] Gunkel, Hermann, 1997 [1901], Genesis, p. lxviii
[5] Moore, Megan Bishop; Kelle, Brad E., 2011. Biblical History and Israel’s Past
[6] Greifenhagen, Franz, 2003, Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
[7] The Bible – The Book of Genesis
[8] Charles Gillispie, 1996 [1951], Genesis and geology, p224
[9] Mark Chavalas, 2003. Mesopotamia and the Bible. p41
[10] Wenham, Gordon J. 2003. Exploring the Old Testament
[11] Dever, William G. 2002. What Did the Biblical Writers Know, and when Did They Know It?
[12] William H. Shea, “Two Palestinian Segments From the Eblaite Geographical Atlas” p589-612
[13] Ebla Tablets: No Biblical Claims – The Washington Post
15. Researchers Slam .. the Heresy of Islam
Non-divine Mechanism
One of the most important and most effective tools of the founders of Islam was to persuade people that a being named “Allah” exists, and deserves deification and worship alone, for he’s perfect, infinitely capable, he’s “everything”, and heis the benefactor, sustenance giver and the one who bestows favors on them. They did so by repeating phrases such as “those you blessed” and “Allah’s grace upon you”. Thus, whoever believes this feels that he owes a lot to this being and that he deserves thanking, remembrance, obedience and jihad for his sake.
Religion is a non-divine mechanism for enslaving, harnessing and recruiting people by exploiting their greeds; whoever covets the pleasures of life is tempted by the spoils, women and privileges, and whoever covets the pleasures promised to be had after death is seduced by the aura of the revelation recited by a resonant voice, unique oriental tones, impressive words, and magical language attributed to a great deified being, where there’s description and promise of lasting goodness and of exemption from the torment of hell. So everyone who has greed becomes an obedient slave or a fierce combatant, according to the purpose of the leader.. who has savviness and the skill of directing the crowds by enticement and intimidation and by adopting the morals and rules they like.
Islamic scholars give great importance to warning against innovation in religion (heresy); preachers are always keen on repeating Muhammad’s saying, “The most evil things are those that are newly invented, and every innovation is going astray.”
So what can be said.. if Islam itself was an innovation?
After the Quran has been proven to be man-made (in the previous chapters) with ample blatant proofs, I take up in the following, some attempts by researchers.. to understand the origination of Islam and its grounds, and to distinguish facts of history from lies.
History Written by the Victor
The authors of the Quran are unknown. As the Islamic State was founded on brutality and terrorism, and history is written by the victor, the facts of its founding were obscured, and those who tried to expose them were killed, and we do not know who authored the Quran, how many they were, the duration, revisions and modifications were. They are definitely several people; as a work like this, upon which a religion and a state were built, one person or two cannot do.
In 2003 an investigative research book named “Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State” was published by the archaeologist Yehuda Nevo and researcher Judith Korin; in it they researched the origins and development of the Islamic state through archaeology and the study of inscriptions and Islamic history with a careful approach in examining Islamic
writings and neglected sources prior to the 9th century, such as archaeological excavations, ancient coins, inscriptions and manuscripts of the non-Muslims in that period.
The authors presented a big collection of inscriptions that historical scholars neglected, most of them from the 7th and 8th centuries, and used them to track the historical writings that differ from known writings. Based on archaeological evidence from the 7th century, they doubted the validity of the writings about the stage of the founding of Islam, which are still quoted as facts in most modern historical books; as the archaeological and historical evidence form a perception of the Middle East in the 7th and 8th centuries that no prophet or religion appeared in it that might have evolved into what is now known as Islam. The authors concluded the following:
• The historians of the 7th and 8th centuries are not trustworthy sources, and that their writings do not stand up to historical examination based on archaeological evidence, evidence of ancient inscriptions, and manuscripts of non-Muslims. (History is written by the victorious.)
• The Arabs were pagans when they imposed their control in the 7th century on areas that were within the Byzantine (Roman) Empire.
• They were imposing their control almost without resistance, because Byzantium had withdrawn long before it.
• After they imposed their control, they adopted a doctrine adapted from Judeo-Christian writings they found in the areas they occupied; and gradually they developed it into an Arab religion which later became known as Islam, in the middle of the 8th century.
• The Quran was not fully codified until the Abbasid reign, when a law (Sharia) was developed for the purpose of fortifying power and being distinguished from the Byzantine law used by the Umayyads. Sharia required an official book to claim that it was deduced through interpretation, and then “prophetical logia” was canonized as part of the revelations. [1]
Their acquisition of the lands was not aided by “angels”, but rather, by weakness and exhaustion of the Romans and the Persians from a long war between them, and with support of a part of the people for the invaders, in order to be liberated from sectarian persecution. [2]
The evidence presented by the authors proves the point of view of other scholars, such as Fred Donner in history, John Wansbrough, as well as Patricia Crone and Michael Cook in their book
“Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World” which concluded that Islam and the Quran are not the work of Muhammad or the Arab god. [1]
Texts from Thieves
Researcher Gerd Puin stated that he believed the Quran was an evolving text and not a complete revelation in the seventh century. [3]
In the 9th century, Abd-al-Masih ibn-Is’haq wrote in “al-Kindi’s Message” that the narratives in the Quran are mixed and intertwined, and the style and ideas differ between its parts, and that this is a proof that several persons worked on them, caused differences, added what they pleased and deleted what they did not like. [4]
In his book “The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Quran”, Christoph Luxenberg supported the claims of late Quran writing. He traced many of its texts to sources other than Muhammad. He presented a thesis that the Quran is merely a paraphrasing of earlier Christian texts, which are Syriac books. [5]
John Wansbrough agreed with him by saying that the Quran is a revision of a portion of other sacred books, especially Jewish-Christian books. [6]
Heretical Sect
Karl-Heinz Ohlig reached the conclusion that Muhammad as a person was not central to early Islam, and that at that early stage, the founders of Islam were in reality an Arab Christian community that
had objections to the conception of the Trinity, and that the hadith and biographies which came later are fabricated in a big part of them, and had a fundamental role in separating Islam from its Christian roots and building a whole new religion. [7]
In his book “The fountain of Wisdom”, John of Damascus (676-749), who was familiar with Islam and Arabic, recorded in a chapter entitled “Concerning innovations” a series of discussions between Christians and Muslims; and he claimed that the Aryan monk “Beheira” had influenced Muhammad (during Muhammad’s commercial trips to the Levant). He considered the Quran just a distorted mixture extracted from the Bible. [8] The monk Beheira is mentioned among the heretics (the innovators in Christianity) in Christian sources, as he was a monotheist and against the doctrine of the Trinity. Among those is what’s mentioned by John of Damascus in his book, the part concerning Heresies, where he counted 100 heresies that arose in Christianity, and he ended them with “the heresy of the Ismailis”, meaning Islam. John accused Muhammad that he took his religion from Beheira, and that Beheira had helped him write some texts of the Quran. [9] He concluded with the opinion that the founders of Islam were a heretical Christian sect whose erroneous opinions inspired the Quran. Some Arab authors assert that Beheira is the source of what corresponds to the principles of Christianity of the Quran; while the rest was written by either later authors such as Othman ibn-Affan or Jews and Arabs contemporary to him. The Christian dialectical biographies of Muhammad share a claim that the alleged illiteracy of Muhammad does not mean that he received religious education exclusively from the angel Gabriel, and it often defined Beheira as a secret teacher of Muhammad. [10]
Substitution of Sabbath
Saturday is the seventh day of the week; it is the day that the Abrahamic books say that the creator rested (or settled on the throne) after creating the universe in six days. Therefore, it became the confirmed day to rest from work. This is in the Torah, and the Quran confirmed that it was the day of the weekly holiday: {..We commanded them: “Transgress not on the Sabbath (Saturday).”..}4:154 H
Since the Quran came “confirming the Scriptures that came before it” 5:48 the substitution of the Sabbath to the sixth day (Friday) is innovation, and a contradiction to the Torah and the Quran.
Waraqah ibn-Nawfal
Some researchers considered that the influence of Beheira on Muhammad was limited because his place (in the Levant) was remote and they did not communicate much; and they presented a stronger hypothesis, which says that Muhammad was receiving most of his knowledge.. from the cousin of his wife Khadijah, the priest “Waraqah ibn-Nawfal” who was fluent in the Hebrew language and studied the Hebraic Bible and other books, and that the belief of the Hebrews who believed in Christ was that salvation would be by combining the faith in Christ with the enforcement of the law of Moses, and that between Muhammad and his teacher Waraqah were many meetings for many years, kept hidden for the purpose of showing Muhammad as a prophet (getting revelations by an angel who used to visit him), and that most of the Meccan parts of the Quran are a translation of the content of the Hebraic Bible. [7][11]
Among the clues to this is.. that throughout his youth he used to often go to the cave of Hiraa, which is far from the eyes of people, where he was able to study the books he brought from the Levant, and that he did not start his call until he passed the age of 40.. then “the pause of revelation” when the priest died:
{A’ishah: The commencement (of the Divine Inspiration) to Allah’s Messenger was the true dreams in sleep [...] he used to go in seclusion in the cave of Hiraa where he used to worship Allah continuously for many nights [...] Then a short while later Waraqah died and the Divine Inspiration was paused for a while until Allah’s Messenger became depressed ..} [12]
The idea that Muhammad was learning the content of the Quran from earthly sources.. was present from the beginning, when his people noticed clues on it:
{.. there came to them an Apostle making clear (the truth), • Yet they turned their backs on him and said: One taught (by others), a madman.} 44:13-14 S
(Qurtubi: i.e. human beings taught him or priests and demons taught him)
{We know very well that they say: “A mortal teaches him”. The tongue of him at whom they hint is a non-Arab; and this is a clear Arabic tongue.} 16:103 Q
(Tabari: Among whathas been reported, they alleged that the one who taught Muhammad this Quran was a Roman slave [...] he was a Christian blacksmith in Mecca. [...] ibn-Abbas said: Allah’s apostle was teaching a blacksmith in Mecca, he had a non-Arab tongue, and his name was Bal’am, so the polytheists saw Allah’s apostle when he entered to him, and when he came out from him, then they said: Surely he’s being taught by Bal’am [...] Qatadah [said ..] a slave of the sons of al-Hadrami called Ya’eesh, [...] and he used to read books. [...] ibn-Is’haq said: I was told, Allah’s apostle often sat at the Marwah to a Christian boy called Jabr, [...] Abdullah ibn-Kathir said: [...] his name was Jabr and he had books [...] others said: Rather they were two boys, one of them was Yassar and the other was Jabr [...] they used to read the Torah, and Allah’s apostle perhaps sat with them, and the infidels of Quraish said: He surely sits with them to learn from them, [...] and others said: Rather, it was Salman al-Farisi.)
The Goal Was Superiority
The absence of supporting material contemporary to the 1st century of Islam raised questions about the rightness of what later traditional sources provided. All what is preserved from this period is coins and a few memorial inscriptions on buildings. But some scholars refuse to underestimate the main sources of that period. Besides the inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock, there are short Quranic excerpts on coins issued under the reign of Abdulmalik ibn-Marwan (697-750) such as part of verse 61:9 with a little difference (omitting the word “Messenger”): “He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth to make it victorious over all”. Parallel to the inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock, it is clear that these excerpts aim to proclaim the superiority of the new religion of Islam over Christianity, in particular. [13]
Original Mecca
Some modern researchers (on top of which are Patricia Crone, Tom Holland, and Dan Gibson) have reached strong indications.. that Mecca which is in Hijaz.. is fake, and of recent founding, and that the place of the current Sacred Mosque (Kaaba) is not the original one mentioned in the Quran and Hadiths, and that the Kaaba was removed from its location which was between Medina and Palestine, and it is likely Petra in Jordan, and then it was built in Hijaz, and that the texts of changing the Qibla were put for this purpose, and alternative sites for Hajj were specified, and people were directed to them. Thereby, ceases the wonder of the issue of changing the Qibla, as it is illogical that Muhammad and his followers had a first Qibla other than the Kaaba, which they believed Abraham built, and people used to pilgrimage to and revolve around. [14]
Among those indications:
• Texts of the Quran and Hadith on Mecca (the mother of villages) fit this place more than Mecca of Hijaz
• It is close to Abraham’s home in Palestine, because according to the Quran, he took his son Ishmael there, and then they built the Kaaba in it
• It was an important religious center and a shrine to which people pilgrimaged, where there are remains of a temple and a running way between two mountains (Safa and Marwa)
• It is suitable for the living of Quraish, the large community, and the grazing of their horses, camels, and cattle, while the land of Mecca of Hijaz is not suitable for agriculture
• Existence of several archaeological mosques in the lands of Levant and others, built after the time of Mohammad, of which the Qibla is toward that place
• Nonexistence of the name of Mecca in any document found written before the middle of the eighth century, not from Muslims nor others, no book, no manuscript no letter
• Nonexistence of remains or inscriptions in Mecca of Hijaz, while they’re available in Petra and other lands of Arabs, despite the richness of Mecca’s cultural before Islam
• Presence of traces of the bombardment of the mangonels in Petra, not in Mecca
• Loss of Islamic manuscripts written in the first and second centuries (which Muhammad said that they’re the best centuries)
They assumed that what happened was as follows:
Abdullah ibn-al-Zubair was the governor of Medina in the reign of the caliph Muawiya. A large part of Muslims pledged allegiance to him for succession after the killing of Hussein ibn-Ali, and refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid, the son of Muawiya, including ibn-Abbas, the rabbi of the nation, and the Shiites of the family of Muhammad. During the war between his party (the religious) and Yazid’s party, the Umayyad (the national), ibn-al-Zubair resorted to Petra (the original Mecca), and after the bombardment of the Kaaba and smashing it, and withdrawing the siege on it due to the death of Yazid.. he dared to flatten it to the ground, take the black stone, migrate and displace the population with him to the land of today’s Mecca, construct the Kaaba in it, and rumor that in it are the foundations established by Abraham, so that they become far away from the reach of the Umayyad, and entrench in this fortified place hidden between the mountains, and the Kaaba is in their state, not in the state of their enemy. The State of the caliph ibn-al-Zubair included most of the Islamic lands, and no land remained for Umayyad but Syria. Since then, Umayyad sanctified the old town without a Kaaba, and directed people to it for pilgrimage, and their enemies sanctified to the new one where the Kaaba is, and pilgrimaged to it, and some sanctified both and pilgrimaged to them in the same year. [14]
Despite the censorship of Abbasid, this has what proves it and confirms it in Islamic sources and others, as follows:
In history books
Starting from 63 H, there are phrases that tell on the matter.
