[Assam] “WE WILL REMOVE THIS SITE IF PROVEN WRONG”: Series of logical articles from THE site posted here to prepare for the challenge, as some people in Assam even using loud speakers to spread their message without a challenge. Article 12: Miracles

Tue Oct 23 01:16:55 CDT 2007

 http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/miracles_of_Mo.htm Did Muhammad
Perform any Miracles?
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By. Ali Sina

It is no secret that faith blinds and the believer cannot see anything wrong
with the object of his or her belief. This is the reason why while Muslims
can see the errors of Christians Jews or Hindus, they are unable to see the
absurdities in their own Faith..

Muslims love Muhammad to the extent that they want to dress like him, speak
the same language that he spoke, behave the way he behaved and eat the food
that he ate. This is not an indication of the greatness of Muhammad but the
unconditional, fanatical and blind faith of his believers. Followers of all
cults eulogize and adulate their leader as a divine being. This is no
indication that their leaders were really superior beings. Humans need
heroes and fabricate them. Often when these heroes die they assume a
mythological status much bigger than life. That is when their human nature
and defects are hidden form the eyes of their adulators.

Muslims have not seen Muhammad. They rely entirely on second hand stories
about their prophet. Those stories idolize him beyond human reason. Many of
those Hadithes are forged, exaggerated by ruffians and are baseless. See for
examples the following Hadith that says Muhammad split the moon.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 58, Number
208<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/058.sbt.html#005.058.208>
Narrated Anas bin Malik:*
The people of Mecca asked Allah's Apostle to show them a miracle. So he
showed them the moon split in two halves between which they saw the Hiram'
mountain.*

Also Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 56, Number
830<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/056.sbt.html#004.056.830>
*,831, 832  *

 Or this one that claims he made water out of nothing.*   *

Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 4, Number
170<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/004.sbt.html#001.004.170>
*
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
I saw Allah's Apostle when the 'Asr prayer was due and the people searched
for water to perform ablution but they could not find it. Later on (a pot
full of) water for ablution was brought to Allah's Apostle . He put his hand
in that pot and ordered the people to perform ablution from it. I saw the
water springing out from underneath his fingers till all of them performed
the ablution (it was one of the miracles of the Prophet). *

Or multiplied the bread. Sahih Bukhari Volume 5, Book 59, Number
428<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/059.sbt.html#005.059.428>

*Of course when challenged by skeptics, Muhammad repeatedly denied being
able to perform any miracle. He admitted that although other prophets before
him were given the power of performing miracles, his only miracle is Quran.
  *

Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 92, Number
379<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/092.sbt.html#009.092.379>
*
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "There was no prophet among the prophets but was given
miracles because of which people had security or had belief, but what I was
given was the Divine Inspiration which Allah revealed to me. So I hope that
my followers will be more than those of any other prophet on the Day of
Resurrection."*

There are many verses in Quran that reaffirm this last Hadith, proving that
Muhammad never performed any miracle and found it useless. In the following
verse Muhammad is acknowledging that other prophets before him came with
miracles or clear signs but still people rejected them, highlighting the
futility of miracles as the proof of his revelation.

Q. 03: 138 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/003.qmt.html#003.138>*
They (also) said: "Allah took our promise not to believe in an messenger
unless He showed us a sacrifice consumed by Fire (From heaven)." Say: "There
came to you messengers before me, with clear Signs and even with what ye ask
for: why then did ye slay them, if ye speak the truth?"  if you are
truthful?*

All along, the unbelievers asked Muhammad to perform a miracle so that they
could believe. All they got in response was,

Q. 17: 90 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.090>*
They say: "We shall not believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush
forth for us from the earth,*

* *And he would reply:

Q. 17: 93 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.093>*
Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man,- a messenger?" *

People doubted Muhammad because they saw nothing extraordinary or miraculous
in him.

Q. 17: 94 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.094>*
And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them
save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger?   *

Q. 25: 7 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/025.qmt.html#025.007>*
And they say: "What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks
through the streets? Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give
admonition with him?*

Q. 25: 8 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/025.qmt.html#025.008>*
"Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or why has he (not) a
garden for enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye follow none other than a man
bewitched."*

But Muhammad kept telling them that he is just an ordinary man not an angel,
meaning people should not expect miracles from him!

Q. 17: 95 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.095>*
Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about as settlers, We would
certainly have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as a messenger. *

The common sense dictates that no one would deny and call a man who performs
such mighty miracles like splitting the moon, as believed by all the Muslims
a mad man or possessed. But the people who knew him actually called him by
these names.

Q. 15: 06 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/015.qmt.html#015.006>*
They say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad
(or possessed)!.*

No one would demand him miracles if he had already performed one

Q. 15: 07
 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/015.qmt.html#015.007>*Why do you not
bring to us the angels if you are of the truthful ones? *

But Muhammad responded

Q. 15: 08 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/015.qmt.html#015.008>*
We send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the
ungodly), behold! no respite would they have!  *

 The Quraishites kept asking for a sign or a miracle to believe and Muhammad
kept saying that he is only a warner.

 Q. 13: 07
 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/013.qmt.html#013.007>*"And the
Unbelievers say: "Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?" But
thou art truly a warner, and to every people a guide." *

There are many more ayat that tell the same story. People asking miracles
and him saying I am just a man, just like you, only a warner. A clear proof
that Muhammad never performed any miracles is in this verse where it says
that people rejected even other messengers who came with miracles and clear
signs, meaning miracles are not helpful.

* *Q. 3: 184 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/003.qmt.html#003.184>*
 Then if they reject thee, so were rejected messengers before thee, who came
with Clear Signs, Books of dark prophecies, and the Book of Enlightenment. *

In the above verses Muhammad is denying any supernatural power. If he could
perform the miracles attributed to him in those Ahadith, what is the meaning
of these verses? In the following verse he clearly rejects miracles as the
proof of prophethood comparing them to witchcrafts.

Q. 2: 3 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/002.qmt.html#002.003>*
 Their hearts toying as with trifles. The wrong-doers conceal their private
counsels, (saying), "Is this (one) more than a man like yourselves? Will ye
go to witchcraft with your eyes open?"
*

He was right! What is the use of miracles anyway? Miracles may be a proof
for those who witness them, but mean nothing to others. Muhammad was right
in emphasizing that the real miracle is his message or the Quran, because
that is what really counts. Although this is a valid principle, Quran is no
miracle at all. It is a book full of errors and inconsistencies.

I do not see Muhammad as a superior human being for two reasons.

a)      Many of Ahadith and verses from Quran, if right, reveal him as an
angry, ruthless, unforgiving, deceitful, and impious man. Acts like looting
merchant caravans, killing those who decide to have their own faith and not
follow him, cursing his enemies, treating women as second class citizens and
calling them deficient in intelligence, assassinating cowardly his opponents
like a common gangster, and many more acts like these are not precisely
spiritual characteristics that I seek in a man I would like to follow and
emulate. His deeds are far from the deeds of an  "honored messenger" as he
claimed to be in Q. 69:40
<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/069.qmt.html#069.040>

b)     Today's modern Muslims, especially those whose standard of ethics is
colored by western/humanistic precepts of right and wrong try to distance
themselves from those hadithes that depict Muhammad as a ruthless immoral
and unethical gangster. They deny the validity of those hadithes and all
what shows Muhammad in a negative light. However, if those hadithes and
verses are forged, then the whole validity of Islam crumbles and there is no
reason for anyone to believe in a mythological figure whose real life and
words is not known.
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