Islam Dismantled

by Sujit Das

  Say: ‘I am only a human like you…’ (Q: 18.110)

  Qur’an also says, “… Allah is the Absolute, Owner of praise” (Q: 2.267). But another verse just goes in opposite direction, where Muhammad completely reverses his role. As a result, Allah becomes Muhammad’s sycophant. Allah declared in His Qur’an,

  Lo! Allah and His angels pray peace to Prophet. O ye who believe also shower praises on him and salute him with a worthy salutation. (Q: 33.56).

  This is the height of Qur’anic stupidity. Why Allah needs to pray peace to His messenger? If Allah is the only God then He is praying to whom? If Allah is the only Owner of praises, then why Qur’an also instructs Muslims to salute Muhammad? In all other religions, it is man who worships God, but in Islam, it is God who worships man (Muhammad). Then, who is the real God of Muslims – Allah or Muhammad? Who is inferior – the God or the man? Muslim’s five times prayer is actually meant for whom – Allah or Muhammad?

  Allah specifically told Muslims not to worship anyone except Allah.

  Surely I am Allah, there is no god but I, therefore serve Me and keep up prayer for My remembrance. (Q: 20.14).

  But during Muhammad’s lifetime, his followers used to worship him like a living God and Muhammad did not object to it. Bukhari recorded,

  Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas; Abu Bakr said, ‘To proceed, if you used to worship Muhammad, then Muhammad is dead, but if anyone of you used to worship Allah, then Allah is alive and shall never die’. (Bukhari: 5.59.733).

  Since Allah is the Absolute, Owner of praise; associating someone else with Allah is the most dreadful sin in Islam. In the strict Qur’anic terminology this is known as “Shirk”. Qur’an says,

  Allah does not forgive (the sin of inventing an) association with Him, but He forgives other sins to whomsoever He will. He who associates with Allah has invented a great sin (Q: 4.48).

  Allah forgives not that anyone should be associated with Him (Allah); less than that He forgives to whomsoever He will. Whoso associates with Allah anything, has gone astray into manifest error. (Q: 4.116).

  But Muhammad had committed this sin. “Shahada”, the basic confession for every Muslim, associates the name of Muhammad with that of Allah in the same sentence – “La ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasul Allah”. This is how praising Muhammad is an integral part of the daily prayers of the Muslims. This is a serious blasphemy. Since the earth is divided into several time zones, and every moment somewhere on the earth, there are some Muslims praying to Allah facing Mecca, this unpardonable sin is being committed by the Muslims in turn ever since the birth of Islam. What an irony! Muhammad committed this offensive sin for the first time, and since then Muslims are doing it again and again, but till date, no one amongst them ever noticed it. We wonder why Allah is still silent.

  Muhammad repeatedly advised Muslims not to disobey Allah’s instructions, but in many instances, he did not follow what he preached.

  Any daytime sexual activity during the fasting days is forbidden (Q: 2.187). But Muhammad slept with Umm Salama during her period, kissed her while fasting and used to take bath from the same pot after having sex under a woolen sheet (Bukhari: 1.6.319). Also he used to kiss and embrace (his wives) during fasting (Bukhari: 3.31.149). Sucking was the favorite sexual activity of Muhammad. He used to kiss and suck Aisha’s tongue while they were fasting (Sunnan Abu Dawud: 13.2380).

  Muhammad also violated Allah’s rule on dower (mehr) and the time of waiting (idda) in marrying a divorced/widowed woman. In Sharia law (Islamic law), the payment of mehr is compulsory in marriages, and widows to wait four months and ten days for re-marriage. Qur’an says,

  Give women their dowries freely, but if they are pleased to offer you any of it, consume it good and smooth. (Q: 4.4).

  And those of you who die and leave wives behind such wives shall wait by themselves for four months and ten (nights). When they have reached the end of their waiting period, there shall be no offence for you in whatever they choose for themselves kindly. Allah is Aware of what you do. (Q: 2.234).