Example: “Abban ibn-Othman, while being the governor of Medina, took people for pilgrimage twice in the year 76 H.” [15] This is not justified except by having two different places of pilgrimage.
Another example: “When Mus’ab ibn-al-Zubair killed al-Mukhtar, al-Mukhtar’s friends asked Musab for security, and he granted it to them, .. then a man of them said to him: “.. we are the people of your Qibla and of your denomination, and youhave become able, so forgive us and pardon us.”[16]
His saying “we are the people of your Qibla” indicates that at that time, Muslims had more than one Qibla.
Perhaps among what kept the Umayyad from returning the black stone to Petra.. was that an earthquake hit it and destroyed part of it, as they considered it of “Allah’s” wrath on that town.
Years after the division of people between the two Qiblas, Abbasid defeated their enemies, the Umayyad, and seized the state, preferred the new Qibla, imposed it on Muslims everywhere, and were keen to hide everything indicating that Petra was the original Mecca. Several reasons may be assumed for that, such as.. the destruction that hit it by bombarding it with mangonels and by the earthquake, and that the choice of the new Qibla would be a victory for the pro-party and a conquer of the other hostile one, and their keenness to conceal the early Arab and Islamic history (associated
with Jews and Christians) and what may expose the humanness of the Quran, and to write a new independent history, (as history is written by the victor;) and the hand of this writing extended.. to reach the Quran, the Hadiths, and the biographies.
In the image of the place from a satellite
The image shows that Petra is between two mountains, which can be assumed to be “the Two Great Mountains” (mentioned in Hadith); and next to it is the valley of Moses (Wadi Musa) and the tomb of Aaron, and this justifies the occupancy of the Quran with the story of Moses and Aaron and its recurrence in it (as chapter 10 shows), as it seems the most significant story in the heritage of the people of this region.
In the Quran
This is a text indicating that the people of Mecca (Quraish) were the stewards of pilgrims and the Holy Mosque:
{Do you consider giving water to pilgrims and maintaining the Sacred Mosque the same as believing in Allah and the Last Day and striving in Allah’s path? ..} 9:19 I
This text is from a sura revealed in Mecca:
{And Lot was one of the messengers • We saved him and his family, all of them • Except for an old woman who lagged behind • Then We annihilated the others • You pass by them in the morning •
And at night. Do you not understand?} 37:133-138 I
The rhymer said to the people of Mecca, “You pass by them in the morning and at night”, he did not say “every summer and winter”, i.e. they used to pass by the ruins of the people of Lot “Sodom”
frequently, morning and night; and it is known that this site is adjacent to Palestine, near Petra, and that according to the Torah.. Lot is the nephew of Abraham, who lived in Palestine. [17]
This text is also from a sura revealed in Mecca, and the people to which it was directed were the people of Mecca:
{And warn people of the day when the chastisement shall come to them, then those who were unjust will say: “O our Lord! respite us to a near term, (so) we shall respond to Thy call and follow the messengers.” What! did you not swear before (that) there will be no passing away for you • And you dwell in the abodes of those who were unjust to themselves, ..} 14:44-45 S
In and around Mecca, there are no abodes older than the time of Mohammad, while they are there in and around Petra.
These are texts from suras revealed in Mecca regarding agriculture in the original Mecca, and the message in them was directed to its people (because the debate in the Meccan suras was with them, and the Quran used to respond to their questions and arguments):
{Have you seen what you cultivate • Is it you who make it grow, or are We the Grower} 56:63-64 I
{And luscious gardens • And fruits and vegetables • Enjoyment for you, and for your livestock}
80:30-32 I
{He it is Who sends down water (rain) from the sky; from it you drink and from it (grows) the vegetation on which you send your cattle to pasture • With it He causes to grow for you the crops, the olives, the date-palms, the grapes, and every kind of fruit. ..} 16:10-11 H
The land of Mecca of Hijaz is not suitable for agriculture. And no doubt that the home of Quraish, the large community, must be agricultural in order for them and their livestock to live and eat.
Also, recurring in the Quran is the mention of water falling from the sky (raining on the original land of Mecca). The water of the well Zamzam (the alleged miracle) is not mentioned at all.
As to the text {‘Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a valley of no vegetation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may perform the prayers. So make the hearts of some people incline towards them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful.’} 14:37 I either it means that it became agricultural with fruits.. according to Ibrahim’s supplication, or that what is meant by it is a valley adjacent to Petra, as his saying “at your house” may mean that the valley is close to the house, not that the house is in the valley, or.. the text was added to the Quran after relocating the Kaaba.
It was described as the mother of villages:
{.. so that you can warn the Mother of Villages (Mecca) and all who live about it, ..} 42:7, 6:92 H
The name “mother of villages” was not appropriate for Mecca of Hijaz, the obscure isolated place in a remote barren area, while it was appropriate for Petra.
And it was called Bekka:
{The first house established for mankind is the one at Bekka; blessed, and guidance for all people.}
3:96 I
Ibn-Is’haq said: “I have been told that Quraish found in the corner a writing in Syriac, so they did not know what it is until a man of the Jews read it to them, and it was: I am Allah the owner of Bekka. I created it the day I created the heavens and the Earth, and formed the sun and the moon, and surrounded it with seven faithful angels. It does not pass away until its Two Great Mountains pass away, blessed is the water and the milk for its inhabitants.” [18]
Syriac is a language belonging to the people of Syria and Iraq, [19] not related to the south of Hijaz.
In the Hadith
It is between two mountains:
{A’ishah asked Muhammad, “Have you encountered a day harder than the day of Uhud?” He replied, “I have had from your people what I have had, and the worst was on the day of Aqaba when I presented myself to ibn-abd-Yalail ibn-abd-Kulal and he did not respond favourably to what I
wanted. So I departed, overwhelmed with excessive sorrow, and proceeded on, and did not recover till I was in Qarn al-Thaàlib, [...] The Angel of the Mountains called and greeted me, and then said,
“O Muhammad, order what you wish. If you would like me to slam the two mountains upon them ..”} [20]
Muhammad said: If you are between the two mountains of Mina, (and he pointed with his hand toward the east,) there is a valley there called al-Surar, in which there is a large tree beneath which seventy prophets were born.”} [21]
According to this narrative, between the two mountains, 70 prophets were born. It is known that the alleged places of most of the stories of prophets are in the Levant and Egypt, and they do not include the south of Hijaz.
Ibn-Kathir said about the two mountains: “They are the two mountains of Mecca, which embrace it south and north.” [22]
This description applies to the two mountains of Petra.
And that the running way was in the bottom of a gully:
{Ibn-Omar said: When Allah’s Messenger observed the first circumambulation, he used to walk briskly in three (circuits), and walk normally in four circuits, and he used to run in the bottom of the gully as he moved between Safa and Marwa.} [23]
In Islamic sources it was of the land of Amalekites:
{And when Abraham and Ishmael were raising the foundations of the House ..} 2:127 H
(Tabari: Narrated from Mujahid and other scholars: When Allah directed Abraham to the place of the house, he went out to it [...] and Gabriel went with him, [...] until he brought him to Mecca, [...] and there were people who were called “Amalekites” outside and around Mecca ..) Ibn-is’haq said in the news of the people returned: “The house was on that time is known, and the denial of what mentioned, and the people of Mecca then the Amalekites” [24]
The Amalekites are mentioned in the Torah, and in it that their land was between Egypt and Syria:
{Korah, Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; ..} Genesis 36:16
{Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.} Numbers 20:21
Adom province extends a hundred miles between the Dead Sea and Aqaba Bay. Salea was the capital of Adom in the old days, and its name changed later to Petra. [25]
{Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.}
Deuteronomy 25:17
{Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, ..} Genesis 14:7
En Mishpat (Kadesh Barnea) is located west of Wadi Araba, near the southern border of Israel. It is likely En Kadess, at a distance of 80 km south of Beersheba. [26]
It is in the narratives.. that Muhammad, before migration, met with a delegation from Yathrib (Medina), and they pledged allegiance to him in Aqaba, with what was named “Bai’at al-Aqaba”
(allegiance of Aqaba), under a tree:
{The Prophet departed, and with him Abbas, his uncle, to the seventy of Ansaar at Aqaba under the tree ..} [27]
{.. When ibn-Mas’oud did the hurling of Jamrat-al-Aqaba (stoning in Haj), he went down the middle of the valley, and when he came near the tree, he stood opposite to it ..} [28]
Aqaba.. south of Jordan, is on the way between Medina and Petra. The distance between Petra and Aqaba is less than 99 km.
And that when Muhammad immigrated from the original Mecca to Yathrib (Medina), he entered from “Thaniyat al-Wadaa” (the farewell aisle). The aisle is a narrow passage in a mountain. The
farewell aisle is a passage in a mountain north of Medina (in the direction of Levant and Tabuk):
{Al-Saa’ib ibn-Yazid said: I remember that I went out with the boys to Thaniyat al-Wadaa to receive Allah’s Apostle from the raid of Tabuk.} [29]
And regarding Muhammad’s immigration, a narrative in Sahih of Bukhari – Merits of Ansaar – The arrival of the Prophet at Medina:
{Narrated al-Baraa ibn-Aazib: The first one who came to us was Musàb ibn-Omair [...] Later on, the Prophet came, and I had never seen the people of Medina so joyful as they were on the arrival of Allah’s Apostle, ..}
Ibn-Hajar said in explaining this narrative: Abu-Saeed in “Sharaf al-Mustafa” narrated from Obaidullah ibn-A’ishah [who did not live in the time of Muhammad]:
{When the Prophet entered the city, the girls started saying: The full moon has come to us from the farewell aisle ..} [31]
Ibn-Kathir said in “al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya”, in the chapter “His entry into Medina and where he settled his home” [32]: When the Messenger of Allah came to the Medina, women and boys started chanting:
The full moon has come to us from the farewell aisle
Gratitude is a must for us, for as long as someone supplicates Allah
Baihaqi narrated this in “Dala’il al-Nubuwah”, and said about this anthem: “This is mentioned by our scholars at his arrival from Mecca, not when he came to Medina from farewell aisle when he arrived from Tabuk ..” [33]
And abu-al-Hassan al-Khal’ee narrated it in “al-Fawa’id”, and it has been confirmed by Imam Ghazali and ibn-al-Jawzi. [34]
Original Ta'if
The town of Ta'if, which is in Hijaz.. its name was Wujj; so why was it changed?
That is because Ta'if was present in books and in the memory of people as a one of the Levant towns, and adjacent to the original Mecca (Petra); and in order for the fabrication of reality to be successful, a legend was rumored that Ta'if was transferred to Hijaz. This was written in several books:
“When Abraham invoked that the inhabitants of Mecca be supplied with fruits, Allah sent Gabriel, so he derooted with his wing a piece of the land of Palestine, or -it was said- of Jordan, and he came with it and orbited around the Kaaba with it for seven days, and put it near Mecca.” [35]
It was also narrated in several books, that a slave of a family in Ta'if was from Iraq: And the father of a student dies and the Messenger of God is permeated ... Bin Rabiaa and his brother's brother ... When he saw him, he sent to him a glory for them to be called ... He said to him the Messenger of God ..: From what land you are an inauguration?
In this there is indication that Ta'if was in the neighboring Levant, not in the south of Hijaz; for it does not fit history, nor geography that a slave would move from Iraq to the far south of Hijaz.
