The Authenticity of Koranic Revelations

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QURANIC REVELATIONS A CRITICAL STUDY UNDER THE

SEARCHLIGHT OF TRUTH AND LOGIC

By, Sujit Das

An excerpt from anextensive and comprehensive debate (Ghamidi et. al, 2007. p. 52) betweenJaved Ahmad Ghamidi,Khalid Zaheervs.Ali Sina, is as follows;

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Ghamidi / Zaheer: We have been informed in the Quran that the message of

God Almighty comes to the messengers through angels.

Ali Sina: By whom? By the Quran itself? Isnt this circular reasoning? How do

you know this is true? If the Quran is a lie, then this claim is also a lie. We ask,what is the proof that Muhammad is a true messenger? You answer, it is written

in the Quran. We ask, how can we know that the Quran is the word of God?

You say, because Muhammad said so. This is a logical fallacy, not proof.

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A Hadith (Volume 1, Number 3) from Sahih Bukhari recorded Muhammads first experience with

the Gabriel. Muhammad used to go in seclusion in the cave ofHira and worship continuously formany days. Once in the cave ofHira, the angel Gabriel came to him with some written messages

and asked him to read. Muhammad replied, "I do not know how to read. And then, "The angel

caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then releasedme and again asked me to read and I replied, 'I do not know how to read.' Thrice Muhammadexpressed his inability to read and Gabriel choked him every time and ultimately ordered, 'Read inthe name of your Lord, who has created(all that exists), has created man from a clot. Read! And

your Lord is the Most Generous."(Quran 96:1, 96:2, 96:3)

The above strange incident had happened in privacy of inside a cave, without any eye-witness.

Later on several times Gabriel visited Muhammad, but nobody else had ever seen this supernaturalcreature. However, a doubt immediately rose in this authors mind. Why the Gabriel did not

know that, Muhammad was illiterate? Why Allah did not tell him? Did Allah forget; is it

possible for God to forget? How Gabriel could be aggressive to Muhammad repeatedly, the

dearest messenger of Allah? Muhammad was so close to Allah that, even Allah showeredpraises on Muhammad and saluted him (Quran 33: 56).

The whole doctrine of Islam stands or falls with the truth or falsehood of two claims -- there is noGod but Allah, the Creator of the universe; and Muhammad is the final spokesman of Allah, who

through him passed on to mankind a series of messages assembled in the Quran. The first part is a

theological claim which is common with some other monotheistic religion. But the second part is a


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truth claim on which we still have unfathomable doubts and no concrete evidence i.e,

Muhammads claim of having divine communication (the revelations) with God.

The idea of revelation is the idea of something which is being shown more strictly unveiled or

unfolded. In revelation God shows the mankind what He is like and what He expects from us. But

unfortunately, He does not do that by showing us what it is like to be God and makes Himselfknown through a chosen messenger; here in this case Muhammad, even though the media God

adopted was unusual one. It is for Allah to choose Muhammad as his last prophet and therecould be no question about it, only if we had sufficient proof of Muhammads prophethood.

On this particular point the God of Islam failed miserably.

In Allahs revelation, the mystery is more at the origin than at the substance of the communication.

It is because; these revelations are not revelations of Allah, but revelations from Allah. Theserevelations had revealed nothing about Allah. This is the only reason; the skeptics find Allahs

revelations very difficult to accept and these revelations drastically upset our logical way of

thinking. We have to suppress our rational faculty to believe the genuineness of these

revelations, which are beyond any external proof.

Lewis (1961, p. 228) has the same view, How do we know that the words which purport to tell

us this are genuinely the words of God? What is the warrant for divine disclosure? What

assurance do we have that it is God and not the man who is speaking, or if it the first place the

word of a man, what enables us to say that God speaks to us through him?How can we be so

sure that Muhammads divine instructions from Allah are genuinely a word of God? For us, thisis a crucial problem.

