Empiree: No. He is not christian nor jewish. He is combination of jew and christian known as zionist. He is a trained Zionist to do what he does for living (anti islam). He doesnt know anything about islam but twist text to confuse weak ones
He is an Arab Egyptian whose real name is Usama Dakok. He has a scholarship in Islamic theology and has mastery in Arabic language. He grew up in Egypt but later migrated to the US. He has a first hand experience of Islamic psychology and this forms his engagement style with Muslims and Muslim apologist. He is not a Zionist bro. Not all anti-islamic apologist are Zionist, most did it out of love of Muslims and hatred for Islamic ideology.
He also has first degree in Islamic theology with masters degree. This means that he has more authority to speak on Islamic-related matters than all the nairaland resident Islamic scholars, Empire inclusive.
It seem this post might've been inspired by my recent post on effeminate men and emasculate women - 8. Curse & Put out Effeminate men and Emasculate women from your houses, where I explained that the behavior of such men and women may in fact be inborn and it'll be wrong to curse them and kick them out.
We can't take the words of the scriptures as absolute guide. The scriptures are filled with plenty of questionable information. The Qur'an, New Testament and Old Testament all contain ideas that we've quietly rejected.
Homosexuals do not necessarily engage in anal sex. And not all homosexuals are promiscuous & indulge in anal sex with multiple partners.
How then do you explain intersex? Like persons that are genetically males but phenotypically females? There are all kinds of inborn anomalies in sexual orientations in human species, you cannot absolutely overrule the probability that homosexuality is one of these inborn anomalies.
That's the thing. Do you believe that the human fetus is ever a blood clot(Qur'an 23:14)? Do you believe that human sexual fluid or gamete comes from between the lower back and the ribs(Qur'an86:6-7)? The Qur'an apparently teaches all these, you don't enforce such teachings, so why enforce the teachings criminalizing homosexuality?
The prophet also told us in hadith that senna is a cure for all diseases and that alcohol is not a medicine. Do enjoin such teachings?
I disagree with you here. Homosexuality is a serious sexual perversion that must never be tolerated in any society. There is no any definitive scientific proof that concludes that 'homosexual' urge in in-born. This is an excuse made up by the proponents of this evil practices to make it acceptable in any given society. It shouldn't even be open to civil debate but for the moral degradation of Europe and the US, the advocates are punishing a satanic agenda to the public.
AbuTwins: Do the People of the Book have a definite definition for a Prophet, Messenger or simple Cleric?
Anyways! In Islam He is a Prophet sent by Allah to the People of Sodom as seen in the first paragraph of the post. You can also see the bolded verses from post. Which people of the Book are we to ask? And are we to ask them if pure water is colorless?
Do not disobey Allah and his messenger. For clarification, ask me because that is the instruction of allah and his messenger. You can't life Bible stories and characters and still claim originality. The quran is to be judged by what is written in the Torah and the Injil and not the other way round. And I tell you, Lot is not a prophet; the quran is wrong here.
Empiree: You are shifting goal post. Anyways, whats is your understanding of Q5:51?. If your understanding is what it is, how then can you harmonize and deduce Q5:51 from these other ayat Q3:113 and Q60:8?
A friend of mine told me 'You can tell a Muslim that fire is hot , but if the Qur'an says it is not , they will continue to burn themselves . They get an "A" for dedication , but an "F" for Logic'.
You need not be a first class student to know that there is a contradiction in the ayah you provided but, by using the hadith and the tafsir formula, the contradictions will be cleared ONLY by an authorized scholar. This is why informed people see Islam as a joke promoted by illiterate Arab barbarians in the 7th century. I would have loved to explain the reasons for the contradictions, as I always did, but I won't spoon feed you much; you are smarter than that.
Empiree: kini jagbajagba ti man you nso?. We talking about average citizens you talking about politics/politicians. Who them help?. This lady saw ads and went there for job to put food on her table and to feed family but you talking about politicians?. Where is your humanity?. How I wish I own business in nija. I will employe based on qualifications not religion. The only time you employe Muslims only is something specifically defined for Muslims only like cleaning masjid etc.
Later you will tell me how CHRISTIANs are living and Christlike. Rubbish
You wanna drag me into politics bro; your non-stop deflection strategy that you are notorious for. It is a fact that if your name is not Mohammed, Abdullahi, Usman, Abubakar, etc, there is a limit you can go in getting jobs or contract in corporate Nigeria. Many people answer Muslim names to enter Nigeria army as a RECRUIT, ordinary RECRUIT.
