Christians love to argue with Muslims on the authenticity of Prophet Muhammed Pbuh. The question is, what criteria are they using to establish such a standard of judgment, and are those criteria applied consistently across all cases?
Let us use a
couple of examples from their own Bible to determine whether their prophethood
was ever nullified.
ISAIAH:
the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals
from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. the LORD
spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your
waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked
and barefoot. [Isaiah 20:3]
Isaiah was commanded
by YAHWEH to walk NAKED for three years. Question is, how many Christians would
call Isaiah a false Prophet?
HOSEA:
“When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea,
he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will
be conceived in prostitution.” [Hosea 1:2]
“And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is
loved by another man and is an adulteress,” [Hosea :1]
Hosea is commanded twice to be intimate with a whore and have
children.
MOSES:
Now kill all the boys. And
kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every infant girl who has never slept with a
man.(Numbers 31:17-18)
Note, in all instances GOD [Yahweh] commanded them to do what they did, they
were following a direct revelation. The question remains, was their prophethood
nullified?
KING DAVID:
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on
the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was
very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man
said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the
Hittite.” David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he
slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness.
Afterward, she returned home. [2 Samuel 11.2-4]
Was King
David’s Prophethood nullified after he fornicated with Bathesheba a married girl?
AARON:
He [Aaron]
took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it
into a molten calf. (Exodus 32:4)
Did GOD
[Yahweh] nullify Aaron’s Prophethood or Priesthood?
Though the
two prophets mentioned above King David
and Aaron were not instructed by God, the fact that they committed hideous acts
out of their own free will and still retained their prophethood shows that such
matters were not sufficient for God [Yahweh] to nullify their status as
prophets.
Christians
agree if God reveals a message to a Prophet, it becomes a divine decree that
must be implemented without compromise. Regardless of what the message is, whether
is involves marrying a prostitute or walking naked, as demonstrated in the
verses referenced above.
Let us see
if Christians will be consistence if we apply the divine degree using our paradigm.
Did you know it was already decreed by Allah Swt that Prophet Muhammed Pbuh
would marry our Mother Aisha RA?
Narrated `Aisha:
Allah's
Messenger (ﷺ) said to me,
"You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an
angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, 'Uncover
(her),' and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah,
then it must happen.' Then you were shown to me, the angel carrying you in a
silken piece of cloth, and I said (to him), 'Uncover (her), and behold, it was
you. I said (to myself), 'If this is from Allah, then it must happen.' "[Sahih al-Bukhari 7012]
Narrated `Aisha:
“The commencement of the Divine
Inspiration to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was in the form of
good righteous (true) dreams in his sleep. He never had a dream but that it
came true like bright day light…” [Sahih al-Bukhari 6982]
As can be
read in the authentic ahadith, Prophet Muhammed Pbuh received divine
inspiration through dreams regarding his marriage to our Mother Aisha RA. By
biblical standards, Christians should not have an issue with this marriage,
considering it was a divine decree from God Almighty.
If anything, Christians should embrace this as a continuation of
Prophetic revelations, where God Almighty decides what He wills. There is no compromise
in such matters.
Regarding
the polemic on the age of our Mother Aisha RA. Firstly, if you read the hadith,
her age at the time of marriage was mentioned by her directly not by someone
else which indicates that she was neither embarrassed nor hesitant to disclose
it. Secondly, since there is no specified age of consent for marriage in the
Bible, Christians need not delve too deeply into this issue, as the central
argument age is absent from their own scripture. This effectively undermines
the basis of the argument they are attempting to make. In other words, they are
building an argument without a premise.
If your
premise is based on 21st-century norms, then you’ve committed the fallacy of
presentism judging the past by modern
standards. This approach can easily backfire, especially considering that many
rulings found in the Bible do not align with contemporary laws and values. For
example, while homosexuality is permissible and legally protected in many
European countries today, the Bible explicitly condemns it as an abomination
and a punishable offense as seen in Leviticus 18:22, a divine decree from God [Yahweh].
So, by 21st-century standards, would you then reject what your own scripture
teaches and instead endorse or practice what it prohibits?
Christians
need to move past the issue of Prophet Muhammed’s Pbuh marriage to our Mother
Aisha RA, as if it somehow nullifies his prophethood. This polemic is akin to a
drowning person clutching at straws weak,
desperate, and unconvincing. It's time to move beyond this and present more
substantial arguments.