The problem is harder because there is no strictly direct disclosure of Allah. If there were, and wecould see Allah strictly as he is, then there could have been no doubt about him and his revelations

would have carried an absolute guarantee in itself and we knew it is Allah who speaks. If it is

Allahs intention to confront us with his presence as personal will and purpose, why has this notbeen done in an unambiguous manner; by some overwhelming manifestation of divine power and

glory? AsLewis (1961, p. 228) concluded, If God wants to communicate with us in terms of whatwe understand as finite being, if He has to make Himself known within the human situation, how

are men able to recognize the ways He does this, how does an occasion which is in substance a

finite one carry with it some reference or overtone which is more than finite?. To silence the

skeptics acid tongue, is there any divine guarantee that these revelations were from an infinite

being?

Caird(1956. p. 60) concluded firmly, A God who does not reveal Himself ceases to be God; andreligious feelings, craving after a living relation to its object, refuses to be satisfied, with a mere

initial and potential revelation of the mind and will of God a God who speaks once for all, and

then through the whole course of history ceases to reveal Himself.

Why Allah did not disclose himself? Is he ashamed of his own creation? As Sheikh (1998) wrote,

The cause of God, would have been served better if He were to show His face to mankindfrequently for assuring them that He is there. Is Allah too great to bother about what people think

of him? The answer is simple. Allah did not disclose himself because he lacks one element of


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perfection namely existenceand those Quranic revelations are actually a parody of Allahfor his imperfection.

This is such an Islamic paradox Muslims have to believe those revelations to keep their

faith in Islam, but once they believe those revelations, they are in fact mocking Allah for his

deficiency. So, those revelations are actually blasphemous to their God. It is also true otherway round. The central theme of Islam is blasphemous to the Islamic religion itself. The

plain truth is that every part of Islam contradicts and hence blasphemes each other if

analyzed logically.

Sina (Ghamidi et. al, 2007. p. 211) commented, No matter how you look at Islam it turns out tobe a foolish religion. Stupidity is the only qualification required for a Muslim to keep his faith.

Truth and blind faith cannot go together. If truth is triumphant, it is blasphemous to the blind faith.As Shaw (cited Sina, 2007d) concluded All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Can any divine disclosure be beyond any question and criticism as stated in verses 5:101, 5:102?

This would be like asking Why should I believe the truth? If something is true then we obviouslybelieve it after confirming the fact by physical verifications or by reasons. There are likewise

questions to ask about Quranic revelations. Why should I believe the Quranic revelations, unlessI am sure that they are true? AsLewis (1961. p. 231) argued, There are two sides to revelation. It

involves man as well as God. AndI do not see what a revelation could be like that does notinvolve the use of the faculties with which we are endued as human beings.

Where is the divine verification for divine revelations? We cannot accept it at random. If we

accept the authority of Quran; then why not accept the authority ofHitlerand his Nazi party, the

notorious cult leaders and why not we put our trust on communist party? What about takingSaddam Hussein as a prophet? Blind faith can be accepted up to certain extent but somewhere we

should draw the line and must seek justification after that.

Right reason is the rule of true faith, and we have no problem to believe in a religion so far as we

see them agreeable to reason, and no further. AsAblard(1836. p. 15) wrote, The first key towisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by

inquiry, we arrive at the truth The faith should be founded in human reason and the contrary.

Clifford(1897, p. 186) was very right when he said, It is wrong always, everywhere, and foreveryone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. Where is the evidence that the

Quranic revelations were not Muhammads hallucinations or his conscious fabrications? On

the contrary, we have enough evidence that, Muhammad was mentally ill and also had a

political ambition for power and dominance.Where is the proof that Muhammads

disturbed mind did not work futilely and Quran was created? Where is the assurance that

Muhammad did not create the Quran to fulfill his personal desires and political aspiration?