As I said earlier, don't accuse others of what is ingrained in your religion. Read the 'Reliance of the traveler', a trusted Islamic book on how Muslims should treat non-Muslims in a case of a corporate existence (quran 5:51).
Empiree: bro, I thought you are a realist. Get over religious sentiment. The lady that sent this to me is a family member. You need to condemn wrong when you see one. Wrong is wrong.
This is religious discrimination at job opportunity. This is not a hadith. No wonder there are many Muslims who converted to CHRISTIANITY because of jobs not convictions. Later they start saying they are exmuslims.
Nigeria govt is a bogus. Isn't there laws that protect citizens in this case. What sort of nonesense is this.
The acting chief Justice of kebbi state was not confirmed because she is a Christian. Gbajabiamila have to become a compulsory Muslim to become the speaker of the house of assembly. All the service chiefs in the security agencies are Muslims. The three arms of government are ALL headed by Muslims. Muslims are worst when it comes to play religious and identity politics worldwide, the ummah comes first before nations or race.
Islam is evil bro and the world is waking up to this reality.
Empiree: See CHRISTIANs in Nigeria. Wallahi, I'm sad at this. Yet they claim Muslims want to islamise Nigeria.
This text looks like an hadith, that is a rumour or Chinese whisper. I thought you are wiser than this; come on mehn, I expected something more reasonable. Are you still fasting?
Empiree: I am sure many of your fellow christians disagree with you on this. You are less and less sensible these days. What happened to you, bro.
Tintinz and usermane have opened their mind to reality and I know you are getting there. Don't let your arrogance destroy your ability to critical reasoning. You are smarter than allah and his messenger.
Rashduct4luv: The First and the Last is Allah! And what dissaster are you talking about?
Who amalgamated it? Who named the book Bible? Why lie the Qur'an recognises Chronicles, numbers, proverbs, Esther...? Taurah was given to Moses, Injeel to Jesus, Zabur to David and Abraham and a host of others too received revelations.
Where is the Gospel of Jesus himself? Lost. Eye-witness account can only be called narration or Hadith! And you forgot that hear the Bible contains lots of hear-says.
Mr Luke says in Luke 1 vs 1-4 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
Do you know who 'Theophilus' is?
Alhamdulillah, you have let the cat out of the bag.
A Book written in 23yrs will be more authentic, easily preserved, easily memorised, error free than a Book written in 2500yrs as you claimed. No one has ever memorised the Bible in it's original manuscript form.
As for your claim in red above, Muhammad is unlettered and as such can't read nor write so he would need people to write down the inspiration! Go from the east to the west to the north and south the Qur'an in it's Arabic language is one.
Can you list the authors of the Bible and tell us where the original manuscripts written by the authors are?
How many people memorised the Gospel of Jesus in Aramaic?
The alpha and omega of Islam is Mohammed while Allah is the messenger delivering alleged convenient messages to Mohammed. I have shown you numerous hadith of sahih bukhari that confirmed that almost all the revelations in the Quran are wishes and desires of Mohammed but you deliberately decided to ignore them.
On the amalgamation of the Torah, you need to obey Allah who asked you to seek clarification from the people of the book. Its very unfortunate that Muslims seem to be smarter than Allah; instead of seeking clarification, you seek argument and bias. As I said earlier, the Bible is a record of events that lasted over 2500 years and locations, some are recorded Jewish history, some are recorded laws and customs for the people to follow in their daily moral life, some are dietary laws (Immediate burial of the dead, not drinking, not eating camels or animal deem unclean, etc) while the rest are the books of prophesies, from Ezekiel to the book of Malachi.
The new testament, or what you call the injil, is the recorded history of the Christian era, from the biography of Jesus (the first 4 books), the activities of the early Christian community to the book of revelation (at the island of Patmos). The new testament era is what we call the Judeo-christian era because it has it foundation on the old Jewish text and religion.
You made a claim that the Quran does not recognize other books like the numbers, the kings, Esther, the chronicles etc, can you shoe me, in the Quran, where the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy were listed as the Torah? And to clear your Islamic ignorance, because Mohammed was an illiterate and ignorant man too, there is no any book given to Moses, Jesus or David. What was recorded was an event about them, the laws (from God) they gave to the people and all these were written down by scribes at that time and documented as sacred and religious text.
