Quoted
from the "ISLAM MUHAMMAD &
THE KORAN"
MUHAMMAD
FROM
HIS BIRTH TO HIS DEATH
Chapter
2
Analysis
Of Muhammad's Call
At this point we have to analyze Muhammad's
call to decide if he is a true or a false prophet. We will address
this issue with the following questions:
First:
Since Islam is the only religion accepted before Allah and Muhammad is
the seal of the prophets as the Koran declares, why was it that the call
of Muhammad came through that spirit and not by a direct call from God?
Moses, the founder of Judaism, received
a direct call from God. God spoke to him from the midst of the burning
bush (Exodus 3:1-10). The Koran declares in Surat Al-Nisa 4:164:
And to Moses Allah spoke direct.
If Islam is superior to Judaism and Christianity,
Muhammad should have received a direct call from God. Instead, he
passed through that terrible experience at the cave of Hira when the spirit
squeezed him, and he thought he would die.
Second:
Who will testify concerning that call? Muhammad was the only witness
to that experience. One witness is not acceptable in substantiating
such a claim.
God said in the book of Deuteronomy 19:15:
By the mouth of two or three witnesses
the matter shall be established.
Jesus Christ said to the Jews of his days:
If I bear witness of Myself, my witness
is not true. There is another that bears witness of Me, and I know that
the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. You have sent to John,
and he has borne witness to the truth. Yet I do not receive testimony
from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. . . But I have
a greater witness than John's, for the works which the Father has
given me to finish - the very works that I do - bear witness of Me, that
the Father has sent Me. And the Father Himself, who sent Me, has
testified of Me. . . You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you
have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me (John 5:31-39
NKJ).
Christ has four witness:
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The testimony of John the Baptist.
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The testimony of the miracles He performed.
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The testimony of the Heavenly Father.
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The testimony of the prophetic word.
Muhammad is the only witness for himself.
We cannot accept his sole testimony.
Third:
God authenticated the call of Moses with miracles and He
witnessed concerning His Son, Jesus Christ, with miracles. Why was
it that Muhammad was unable to perform miracles?
Concerning Moses' miracles, the Bible says:
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob
dwelt in the land of Ham. . .
He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron
whom He had chosen. They performed His signs (miracles) among them, and
wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and made it dark; and
they did not rebel against His word. He turned their waters into
blood, and killed their fish. Their land abounded with frogs, even in the
chambers of their kings. He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and lice in all their territory. He have them hail for rain, and
flaming fire in their land. He struck their vines also and their
fig trees, and splintered the trees of their territory. He spoke,
and locust came, young locusts without number, and ate up all vegetation
in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He also destroyed
all the firstborn in their land, the first of all their strength.
(Psalms 105:23, 26-36 NKJ).
The Koran declares:
To Moses We did give nine Clear signs
(miracles)
(Surat Al-Isra 17:101).
The Bible recorded ten miracles, not nine.
We also read about Jesus' miracles in the
New Testament. Jesus said to His disciples:
Believe Me that I am in the Father
and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves
(John 14:11 NKJ).
In his Gospel, the apostle John recorded many
miracles Jesus performed. At the end of his Gospel he says:
And truly Jesus did many other signs
in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; but
these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of God, and that believing you may have life in His name (John 20:30, 31
NKJ).
The Koran also declares that Jesus Christ
performed many miracles. He healed the man who was born blind, and
the leper, and raised the dead (Surat Al-Imran 3:49).
But Muhammad declared that he could not
perform any miracles. The Koran does not mention a single miracle
attributed to him. The Koran declares in Surat Al-Ankabut 29:50:
Yet they say: "Why are not signs
sent down to him from his Lord?" Say (Muhammad): "The signs
are indeed with Allah and I am indeed a clear warner."
In Surat Al-Isra Muhammad's contemporaries
asked him to perform a miracle so that they could believe in him.
Muhammad answered:
Glory to my Lord! Am I aught
but a man, a messenger
(Surat Al-Isra 17:93).
Muhammad's call was
not authenticated by miracles.