Unless the authenticity of the Quranic revelations is established, Islam will remain only a belief

system, i.e a cult and definitely not a religion. Muslim intellectuals often take childlike pleasuresaying that Quran is from God because it is written in the Quran, but the point is Are the

skeptics, critics and freethinkers satisfied with this logic? Revelation is not above reason, asCaird(1956. p. 356) observed, Revelation, which is a necessary presupposition of religion is

often understood to fall outside science or philosophy. This is the reason, today a large number of


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Muslims have doubted and denied the authenticity of the Quranic revelations, and left Islam. In

the near future many more will do the same.

Sina (2007a) concluded, he [Muhammad] believed in his cause and was sincere in his

claim. But unfortunately, his sincerity or belief does not prove that he had really received Gods

divine words. In mental hospitals and cult scene we can find many such self-proclaimed prophets.Alston calls these M-beliefs (M stands for manifestation), which perfectly explains Islam from its

roots. An M-belief is a basic belief, because it is not derived from any evidence or established

truth, but directly reflects the cult-leader /prophets own religious experience. One example(Alston, 1987. p. 32-33) is like this, God is speaking to [Muhammad], comforting him,

strengthening him, enlightening him, giving him courage, guiding him, pouring out Gods love orjoy into him, sustaining him in being. This theory perfectly explains why Allah gave the

revelations to Muhammad only and why Muhammad could see the Gabriel and no body else. Also,it is crystal clear to us, -- Why Allah always acted as Muhammad desired. As Sahih al-Bukhari,

(Volume 6, Number 311) recordedAishas comment I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfillingyour wishes and desires."

Another perfect example was the cult leader Jim Jones. Jim believed that he was divinely

commanded to induce his followers to commit mass suicide in Jonestown in 1977. In the cultscene, there are many such horrible examples.

Caird(1956, p. 356) commented When reason and faith are opposed to each other, there must be

an umpire to decide between them, and that umpire is evidently reason itself which is nearer to us

than external authority, and once reason becomes the umpire it is impossible to condemn itselfand go over to the side of revelation. Blind faith or blind belief is something felt by the mind,

which distinguishes the judgment from the frictions of the imagination (Hume, 1992; p. 42).

Truth cannot be contrary to truth and reason. And since the study of philosophy does not merely to

find out what others have thought, but what the truth of the matter is, truth cannot be contrary tophilosophy also. Hence logically, there should be no disagreement between true revelation and

philosophy. It is wrong to say that a proposition is false in philosophy and true in faith. Did theQuranic teachings match with the teachings of any single one great philosopher throughout

the recorded history of mankind?

Muhammads teaching cannot conform to any other school of philosophical thought. Philosophy

recognizes two ways in which human beings may come to know whatever there is to be known.One way through experience (stressed by empiricism) and the other is through reasoning (Hick,

1993, p. 68). Our experience says, Allahs guidance and instructions through the Quranic

revelations had failed miserably to improve Muslims lives. Also, Allah demands blind obedience(Quran 5:101, 5:102), hence reasoning out the revelations is impossible. Therefore either those

revelations are actually fabrications without any divine touch or the whole theme of Philosophy is

wrong.

Goodness and love are treated as two further attributes of God. If Allah is perfectly loving, then

Allah must wish to abolish all evil; and if Allah is all-powerful, Allah must be able to abolish all

evil. But evil exists (and more amongst the Muslims); therefore Allah cannot be both omnipotent


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and perfect loving. So when a revelation describes Allah as all powerful and merciful, the

revelation must be false.

Eternal torment of hell (which is affirmed to be fate of a large proportion of human race) as

mentioned in Quran (4.14) cannot be true. It is unjust for Allah to burn a disbeliever in hell

forever, asKasem (2003) brings forward his argument A disbeliever, being a finite being, canonly commit a limited amount of sin in his entire life. Eternal torment of hell is an infinite

punishment. It is unfair to punish for a finite amount of sin with Infinite torment. Hence, the verse

4:14 cannot be from real God. Also,since such punishment would never end, what constructive

purpose will it serve? Can this give any solution to the problem of evil? Why Allah is silent

on this issue and did not send a suitable revelation to justify his divine decision? If eternal

torment is Allahs will, then on what basis he is most gracious, most merciful?