Like that, another hidden matter is revealed, and the scandal is double; as neither the holy book of Islam is original, nor its holy land is original. It’s all fakeness and deceit.
Prophethood, priesthood and divination
are linked to charlatanism and myth.
Come on, scholars and nobles of the people,
to address their mistake and deviation.
Note: “Sahih” means authentic. “Sunan” means traditions.
[^][1] Wikipedia Arabic & English – Crossroads to Islam
[^][2] Wikipedia Arabic – Muslim conquest of the Levant
[^][3] Querying the Koran, by Abul Taher, The Guardian, 8-8-2000
[^][4] Andrew Rippin, 1991, Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices, v1 p26
[^][5] The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Quran, 2007
[^][6] Quranic Studies 1977 and The Sectarian Milieu 1978 by John Wansbrough
[7] Karl-Heinz Ohlig, 2007, Der frühe Islam
[^][8] St. John of Damascus’s Critique of Islam, 1958, p153-160
[^][9] The fountain of Wisdom by John of Damascus
[^][10] Barbara Roggema, “Baḥīrā”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, 2014 [2011]
[^][11] The Priest and the Prophet by Joseph Azzi
[^][13] Estelle Whelan, 1998 “Forgotten Witness: Evidence For The Early Codification Of The Quran”
[^][14] • Quranic Geography by Dan Gibson – Part VI
• Article “Gossip outside the heritage.. How the Kaaba was transferred from Petra to Mecca” by Taha Lemkhaiyar
[^][15] Tarikh al-Tabari – Year76
[^][16] The Complete History by ibn-al-Athir – Year67، al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir – Year71، Siyar Àlam al-Nubalaa by Dhahabi v3 p539
[^][17] The Bible – Book of Genesis 12:5
[^][18] Siyar A’lam al-Nubalaa by Dhahabi v1 p196, Tafsir of Qurtubi 2:127, al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir v3 p475
[^][19] Wikipedia Arabic – Syriac language
[^][20] Sahih of Bukhari 3231, Sahih of Muslim 1795, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 6561
[^][21] Sahih of ibn-Hibban 6244, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 6197, Muataa of Malik 966, Large Sunan of Nasa’ee 2995
[^][22] Tafsir of ibn-Kathir 6:58
[^][23] Sahih of Muslim 1261, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 5703, Sahih of ibn-Khuzaima 2762, Sunan of Baihaqi 9064, Sunan of Darimi 1841
[^][24] Tafsir of Tabari 7:69
[^][25] Adom County – Website of Anba Takla Haymanot
[^][26] Kadesh Barnea – Website of Anba Takla Haymanot
[^][27] Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 16630, al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir v4 p394, Siyar A’lam al-Nubalaa by Dhahabi v2 p247
[^][29] Sahih of Bukhari 4426, Sahih of abu-Dawud 2779, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 4792, Sahih of Tirmidhi 1718, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 15294
[^][30] Sahih of Bukhari 3925, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 18568, Large Sunan of Nasa’ee 11666
[^][31] Fat’h al-Bari Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari by ibn-hajar al-Asqalani 3925
[^][32] al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir v4 p485
[^][33] al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir – Year8, al-Tawdih li-Sharh al-Jamea al-Sahih by ibn-al-Mulaqqin 4161
[^][34] Talbis Iblis by ibn-al-Jawzi p251, Wafaa al-Wafaa bi-Akhbar Dar al-Mustafa by al-Samhudi p43
16. What Was the Motive? .. Gains Were Attractive
Glory for Them and Humiliation for Others
The previous chapters.. contain enough evidence that the Quran is not a revelation from outside the planet, but rhymed words written by ignorant men, from what they found in the legacy of nations, in order to have a “heavenly” religion and a “divine” authority, with which they can adapt, enslave and recruit people, to gain the glory and power, and the enjoyment of women and spoils.
Glory for Them and Humiliation for Others
{abu-Talib became sick; so Quraish came to him, and Allah’s apostle came to visit him, and at his head was one seat, so abu-Jahl sat on it. They said: Your nephew speaks against our gods. He said [to Muhammad]: Why are your people complaining from you? He said: O uncle, I want them to be on one word, by which the Arabs comply to them, and they would take the non-Arabs as slaves. (Or by which the Arabs be subservient to them, and the non-Arabs pay tribute to them.) He said: What is this one word? He said: There is no god but Allah. ..} [1]
{Whoever desires glory, then all glory is Allah’s; ..} 35:10 D
(Tabari: Whoever wants glory and power, with Allah let him be glorified and empowered)
{.. honour, power and glory belong to Allah, His Messenger, and to the believers ..} 63:8 H
{Those who ally themselves with the disbelievers instead of the believers. Do they seek glory in them? All glory belongs to Allah.} 4:139 I
{And let not their speech grieve you, for all power and honour belong to Allah. ..} 10:65 H
{.. Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islam), Allah will bring a people whom He will love and they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, ..} 5:54 H
{And Allah most assuredly helped you at Badr when you were humiliated. ..} 3:123 Q
{Do not be weak, neither sorrow while you are the upper ones, if you are believers.} 3:139 Q
{Therefore, do not be weakened and call out for peace, you shall be the upper ones ..} 47:35 Q
(Tabari: do not weaken toward them inviting them to conciliation and peace while you are the victors against them and superior to them)
(ibn-Kathir: .. in case you’re superior to your enemies. But in case the infidels have more strength and number relative to the total of Muslims, and the one of authority saw interest in conciliation and compromise, he may do that, as did Allah’s apostle when the infidels of Quraish repelled him from Mecca, and called him to peace and cessation of war for 10 years, so he agreed.)
{Ye are the best community sent forth unto mankind; ye command that which is reputable and ye prevent that which is disreputable. and ye believe in Allah ..} 3:110 D
{Surely those who are in opposition to Allah and His Apostle; they shall be among the most abased.}
58:20 S
{.. He made the word of the unbelievers the lowest, and the Word of Allah is the highest.} 9:40 Q
{Fight those who neither believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not embrace the religion of the truth, being among those who have been given the Book (Bible and Torah), until they pay tribute out of hand and have been humiliated.} 9:29 Q
{Muhammad said: I have been sent near the judgment day with the sword, until Allah is worshiped alone without a partner, and my livelihood has been set under the shadow of my spear, and the humiliation and belittling over whoever disobeys my command ..} [2]
{And know that one fifth of whatever you take as spoils belong to Allah, the Messenger, kinsmen of the Messenger, the orphans, the needy, and the destitute traveler; ..} 8:41 Q
{Indeed, Allah was pleased with the believers when they gave their pledge to you under the tree, He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down tranquillity upon them, and He rewarded them with a near victory, • And abundant spoils that they will capture. [...] Allah has promised you abundant spoils that you will capture} 48:18-20 H
Enjoyment of Women
{Muhammad said: In this world, women and perfume have been made lovable to me ..} [3]
{O Prophet, surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war,
[...] and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her–
specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you; [...] • You may put off whom you please of them, and you may take to you whom you please, and whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally; no blame attaches to you;}
33:50-51 S
{A’ishah: I felt offended for those women who had given themselves to the Prophet and I used to say, “Would a woman give herself?” But when Allah revealed: “You may put off whom you please of them ..” I said [to Muhammad]: All I see your Lord do is that he hastens in fulfilling your desires.} [4]
{A’ishah said: Allah’s apostle used to take permission of that wife with whom he was supposed to stay overnight (if he wanted to go to one other than her), after this verse was revealed: “You may put off whom you please of them ..”} [5]
{A’ishah: I used to put scent on Allah’s Apostle, and he used to go round his wives ..} [6]
{Narrated By Qatadah, Annas ibn-Malik said: The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night, and they were eleven. I asked Annas: Did the Prophet have energy for it?
Annas replied: We used to talk that the Prophet was given the strength of thirty men ..} [7]
{A’ishah: Whenever Allah’s Apostle finished Asr prayer, he would enter upon his wives and stay with one of them. One day he went to Hafsa and stayed with her longer than usual.} [8]
{A’ishah said: Whenever Allah’s Apostle wanted to fondle anyone of us during her menstruation, he used to order her to put on a skirt and start fondling her. A’ishah added: Who of you could control his sexual desire as the Prophet could?} [9]
{Maimunah said Allah’s Apostle used to [...] approach the woman of his wives when she was menstruating if she had a wrapper reaching half the thighs ..} [10]
{.. Allah’s apostle chose for himself of their women Rihanah bint-Amr ibn-Khunafah, one of the women of banu-Amr of Quraizhah ..} [11]
{.. A’ishah said: When Allah’s apostle divided the female captives of banu-al-Mustaliq, Juwairiyah
[...] fell in the lot of Thabit ibn-Qais [...] and she had an agreement with him to buy her freedom. She was a gorgeous attractive woman, anyone who saw her fell for her. She then came to Allah’s apostle.
She said: Allah’s Apostle, I am Juwairiyah bint-al-Harith [...] the chief of his clan, and I have been afflicted with this matter which is not hidden from you. I fell in the lot of Thabit ibn-Qais [...] then I have had an agreement to buy my freedom, so I have come to you to help me with that. Allah’s
Apostle said: How about that which is better? She said: What’s that, Allah’s Apostle? He said: I pay for your freedom, and I marry you ..} [12]
{.. The Prophet married 15 women, had intercourse with 13, combined 11, and died with 9 [...]
Khadijah [...] Sodah [...] she was before him with al-Sakran ibn-Amr [...] who was an immigrant to Ethiopia, so he converted to Christianity there and died [...] as for A’ishah, he had intercourse with her when she was 9 years old, and died when she was 18, Hafsah [...] Omm-Salamah [...] Zaynab
[...] Juwairiyah [...] Omm-Habibah [...] she was with [...] Obaidullah [...] who was an immigrant to Ethiopia, so he converted to Christianity and died there [...] Zainab [...] Sofiya [...] she was before him with [...] Kenanah [...] and ibn-Maslamah killed him per the order of the Prophet then the Prophet set her free [...] and married her in Year 6 [...] Maimunah [...] al-Nasha [...] he married al-shanba [...] then his son Ibrahim died before he had intercourse with her; she said: If he were a prophet, his son would not die; so he divorced her. then he married Ghaziyah [...] and when she came to him she asked Allah for refuge from him, so he separated from her. Then he married Asmaa
[...] when he had intercourse with her he found a white spot on her, so he gave her a gift and returned her to her family. Some say, rather she too asked Allah for refuge from him, so he returned her. And al-Aliyah [...] he collected her, then he separated from her [...] and Leila [...] offered herself to him, so he married her, so she told her people, and they said: You tend to be jealous and he has women, so relinquish him, so she did, and he separated from her [...] As for those whom the Prophet engaged with [...] and did not marry, among them are: Omm-Hani [...] Dhiba’ah [...] Sofiya [...] Omm-Habibah [...] Jamrah [...] As for his courtesans (slaves) [...] Mariah bint-Simeon the Coptic, and she birthed Ibrahim for him, and Rihanah of Quraizhah ..} [13]
{His courtesans (slaves) [...] he had 4: Mariah was the mother of his son Ibrahim, and Rihanah and another beautiful slave he caught in captivity, and a slave given to him by Zainab [...] in his servants
[...] of women: Salma Omm-Rafi’, Maimunah bint-Saad, Khudhrah, Radhwa, Razeenah, Omm-Dhamirah, Maimunah bint-abi-Asib, Mariah, and Rihanah.} [14]
{O prophet! Why do you prohibit what Allah has permitted for you, seeking to please your wives?}
66:1 I
(Tabari: A’ishah and Hafsah were close friends [...] Hafsah went to her father, and was talking with him, so the Prophet sent to [...] Mariah, so she remained with him in the house of Hafsah, and it was the day he was supposed to come to A’ishah, Hafsah went back , and found them in her home, so she kept waiting for Mariah to get out, and felt severe jealousy, so Allah’s apostle got his slave out [...]
and Hafsah entered and said “I saw who was with you, by Allah, youhave offended me.” The Prophet said “By Allah, I’ll gratify you, so I’m telling you a secret, so keep it.” She said “What is it?” He said “I have you as my witness that this courtesan of mine is forbidden on me, for your gratification.” Hafsah and A’ishah used to consort against the other wives, [...] so she passed the secret to her: “Good news; the Prophet has forbidden his girl on himself.” So when she told the secret of the Prophet, Allah helped him prevail and revealed “Why do you prohibit”.)
{A’ishah said: I have never felt jealous of a woman more than Mariah, as she was beautiful among women, with curly hair, and Allah’s apostle liked her [...] so he was [...] all day and night with her, until we set our minds to her, so she fretted, so he moved her to al-Aliyah, and he kept going to her there, and that was harder on us, then Allah gave a child of her, and deprived us of it.} [15]
{Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. ..} 4:24 H
(Tabari: If a woman becomes captive having a husband in her people, it is not wrong that you have sex with her [...] abu-Sa’eed al-Khudri said: We got women from the captivity of Otas, they had husbands, and we did not want to have intercourse with them having husbands, so we asked the Prophet [...] then the verse came down, so we legitimated their vaginas.)