For David, the psalms are songs (David was a song writer) whose inspiration are deemed divine hence also used for daily prayer both in the Jewish and Christian religion. The book of Psalm contain the songs and inspirations of other prophets (like Ezekiel, Esther etc, but are very minor) but the large part of Psalms (over 90%) was written by David.
Now back to the critical analysis of the Quran, you have refused to provide the names of the 42 scribes who write the Quran. You also know that, during the time of Mohammed, the traditional Arabic letters do not have diacritical marks which means that one word can have about three to four meanings. The diacritical marks were introduced over 250 years after the time of Uthman jbn affan, so my questions are:
1) Who supervised the introduction of the diacritical marks?
2) How do they treat the obvious biases in the meanings of some words in the Quran after the introduction of the critical marks?
3) Is Allah not aware there was no critical mark which will surely lead to the future editing of the Quran to accommodate critical marks in the text hence leading to obvious biases and biases and contradictions?
4) Going by the aforementioned, is the claim that the Quran was 100% preserved still tenable at this modern age and time?
You equally refused to touch where Umar jbn kathab and the blindman influenced the revelations of the Quran. If you check page 18, I provided all the relevant hadith.
iRyan: you aren't the only one who's allowed to be devout or hold on strongly to whatever they choose to believe in. There are thousands of videos on YouTube that point out so many errors or the many things off about Christianity and yet that hasn't shaken the faith of so many christian believers but a Christian comes here, opens a thread pinpointing errors in Islam and expects Muslims to have a change of heart cornering their belief and even goes as far as claiming they are under satanic shackles like wtf. If you as a christian can justify whatever error in your belief that someone points out to you, then a Muslim should also be allowed to justify whatever you deem as inappropriate in his belief.
This site is both for personal studies and engaging in comparative religion: it is also for christian and Islamic apologetic exercise. Your quest for moral equivalence does not make sense because both religions do not teach people the same thing and both religions shape society in a diametrically opposite directions. You don't need to stifle a healthy debate all in the name to sound good or neutral. This is Nairaland 'religion section', please allow us to express ourselves.
iRyan: Religion in general is. It isn't peculiar to Islam alone. Religion and ideologies we were born into exacts a strong hold on you that it is almost impossible to untangle ourselves from their grip. I was Christian before I left so I know what I am talking about. Look at you bashing a diff religion from the one you practice, if I should present to you compelling reasons on why you should quit your religion you prolly won't accede but here you are wanting Muslims to leave their religion cos someone is giving them reasons on why they should leave. If you can't be convinced out of your religion why do you expect others to be convinced out of their own beliefs?
Below is another so-called revelation adjusted to accommodate the concern of a blind man.
Narrated Al-Bara: There was revealed: 'Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and those who strive and fight in the Cause of Allah.' (4.95).{the initial revelation}.
The Prophet said, "Call Zaid for me and let him bring the board, the inkpot and the scapula bone (or the scapula bone and the ink pot)."' Then he said, "Write: 'Not equal are those Believers who sit...", and at that time 'Amr bin Um Maktum, the blind man was sitting behind the Prophet. He said, "O Allah's Apostle! What is your order for me (as regards the above Verse) as I am a blind man?" So, instead of the above Verse, the following Verse was revealed: 'Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) except those who are disabled (by injury or are blind or lame etc.) and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah.' (4.95){adjusted verse}. (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 6, Book 61, Number 512)
So Allah has to immediately provide another revelation to accommodate the concern of a blind man. Was Allah not aware that the blind man was there before giving the initial revelation? Must Allah wait for the blind man to complain before making an adjustment to his revaluation? The logical answer is, the revelation was Mohammed's person decision and need to adjust it to protect the interest of the blind man in the war planning room.
Narrated `Umar (bin Al-Khattab): My Lord agreed with me in three things:
1. I said, "O Allah's Messenger ( ﷺ ), I wish we took the station of Abraham as our praying place (for some of our prayers). So came the Divine Inspiration: And take you (people) the station of Abraham as a place of prayer (for some of your prayers e.g. two rak`at of Tawaf of Ka`ba)". (2.125)
2. And as regards the (verse of) the veiling of the women, I said, 'O Allah's Messenger ( ﷺ )! I wish you ordered your wives to cover themselves from the men because good and bad ones talk to them.' So the verse of the veiling of the women was revealed.