If God really punishes or rewards, then it is more justified to believe, good conduct will be

rewarded, and bad conduct punished, either here or in a life hereafter (Durant & Durant, 1961.p. 187). This is again contradictory to the Quranic teachings.

Radhakrishnan (1970. p. 19) wrote, We can believe only in a just God, who is impartial to thesaint and the sinner even as the sun shines on those who shiver in cold or sweat in heat. God is not

angered by neglect or placated by prayers. The wheels of His chariot turn unimpeded by pity or

anger. God is not mocked. Thomas (cited Durant, 1950. p. 969) had the same view when he

wrote The highest knowledge we can have of God in this life is to know that He is above all that

we can think concerning Him. If this is true then the five obligatory prayers, Hajj, Ramadan etcare useless. But Allah is Jealous, revengeful, hateful and proud. If Allah is the only God, then heis jealous on whom? Why he is so upset? Why he is suffering from inferiority complex? Is

Allah suffering from some kind of mental disease?

Are Allahs revelations complete? Not at all. As perSunaan ibn Majah, (3: 1944); during

preparation of Muhammads funeral some verses were lost when a domestic goat entered the

house and ate them. Since several Muslim scholars had recorded this Hadith, it must be true. How

divine words can be eaten by a goat and thus lost forever, when the Qur'an claims to have been

revealed word by word and letter by letter?

Quran (10:64) claims, no change there can be in the words of God. And again in 6:34, there isnone that can alter the words (and decrees) of God. Then how Quran teaches the doctrine of

abrogation by which later revelations cancel previous ones? As Quran (2:106) confirms,revelations We abrogate or cause to be forgotten (cited Geisler & Saleeb, 2002. p. 202). Also,

a Hadith (6:558) from Sahih Bukhari confirmed that Muhammad forgot many verses. How it

could be possible, unless the above revelations are false?

Truth and logic are two biggest enemies of Islam. As Toland(cited Gunny, 1996. p. 168) wrote,He [Muhammad] clearly saw that the spirit of inquiry would not favour him. This is how Islam

maintained itself. Muhammad recommended blind faith without question and absolute obedience,

because of his inability to teach the faith intelligibly.Dasti (cited Warraq, 1995. p.4) mentioned,

Belief can blunt human reason and common sense. Since truth cannot be changed, Muslims had

changed their mindset to remain in Islam. A typical Muslim mindset is I do not seek to


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understand in order to believe. I believe in order to understand. After we are confirmed of our

Islamic faith, we should not aim to understand what we have believed (Durant, 1950. p. 932,

with slight modification by author).

Muslims this type of religious mindset can be explained byDurkheims sociological theory (Hick,

1993. p. 30). The theory (when applied to Islam) refers to this power when it suggests that Allah,whom the Muslims worship, is an imaginary being unconsciously fabricated by the society as

instruments whereby society exercises control over the thoughts and behavior of the individual.

Sociologicaltheory works well for Islam and cults where the society demands unquestioningobedience and loyalty is required to be very strong.

With this mindset, the Muslims are so desperate, in their affirmation of Islamic faith, that they

consider the absurdity of Quranic revelations to be a merit. As Sina (2007b) commented, They

go to extra lengths to make sense out of the senseless and give esoteric meanings to the

meaningless. Its a pity that the only brilliant, undeniable, miraculous and out of this world

evidence in support of the Quranic revelations available ever since the birth of Islam, is that

Quran is from God because Muhammad said so.

Durant(1950. p. 932-3) lamented, To such a man, whose faith was his life, doubt was

impossible; faith must come long before understanding; and how could any finite mind expect ever

to understand God.