{.. Lawful to you beyond all that, is that you can seek using your wealth in marriage and not fornication. So whatever you have enjoyed from them give them their obligated wages. ..} 4:24 Q
(Tabari: What youhave enjoyed of them, paid, the enjoyment of pleasure, not by full marriage [...]
i.e. temporary marriage [...] abu-Nadhrah said: I asked ibn-Abbas about the pleasure in women, he said: Do not you recite the sura al-Nisaa? I said: yes. He said: Do not you recite in it: “whatever you have enjoyed from them until a specified date”? I said: No, if I recited it like this I would not ask you! He said: it is like this [...] by Allah, Allah has revealed it like this [...] al-Hakam said: I asked him about [...] “whatever you have enjoyed from them” is it revoked? He said: No.)
{Jabir ibn-Abdullah and Salamah ibn-al-Akwaa said: We were in an army, then a messenger of Allah’s apostle came to us and said “It has been permitted for you to seek pleasure, so seek pleasure.” ibn-abi-Dheeb said: Eyas ibn-Salamah ibn-al-Akwa’ told me from his father that Allah’s apostle said [...] “Whoever man and woman consented to each other, then the cohabitation between them is 3 nights, then if they wish to prolong it, or to separate, they may do so ..”} [16]
{And whoever of you have not the means wherewith to wed free, believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess ..} 4:25 H
{And if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan-girls, then marry (other) women of your choice, two or three, or four. But if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one or (the captives and the slaves) that your right hands possess. That is nearer to prevent you from doing injustice.} 4:3 H
{A’ishah [...] said: The orphan girl being in the custody of a man and he is her guardian, then he marries her for her wealth, and he treats her badly and does not manage her property fairly. Such a man should marry women of his liking other than her, two or three or four.} [17]
Muhammad lusted after Zaid’s wife, his adopted son, so Zaid had to divorce her in order for Muhammad to marry her:
{And when you said to him (Zaid) on whom Allah has bestowed Grace and you have done favour
“Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allah.” But you did hide in yourself that which Allah will make manifest, you did fear the people whereas Allah had a better right that you should fear Him. So when Zaid had accomplished his desire from her, We gave her to you in marriage, so that there may be no difficulty to the believers in respect of the wives of their adopted sons when the latter have no desire to keep them. And Allah’s Command must be fulfilled. • There is no blame on the Prophet in that which Allah has made legal for him. ..} 33:37-38 H
And so, the motives of the founders of Islam become clear: Greed, pride, unbridled desire for supremacy and for establishing an expansionist state, lustfulness and sensuality. With this, the wonder ceases.. about the savage atrocities they committed and made part of their religion..
the religion of evil dressed in good.
Note: “Sahih” means authentic. “Sunan” means traditions.
[^][1] Sahih, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 2009, Sunan of Tirmidhi 3232, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 6686
[^][2] Sahih, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 5667, Siyar Àlam al-Nubalaa by Dhahabi 15\509, Sahih al-Jamea by al-Albani 2831
[^][3] Sahih, Concise Sunan of Nasaee 3939, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 14069, Baihaqi 13836
[^][4] Sahih of Bukhari 4510, Sahih of Muslim 1464
[^][9] Sahih of Bukhari 296, Sahih of Muslim 293
[^][10] Sahih of abu-Dawud 267, Sahih of Nasaee 376, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 26310
[^][11] al-Sirah al-Nabawiyah by ibn-Hisham p245
[^][12] Sahih of abu-Dawud 3931, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 25833
[^][13] The Complete History by ibn-al-Athir p170
[^][14] Zad al-Ma’ad by ibn-al-Qayyim p111
[^][15] al-Tabaqat al-Kubra by ibn-Saad v10 p201, al-Isabah Fee Tamyiz al-Sahabah by ibn-Hajar v8 p112
17. With the Carrot & Stick .. Training Was Drastic
Declaration of Jihad and Invasion
The main (and perhaps the only) purpose of the Islamic religion was.. to adapt and recruit men to establish a state for the Arabs (led by Quraish) to emulate the Roman state and the Persian state (as chapter 15 shows):
{It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion, to make it prevail over all religions, even though the idolaters dislike it.} 61:9 I
{.. honour, power and glory belong to Allah, His Messenger, and to the believers ..} 63:8 H
{abu-Talib got sick; so Quraish came to him, and Allah’s apostle came to visit him, [...] He said: Why are your people complaining about you? He said: O uncle, I want them to be on one word, by which the Arabs comply to them, and theywould take the non-Arabs as slaves. (Or by which the Arabs be subservient to them, and the non-Arabs pay tribute to them.) He said: What is this one word? He said: There is no god but Allah. ..} [1]
Modified Version
The founders of Islam (banu-Hashim and their helpers).. took the Jewish leaders (the prophets of the Children of Israel) role models for them, and have benefited from their experience in this field.. the maximum benefit; as it is a religion that represents a modified Arab version of Judaism.
The Jewish leaders (with the mentality of “the chosen people of God”) founded the first Abrahamic religion, and they were able to adapt and recruit men to establish their own state. They gathered them, and stimulated them, so they charged into the land (by command of the alleged god). They have committed the crime of genocide several times, (and this is an illusive divine authority that is still being used to commit massacres in Palestine):
{.. And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, [...] They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every male. [...] and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast. Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, [...]
And Moses was angry [...] Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live? [...] Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.} Book of Numbers 31:6-17
{.. Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. [...] Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.} Book of Joshua 6:16-21
{Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. [...] So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded.} Book of Joshua 10:38-40
{And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now
therefore listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”} Book of 1 Samuel 15:1-3
Creed
The first stage was to invite people to believe in the alleged god, and that he is the all-knowing creator, dominion is his, he honors whomever he wills and humiliates whomever he wills, in his hand is good and harm, goodness and hell, the only great god worthy of servitude and blind obedience to commands and prohibitions.
The authors of Quran have endeavored to convince people of that god, and that the Quran is his words, and that Muhammad is his Messenger, and the necessity of docile and submission to him, and the belief in the resurrection and the day of judgment, and they used various arguments for that.. in cosmic phenomena such as the sun and stars, and in alive nature such as plants, animals and the human body, and vestiges of former people that were befell by disasters, among other things.
Enticement and Intimidation
With the policy of carrot and stick, a threat with burning, and a temptation to the people of the desert.. with gorgeous women, and gardens that have rivers of palatable milk, pure honey and delicious wine; because these are the biggest of their wishes. The true God, (if found,) does not need to promise and to warn, to tempt and to threaten to be worshiped; they are ways of fraudulent people to exploit others to achieve their ambitions.
A promise to them if they believe in Muhammad as a messenger and obey him.. that they get what they desire of pride, good livelihood, nice food, women, and spoils, in their lives, and immortality in this after death and resurrection:
{And fruit; that they may choose. • And the flesh of fowls that they desire. • And Houris (fair females) with wide, lovely eyes} 56:20-22 H
{Say: Who has prohibited the embellishment of Allah which He has brought forth for His servants and the good provisions? Say: These are for the believers in the life of this world, purely (theirs) on the resurrection day; ..} 7:32 S
{Allah has promised you abundant spoils that you will capture, ..} 48:20 H
{And (forbidden to you) are married women, except those whom your right hand owns. Such Allah has written for you. Lawful to you beyond all that, is that you can seek using your wealth in marriage and not fornication. So whatever you have enjoyed from them give them their obligated wages. ..} 4:24 Q
And a threat to them, if they disobey him, the opposite of all of that:
{Such is the torment. And the torment of the Hereafter is far greater; if they but knew.} 68:33 D
Also, the strict rulings on women were an incentive for the people of Yathrib (Medina), that the religion be compatible with their character and what their conservative mentality approves of; as the rulings were not imposed on the Muslims in Mecca (which was liberal) despite the passage of ten years.
Preparation
A divine command of obedience to the ruler, whether he is just or unjust, a reformer or a ruiner:
{Believers, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. ..} 4:59 Q
{Obada ibn-al-Samit said: The Prophet called us and we gave him the Pledge of allegiance for Islam, and among the conditions on which he took the Pledge from us, was that we were to listen and obey
(the orders) both at the time when we were active and at the time when we were tired, and at our difficult time and at our ease and to be obedient to the ruler and give him his right even if he did not give us our right, and not to fight against him unless we see an open act of an infidel for which we would have a proof with us from Allah.”} [2]
• Military rule, harsh, violent physical punishments, to deter transgressors.. from flogging, to chopping off hands and feet, to beheading and crucifixion
• Prohibition of the sexual relationship that is clear of money, so that men seek it by combat and taking captives, or by death and attaining houris.
• Prohibition of alcohol.. since working on the establishment of a state and military plans and implement them requires vigilance and attention, constant caution from those who lay in wait, discipline of individuals, and preventing unrestraint and slackness
• Prohibition of music and singing.. so that the declamation of Quran dominates the field of rapture and audible fun, to be alone with the maqams (melodic modes), without competition or crowding out (Sikah, Hijaz, Ajam, Saba, Nahawand, Lami, Bayati,) and “the coast be clear” for its reciters to recite it on the people day and night, all the days of the year, even in Eids, so it becomes fixed firmly in their souls and becomes their main culture, and for repeating the propaganda to continue until they are used to it and to believing it; as the Nazis said: If we repeat a lie to people for enough time, they will believe it and it will be a truth to them
• Enticement of uttering a lot of praise, thanks, and mentions of Allah, to lessen the space for the mind to think, question, and discover the deceit
• Prohibition of interest on loans.. as an economic war against the Jews.. who were distinguished for their wealth and its development through interest on loans
• The command to act differently from the Jews, with whom the tribes of Aws and Khazraj lived in Yathrib (Medina), and the prohibition of imitating them, so that enmity and hatred grow in the souls towards them, and to make it easier for the souls to fight them and kill them.
• Enticing people to renounce life, and to work for what’s after death instead of working for life, so that they fight bravely
• Praise for raiding and looting booty, and disparagement of agriculture:
{Muhammad said: When you enter into transaction, hold the tails of cows, are pleased with agriculture, and give up conducting jihad, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your religion.} [3]
Training
Training men on invasion.. by traveling at night and lying low during the day, raiding and attacking at dawn (as chapter 20 shows):
{Verily, Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in rows (ranks) as if they were a solid structure.}
61:4 H
• Group prayer.. they line up compact behind an imam (leader) and they’re led by him in systematic, disciplined words and movements.. in specific mandatory times, five times daily, of which the most important is at dawn
• Enticement of the late night prayer (which was obligatory at the beginning).. to make it easier for them to travel at night and lie low during the day:
{They used to sleep a little at night. • And at dawn, they would pray for pardon.} 51:17-18 I
{Muhammad said: Convey glad tidings to those who walk to the mosque in the darkness. For they will be given full light on the Day of Resurrection.} [4]
• Fasting.. to get used to waking up at night to eat sahoor (late night meal), and patience and endurance of hunger and thirst when lying low during the day; which is why some of the most significant invasions were in the month of Ramadan
• Training on the skills of combat:
{And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy ..} 8:60 S
{Muhammad said: “Prepare against them what force you can.” Behold, force is in archery. Force is in archery. Force is in archery.} [5]
This is not a spiritual religion; it is a strict martial system!
Declaration of Jihad and Invasion
Fight! Fight them! Kill them wherever ye find! These texts came at the last stage of the culmination of what preceded it (the peak of the hump), and which revealed the purpose of all this:
{O prophet! Rouse the believers to battle. ..} 8:65 I
{When the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and pay the alms, then let them go their way. ..} 9:5 I
{Fight those who neither believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not embrace the religion of the truth, being among those who have been given the Book (Bible and Torah), until they pay tribute out of hand and have been humiliated.} 9:29 Q
{.. fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; ..} 9:123 S
{You shall be called upon to fight a mighty nation, unless they embrace Islam. ..} 48:16 Q
A large part of the texts of the Quran got occupied by inciting fighting, march, invasion, and money outlay:
{Believe in God and His Messenger, and spend from what He made you inherit. Those among you who believe and give will have a great reward} 57:7 I
{What is the matter with you, that when you are asked to march forth in the Cause of Allah you cling heavily to the earth? Are you pleased with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But little is the enjoyment of the life of this world as compared with the Hereafter. • If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people, and you cannot harm Him at all, [...] March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor), strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah. ..} 9:38-41 H
The “heavy” are the elderly, week and ill. All of these were exploited for the purpose of establishing the state.
That’s how the people of Yathrib (Medina) and other tribes and communities were recruited, and how money was taken from them to spend on the army and on building the state. Although the state was established by their sacrifices with their money and their souls, (even one of them sacrificed his fruitful farm, the source of his livelihood and his family, as chapter 18 shows,) Muhammad insisted that {the caliphate shall be in Quraysh} [6] and this is what happened.