3. Once the wives of the Prophet ( ﷺ ) made a united front against the Prophet ( ﷺ ) and I said to them, 'It may be if he (the Prophet) divorced you, (all) that his Lord (Allah) will give him instead of you wives better than you.' So this verse (the same as I had said) was revealed." (66.5). {sahih bukhari 8:53}.
From the above, one can see that the 3 so-called revelations were actually the opinions of Umar Ibn kathab. Whatever Umar suggested (and it makes sense to Mohammed), Allah reveals as part of the Quran. If this is not 100% human intervention in the Quran, what's it?
sagenaija: You've got it. He offers no straightforward answers to questions then turns around to say he has refuted his opponent or talks about repetitive questions.
Only the Moslem mind can see two totally contradictory statements or injunctions in their books and find nothing wrong with that.
"Common sense" or "rational thinking " seem go be far from them. The bottom line is to defend Mohamed at all cost - whether through lies or deceit.
The issue is that when Muslims are cornered, they play the 'you don't understand Arabic' card. In the screen shot, Hafs used the word 'qattala' (when translated into English alphabets) for 'fight' while warsh used the word 'faqtalu' for 'kill' (for the same ayah) and they will expect one to take it as the same meaning, that's crazy.
Rashduct4luv: Actually, it is like you are truly confused or let's just say mistaken!
Where did you see the word "Bible" mentioned in the Qur'an?
What was mentioned was "Injeel" of Jesus son Mary and "Taorah" of Moses (Peace be on them all). The Bible today was written by over 40 people spread over several hundreds of years!
Alternatively, you can answer the question who is the author of the Bible?
Christianity and Judaism, unlike Islam, is not based on the testimony of one man who does not even have an eyewitness to confirm if it was true that any god talked to him. The alpha and omega of Islam is Mohammed. Its is good you do a textual criticism of the Bible but you can never do a textual criticism of the Quran, all the various hadith and all the various seerah because they are compete disaster.
The Bible, as you rightly claimed, has about 40 authors that span a period of 2500 years which led to the birth of the Jewish Torah and the Christan injil, the amalgamation which is called, in English language, the Bible. These authors are Jewish scribes who were moved, by the Spirit of God, who wrote what they saw (especially the first books of moses, Joshua, the kings, the chronicles, numbers, Esther, psalms, proverbs and the books of the major and the minor prophets) and this is what the Quran called 'the Taurat'.
Now come to the time of the Messiah, the injil, it was written by eyewitnesses who saw and witnessed the life and time of Jesus. The first 4 chapters are called the gospel (Matthew, mark, Luke, John), follow by what happened in the early Christian communities (the act of the apostles), the epistles to the early churches or their church leaders, and lastly, the revelation of John the beloved (at the island of Patmos in today Turkey).
So the compilation of these books are what is called the bible as we know it today. And unlike the Quran, it is never the testimony of one-man and the events didn't happen in only two locations (Mecca and Medina) but in many geographical locations. The Bible accounts covers over 2500 year span while the Quran covers events of only 23 years.
So the question you need to ask yourself is, why are events that covers over 2500 years more accurate than events that covers only 23yrs? You also asked for the authors and this is a good question and I can't provide all the names now because I don't know their names offhand. And I will throw the same question back to you, it is on record that Mohammed used about 42 scribes to write the Quran, can you please provide all their names?
[quote author=true2god post=79123869][/quote]The second respondent was sincere enough that they have different meanings as used in the text but your colleague wanted us to believe otherwise. It all still boils down on the fact that different readings of the Quran are NEVER 100% the same both in pronunciation and meaning, as Nairaland sheiks like you make us to believe.
[quote author=true2god post=79123286][/quote]So we should go for the word 'kill' (the Hafs rendition you screenshot) as the appropriate word used in the text while we ignore the warsh's rendition. If it takes a linguistic lessons to clear up the contradictions, subjectively, in two various readings of the Quran then it is an issue. It is so obvious that a traditional reciter of warsh may not go with you on this and since I don't know anything in Arabic language, I have to visit 'Quora' for help (I don't trust nairaland Muslims and they don't trust me either).