There is a strong relationship between ethics and religion. Most philosophers and freethinkersbelieve that religion and ethics are of great significance for each other. AsLewis (1965, p. 257)

wrote, If religion is true, we should expect religion and ethics to have much importance for one

another Religion is itself nothing but ethics or ethics with relatively incidental

accompaniment. The moral teachings of the Hindu, Christian and Buddhist Holy Scriptures have

enormous positive influence on the progress of the modern civilization. The teachings of Quran

had given the mankind nothing except violence, misery, poverty, cruelty, death and destruction.The spiritual bankruptcy of these revelations is beyond any doubt. Let us ask a question to our

Muslim brethren -- Can any good thing ever come out from Muhammads teaching? Was Pope

Benedict XVI, far away from truth, when he quoted, Show me just what Mohammed brought

that was new, and there you will find only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by

the sword the faith he preached"?

Lewis (1965, p. 265) wrote, It is in ethics that God comes nearest to us. The voice of God is

above all the voice of consciences. It is a divine refinement of the working of conscience. There

are several highly offensive verses in Quran, which promote hate, call for violence and murder,

allow deception, curse the nonbelievers and prescribe severe punishment for them. These versesare highly unethical and if it is in ethics that God comes nearest to us, is true; then Islam is not

that right path which can lead a person to the real God. As Gandhi (1961, p. 10) wrote, Onecannot reach truth by untruthfulness.. Being guided by those absurd revelations, Muslims cannotreach the ultimate truth, i.e, the God.

In fact, the Quran has no substantial message in it. As Sina (2007a) observed, After 23 years of

preaching, the core message of Muhammad remained the same. Islams main message is that


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Muhammad is a messenger and that people must obey him.Beyond that, there is no othermessage.Failure to recognize him as such entails punishment, both in this world and the next.

Monotheism, which is now the main argument of Islam, was not originally part of the message

of Muhammad.

IfSinas assertion is true, then those revelations had served only one purpose, i.e, to strengthenthe career of Muhammad as a prophet and to confirm his authority on his followers in the

name of God. It was not Muhammad who had served Allah but it was Allah who served

Muhammad to boost up his career as prophet and always ready with a suitable revelation. Thereality became shadow and the shadow became reality. Did Muhammad consciously or

subconsciously fabricate those revelations to claim prophethood and to have absolute authority on

Muslims in the name of God ? This is a possibility that we cannot overlook because it justifies

Allahs intention to keep his identity hidden and why questioning and doubting on the Quran wasnot allowed. This also explains; why the Angel Gabriel was only visible to Muhammad and also,

why the divine messages had stopped coming down on Muhammads death. Its a pity that our

Muslim brothers have no satisfactory argument on this. They are neither confused nor

ignorant they can see everything but do not have the courage to ask such blasphemousquestions for the fear of Allahs wrath. AsSina (2008) wrote, They [Muslims] make themselvesstupid because they fear to use their brain. They fear that if they ask difficult questions from God

who may not be able to answer, the creator of the Universe will be embarrassed and He will

send them to Hell. The present author is confused Is Allah really that silly?

Muslims often talk about the miraculous nature of the Quran. Allah said (Quran 11: 20) And if

you are in doubt concerning that We (Allah) have sent down on our servant, then bring a Sura likeit. Muslims often take childish pleasure while quoting this verse. But the fact is, (Shahi Bukhari

4. 56.814) once Muhammad was challenged by a Christian convert who reverted back toChristianity by seeing that Muhammad was actually faking the Quranic revelations and declared,

Muhammad knows nothing but what I have written for him.

Also, one of the Muhammads scribes;Abdullah Ibn Abi Sarh, used to write down Allahs

revelations. WhenAbdullah suggested some changes to Muhammad's dictation, Muhammad

readily agreed withAbdullah. This ledAbdullah to suspect Muhammad's claim of reception ofmessages from God, apostatized and left Medina for Mecca. He then proclaimed that he

(Abdullah) too could easily write the Qur'anic verses by being inspired by Allah (Kasem, n.d).