Things got out of control a little bit because of the injustice of caliph Othman and the uprising of people on him and the siege on him and killing him, and the split of Muhammad’s companions and their battling among themselves; [7] but nevertheless, the Arabs succeeded in establishing their own state, (rather their kingdom, rather their empire.) And while many soldiers lost their true life for the
sake of a fake life that they were promised, those in the ruling class won a luxurious life, and they got to attain pride, and enjoy money, power, orchards, palaces, the most delicious foods, and the pleasantest female slaves; and the first of them was Muhammad, the uncrowned king, who enjoyed many women, whether by marriage or by enslavement, then the caliphs who possessed countless women.
Whoever claims that this is a religion of peace and mercy.. ignores the authentic frequent narratives (repeated in several original sources) or denies them, and justifies the texts of violence and killing as defence and protection, while it is as shown.. invasion, overrun, and expansion. As to mercy.. it is for the followers of Muhammad only:
{Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Those who are with him are harsh against the unbelievers but merciful to one another.} 48:29 Q
Istibdhaa
Perhaps one of the most important reasons for the superiority of Quraish and their success in establishing their empire.. is their genes (their genetic qualities). This was the result of the habit of istibdhaa that was practiced normally. Istibdhaa is that a woman goes to a man who she or her husband admires, and she invites him to have sex with her, in order to give birth to a son with his qualities.
Clues indicate that Khadija (Muhammad's first wife) did so, and she gave birth to Fatima; as Muhammad was unable to have offspring, despite the large number of his wives and his female slaves. This means that the basis of the Shiite doctrine (the leadership of the family of Muhammad) is false, and that the kin-affiliation of those called “shareefs” (Muslim nobles) to Muhammad is invalid, and some of them have become kings and rulers currently based on this affiliation.
Perhaps one of the greatest reasons for the weakness of the Arabs later, the collapse of their state and the deterioration of their conditions is the prohibition of this habit, the prevention of the meeting of sexes, and the habit of consanguine marriage (marrying relatives), which caused the poor genes they have.
Islamic Imperialism
There is no so called political Islam. It is political by nature and origin. Among what distinguishes Islam from others is.. totalitarianism, fascism, and imperialism [8]:
{We sent to you [Muhammad] the Scripture with the truth, confirming the Scriptures that came before it, and with final authority over them ..} 5:48 [9]
{And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allah) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allah Alone [in the whole of the world].}
8:39 H
{It is He who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the true religion, to make it prevail over all religions, even though the idolaters dislike it.} 61:9 I
The result of the work of its founders was.. the most hypocritical nation; when the leader died, they rebounded from the religion to which they were coerced; so the caliph had to pursue them with his soldiers and swords. The Islamic state has always been a state of hypocrisy and fakeness. The inhabitants of the lands that gave in to it, did they abandon their beliefs, and believe and have faith and satisfaction in the creed and law of Islam? Of course not, not even half of their numbers, nor less than that; but the invaders used to say to them, “Aslim taslam,” which means, “submit to be safe.”
(Islam means submission.) And they used to mass-kill the insurgents. So they resorted to Islamize themselves to be safe from persecution and paying tribute, and to have the opportunity to better living conditions, while the state imposed brainwashing their children and Islamizing them; so the
generations of Muslims all came bearing a heritage of a fake belief, deprived of the human right to freedom of belief based on a comprehensive cultural awareness and proper understanding of the various beliefs. [10] And how wicked the hypocrisy and fakeness to be traits of a person; so how about it if it has become a general state in people.
No one of the Muslims administers this religion rigorously.. except the Taliban, and the group
“Islamic State” (formerly ISIL) who are banished and loathed by the entire world, including the Muslims.
If matters were in the hands of a Lord for the worlds who.. {.. defends those who believe ..} 22:38 H
{.. it was an incumbent duty upon Us to give victory to the believers.} 30:47 Q {.. Allah will not grant the unbelievers any way over the believers.} 4:141 Q – he would not have allowed taking away the reign from them by the killing of the chief of the believers, Imam Ali, and the defeat of al-Hasan, and the killing of al-Hussein (Muhammad’s kinfolk), and the bombardment of the Kaaba and burning it, [11] and the massacring of believers in the Holy Mosque of Mecca, [12] despite his saying {.. whoever enters it shall be secure, ..} 3:97 S – and passing the reign to Yazid ibn-Muawiya, abu-al-Abbas the butcher, the Turks (the people of impalement), the Britons, and the french, and the inheritance rather than election.
It came in the history of Tabari (year 284 H) that the caliph Mu’tadid ordered to bring out the transcript that the caliph al-Mamoun ordered to be written in cursing Muawiya [who imposed himself as the caliph after Ali], so it was brought out for him from the Diwan. This is an excerpt from it:
.. and calling people to his son, “Yazid” the arrogant sottish owner of turkeys, leopards, monkeys, and taking the pledge of allegiance for him over the best of Muslims by oppression, domination, threatening, and intimidation, while he knew about his [son’s] foolishness, and saw his wickedness, drunkenness, immorality and blasphemy. Then when [Yazid] controlled what [his father] enabled him to and facilitated for him, and disobeyed Allah and His Messenger, he sought the revenges of the polytheists from the Muslims, so he brought upon the people of Harrah the nemesis that nothing has ever surpassed in Islam in its vileness and the outrageousness of what he committed against the righteous, and by that, he healed his own anger and resentment, and thought he avenged from the devotees of Allah and reached the goal for the enemies of Allah, so he said, avowing his blasphemy and manifesting his polytheism:
I wish my elders in Badr have witnessed the panic of Khazraj at the impact of the arrows We have killed people of your chiefs, and adjusted the inclination of Badr, so it has straightened So they praised God and turned cheerful and said: O Yazid, you’re not questionable I would not be from Khindif if I do not take revenge on the sons of Ahmed what he did Banu-Hashim became fond with dominion, no news has come nor divine revelation has descended Note: “Sahih” means authentic. “Sunan” means traditions.
[1] Sahih, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 2009, Sunan of Tirmidhi 3232, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 6686
[2] Sahih of Bukhari 7055, 7056
[3] Sahih of abu-Dawud 3462, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 4825, Tabarani 2417
[4] Sahih of ibn-Khuzaimah 3/ 28, Sahih of ibn-Majah 640, Sahih of Tirmidhi 223, Sahih of abu-Dawud 561
[5] Sahih of Muslim 1917, Sahih of Tirmidhi 3083, Sahih of abu-Dawud 2514, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 4709
[6] Sahih, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 17690, Sahih al-Jamea by Albany 3342
[7] History of Tabari – Year35, al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir – Year35, The Complete History by ibn-al-Athir – Year35
[8] Efraim Karsh, 2007, Islamic Imperialism: A History
[9] Translation by Abdel Haleem
[10] Wikipedia Arabic – Islamization of Egypt
[11] History of Tabari – Year64, al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir – Year64, The Complete History by ibn-al-Athir – Year64
[12] History of Tabari – Year73, al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya by ibn-Kathir – Year73, The Complete History by ibn-al-Athir – Year73
PART IV
ATROCITY IS LOUD .. TRUTH IS NOT ALLOWED
On the teachings of religion that are contrary to humanity
O religion, for delusions you aroused our yearning,
and with your restrictions you have surrounded us.
By centuries you have wasted our time.
Whoever leaves you gets happiness and possesses it.
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18. Legalization of Discrimination
Sexual Discrimination
Explicit discrimination in prioritization:
{.. women have rights similar to their obligations, according to what is fair. But men have a degree over them. ..} 2:228 I
{Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property ..} 4:34 S
Label of women in the Quran:
{Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth when or how you will ..} 2:223 H
And in authentic Hadith:
{Muhammad said: The world is conveniences, and the best convenience of the world is a righteous woman.} [1]
Women are among the ablution breakers:
{.. if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth, then wipe your faces and your hands; ..} 4:43 S
(Tabari: if you have touched them by hand)
(Qurtubi: touching implies contact of skins)
(ibn-Kathir: Allah meant by it, every touch, by hand or any other body organ, and he enjoined ablution on anyone how touched with something of his body something of her body directly.) A woman married to a Muslim man, if she does not obey him in everything he orders her.. then he may punish her, and he may beat her! And sheis not entitled to the same:
{.. Those from whom you fear rebelliousness, admonish them and desert them in the bed and smack them ..} 4:34 Q
As if all this insult to the woman is not enough; there’s more:
{And if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan-girls, then marry (other) women of your choice, two or three, or four. But if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one or (the captives and the slaves) that your right hands possess. ..} 4:3 H
This means that the man has the right to polygamy (the harem), so that he would have 3 women other than her, and an unlimited number of slaves; while sheis not entitled to polygamy nor pleasure with more than one man. Muhammad did not deprive himself of enjoying this privilege, and the 4
women that he allowed for people were not enough for him; rather he had 13 wives at one time, plus whomever he lusted of slaves, (as chapter 16 shows.)
And to entice males and to motivate them to rush into combat.. came the description of women in paradise in a bodily way, as if they were slave-girls given to them to satisfy their lusts and give them pleasure, while women are not entitled to the same:
{Verily, We have created them (maidens) of special creation. • And made them virgins. • Loving, equal in age. • For those on the Right Hand.} 56:35-38 H
(Tabari: flirty virgins, amorous [...] adoring [...] lustful)
(ibn-Kathir: with sweetness, jolliness and prettiness)
{Therein shall be those of refraining looks whom before them has deflowered neither man nor jinn.}
55:56 D
{Fair ones, confined in tents.} 55:72 D
{And full-breasted maidens of equal age.} 78:33 D
(Tabari: girl who has grown breasts and her breasts have bulged)
(Qurtubi: bosomy girl)
(ibn-Kathir: Their breasts are firm, not saggy, because they’re virgins)
Also, a woman may have only half of what a man has in inheritance and in eligibility to testify, and shewould never qualify to hold a high governmental position:
{.. If a man dies, and leaves no children, and he had a sister, she receives one-half of what he leaves.
And he inherits from her if she leaves no children. But if there are two sisters, they receive two-thirds of what he leaves. If the siblings are men and women, the male receives the share of two females. ..} 4:176 I
{.. get two witnesses out of your own men. And if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you agree for witnesses, so that if one of them (two women) errs, the other can remind her. ..} 2:282 H
{Narrated Abu Bakra: During the days (of the battle) of al-Jamal (i.e. the camel), Allah benefited me with a word I had heard from Allah’s Apostle after I had been about to join the Companions of al-Jamal and fight along with them [led by A’ishah]. When Allah’s apostle was informed that the Persians had crowned the daughter of Khosrow as their ruler, he said “People ruled by a woman will never succeed.”} [2]
In addition to all that, the discrimination against her by imposing body covering on her.. deprives her of sunlight. Science has proven that vitamin D, essential for our health, is formed in the skin by its direct exposure to the sun. [3]
And the discrimination against her continues even after she dies:
{Believers, retaliation is decreed for you concerning the killed. A free (man) for a free (man), a slave for a slave, and a female for a female. ..} 2:178 Q
(Tabari: It was imposed upon you, O believers, to punish the dead: that the free be kept for the heat, the slave is for the slave, and the female for the female.)
{Muhammad said: The woman’s blood money is half of the man’s blood money.} [4]
The Islamic scholars have agreed unanimously on this in the four schools of thought. Ibn-al-Qaiyim said: “As to blood money, since a woman is less than a man, and the man is more beneficial than her,
[...] their value is not equal, which is blood money.” [5]
O woman, we have not forgotten.
The time of the desecrated has passed.
We are human; be familiar with us,
and let's study ibn-Sina.
Caste Discrimination
Caste is the will of Allah:
{See how We have preferred some above others. Yet the Everlasting Life is greater in rank and greater in preferment.} 17:21 Q
{It is He who made you successors on the earth, and raised some of you in ranks over others ..}
6:165 I
{.. It is We who have allocated their livelihood in this life, and We elevated some of them in rank above others, that some of them would take others in service. ..} 43:32 I
{Say, “O Allah, Owner of Sovereignty. You grant sovereignty to whom You will, and You strip sovereignty from whom you will. You honor whom you will, and You humiliate whom you will. ..}
3:26 I
This is the claim of the authors of the Quran, that casteism, glory, humiliation, and conquering of sovereignty.. are of the will of “Allah”; but the truth is that they are examples of injustice and aggression resulting from the growth of the traits of greed and superbia.
Scamming the rich:
{And know that one fifth of whatever you take as spoils belong to Allah, the Messenger, kinsmen of the Messenger, the orphans, the needy, and the destitute traveler; • These are the true believers. They have high standing with their Lord, and forgiveness, and a generous provision.} 8:3-4 I
{Who is he who will lend Allah a loan of goodness, that He may double it for him, and will have a generous reward?} 57:11 I
Scamming the rich out of their possessions in exchange for raising their ranks (the rich caste) and promising a reward after their death. This means, give us your money as a loan, you become among the privileged, and you’ll gain twice as much in interest.. but after you die.
