Is Muhhamad a Prophet of God or a Cult Leader

[Ryan Thames]

The purpose of this article is not to engender hostility to Muslims, but simply to portray Muhammad as accurately as possible based on readings of the Koran and the Hadiths. It's important to keep in mind when reading this that there are good, even heroic Muslims and that scriptures of other religions have appalling statements as well. For a more in depth discussion of who Muhammad was see the online book Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma, In Muhammad's Own Words.

Sometimes the best way to understand someone is to try and put oneself in their shoes. In this article we will try and put ourselves in Muhammad's shoes. I want you, the reader to imagine you wanted to get rich and powerful by starting a religion. OK, that's hard to imagine but we all would like to be rich that part's easy and if we succeed in getting many people to worship us we can make donations to our church obligatory and start raking in the dough. What kind of obstacles and problems would stand in your way if you wanted to get religious followers? One is that people would think you were a nut case, in fact many people thought that way about Muhammad. However, you might be able to con some impressionable people into believing that you really do have a special relationship with God. You might find some impressionable people who don't believe in you because they already believe in other religions. One way to persuade these people would be to tell them that everything they believe is true but that you are a prophet with an additional message. That was the approach taken by Muhammad. The danger is that once you persuade them they might tell their friends about their new religion and their friends may convince them that you are a conartist after their money. How can you prevent that from happening? Somehow you need to stop them from communicating with their friends. You could take the approach Muhammad took which was to command them:

O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. [al-Ma'idah 5:51.11]

What if they start having doubts on their own? You could terrify them into staying by instructing your followers:

Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him. Sahih Al-Bukhari (9:57)

You could also threaten them with burning in the eternal fires of hell.

Garments of fire have been prepared for the unbelievers. Scalding water shall be poured upon their heads, melting their skins and that which is in their bellies. (Koran 22:19-22:23)

One way to increase your wealth and power would be to conquer the infidels who dare not honor you as their prophet. You might instruct your followers:

Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush. (Koran 9:5)

If you wanted revenge against those who refuse to accept your religion and you were a totally ruthless and vicious sicko you might tell your followers to torture the non-believer. You might say:

Take him and fetter him and expose him to hell fire. And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits. (Koran 69:30-37)

and

I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them. (Koran 8:12)

and

They should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides. (Koran 5:33)

The problem with encouraging your followers to attack the infidel is that the non-believing infidel is likely to defend himself. That might deter your followers from attacking. You could give them the incentive of sex and booty by saying that it's fine with Allah if your followers have sex with the captured women and keep them as slaves and that your followers can keep whatever booty they seize.

33:50 - "Prophet, We have made lawful to you ... the slave girls whom God has given you as booty."

4:24 - And all married women (are forbidden) unto your save those (captives) whom your right hand possesses.

The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause ... will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) (Hadith Sahih Bukhari, Vol 1 Book 2 Number 35)

Still the risk of death might deter some of your followers. If you were a brilliant and evil man you might think of and carry out the following ingenious solution to the problem. You could tell your followers that they will go to paradise if they die fighting for the faith. You might complete the previous sentence as follows:

The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause ... will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr). (Hadith Sahih Bukhari, Vol 1 Book 2 Number 35)

and remind your followers that:

"Know that paradise is under the shades of swords." Sahih al-Bukhari Vol 4 p55

So tell us what it is like to be in paradise your followers might ask. You might say that those who enter paradise will enjoy:

"abundant fruits, unforbidden, never-ending." There will be "gushing fountains" and everyone "shall recline on jeweled couches face to face, and there shall wait on them immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine." Suras (or chapters) 55 and 56 of the Quran.

That might not be enough to convince your lusty male followers to risk death in battle so you might tell them some even more thrilling aspects of Paradise. You might tell them:

[CHRISTIAN BINNIE]

Are you quoting from a pamplet again? Oh an article?

WHO WROTE IT?!!!!!!!!! One of you fanatics, like the one that believes in the Loch Ness Monster!!!!!

[Ryan Thames]

"Therein are bashful virgins whom neither man nor jinnee will have touched before ... virgins as fair as corals and rubies," sura 55. A few lines later, you might remind them of "virgins chaste and fair ... they shall recline on green cushions and fine carpets."

By now you have a rapt audience of eager male listeners. How many virgins are there for a man who dies for Allah an eager follower asks?

Why the smallest reward for every believer who is admitted to Paradise is 72 wives. The proof is in the Book of Sunan (volume IV, chapters on "The Features of Paradise as described by the Messenger of Allah," Chapter 21: "About the Smallest Reward for the People of Paradise," Hadith 2687). The Tafsir of Surah Al-Rahman (55), verse 72: mentions servants as well "It was mentioned by Daraj Ibn Abi Hatim that Abu-al-Haytham Abdullah Ibn Wahb narrated from Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri, who heard the Prophet Muhammad saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of Paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah to Sana'a.'"

Are they really virgins a starry eyed follower asks?

The chastity of the black-eyed was not violated by man nor jinn (verse 74 of Surah Al-Rahman (55))

What if you are surrounded by all those women but can't do it. Don't worry. TIRMZI, vol. 2 states on page 138:

A man in paradise shall be given virility equal to that of one hundred men.