The above two incidents were recorded by authentic Muslim sources, which clearly proves thatMuhammad was faking the Quran. Some very early Muslim scholars also openly acknowledged

that arrangements and the syntax of the Quran are not miraculous and work of equal or greater

value could be produced by other God-fearing persons (Warraq, 2005.p. 5).Dasti (cited Warraq,

2005. p. 5) concluded that Quran was not the word of God, since it contains many instances,

which confuse the identities of two speakers Allah and Muhammad.Dasti also noted more

than one hundred Quranic aberrations from the normal rules.

Hume referred to Muhammad as a pretended prophet and wrote, [The Quran is a] wild andabsurd performance. AlsoHobbes concluded, [Muhammad]to set up his new religion,

pretended to have conferences with the Holy Ghost in form of a dove. Also, Gibbon concluded


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that Muhammads claim that he was the apostle of God was a necessary fiction. Carlyle wrote,

His Quran has become a stupid piece of prolix absurdity; we do not believe like him that God

wrote that (Warraq, 2005. p. 10, 24).

Tisdall(cited Trifkovic, 2002, p. 75) concluded, The Quran is a faithful mirror of the life and

character of its author It reveals the working of Muhammad own mind, and shows the gradualdeclension [deterioration] of his character as he passed into the conscious impostor and opensensualist.

Sina (2007a) wrote, After reading the Quran, I was in shock.I was shocked to see theviolence, hate, inaccuracies, scientific errors, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities,

grammatical solecisms and dubious ethical pronouncements in the book of God. A belief mustbe shown to be sound in itself as well as in some consequences of holding it. Perhaps the biggest

blunder Allah made in his Quran is the confirmation that earth is flat. There are still many

orthodox Muslim scholars who believe that earth is flat. Earth is flat even in this twenty-firstcentury, because Quran said so.

Warraq (2005, p. 23), even gone this far to conclude, The Historian [Carlyle] saw Islam as a

confused form of Christianity, an illegitimate [offensive word replaced by present author] kind

of Christianity, shorn in its absurd details.

Under the (mis)guidance of Quranic revelations andsunna, Muslims live in a supernatural worldof fearful piety, surrounded by devils, jinns crossing themselves a hundred times a day, imploring

the intercession of Muhammad for afterlife, prostrating five compulsory prayers, awed by miracles

performed by Muhammad (dividing the moon, multiplying the food etc), trembling over Allahsfury, selling everything to performHajj. A non-Arab Muslim family is a poor imitation of an Arab

family within the principled confines of Islam. As Sina (2007c) lamented, It is easy to take thecavemen out of the cave and even send him to space, but is it possible to take the cave mentality

out of the caveman?

So, undoubtedly, the Quranic revelations failed miserably if scrutinized under the searchlight of

truth and logic. But again this leads to many questions; where did these revelations come from?Was the Quran written for any particular purpose? Was Muhammad a conscious fraud? Or, was it

his subconscious mind which was at work?

Many critics talk about ghost possession, demons, Luciferetc. But let us keep those superstitious

arguments out of this serious discussion. Ghosts and Demons existed few centuries ago when earth

was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. Today, they exist in grandmothers fairy tales onlyand beyond nowhere else. Leaving aside any superstition-based argument, it is not much difficult

to narrow down the suppositions -- either Muhammad was a conscious fraud or a subconscious

fraud.

Will Durant, the world-famous scholaropined that Quranic revelations were actually conscious

fabrication of Muhammad. He (1950; p. 176) wrote, Muhammad felt that no moral code would

win obedience adequate to the order and vigor of a society unless men believed the code to have

come from God. The ethics of the Quran rests on the fear of Allahs punishment, and the hope of

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IfDurants assertion is right then Muhammad had created those revelations to play a mind control

game with his followers to boost up his political carrier and to fulfill his personal desires. In factIslam is more of a political movement and less of a religion. If we look at Muhammads twenty-

three years of prophetic employment, we can see that he was more successful as political leader

with ambition for power and domination; as famous historianArnold Toynbee (1935. p. 469)concluded, Muhammads preaching was manifestly, from the worldly point of view, an utter

failureAs a result of thirteen years of propaganda he had won no more than a handful ofconverts.