(ibn-Kathir: When this verse was revealed [...] said abu-al-Duhdah al-Ansari: O Messenger of Allah, does Allah surely want loan from us? He said: Yes, abu-al-Duhdah [...] He said: I have lent my Lord my farm. He had a farm in which there were 600 date trees and his wife and children [...] Allah’s apostle said: How plentiful are the sweet date clusters in paradise for abu-al-Duhdah.} [6]
Persuading the poor:
Muhammad tried to persuade the poor that they and the wealthy were equal before their Lord, not discriminated against because of money; but he failed, and admitted that the wealthy are more important in Islam because they’re fortunate with money and they spend it on “Allah”, his messenger, and the believers:
{The poor among the emigrants came to Allah’s apostle and said: The possessors of wealth have obtained the highest ranks and the lasting goodness. He said: How is that? They said: They pray as we pray, they fast as we fast, and they give charity but we do not give charity, and they emancipate slaves but we do not emancipate slaves. He said: Shall I not teach you something by which you will catch up with those who have preceded you, and overtake those who come after you, and no one will be better than you except those who do as you do? [...] Extol Allah, declare His Greatness, and Praise Him 33 times after every prayer. [...] The poor returned to Allah’s apostle saying: Our brethren, the people of money have heard what we have done and they did the same. So he said: This is Allah’s Grace which He gives to whom He wishes.} [7]
Therefore, a Muslim who came to the world and found himself of a wealthy family and inherited money and spent from it for the sake of “Allah”.. has a higher status, and is promised a higher degree in the Hereafter than the one who found himself of a poor family, even if they were equal in deeds and piety. And so, the preference in Islam is for the wealth owners.
Approval of Enslavement
The Quran permits the Muslim to own people and to exploit them for sex and hard work:
{And those who guard their private parts • Except with their wives and (women slaves and captives) whom their right hands possess, for they are not to be blamed,} 70:29-30 H
He is not to be blamed for doing so, as Muhammad, his role model.. owned slave-girls for himself and his lust. The Quran had permitted him to enslave them by way of raiding:
{O Prophet, surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war,
..} 33:50 S
It affirmed the permission of this to him, even in the last phase of his life when he announced the completion of the religion; as in a single verse, it forbade him from marrying women.. and permitted him to own more of them:
{It is not lawful for you (to marry other) women after this, nor to change them for other wives even
though their beauty attracts you, except those (captives or slaves) whom your right hand possesses. ..} 33:52 H
As for the claim of some Muslims that this religion called for the liberation of slaves... it is a false claim. All what is there.. is a commendable act or punishment.. for the purpose of liberating Muslim slaves only, by buying them from their non-Muslim masters, so that they can be recruited in the army of the Arabs, and glory becomes for them and humiliation becomes for others (as chapter 16
shows):
{.. whosoever kills a believer by mistake, he must set free a believing slave ..} 4:92 H
Note: “Sahih” means authentic. “Sunan” means traditions.
[1] Sahih of Muslim 1467, Sahih of Nasaee 3232, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 4031, Sahih of ibn-Majah 1516
[2] Sahih of Bukhari 4425
[3] • L Y Matsuoka, et al. “Clothing prevents ultraviolet-B radiation-dependent photosynthesis of vitamin D3” 1992 • Shemani Jagoda & Katie Dixon “Protective Effects of 1,25 Dihydroxyvitamin D 3 and Its Analogs on Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Oxidative Stress” 2020
[4] Sahih, Large Sunan of Baihaqi 16738
[5] I’lam al-Muwaqqi’een ‘an Rabb al-‘alameen by ibn-Qayyim al-Jawziya v2 p114
[6] Sahih of ibn-Hibban 7159
[7] Sahih of Muslim 595
19. With Allah’s Will .. They Abuse & Kill
Killing a Human Being for Revenge and Vendetta
Killing People Who Do not Believe in the Abrahamic Belief
Sexual Abuse of Children (Pedophilia)
Killing a Human Being for Revenge and Vendetta
The Quran permits killing people for revenge and vendetta (license to kill); it even encourages it:
{.. If someone is killed unjustly, We have given his next of kin certain authority. But he should not be excessive in killing, for he will be supported.} 17:33 I
(ibn-Kathir: The authority is over the killer. The heir has the choice; if he wishes, he may have him killed in retaliation, or he may forgive him in return for the payment of the Diyah [blood money], or he may forgive him with no payment, as proven in the Sunnah. [...] “he should not be excessive in killing” They said: this means the heir should not go to extremes in killing the killer, such as mutilating the body or taking revenge on persons other than the killer.)
Killing People Who Do not Believe in the Abrahamic Belief
A Muslim is prohibited (from being harmed) in his blood, money and honor. What about non-Muslims? If they are “dhimmis” (people of the Book under Islamic protection, i.e. Christians, Jews, and Magus,) they are prohibited like a Muslim. As to the others (who some of your loved ones could be among them).. if they do not substitute their beliefs for those of Muslims.. their blood, money, and honor are permissible; and the Muslims must kill them or expel them. And if the Islamic rule were to extend all over the world, then those people would have no escape from slaughter and mass graves:
{.. if they turn away, then lay hold of them and slay them, wherever ye find them ..} 4:89 D
{.. kill the polytheists wherever you find them. ..} 9:5 I
{If the hypocrites, and those with sickness in their hearts, and the rumormongers in the City, do not desist, We will incite you against them; then they will not be your neighbors there except for a short while. • They are cursed; wherever they are found, they should be captured and killed outright.}
33:60-61 I
(ibn-Kathir: Allah issues a warning to the hypocrites, those who make an outward display of faith while concealing their disbelief, “those with sickness in their hearts” Ikrimah and others said that this refers to adulterers in this instance. “and the rumormongers in the City” means, those who say that the enemy has come and war has started, which is a lie and a fabrication. Unless they give up these actions and return to the truth, [...] We will incite you against them. [...] “then they will not be your neighbors there” in Medina, “except for a short while, they are cursed” [...] expelled, displaced, wherever they’re found they’re captured because they are so weak and so few, and killed outright.)
The authors of the Quran did not see anything wrong with the murder of a child. This text mentions it as of “mercy” and “knowledge”. What about the Muslim who reads it on Friday?
What if it happens to your own child, or a child you know? Would you approve it? The Quran does:
{.. one of Our slaves, unto whom We had bestowed mercy from Us, and whom We had taught knowledge from Us. [...] Then they both proceeded, till they met a boy, he (Khidr) killed him. He (Moses) said “Have you killed an innocent person who had killed none? Verily, you have committed a dreadful thing!” [...] “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief.”} 18:74-80 H
(ibn-Kathir: The Prophet said “The boy whom al-Khidr killed was destined to be a disbeliever from the day he was created.” [...] “oppress them by rebellion and disbelief”, i.e. their love for him might make them follow him in disbelief. Qatadah said “His parents rejoiced when he was born and grieved for him when he was killed. If he had stayed alive, he would have been the cause of their doom. ..)
{ibn-Jathama said: The Prophet passed by me in al-Abwaa, and he was asked about attacking a household of idolaters at night, and thus their women and children getting wounded. He said “They are of them.” And I heard him say “No protection except that of Allah and His Messenger.” ..} [1]
The innocent child, just because he is the child of an infidel, they do not care about him, and they do not mind that he gets injured, and it’s no big deal if a Muslim kills him by mistake.
Beheading Captives
{It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter in the land. You desire the good of this world (i.e. the money of ransom), but Allah desires the Hereafter. ..} 8:67 H
Meaning: Do not take prisoners to release them for a ransom; kill them!
(Tabari: [Allah] was telling him, regarding the infidels who he confined on the day of Badr and then ransomed, that killing them was the right way to go instead of taking the ransom and releasing them
[...] If you capture them, do not ransom them until you had made a great slaughter in them ..)
Practicing Torture
The founders of Islam used their fake divine authority to legalize and justify the practice of torture, and to threaten to continue it after death forever, to be a means to terrorize people, as part of the “carrot and stick” policy. In the Quran, the mention and the threatening of torture is repeated hundreds of times. Examples:
{If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people, and you cannot harm Him at all} 9:39 H
{Make no excuse. Of a surety ye are disbelieving after declaring your faith. If, party of you We shall pardon, another party We shall torment for they have remained sinners.} 9:66 D
{If then they repent, it will be better for them, and if they turn away, Allah will torment them with an afflictive torment in the world and the Hereafter, and theirs shall be on the earth no friend nor helper.} 9:74 D
{Then as for those who disbelieved I shall torment them with a severe torment in the world and the Hereafter} 3:56 D
{Say to the Arabs who lagged behind: “You shall be called upon to fight a mighty nation, unless they embrace Islam. If you are obedient you shall receive agood wage from Allah. But, if you turn away, as you turned your backs before, He will punish you with a painful punishment”} 48:16 Q
{And of the dwellers of the desert around you some are hypocrites, and so are some of the people of
Medina; they have become inured to hypocrisy you know them not, We know them. We will torment them twice, and thereafter they shall be brought back to a torment terrible.} 9:101 D
{For them is a torment in the life of this world, and certainly, harder is the torment of the Hereafter.
And they have no protector against Allah.} 13:34 H
{The woman and the man guilty of illegal sexual intercourse, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment.} 24:2 H
{O wives of the Prophet! Whoever of you commits an open illegal sexual intercourse, the torment for her will be doubled, and that is ever easy for Allah.} 33:30 H
{Those who love that indecency should be broadcast about those who believe theirs is a painful punishment in this world and in the Everlasting Life.} 24:19 Q
{Such is the torment. And the torment of the Hereafter is far greater; if they but knew.} 68:33 D
Sexual Abuse of Children (Pedophilia)
Islam allows without the least of uneasiness.. that a man marries a child, and that he does sexual intercourse to her, while her growth is not complete and her menstrual cycle has not started:
{.. their waiting period is three months as well as those who have not yet menstruated. ..} 65:4
(Tabari: those who did not menstruate of girls due to immaturity, if their husbands divorced them after the intercourse [...] they did not reach menstruation, and have had intercourse)
{The Prophet married [...] A’ishah when she was a girl of 6 years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was 9 years old, and she remained with him for 9 years.} [2]
While this religion forbids.. drinking little wine (which is scientifically proven to be beneficial for health [3]), it allows this ugly habit, and childhood violation. Muhammad used to advise his companions to marry young girls:
{Jabir ibn-Abdullah said: I got married, then I came to the Prophet, and he said: “Have you married, Jabir?” I said: Yes. He said: “To a virgin or to a non-virgin?” I said: To a non-virgin. He said: “Why not a young girl, so that you may play with her and she may play with you?”} [4]
Prostitution
Islam permits the exploitation of slave girls in prostitution, as long as it is not coerced:
{.. do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail good of this world’s life; and whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.} 24:33 S
And it permits the poor man to marry a woman owned by another man; thus, the woman has sex with two men.. her owner and her husband:
{And whoever of you have not the means wherewith to wed free, believing women, they may wed believing girls from among those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess ..} 4:25 H
(Tabari: Whoever does not find anything with which he can marry a free woman, he may marry a slave, so he will be chaste with her, and her people will provide her provisions instead of him.) And it permits “pleasure marriage”, which is the exploitation of a needy woman in temporary marriage for a reward. This is a privilege for the man, the woman is not entitled to the same; which is what can be called “Islamic prostitution”.
{.. Lawful to you beyond all that, is that you can seek using your wealth in marriage and not fornication. So whatever you have enjoyed from them give them their obligated wages. ..} 4:24 Q
{ibn-Juraij said: Ataa told me that he heard ibn-Abbas regarding it permitted even now, and he told me he recited this verse as “whatever you have enjoyed from them until a definite date, give them their obligated wages.”} [5]
{Abu Jamra said: I heard ibn-Abbas (giving a verdict) when he was asked about the pleasure
[marriage] with women, and he permitted it ..} [6]
{Jabir ibn-Abdullah and Salamah ibn-al-Akwaa said: We were in an army, then a messenger of Allah’s apostle came to us and said “It has been permitted for you to seek pleasure, so seek pleasure.” [...] Allah’s apostle said “Whoever man and woman consented to each other, then the cohabitation between them is 3 nights, then if they wish to prolong it, or to separate, they may do so ..”} [7]
{Sabrah al-Juhani reported: Allah’s Messenger permitted pleasure marriage for us. So I and another person went out to a woman of banu-Amir, who was like a young long-necked she-camel. We presented ourselves to her, so she said “What would you give me?” I said “My cloak.” And my companion also said: “My cloak.” And the my companion’s cloak was superior to mine, but I was younger than him. So when she looked at the cloak of my companion she liked it, and when she looked at me she liked me. She then said: You; and your cloak suffices me. So I remained with her for three nights. Later, Allah’s Messenger said: He who has any of these women with whom he had pleasure, he should let her off.} [8]
While this religion forbids.. mutual beautiful passion, and adoration and sexual attraction, and sexual relationship in equivalence between a woman and her beloved (“not taking lovers” 4:25
Q), it allows a woman to become a sex worker, so that men enjoy her and fulfill their lust into her in exchange for a reward.