  After attacking Khaybar, Muhammad took as a captive a beautiful teenage-girl, named Safiyyah, and married her without paying any dowry (Bukhari: 5.59.523, 524). To hide his treachery, Muhammad claimed that marrying Safiyyah was in itself a respect for her; her dowry was her manumission (freeing somebody from slavery) from being a sex-slave to Muhammad (Muslim: 8.3326). Nowhere in the Qur’an Allah has made it legal to use manumission of a slave-woman to be used as her dowry. Muhammad simply invented this rule according to his convenience.

  Before falling into the hands of this perverted man, Safiyyah was the legal wife of a Jewish Chief. Muhammad had killed her husband after subjecting him to brutal torture. When Muhammad had satisfied his lust for blood, on the same night he took Safiyyah into his tent to have sex with her. He was supposed to have waited for four months and ten days before he could even touch her but he did not do that. He was so lustful that he never bothered to obey Allah’s instruction, and took the new captive girl on the same day she became a widow by Muhammad himself. Bukhari (4.52.143) says that Muhammad married Safiyyah because she was beautiful and gave a grand feast at the wedding, and then he had forceful sex with her.

  Allah put a restriction on the number of wives, which Muhammad did not obey.

  If you fear that you cannot act justly towards the orphans, then marry such women as seem good to you; two, three, four of them. (Q: 4.3).

  Some Islamic sources confirm that he married at least twenty-two times. After his shameful marriage with Zaynab, the wife of his adopted son, Zayd, Allah gave a restriction that he could not collect any more wives.

  It is not lawful for thee (to marry more) women after this, nor to change them for (other) wives, even though their beauty attract thee, except any thy right hand should possess (as handmaidens). (Q: 33.52).

  But Muhammad married at least thirteen times after this.

  Muhammad also violated the Qur’anic law on the punishment of sex offenders. Pre-marital sex and extra-marital sex are two most serious offences. Allah instructed in His Qur’an,

  You shall lash the fornicatress and the fornicator each with a hundred lashes. In the religion of Allah, let no tenderness for them seize you if you believe in Allah and the Last Day; and let their punishment be witnessed by a party of believers. (Q: 24.2).

  But Muhammad did not apply this Qur’anic rule when his friend admitted having committed a punishable offence (sexual) because the man prayed with him (Bukhari: 8.82.812). Just for praying to Allah his punishment was forgiven. But how could Muhammad override Allah by violating the relevant Qur’anic verse?

  A man and a woman who are not close relatives (i.e., those who are not in the prohibited class for marriage purposes) cannot, under any circumstances, be alone together. This moral guardianship is endorsed in the Qur’an,

  Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: And Allah is well acquainted with all that they do. (Q: 24.30).

  Muhammad violated the above Qur’anic code of conduct. He had an adulterous relation with his first cousin-sister, Umm Hani bint Abu Talib, who was a married woman. He used to sleep in her house if no one was around. Once Muhammad was sleeping at Ka’ba, but at nightfall, he stealthily went to Umm Hani’s house and spent the night with her. When the people did not find him at Ka’ba, they went looking for him and when he was discovered in the house of Umm Hani, he was embarrassed, so was Umm Hani. This was the night of Muhammad’s famous journey to Jerusalem and paradise from Umm Hani’s house (more precisely, from her bed). When this adulterous affair was leaked out, Muhammad had to leave Mecca and settle in Medina. Afterwards, when he conquered Mecca, he went to Umm Hani’s house and openly stayed there overnight. Also, following Hadith demonstrates Muhammad’s sexual attitude towards single women, divorced or widowed, rich or poor, which clearly violates the Qur’an.

  A young princess, Jauniyaa (a princess) was brought to Muhammad to ha
ve sex with him but she was reluctant to give herself to him; Muhammad was angry and raised his hand to beat her… (Bukhari: 7.63.182)

  Why hundred lashes were not given to him every time he crossed the limit?

  Muhammad violated the Qur’anic rule on sex with menstruating women. According to Qur’an; menstruation is an injury and Muslims are prohibited to have sex during a woman’s period. After the period is over, man can have sex in any manner, at any time and at any place.

  They ask you about menstruation. Say: ‘It is an injury. Stay away from women during their menstrual periods and do not approach them until they are cleansed. When they have cleansed themselves, then come to them from where Allah has commanded you. (Q: 2.222).