Toynbee (1935. p. 468) did not hide his doubt and raised his concern outspokenly, WasMuhammad a vulgar imposter, who posed as a prophet with his eye upon a throne from the

outset? However, on the same treatise Toynbee concluded that Muhammad had a deep andgenuine religious conviction, which proved his sincerity, Muhammad actually thought that he

was sacrificing his worldly prospects. He cannot have suspected that he was on the road tomaking his worldly fortune. Elsewhere Toynbee (1979. p. 469) observed, No doubt Muhammad

reasoned with his conscious thus; and no doubt he was deceiving himself in yielding his ownargument.

Toynbee (1935, p. 470, 471) concluded that Muhammad succeeded in his prophetic mission

because there was no powerful government to stop him. If Muhammad had been living under

Roman rule, surely his mission would have resulted in losing his life and his religion would have

been stamped out by strong military action.

The Holy book of Christian faith mentioned, "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in

sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes

are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? (Matthew 7:15-16).

Ironically Muslims often say that Muhammad was foretold in Bible. Is it the same ?

Is there any Muslim scholar who can sincerely clarify the doubts raised on the Quranic revelations

in this article? Let this article be an open challenge to all the Muslim scholars. This author is sure

that the challenge will remain unanswered. If unanswered, then let this article be an eye-opener tocommon Muslim folks. One point is very clear. Since, the authenticity of Quranic revelations is

still remained unproven even after 1400 years of its reception; Quran has no authority to

control Muslims lives, even not for a single moment from cradle to grave and life thereafter,

if any.An authority must produce its credentials and Quran has none. And, since there is no

assurance regarding authenticity and authority of the Quran, it is safe to conclude that

Allah has no responsibility for the welfare of the Muslims.

Without any authority and responsibility Islam is in shambles. It is like a madhouse. Under

Islam, the life of a Muslim is same as that of a prisoner.Islam had made Muslims life sowretched that sometimes death becomes a blessed escape from it.

Gandhi (1961, p. 29) said, If we turn our eyes, to the time of which history has any record downto our own time, we shall find that man has been steadily progressing towards Ahimsa[non-

violence]. Gandhis observation was correct. The whole mankind is moving towards perfection,


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which is non-violence. Love, brotherhood and non-violence are the basic rules in the kingdom of

God. Our ancestors of several thousand years ago were cannibals. Next came an instant, when men

were ashamed to lead such life and turned to animal hunting and ultimately towards agriculture.These days more and more people are turning towards vegetarian diet. Today we talk about

Human rights and condemn cruelty against animals. These are clear signs of progressive Ahimsa

and diminishing Himsa (violence). Gandhi neither claimed prophethood nor ever interested tostart a new religion, but the real God of mankind had spoken through him, when this apostle of

non- violence said, When I search for truth, I find non-violence and when I look at non-violence,I find truth. Truth is my God; Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.

Herrick(cited Lal, 1978. p. 112) wrote, As Human society is now organized, the law of the jungleis now outmoded, and sooner we find this out, the better it will be for us. Our experiences says,

that the Muslims have committed more crimes and shed more blood in the name of Islam than allthose of other faiths, atheists and skeptics altogether. This is because through those revelations,

Muslims are told to fight the disbelievers (Quran 9:5). As Voltaire (cited Dawkins, 2006. p. 306)

wrote, Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Today the whole world is slowly unveiling the great mystery of knowledge. This is essential for

mankinds journey to perfection as dreamed by Gandhi. It will not take much time for Muslims torealize that there is no divinity attached to those revelations and their beloved prophet, Muhammad

was a shameless impostor. As Sina (2008) had very optimistically concluded, This is the daywhere truth will have victory over falsehood and lies are becoming exposed. This day of

enlightenment will be the real Judgment day. The basic rules of the kingdom of God will befollowed, the earth will be a place better than the Islamic paradise and God will dwell amongst us.

On that day, all of us will be able to see God and talk to Him.

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