(ibn-Kathir: This verse has been taken as proof for the pleasure marriage; and no doubt that it was allowed in the beginning of Islam and then abrogated afterwards. al-Shafi’i and a range of scholars said that it was permitted and then abrogated twice, and others said more than that. [...] It has been narrated from ibn-Abbas and a range of the prophet’s companions their fatwa of permitting it for necessity. [...] Those who took this verse to mean pleasure marriage till a specified date said: No blame on you that when it expires, you two agree to increase it. [...] If he wills he may gratify her after [...] the reward given for enjoying her before the expiration of the term between them by saying: I would like to enjoy you also for such and such [...] When the duration ends, he may not have any control over her, and she becomes free from him, and she shall observe the possibility of pregnancy, and there’s no inheritance for her ..)
Taking Female Captives (Rape)
Islam permits a man to take a woman as spoils for him from raids, to do whatever he wants with her, and to rape her as he wants.. even if she was married.. on the basis that she had become one of his possessions:
{O Prophet, surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war,
..} 33:50 S
(Tabari: We have permitted to you your slaves whom youhave taken captive, so youhave owned by captivity, and have become yours, by Allah’s opening the way for you, from spoils.) (Qurtubi: i.e. of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of women, taken by way of conquest and subjugation.)
(ibn-Kathir: It means, the slave-girls whom you took from the war booty are also permitted to you.
He owned Sofiya and Juwairiya, then he manumitted them and married them, and he owned Raihana bint-Shamun al-Nadariya and Mariah the Copt, the mother of his son Ibrahim, ... they were both among the slaves)
{Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. ..} 4:24 H
(Tabari: the forbidden [...] are women who have husbands and are not captives. Right hands possession are captives who split from their husbands by captivity, so theyhave become legitimate to whoever got them without divorcing their enemy husband.)
(Qurtubi: The companions of Allah’s apostle used to absolve the female captive of pregnancy with one menstrual cycle.)
{Allah’s apostle sent an army to Ow’tas, so they met an enemy, so they battled them, and they defeated them, and they got themselves some female captives. Seemingly some of Allah’s apostle’s companions were reluctant to have sexual relations because of their husbands of the idolaters; so Allah sent down “women already married, except those whom your right hands possess”, i.e. they’re legally yours when the pregnancy clearing period ends.} [9]
This means, the owner of the female captive waits less than a month to prove that she is not pregnant from her husband, then he can rape her as he wants. The founders of Islam did not care about the children of this abused woman; they automatically turned them into young slaves. The way they had things was like saying “enemies we fight and defeat; we have the right to enjoy their women; and to take their children as slaves for us.” (Imagine yourself among the enslaved.)
Allah’s Fictional Character
The authors of the Quran presented “Allah” as a god who practices torture, as a previous segment showed, and who created people in two categories, so that he gives free grace to one, and tortures the other:
{Had your Lord willed, He would have made mankind a single nation. But they continue in their differences • except those on whom your Lord shows mercy. For this end He has created them. The Word of your Lord shall be perfectly completed: ‘I shall fill Hell with jinn and people, all together’}
11:118-119 Q
(Hassan was asked about this verse .. he said “All people are different on various religions, except those on whom your Lord has mercy, they’re not different.” I said to him “So he created them for that?” He said “He created these for his Paradise, and these of his fire, and created these for his mercy, and created these for his torment. Reported from ibn-Abbas: “For this end He has created them”, he said “He created them two groups: a group that gets mercy, so it does not differ, and a group that does not get mercy, so it differs, and that’s His saying: “then (some) of them shall be unhappy and (others) happy.” 11:105 S – Malik was asked [...] so he said “He created them to be two groups: a group in Paradise, and a group in hellfire.”)
(The meaning of “shall be perfectly completed” is: it became fixed as he told and destined in his time immemorial. The word completeness is its impossibility of change and replacement.) And that he leads people astray, and then punishes them with fire on their straying, and continues to torture them forever:
{.. Say, “Allah leads astray whomever He wills ..”} 13:27 I
{Had Allah willed, He would have made you one nation. But He leads astray whomever He wills and gives guidance to whomever He wills. ..} 16:93 Q
{If you covet for their guidance, then verily Allah guides not those whom He makes to go astray ..}
16:37 H
{Do you want to guide those whom Allah has led astray? Whomever Allah leads astray—you will never find for him a way.} 4:88 I
{.. who will guide him whom Allah has sent astray? ..} 30:29 H
{Whomever Allah misguides has no guide. And He leaves them blundering in their transgression.}
7:186 I
{Those whom Allah guides are rightly guided; but for those whom He leads astray you shall find no guardian, other than Him. On the Day of Resurrection We shall gather all of them upon their faces, blind, dumb, deaf. Gehenna shall be their refuge, whenever it dwindles, We will increase the Blaze for them.} 17:97 Q
{Whomever Allah has willed to divert, you have nothing for him from Allah. Those are they whose hearts Allah does not intend to purify. For them is disgrace in this world, and for them is a great punishment in the Hereafter.} 5:41 I
And that he desires destruction and directs offenders:
{When We decide to destroy a town, We command its affluent ones, they transgress in it, so the word becomes justified against it, and We destroy it completely.} 17:16 I
{And thus We have set up in every town great ones of its wicked people to plot therein. ..} 6:123 H
And that he incites the Muslim to enmity and hatred towards anyone who has a different belief, even the people closest to him:
{You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the latter day befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and His Apostle, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kinsfolk; ..} 58:22 S
{You have had an excellent example in Abraham and those with him; when they said to their people,
“We are quit of you, and what you worship apart from Allah. We denounce you. Enmity and hatred has surfaced between us and you, forever, until you believe in Allah alone.” ..} 60:4 I And they portrayed him as a mighty avenger.. inciting Muslims explicitly to slaughter their opposers.. with phrases fraught with hate and hostility.. which has caused over 14 centuries of countless deaths, orphans, widows, and bereaveds. (Imagine yourself among them):
{Therefore, do not be weakened and call out for peace, you shall be the upper ones ..} 47:35 Q
{Kill them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you.
Dissension is greater than killing. But do not fight them by the Holy Mosque unless they attack you there; if they fight you, kill them. Like this is the recompense of the unbelievers} 2:191 Q
{Fain would they that ye disbelieved even as they have disbelieved, so that ye may be all alike.
Wherefore take not friends from among them until they migrate for the sake of Allah; and if they turn away, then lay hold of them and slay them, wherever ye find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper. [...] if they withdraw not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, lay hold of them and slay them wherever ye find them. ..} 4:89-91 D
{.. kill the polytheists wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. ..} 9:5 I
{Fight them. Allah will torment them at your hands, and humiliate them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of the believing people.} 9:14 D
{So, when you meet those who disbelieve smite at their necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (i.e. take them as captives). ..} 47:4 H
{.. so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.} 8:12 H
And he wonders, gets angry, and feels sorrow:
{Should you wonder — the real wonder is their saying ..} 13:5 I
{.. and Allah is angry with them ..} 48:6 I
{Alas for mankind! ..} 36:30 H
The texts are allegedly said by “Allah”, describing the saying of Muhammad's opponents as a
“wonder”. There's an Arab saying that goes “if the cause becomes known, the wonder ceases.”
It reminds us that the state of wonder comes from ignorance of the cause, or a misunderstanding of something. Likewise, anger and sorrow, are related to one's weakness and
inability to achieve what he wants or to prevent what he does not want. These states are not appropriate for a powerful self-sufficient being who is knowing of everything and capable of everything.
So, does this fictional character deserve respect to begin with, let alone the right of deification?
Note: “Sahih” means authentic.
[1] Sahih of Bukhari 3012, Sahih of Muslim 1745, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 4786
[2] Sahih of Bukhari 4863
[3] Chapter 22 of this book “Have Little Wine .. You’ll Be Fine”
[4] Sahih of Bukhari 5080، 5367، 6387، Sahih of Muslim 715، Sahih of abu-Dawud 2048، Sahih of Nasaee 3219، Sahih of Tirmidhi 1100،
Sahih of ibn-Hibban 2717، Sahih of ibn-Majah 1519، Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 14306
[5] al-Tamhid by ibn-abd-al-Barr 10/113, Musannaf of abd-al-Razzaq 14022
[6] Sahih of Bukhari 5116
[7] Sahih of Bukhari 4827
[8] Sahih of Muslim 1406, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 4146
[9] Sahih of Muslim 1456
20. When the Cruel .. Seek to Rule
As chapter 11 shows, the texts of invasion and killing of opponents in the Quranic sura Tawbah-9
and other ones (the last ones chronologically).. revoked all the texts of tolerance and peacefulness.
Muhammad and his associates used the Quran to establish an authoritarian law according to their whims, and to enslave and recruit their followers. What Muhammad and his followers were doing was raids, attacks on villages, towns, tribes, and convoys, and not defensive battles, as some Muslims claim. It was at first on the pretext of compensating for the lost property that they left when they fled Mecca, then it expanded and worsened under the illusive slogan “the jihad for the sake of Allah”.. so it became crimes against humanity.. for the purpose of continuing to obtain the spoils..
and to violate the property of others and their women. They dared to assassinate the opposers and behead the captives, and they went for dozens of invasions, led or directed by Muhammad, where hundreds of people were killed. With the element of surprise and storming the people of the lands at the time of their sleep, they were able to occupy them, slaughter the men, plunder them and enslave their women and children, and establish an expansionist state.. to satisfy their desires. [1]
{.. [Quraish] their patricians met in the sacred compartment, and they mentioned Allah’s apostle [...]
they said: We have never seen like what we have tolerated from this man; he has insulted our intelligence, cursed our fathers, dissed our religion, divided our clan, and blasphemed our gods; we have endured from him a great deal [...] Allah’s apostle came out to them [...] and when he passed by them, they mocked him with some of his sayings [...] then he went away, and when he passed by again, they mocked him likewise [...] then he went away, then he passed by the third time, and they mocked him likewise, so he said: You hear o clan of Quraish?! Surely, by who the soul of Muhammad is in his hand, I came to you with slaughter! So his word took the men aback ..} [2]
{When the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and pay the alms, then let them go their way. ..} 9:5 I
(Qurtubi: You should know that His phrase “kill the polytheists” implicates the permission to kill them by any means, but it has been reported that mutilation is forbidden. However, it is possible that abu-Bakr took this verse in its generality when he killed the people who left Islam by burning with fire, stoning, and throwing from the tops of mountains, and in the wells. Also Ali’s burning of a clan that left Islam, could be an inclination to this doctrine, and reliance on the generality of the verse.
[...] “lie in wait for them at every ambush”, this is proof of the legitimacy of assassinating them prior to the call for Islam.)
Raiding
{Muhammad said: Whoever dies and has not raided nor has he had a desire for raiding dies on a section of hypocrisy.} [3]
{Muhammad said: I am sent near the judgment day with the sword, until Allah is worshiped alone without a partner, and my livelihood has been set under the shadow of my spear ..} [4]
{Anass ibn-Malik said: If the Prophet raided a clan, he would not raid them until it is dawn, and he would wait, and if he heard the athan (the call for Islamic prayer), he would back off from them, and if he did not hear it, he would attack them ..} [5]
{.. the Prophet raided banu-al-Mustaliq while they were unaware and their cattle were being watered. He killed their fighters and took their women and children as captives, and on that day, he captured Juwairiya ..} [6]
{.. Allah’s apostle was informed that in Domah thereis a multitude and that they do injustice to whoever passes by them [...] so he recruited [...] people [...] and he went out [...] in 1000 of Muslims, so he traveled in the night and lurked in the day [...] and when he got by them, it was dusk, and there were traces of the camels and sheep; so he attacked their livestock and their shepherds, and he captured whomever he captured ..} [7]
{ibn-Jathama said: The Prophet passed by me in al-Abwaa, and he was asked about attacking a household of idolaters at night, and thus their women and children getting wounded. He said “They are of them.” And I heard him say “No protection except that of Allah and His Messenger.” ..} [8]
Meaning, an innocent child, just because he is the child of an infidel, does not matter if a Muslim kills him by mistake, or takes him to be a slave owned by him.
{Zaid ibn-Haritha [...] Allah’s apostle sent him [...] in 500 men [...] Zaid traveled in the night and lurked in the day [...] till they attacked, and they charged at dawn on al-Hunaid and his son and whomever was in the place, and they caught whatever they found, and slew them till they wore them down, and killed al-Hunaid and his son, and raided their cattle, camels, and women, and took 1000
camels and 5000 sheep, and of captives 100 women and children ..} [9]
{Allah’s apostle sent Shuja’ ibn-Wahb in 24 men to a group from Hawazin in al-Sayi, and ordered him to attack them. So he went out, and he traveled in the night and lurked in the day, till he reached them at dawn while they were unalert [...] so they hit a lot of camels and sheep, so they drove them all [...] they caught women in the settlement, so they drove them, and among them there was a glowing girl, so they came with her to Medina} [10]
{Jundab .. said: Allah’s apostle sent Ghalib al-Kalbi [...] in an army unit in which I was. He ordered him to wage a raid on banu-al-Mulawwah who were in al-Kadid, so we went out [...] We gave them time until they felt safe and went to sleep, and towards dawn, we attacked them and killed some and drove the camels. Their screams went out, and a multitude that we could not face came at us, and we went on with the camels [...] and brought them to Allah’s apostle} [11]
What a disagreeable group, they raid people
treacherously at night when they sleep.