  But Muhammad did not spare his wives when they were in heavy menstruation. He used to order Aisha to put on an Izar (dress worn below the waist) and fondled her in bath even when she was in her periods (menses) (Bukhari: 1.6.298). Often he would put his cheek and chest in between the naked thighs of a menstruating Aisha (Sunnan Abu Dawud: 1.270). Though caressing and foreplay do not necessarily constitute actual coition, we should not forget that these lustful activities are just the beginning of further sexual gratification.

  Qur’an (2.187, 197) prohibits having sex with women when in ihram (purity state spent inside a mosque) or when performing Hajj. But Muhammad had violated this injunction. Once when he went to Mecca to perform Hajj and a proposal of marriage was offered to him, he quickly accepted the offer and married the woman even though he was in sacred state wearing ihram (Sunnan Abu Dawud: 2.10.1840).

  From the above examples it is very clear that Muhammad did not have much regard for the Qur’an or even to his own words when it came to marrying women and having forceful sex with them.

  Fasting is an important religious practice for Muslims which was actually a pagan tradition. Muhammad reintroduced fasting during the month of Ramadan, but exempted himself because he found it difficult to abstain from food and water from dawn to dusk. He ate whenever he pleased. Ibn Sa’d wrote (cited Sina, 2008, p. 99), “ The Messenger of Allah used to say ‘We the Prophets are required to eat our morning food later than others and hurry in breaking our fast in the evening’.”

  These are just a few examples of how Muhammad did anything he liked, placed himself above Allah’s law, broke moral and ethical codes whenever it suited him, and then made his Allah reveal a verse to confirm that whatever he had done was all right. Aisha, the child bride of Muhammad had noticed it and perhaps sarcastically or innocently told him,

  Narrated Aisha: … I said (to the Prophet),’ I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires’. (Bukhari: 6.60.311).

  It is expected that a Prophet, who claimed to be God’s messenger on earth, should demonstrate the wisdom and infallibility of the divine law through his own action. But since Muhammad had not done it deliberately, it implies that he was neither a representative of God nor the model of action, for being above Allah’s law. Also, if Allah gives his Prophet dispensation from His own law, then Allah’s law is no more than a joke because if His chosen Prophet himself cannot carry it out, then how can Allah expect the ordinary believers to obey His commandments?

  Qur’an is a mockery of divine law and Muhammad’s own action proves it. Qur’an was Muhammad’s own composition, and thus, he could treat himself as he wished and Allah was only a supposition to serve his purpose. Therefore, if Qur’an is truly God’s words, then by disobeying God, Muhammad surely goes to hell and Muslims are also destined to hell; and if Qur’an is false, then Muhammad’s prophethood stands on what ground? In any case Muhammad is the loser.

  Muhammad seemed to have not much faith on Allah during wars. In none of the wars he waged, he did put his life in danger. He encouraged martyrdom amongst his followers, but the precautions he used to take for himself were most unprophetlike. He often stood behind the fighting Muslims wearing two coats of chain-link mail (flexible armour of interlinked rings), one on top of another. The double armouring would make him too heavy and his movements used to be difficult. He could not even stand in this condition, let alone walking. While in this awkward position, he used to shout towards the front and encourage his men to show bravery and not to fear death, promising them high-bosomed virgins, etc., in paradise. Sometimes he used to grab a handful of sand and throw it in the air in the direction of the enemy cursing them in the name of Allah (Sina, 2008, pp. 99, 100). This is the best he had ever contributed in a war with the nonbelievers. But while collecting the booty or captured women for sex, he was well ahead of everyone. He convinced the believers that use of booty from the spoils of war are lawful and good and he used to collect one-fifth of the booty in Allah’s name.

  And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger… (Q: 8.41)

  It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah used to give (from the spoils of war) to small troops seat on expeditions …. and Khums (one-fifth of the total spoils) was to be reserved (for Allah and His Apostle) in all cases. (Muslim: 19.4337)

  Allah divided the booty stolen fro m the first caravan after he made spoils permissible. He gave four-fifths to those He had allowed to take it and one-fifth to His Apostle. (Ishaq: 288)

  Muhammad was like a parasitic vampire. What Muhammad wanted to mean by saying, “booty is for Allah and His Apostle”? Did Muhammad throw booty in the direction of the Ka’ba and ask Allah to grab whatever He wanted, and Allah came out hurriedly with a gunny to collect His share and again hurriedly go inside the Ka’ba and wait eagerly for the next arrival of booty? Or, was this a trick and Muhammad got benefited out of this trick?