Empiree: No more repetitive questions and answers. I am tired of this. Go back to previous pages where this was answered multiple times. Plus, my screenshots clearly affirmed my point. Help yourself
Empiree: for the last time, "fought, killed" are not the words used in the Qur'an.
"Qattala" is used.
The guy asked a valid question which you technically evaded. Which of the two words is appropriate in the text, 'fought' or 'killed'? And if you say the word used is 'qattala', what does it mean?
Empiree: Apply a little bit of wisdom. So you expect Jesus to go around and killing pigs and breaking crosses?. This is foolishness.
This Hadith is symbolic. It is symbolically talking about end of tyranny who were cursed by Allah and turned to apes and pigs Q 5:60
Apes and pigs mentioned in this Ayah doesn't necessarily mean pigs in literal sense either. It could mean their behaviors. Today they behave like pigs and want the rest of the world to be like them. So Jesus killing pigs symbolises killing the behavioral system of the animal. So sorry, I don't expect him to go around and killing every pig just like when he returns he will break the cross. He will break the cross means bye bye to Christianity. It is a symbol.
Allah knows best I know you are allergic to this phrase
Allah must be very weak to keep us waiting for over 2000 years and still haven't broken the cross. He will wait till infinity to break the cross.
Anyway, allah does not know best. Just a simple 'I don't know' or'I am not sure', you guys cannot say. Why always drag Allah into your delusions.
Empiree: Still on Surah 66:1-5, The Hadith describing the reason for the revelation of verse 66: 4 of Quran in [url=https://www.Volume 3, Book 43, Number 648:/]Sahih Bukhari [/url] Read for yourself. This hadith is true but with understanding (Al-Ahzab 33:28-29), which has related story narrated by Umar bn Khattab(ra) which indicated wives of the prophet(saw) were astonished by luxury stuff.
"I said (to Allah's Apostle) "Invoke Allah to make your followers prosperous for the Persians and the Byzantines have been made prosperous and given worldly luxuries, though they do not worship Allah?' The Prophet was leaning then (and on hearing my speech he sat straight) and said, 'O Ibn Al-Khatttab! Do you have any doubt (that the Hereafter is better than this world)? These people have been given rewards of their good deeds in this world only.' I asked the Prophet".
So Allah SWT revealed the Ayat:
(O Prophet! Say unto thy wives: “If ye desire the world’s life and its adornment, come! I will content you and will release you with a fair release. But if ye desire Allah and His Messenger and the abode of the Hereafter, then lo! Allah hath prepared for the good among you an immense reward”) (Al-Ahzab 33:28-29).
The Prophet (SAW) wives did wish for the worldly gains, The Prophet (S) gave them the choice as stated in the Ayat above, but they always chose the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Yusuf Ali even confirms this by saying :
" We now come to the subject of the position of the Consorts of Purity, the wives of the holy Prophet. Their position was not like that of ordinary women or ordinary wives. They had special duties and responsibilities. The only youthful marriage of the Holy Prophet was his first marriage- that with Hadhrat Khadija, the best of women and the best of wives. He married her fifteen years before he received his call to Apostleship; their married life was twenty-five years and their mutual devotion was of the noblest, judged by spiritual as well as social standards. During her life he had no other wife which was unusual for a man of his standing among his people. When she died his age was 50 and but for two considerations, he would probably never have married again, as he was most abstemious in his physical life. The two considerations which governed his marriage later were : (1) compassion and clemency, as when he wanted to provide for suffering widows, who could not be provided for in any other way in that stage of society; some of them like Sauda had issue by their former marriage, requiring protection; (2) help in his duties of leadership with women who had to be instructed and kept together in the large Muslim family, where women and men had similar social rights. Hadhrat 'Aisha, daughter of Hadhrat Abu Bakr, was clever and learned, and in Hadith she is an important authority on the life of the Prophet. Hadhrat Zainab, daughter of Khuzaima was specially devoted to the poor : she was called the "Mother of the Poor: . The other Zainab, daugher of Jahsh also worked for the poor, for whom she provided from the proceeds of her manual work, as she was skilful in leather in leather work. But all the consorts in their high positions had to work and assist as Mother of the Ummat. Theirs were not idle lives, like those of Odalisques, either for their own pleasure or the pleasure of their husband. They are told here that they had no place in the sacred household if they merely wished for ease or worldly glitter. If such was the case, they would be divorced and amply provided for."