{Quraish were afraid to follow their usual route to Syria after what had happened in the battle of Badr, so they went via the Iraq route. Some merchants went out from them [...] Allah’s apostle sent Zaid, so he met them [...] and captured the caravan and its contents, but not the men. So he brought the spoil to Allah’s apostle.} [12]
{Narrated By Usama ibn-Zaid: Allah’s Apostle sent us towards al-Huraqah. So we attacked them at dawn and defeated them. I and an Ansari man chased a man of them and when we took him over, he said “No god but Allah.” So the Ansari man stopped, but I stabbed him with my spear till I killed him. When we returned, the Prophet came to know about that and he said “O Usama! You killed him after he had said “No god but Allah”? I said “He said so only to save himself.” The Prophet kept on repeating that so often that I wished I had not embraced Islam before that day.} [13]
{Jarir reported that there was in pre-Islamic days a temple called Dhul-Khalasah or the Yamanite Kaaba. Allah’s Messenger said to me: Wo not you rid me of Dhul-Khalasah? So I went forth in 150
horsemen and we destroyed it and killed whomever we found there. Then I came to the Prophet and informed him, so he blessed us.} [14]
{ibn-abu-Hadrad said: [...] Rifa’a ibn-Qais came [...] and encamped with his clan in al-Ghaba intending to gather them to fight Allah’s apostle so Allah’s apostle summoned me and two other Muslims and told us to go to this man to bring news of him [...] We set forth taking our arrows and swords until we arrived near the settlement as the sun was setting. I lurked at one end and ordered my companions to hide at the other end of the camp and told them when they hear me cry “Allah’s bigger” as I ran to the camp they were to do the same [...] There we were waiting for the unalertness of the clan or to get something from them, until much of the night had passed. They had a shepherd who had gone out with the animals and was so late in returning that they became worried for him.
Their chief Rifa’a ibn-Qais got up and took his sword, saying: I’ll track the shepherd, some harm must have befallen him [...] he passed by me, and when he came in range I shot an arrow into his heart, and he uttered no word. I leapt upon him and cut his head off and ran in the direction of the camp shouting “Allah’s bigger!” and my two companions did likewise [...] We drove off a large number of camels and sheep and brought them to Allah’s apostle and I brought the head with me, so he gave me 13 of the camels.} [15]
{Allah’s apostle sent Abdullah ibn-Jahsh [...] and sent with him eight [...] He wrote for him a letter, and ordered him not to look at it until he had journeyed for two days [...] When he had traveled for two days he opened the letter [...] it read “When you have read this letter of mine proceed until you reach Nakhlah between Mecca and al-Ta’if. Wait there for Quraish and find out for us what they are doing.” [...] he went on till he reached Nakhlah. A caravan of Quraish carrying raisins and leather and other merchandise passed by them [...] The band conferred, as it was the last day of Rajab (a sacred month), so they said “If you leave them alone tonight they will get into the sacred area and will be safe from you; and if you kill them, you kill them in the sacred month.” [...] Then they encouraged each other, and decided to kill as many as they could of them and take what they had.
Waqid .. shot Amr ibn-al-Hadhrami with an arrow and killed him, and took Othman and al-Hakam as captives. [...] They came with the caravan and the two captives [...] So he set apart for Allah’s apostle a fifth of the caravan, and divided the rest among his companions. [...] When they came to Allah’s apostle, he said “I did not command you to fight in the sacred month.” and he stopped the caravan and the two captives and refused to take anything from them [...] the band became in despair and thought that they were doomed. Their Muslim brethren reproached them for what they had done, and Quraish said “Muhammad and his companions have violated the sacred month, shed blood therein, taken booty, and confined men.” [...] and when people kept talking about the issue, Allah sent down: “They ask you about fighting during the Holy Month. Say, fighting during it is deplorable; but to bar others from Allah’s path, and to disbelieve in Him, and to prevent access to the Holy Mosque, and to expel its people from it, are more deplorable with Allah. ..” 2:217 I [...] when the Quran came down with this and Allah relieved the Muslims of their anxiety, Allah’s apostle took the caravan and the captives ..} [16]
{Whatever palm-tree you cut down or left standing upon its roots, it is by the permission of Allah, so that He might humiliate the impious.} 5:59 Q
{Allah’s Messenger had the palm trees of Bani Al-Nadir burnt and cut down at a place called al-Buwaira. Allah then revealed: “Whatever palm-tree you cut down ..”} [17]
Beheading Captives
The conquest of Mecca was a historic day: Muhammad, who was just a gang leader.. became the first king and head of the Islamic State. The first decision he made was.. slaughtering the prisoners; for oppression and terrorism to be the cornerstone that upon which it was built, and for no one after that to dare to expose the falseness of that state and this religion.
{Omar ibn-al-Khattab said: When it was the day on which the Battle of Badr was fought [...] when they confined the captives, Allah’s apostle said to abu-Bakr and me: What do you think about these
captives? Abu-Bakr said: They are our kith and kin. I think you should ransom them. [...] I said: I think you should allow us so that we smite their necks [i.e. behead them]. [...] The next day when I came to Allah’s apostle, I found him and abu-Bakr sitting and weeping. I said: O Allah’s apostle, why are you weeping? [...] He said: I am weeping for what your companions suggested of taking ransom. I have had a vision of their torment [...] and Allah revealed “It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war ..” 8:67 H} [18]
{In his guidance about captives: He used to grant some of them their freedom, and kill others, and release some for money, and others for Muslim captives [...] and he killed Oqba ibn-abu-Mu’eet of the captives, and he killed al-Nadher ibn-al-Harith, for the severity of their enmity to Allah and His apostle.} [19]
Meaning, Muhammad “the prophet of mercy” used to handle prisoners as he wanted, at his own whim; he killed whoever he wanted, and he “granted” whoever he wanted to let him live.
Al-Nadher’s sister sent Muhammad a weeping poem, in which she said, “How would it have harmed you if you granted?” It is said that he said, “If this had come to me before he was killed, I would have granted him.” [20]
{When the war ended, Allah’s apostle came [...] till he stopped over the dead [...] and said “You were such an evil clan to your prophet [...]” and then he traveled [...] and with him the captive and spoils, and when he got to al-Safraa, he divided the booty, and smote the neck of al-Nadher ibn-al-Harith [...] [21] killed by Ali ibn-abu-Talib [...] and he went out, till when he was in Irq al-Zhabya, Oqbah ibn-abu-Mu’eet got killed [...] when Allah’s apostle commanded killing him, Oqbah said
“Who’s for my kids, Muhammad?” He said “The fire.” .. [20]}
Did al-Nadher do what deserved beheading? All what he did was peaceful activity and challenging Muhammad’s claims:
{And when Our Verses are recited to them, they say: “We have heard this; if we wish we can say the like of this. This is nothing but the tales of the ancients.”} 8:31 H
(Tabari: al-Suddi said: al-Nadher used to travel to al-Heerah, so he listened to the rhymed words and talks of its people. One time when he returned to Mecca, he heard the Prophet’s words and the Quran, so he said “We have heard this; if we wish we can say the like of this. This is nothing but the tales of the ancients”, saying “the rhymed words of the people of al-Heerah” [...] Sa’eed ibn-Jubair said: Upon the day of Badr, the Prophet judged to kill Oqbah To’aimah and al-Nadher. al-Nadher was captivated by al-Miqdad, so when the Prophet commanded to kill him, al-Miqdad said “O
Allah’s apostle, my captive!” Allah’s apostle said “He said what he said about the Book of Allah!” ..)
{What used to hurt Allah’s apostle from al-Nadher: If Allah’s apostle sat down in a social gathering, and called to Allah and read the Quran, and warned Quraish of what happened to the past nations, al-Nadher used to succeed him in his seat when had left, and talked to them about Rostam and Esfandiar, and the kings Persia, and then said “By God, Muhammad is not a better speaker than me; his speech is nothing but the fables of the ancients, he has had them written just like I have.” Allah revealed a verse about it: “And they say: fables of the ancients which he has had written down, so they are dictated to him, morning and evening.” 25:5 D [22] So when he said all that, they sent him with Oqbah ibn-abu-Mu’eet to the hakhams of the Jews in Medina, saying “Ask them about Muhammad, and describe him to them, and tell them what he said for they are the foremost People of the Book, and they have what we do not have of the knowledge of the prophets.” So they went out till they reached Medina, so they asked the hakhams about Allah’s apostle [...] The hakhams said
“Ask him about 3 things [...] Ask him about some boys who went away in the foremost era, what their matter was, as they had a strange narrative, [...] ask him about a roaming man who reached the easts and wests of the world, [...] and ask him about the spirit, what it is; then if he told you about all that, follow him, for he is a prophet, and if he didn’t, he is a liar” [...] Then they came to Allah’s apostle [...] He said “I will tell you about what youhave asked tomorrow,” and did not exclude. [...]
Allah’s apostle stayed 15 nights in which Allah did not induce to him any revelation [...] and they said “Muhammad promised us next day, and today 15 nights have passed, and he has not told us any of what we asked,” till Allah’s apostle got saddened by the delay of revelation, and it was hard on him what the people of Mecca were saying. Then Gabriel came to him [...] with the sura al-Kahf ..
[23]}
{And He brought down from their strongholds those of the People of the Book who backed them, and He threw terror into their hearts. Some of them you killed, and others you took captive.} 33:26 I (Tabari: He meant thereby banu-Quraizhah [...] Allah’s apostle sieged them [...] until the siege exhausted them [...] Then Allah’s apostle got out to the city market [...] and made trenches in it, then had them brought, and smote their necks in those trenches [...] they were between 600 and 900 [...]
and Huyai ibn-Akhtab [chief and father of Sofiya] was brought [...] and when he looked at Allah’s apostle [...] he said: Surely by God, I have not blamed myself for having you as an enemy, but whoever disappoints God shall be disappointed; then he turned to his people and said: O people, nothing wrong with the matter of God, the record of God and his destiny, and a calamity written on the Children of Israel. Then he sat down and got beheaded. [...] A’ishah said: None of their women was killed but one woman [...] By Allah she was with me talking to me and laughing at noon, and Allah’s apostle was killing their men in the market; then a man shouted her name saying: Where is she?! She said: That’s me. I said to: Woe! What is with you?! She said: I get killed. I said: Why? She said: For an incident I induced. He took her, and her neck got smitten. So A’ishah was saying: I ca not forget my marveling at her; elation, much laughter, and she knew she was to be killed.) [24]
{.. the Prophet said “O Saad, these people have agreed to accept your verdict.” Saad said “I judge that their warriors should be killed and their children and women should be taken as captives.” The Prophet said “You have judged according to Allah’s Judgment.”} [25]
{The jews of banu-al-Nadheer and Quraizhah fought against Allah’s apostle, so he expelled banu-al-Nadheer and allowed Quraizhah to stay on, taking nothing from them, till they fought afterward, he then killed their men and distributed their women, children and properties among the Muslims [...]
He also expelled [...] Banu-Qainuqaa [...] and the Jews of Banu-Harithah, and all the Jews of Medina.} [26]
{Atiya of Quraizhah said: I was among the captives of banu-Quraizhah. They had a look at each of us, and whoever had grown [pubic] hair gets killed, and whoever had not grown it was spared. [...]
so they exposed my pubic area and found it had not grown, so they put me in captivity.} [27]
The man who was named Quthum ibn-Abdullat, better known as Muhammad.. dared to torture and kill the captives, the husband, father, and clan of Mrs Sofiya bint-Huyai.. and then he wedded her.. rather, he raped her:
{When Allah’s apostle had conquered the fort of banu-Abu-al-Huqaiq, Sofiya bint-Huyai ibn-Akhtab was brought to him along with another woman. Bilal who was bringing them led them past some of the slain Jews; and when the woman who was with Sofiya saw them she shrieked and slapped her own face and splashed soil on her head. When Allah’s apostle saw her he said “Take this she-devil away from me.” And by his order, Sofiya was put behind him, and he threw his mantle on her; so the Muslims knew that he had chosen her for himself [...] Kinanah ibn-al-Rabi’ [her husband]
who had the custody of the treasure of banu-al-Nadheer, was brought to Allah’s apostle; he asked him about it. He denied that he knew where it was [...] Allah’s apostle said “[...] what if we find it at your place? Shall I kill you?” He said “Yes.” Allah’s apostle gave an order to excavate the ruin.