Congratulations. Now you have men eager to kill and die for you. The problem is you have to deliver on the promise of the booty and yet you want it. So tell them that since Allah granted victory the spoils belong to him and one fifth should go to his prophet (you) and let them have the rest (Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52 Number 46 8:41). What if your followers want to rape their captive women? If you want them to kill for you, it would be wise to satisfy their sexual desires and to sanction rape so you tell them that Allah decrees that they can rape their captives (Sahih Muslim, Book 8, Number 3371). Congratulations, they are killing the infidel right and left and you are getting wealthy off the booty. But wait a minute. You could be making more money. What good do a lot of dead non-believers do for you? Wouldn't it be better if they all paid taxes? You don't want the non-believer killed, you want them enslaved. So you would tell your followers:

Fight those who do not believe in Allah, ... until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. [Koran 9.29]

As you became rich other people might get the idea to declare that they are prophets too. They might even copy your tactics and threaten those who don't believe in them with hell. If such tactics worked for you it might work for them too. Then there'll be less money for you. Their followers might even become a threat to you. Not a problem. Just declare that you are the last prophet.

In My Ummah (Islamic Nation), there shall be born Thirty Grand Liars (Dajjals), each of whom will claim to be a prophet, But I am the Last Prophet; there is No Prophet after Me. (Abu Dawood Vol 2 p. 228; Tirmidhi Vol 2 p.45)" [1]

Once you declare yourself the last prophet you can accuse anyone who declares himself a prophet after you of being a heretic and you or your followers can have him eliminated. This was the fate of a Persian, Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad who announced in May 23, 1844, that he had a mission to herald the arrival of "One greater than Himself". This announcement was the birth of the Bahai religion. Siyyid said:

I am one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God. Whosoever hath recognized Me, hath known all that is true and right, and hath attained all that is good and seemly; and whosoever hath failed to recognize Me, hath turned away from all that is true and right and hath succumbed to everything evil and unseemly...all those who cherish My love and follow My behest abiding within the mansions of Paradise, and the entire company of Mine adversaries consigned to the lowest depths of hell-fire.

Although Muhammad was dead by 1844 his followers were not. Since Muhammad had said that he was the last prophet, Siyyid was considered a heretic by Moslems and killed and his followers persecuted.

Now you're rich and powerful. But you still have a problem. You have to pretend that you are good. You can't do all those deliciously immoral acts that you want to do. Lets say you want to engage in immoral sexual behavior. People might not approve and question your saintliness. Not a problem. You can say that God commanded you to do it. Lets say you saw a hot babe and want to add her to your burgeoning collection of wives and you already have more than four wives and you told your followers that they can just have four wives. You can say that God allows as many infidel slave sex partners as you want. What if your infidel wife has the bright idea to convert to Islam so that you can't have her and your four wives. Make Islamic law say that a slave who converts to Islam is still a slave! What if the girl you are lusting after is Muslim and is not a slave. Just say that you got a special dispensation from God granted through the archangel Gabriel and go for it! Let say you want to marry into a powerful family but the only girl available is only 9 years old. That won't look good to your followers. So you explain to them that God wanted you to have sex with the child of your desires:

"...the Prophet said to her (Aisha), 'You have been shown to me twice in my dream. I saw you pictured on a piece of silk and someone said (to me). 'This is your wife.' When I uncovered the picture, I saw that it was yours. I said, 'If this is from Allah, it will be done.'"
(Hadith, Sahih Bukhari 5:58:235)

[Ryan Thames]

Lets say a couple of your soldiers managed to take as booty some very beautiful women and you want them. You could command your soldier to give her to you but he might get very upset and soldiers tend to be dangerous. Since you are rich you could pay him a lot of money for her and that might get him a little less angry. This is what Mohammed did after he heard that a soldier called Dahia had obtained a jewish woman of "incomparable beauty" by the name of Safiya bint Huyay after participating in an attack against her Jewish brethren. He sent for Dahiya, paid him Safiya's price and married her. (Ibn Saad, al-Tabaqat, pp. 120-123).

Rayhana Bint Zayd was another Jewish woman, whom Mohammed captured after her tribe was totally butchered. She was known to be a woman of immense beauty. Mohammed kept her as a concubine.

Lets say your son Zayad has married an incredibly beautiful wife by the name of Zainab who is ravishing and you want her. Not a problem. Command him to annul the marriage.

(Sura 33:37) Then when Zayad had dissolved his marriage with her (Zainab) we joined her in marriage to thee: in order that there may be no difficulty to the believers in the matter of marriage of the wives of their adopted sons....

Muhammad's use of religion to justify his exploitation of women to satisfy his sexual desires has led to Islamic sexual exploitation of women throughout history. His use of sex and divine revelations into manipulating his followers into going to war against the infidel has led to a history of bloody wars against the non-believers and murder of non-believers that continues to this day.