Furthermore, Yusuf Ali states:
" They(wives of the prophet) were all well-doers. But being in their exalted position they had extra responsibility, and they had to be specially careful to discharge it. In the same way their reward would be "great", for higher services bring higher spiritual satisfaction, though they were asked to deny themselves of the ordinary indulgences of this life".
I won't give much time to this propaganda and sugarcoating of facts to make Mohammed and his wives appear like a model home and family. At least, in one occasion, Abu Bakr and Umar ibn kathab (the fathers of Aisha and Hafsa) had slapped their daughters for being too troublesome and disrespectful to Mohammed. This incident is in your sahih Bukhari.
I will go with what the hadith says about their character and not with what a random Muslim apologist tells me. And if they are model wives, as you claim, both ladies (Aisha and Hafsa) will not become sworn enemies to Fatima (Mohammed's only surviving child) after the death of Mohammed. Let's leave this issue for now abeg.
Empiree: Let's analyse what your problem. It is official we have put to rest Hafs and Warsh. Thats out of the way. Now we are dealing with Q66 v 1 in connection with hadith you believe is attributed to the ayah. Let's for the sake of this argument assume it is about about honey but about women.
Oh so you are muhadith now right?. You in the position to tell us which hadith was spoke by prophet now?...continue.
Okay, so your issue with our prophet(saw) is that he slept with a slave or kept breaking his promises?. I am trying to figure out where you stand and what you stand to gain here. Without wasting much time, regardless of what you preconceived notion is, you seem to assume that Mariyahwas his "sex object"?. Well, whatever the secret was, what is clear was that we have evidence that Muhammad(pbuh) married Mariyah. There are sources that tell us that Mariyah was married to the Prophet. So whatever they did was their business.
Here is a documented text to prove this:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) contracted some of his marriages for sociopolitical reasons. His principal concern was the future of Islam. He was interested in strengthening the Muslims by all bonds. That is why he married the young daughter of Abu Bakr, his First Successor, and the daughter of `Umar, his Second Successor. It was by his marriage to Juwayriyyah that he gained the support for Islam of the whole clan of Bani Al-Mustaliq and their allied tribes. It was through marriage to Safiyyah that he neutralized a great section of the hostile Jews of Arabia. By accepting Mariyah, the Copt from Egypt, as his wife, he formed a political alliance with a king of great magnitude. It was also a gesture of friendship with a neighboring king that Muhammad married Zaynab who was presented to him by the Negus of Abyssinia in whose territory the early Muslims found safe refuge
Ibn Kathir is quoted to have said:
Maria al-Qibtiyya (may Allah be pleased with her) is said to have married the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and certainly everyone gave her the same title of respect as the Prophet's wives, 'Umm al Muminin' 'Mother of the Believers'. Muhammad must have come in contact with many of these Copts and listened to their stories. Muhammad's friendship to Christians of Coptic faith is reflected in many aspects of his life. He is known to have had cordial relations with the Negus of Abyssinia, as indicated by the fact that he advised his followers at a time of persecution to flee there. He married a Coptic wife named Mariya, and he is reported to have advised his followers to be especially kind to the Copts of Egypt, considering them his in-laws.
(R.H. Charles, "Vitae Adae et Evae," The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha [Oxford, 1963] Volume 2, p. 294)
Other non Islamic sources list Mariya as the Prophets spouse:
Interestingly you discarded Bukhari here because it doesn't suit you, right....continue
I am not done yet on Q66:1 since you chose to bring it up.
I won't call mariyya a sex object to Mohammed (out of respect) but can call her a concubine. She was a beautiful young girl, together with her sister, gifted to Mohammed by a leader of the old Byzantine Egypt, perhaps as a symbol of peace. Other materials gift, aside the two girls, were equally given to Mohammed.
Mary the copt was never listed in any Islamic source document (hadith or sirah) as one of his wives. As a matter of fact some hadith used the term 'slave for her'. The only leverage she had was bearing a son (who died shortly after) hence elevated her social status among Mohammed's wives and the society.