  All faithful Muslims offer their prayers five times a day to acknowledge and adore Allah facing in the same direction. In Islam, this direction is called as “Qibla”, i.e., the direction of worshipping God. Bukhari (6.60.20) says that every nation has its Qibla. The sacredness of this direction is confirmed in the Qur’an.

  And every one has a direction to which he should turn, (Q: 2.148)

  And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque. (Q: 2.149)

  And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque; and wherever you are turn your faces towards it. (Q: 2.150).

  However, once Muhammad declared Jerusalem, the most sacred Jewish city, as the Qibla for the Arab Muslims. He did it purely from political purpose, though he had to violate the Qur’an. He thought the Jews would accept him as Prophet. But the Jews refused which turned Muhammad against them. So after treating Jerusalem as Qibla for about sixteen months he changed it for Ka’ba, a sanctuary of Mecca his own hometown. If Qibla is so sacred, why he had changed it to Jerusalem and again back to Mecca? Is there any doubt that the change of Qibla from Ka’ba to Jerusalem and again back to Ka’ba was not God’s will but a selfish desire of Muhammad? Following ahadith prove that he did not believe in the sacredness of Qibla.

  Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar: People say, “Whenever you sit for answering the call of nature, you should not face the Qibla or Baitul - Maqdis (Jerusalem).” I told them, ‘Once I went up the roof of our house and I saw Allah’s Apostle answering the call of nature while sitting on two bricks facing Baitul -Maqdis (Jerusalem)’. (Bukhari: 1.4.147).

  Narrated Abu Aiyub Al - Ansari: Allah’s Apostle said, “If anyone of you goes to an open space for answering the call of nature he should neither face nor turn his back towards the Qibla. (Bukhari: 1.4.146).

  Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar: I went up to the roof … and saw Allah’s Apostle answering the call of nature facing Sham (Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon regarded as one country) with his back towards the Qibla. (Bukhari: 1.4.150)

  Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar: Once I went up the roof of our house and saw Allah’s Apostle answering the call of nature while sitting over two bricks facing Baitul -Maqdis (Jerusalem). (Bukhari: 1.4.151)

  From the above narrati
ons, it is very clear that Muhammad had no respect either for Ka’ba or Jerusalem. He had instructed his followers to respect Qibla by not facing or turning back towards this holy direction while answering the call of nature, but he never bothered to follow it.

  All the above points lead to one logical conclusion – the “Allah” of Islam is not real. Muhammad was a charlatan and Allah was his “puppet” who had spoken whatever Muhammad wished. Muhammad’s own action proves that Allah is a myth – conscious or subconscious fabrication of an imposter.

  Muhammad saw the Arabs as either good fighters in his cause, enemy infidels, or useless hypocrites. Whenever Muhammad disliked anyone, he often used to call him a hypocrite. Hypocrisy is the worst form of unbelief, and it carries a terrible punishment under the Islamic law. Bukhari wrote,

  The Prophet said, ‘The signs of a hypocrite are three: -1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. -2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). - 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest’. (Bukhari: 1.2.32).

  The irony is that, according to his own definition, Muhammad himself was the biggest hypocrite as we are going to see now.

  Telling lie to kill the enemies and to advance the cause of Islam is allowed in Islam. This is called “al-taqiyya” (holy deception). In the spirit of taqiyya, Muslims can tell a lie the way we breathe. They even lie to each other. Taqiyya was originally a Shiaa practice. The Shiaas used to protect their faith from Sunnis by practicing taqiyya (Miller, 1997, p. 433; Lewis, 2003, p. 25). However, now the whole Muslim world practices it. In Islam, deception and faith mutually support one another. Muhammad even allowed his followers to abuse him verbally to win the trust of the enemies (cited Sina, 2008, p. 57). Also, on several occasions he broke his promise for a political advantage.