The sinister use of sex to motivate murder is a factor in suicide bombings. Death announcements of suicide bombers in the Palestinian Press, often takes the form of a wedding not funeral announcements. Serge Trifkovic in his book The Sword of the Prophet give the following examples:

With great pride, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad marrieds the member of its military wing ... the martyr and hero Yasser Al-Adhami, to the black-eyed." (Al Istiqlal, October 4, 2001)

Sa'id Al-Hutari, who exploded himself and 23 Israeli teenagers at a Tel Aviv disco on June 1, 2001, wrote in his will: "Call out in joy, oh my mother, distribute sweets, oh my father and brothers; a wedding with 'the black-eyed' awaits your son in Paradise." (Al Risala, July 7, 2001)

The terror guide to the hijackers who crashed planeloads of innocent people into the World Trade Center said:

It will be the day, God willing, you spend with the women of paradise...Know that the gardens of paradise are waiting for you in all their beauty, and the women of paradise are waiting, calling out, "Come hither, friend of God."

The lure of booty and sex with conquered women has motivated Muslim soldiers throughout history. The Turkish historian Seaddedin wrote about how the offer of booty motivated Muslim soldiers when he wrote about the fall of Constantinople to his fellow Muslims in 1453. He wrote:

Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts and there, seizing the possessors and their families, they made the wretched unbelievers weep.

The Reverend Jerry Falwell said that Muhammad was a terrorist. He was condemned by the National Council of Churches among other organizations. Ali Sina wrote an article defending Falwell called Is Falwell to be Blamed for Calling Muhammad a Terrorist?

Here is one paragraph from that essay:

What Falwell said was not factually untrue. Muhammad did things that by today’s standard would be seen as acts of terrorism. He raided towns without any previous warning, killed unarmed men who had gone to the fields and markets after their daily business, captured their wives and children and distributed the younger women among his soldiers while always keeping the prettiest ones for himself and having sex with them in the same day he murdered their fathers, husbands and loved ones. These are not fables but historic facts recorded and preserved by Muslims themselves.

The Koran describes Muhammad's massacre of the Jews main.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/jews.htm which leads modern Moslems to think such behavior is a good thing. After the battle all 700 men left in the tribe were slaughtered in one day the unfortunates being forced to dig their own graves before their heads were struck off. The women were enslaved. Muslims always prized females not only because they could be used to do domestic work, but also because they could used to used to satisfy their carnal appetites of their owners and also be used as breeding stock to breed more slaves. Islamic enslavement of the non-believer continues today in the Sudan. In fact Islamic genocide against the non-believer is occurring in the Sudan.

What Muhammad did hundreds of years ago radical Muslims are doing today. Suicide bombers and holy war jihadists in search of paradise open the gates of hell on earth with the flaming explosions they create and in the process destroy the paradises that existed on earth. Islam has turned the Paradise of Kashmir into a terrorist hell. A terrorist bomb has ended tourism in the paradise of Bali for the forseeable future. Muslims are committing genocide in the Sudan. Islam has caused endless wars in the Middle East and throughout the world. 95% of the conflicts in the world as of 2001 involved Muslims. One of the greatest threats to the world today (other than Iraq and North Korea) is that of Islamic fanatics getting hold of weapons of mass destruction. These fanatic Muslims have no fear of the consequences of setting off such weapons as they believe that Allah will grant them victory or at the worst will bring them to paradise

[Ryan Thames]

I know this is probably offensive.

But you guys are going to hat eme anyway so what heck.

Yes it is an article that i got that from but qoutes from the quran.

And points out things that some muslims deny are in the quran.

[enginterzi]

see,you still are showing hadith like they are part of Quran.why are you misleading these ppl and deceiving them all the time???

[Ryan Thames]

You may not veiw hadith the same but some muslims do.

It still qoutes Qur'an

Question:

What is the difference with the two. From your perspective.

[Paul Maiden]

LISTEN GUYS ENGOUGH IS ENGOUGH RELGION IS THE BIGGEST CAUSE OF WAR IN THE WORLD.WE DONT WANT ONE ON THIS BOARD.
WE ALL BELEIVE IN A GOD WHEATHER IT BE CHRISTIAN,MUSLIM.OR WEATHER U R HINDU AND BELEIVE IN VISHNU,IT DOESNT MATTER THERES PROBALLY A LITTLE TRUTH IN ALL WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING BUT WE SHOULD NEVER TREAT ANYBODYS RELGION WITH DISRESPECT,WE BELEIVE IN WHAT WE BELEIVE AND THATS THAT SO IF U THINK ULL BE A BUTTERFLY IN A NEXT LIFE SO WHAT U ENJOY WHAT U BELEIVE UR DOIND NO ONE ANY HARM,BUT THE MOT IMPORTANT THING WE ALL CAN DO IS BE GOOD PEOPLE AND DO ARE VERY BEST TO UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT EVERYBODYS VALUES.

[CHRISTIAN BINNIE]

Ryan, why don't you STOP quoting from pamplets and articles and QUOTE from the Qur'an, like Engin is doing from the Bible!

MORE FROM YOUR FANATICS? THe Loch Ness Monster believers!!!!!!!!

[enginterzi]

FROM QURAN060.008


Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice.

[Ryan Thames]

I do not wish to make war with anyone.

I never wanted this to get as hot as it has.