If she was a wife to Mohammed, Aisha and hafsa will not complain if Mohammed was sleeping with her.
true2god: Sorry bro, during the time of Mohammed there is no any single sahaba that have all the Quran on his head, none, because the Quran had not been codified as a single book as we have today. The compilations and codification was done by Othman ibn affan (over 20 years after the death of Mohammed). In one of the hadith, an ayah was found with only ONE man (and no other person has the ayah except him) and he even threatened not to release it but did for the sake of Allah and his messenger. Not all ayah were committed to memory; some where written on Camel skin, leaves, bones, cloths, etc while some committed few random ayah to memory. And many of the sahabas that committee these few random ayah to memory were killed in the battle of yamama which galvanized the compilation of the Quran as a single text to avoid further loss of the Quran.
This informant is in your sahih bukhari (sahih bukhari 6:61:509).
Narrated Zaid bin Thabit Al-Ansari: who was one of those who used to write the Divine Revelation: Abu Bakr sent for me after the (heavy) casualties among the warriors (of the battle) of yamama (where a great number of Qurra’ were killed). ‘Umar was present with Abu Bakr who said, ‘Umar has come to me and said, The people have suffered heavy casualties on the day of (the battle of) yamama, and I am afraid that there will be more casualties among the Qurra’ (those who know the Qur’an by heart) at other battle-fields, whereby a large part of the Qur’an may be lost, unless you collect it. And I am of the opinion that you should collect the Qur’an.” Abu Bakr added, “I said to ‘Umar, ‘How can I do something which Allah’s Apostle has not done?’ ‘Umar said (to me), ‘By Allah, it is (really) a good thing.’ So ‘Umar kept on pressing, trying to persuade me to accept his proposal, till Allah opened my bosom for it and I had the same opinion as ‘Umar.” (Zaid bin Thabit added Umar was sitting with him (Abu Bakr) and was not speaking. me). “You are a wise young man and we do not suspect you (of telling lies or of forgetfulness): and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah’s Apostle. Therefore, look for the Qur’an and collect it (in one manuscript). ” By Allah, if he (Abu Bakr) had ordered me to shift one of the mountains (from its place) it would not have been harder for me than what he had ordered me concerning the collection of the Qur’an. I said to both of them, “How dare you do a thing which the Prophet has not done?” Abu Bakr said, “By Allah, it is (really) a good thing. So I kept on arguing with him about it till Allah opened my bosom for that which He had opened the bosoms of Abu Bakr and Umar. So I started locating Quranic material and collecting it from parchments, scapula, leaf-stalks of date palms and from the memories of men (who knew it by heart). I found with Khuzaima two Verses of Surat-at-Tauba which I had not found with anybody else, (and they were):– “Verily there has come to you an Apostle (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty He (Muhammad) is ardently anxious over you (to be rightly guided)” (9.128) The manuscript on which the Quran was collected, remained with Abu Bakr till Allah took him unto Him, and then with ‘Umar till Allah took him unto Him, and finally it remained with Hafsa, Umar’s daughter. (Book #60 , Hadith #201 )
Empiree: Fabrication! Common sense didnt tell you that if sheep ate verse of Quran written on a paper, did sheep also eat that same verse from people's memory?. Quran was committed to memory as it was revealed before written down Use your brain.
And @bold, do you even believe in Muhammad's Quran you are asking for?. I guess not
Sorry bro, during the time of Mohammed there is no any single sahaba that have all the Quran on his head, none, because the Quran had not been codified as a single book as we have today. The compilations and codification was done by Othman ibn affan (over 20 years after the death of Mohammed). In one of the hadith, an ayah was found with only ONE man (and no other person has the ayah except him) and he even threatened not to release it but did for the sake of Allah and his messenger. Not all ayah were committed to memory; some where written on Camel skin, leaves, bones, cloths, etc while some committed few random ayah to memory. And many of the sahabas that committee these few random ayah to memory were killed in the battle of yamama which galvanized the compilation of the Quran as a single text to avoid further loss of the Quran.
This informant is in your sahih bukhari (sahih bukhari 6:61:509).
Empiree: Ask any muslim to recite surah ikhlas for you offhand. He/she will recite exactly what is in the Book. Ask he/she to write it down in arabic, he/she won't fail to do so. I am not talking about lazy muslim. I am talking about learned ones.
That's the issue when one don't understand the foundation of a text, he will only commit to memory without knowledge and understanding. It is nursery pupils that will recite 'A for apple', 'B for ball', etc. If one ask most of them to start writing the letters now, many of them can't. It is unfortunate this same scenario repeats itself among the adult Muslims.