In the beginning, Muhammad gained few followers and was persecuted by some Meccan tribes. He and his followers eventually migrated to Medina. After eight years of fighting with the Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10, Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca and overtook the city with little bloodshed. He destroyed the three-hundred and sixty pagan idols in the city at the Kaaba. In , Muhammad undertook a Farewell Pilgrimage.
After returning from it, he fell ill and suffered from fever, head pain, and weakness. He died that year. Still before his death, nearly all of Arabia had converted to Islam and had formed a single Muslim religious polity.
Difference between Jesus and Muhammad. Key Difference: Both Jesus and Muhammad are the figureheads of their corresponding religions. Jesus received his commission in the daylight. Muhammad allegedly received it from an angel Gabriel. Muhammad received his words in the darkness of a cave. Muhammad taught for more than 20 years. Miracles Jesus performed many miracles including healing people, calming a storm with a command, and raising people from the dead.
Prophecy Jesus fulfilled biblical prophecy about being the Messiah. Muhammad did not fulfill any biblical prophecy except the ones about false teachers Matt. Sacrifice Jesus voluntarily laid his life down for others. Muhammad saved his own life many times and had others killed. Sin Jesus never sinned 1 Pet. Muhammad owned slaves. Virgin Birth Jesus was virgin born. Muhammad was not virgin-born. Voice of God Jesus received and heard the direct voice of God. Mark Muhammad did not receive or hear the direct voice of God.
It was an angel instead. Women Jesus spoke well of women. There is no comparison between Jesus and Muhammad. Muhammad falls so far short that he cannot be held on any level remotely close to Jesus. Muhammad is clearly inferior to Christ.
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. No Catholic has ever matched the slander hurled out by that prime Protestant. Luther identified Muhammad with the warring horses of the Book of Revelation that bring great destruction to Christians. Luthers Muhammad is also a voluptuary with the sexual potency of a ram, but he has done less harm to the Church than the Roman pontiff.
There has been a widespread legend in Europe that pilgrims are attracted to Muhammads hometown to gawk at his body suspended in air by lodestone trickery. Stories such as this prompted Ludovico de Varthema, an Italian contemporary of Luther, to visit Arabia. In the first description of Mecca by a European, de Varthema refutes the magnet tale, in part because Muhammad was not buried in the region of Mecca.
In England, there was a widely accepted story that Muhammad had faked divine inspiration by training a white dove to pick grains from his ear while sitting on his shoulder. Aware of that story, Shakespeare has a French prince say to Joan of Arc:. Was Mahomet inspired by a dove?
Thou with an eagle art inspired then. For Francis Bacon, another Elizabethan writer, Muhammad was a bungling miraclemonger. A saying attributed to the prophet that has gained proverbial status among English-speaking people may have been inspired by these comments by Bacon:.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Voltaire, one of the most famous French authors of the eighteenth century, wrote a tragedy about Muhammad. In the conclusion, the dying prophet acknowledges that he has committed crimes. When Voltaire later made nonfictional comments about Muhammad, he was much more restrained.
British missionary Sigismund Koelle expressed a view of Muhammad that was all too typical in the nineteenth century. Islam historically proved itself anti-Christian, because Mohammed personally was an Antichrist.
A sampling from the early twentieth century displays little change in the Christian outlook on Muhammad. His revelations came to him in a trance and, like all trance-mediums, he had strangely perverted ideas. He forged the awful machinery of divine inspiration to serve his own ignoble and selfish purposes.
American contempt for Muhammad surfaced again in the late twentieth century, and was intensified by the conflict between the United States and some of the Middle Eastern states.
Marius Baar, a 8 fundamentalist Christian missionary to the Muslims, published a diatribe against Muhammad. Salman Rushdie, in spite of his Muslim background, has written an infamous novel that offends many with religious sensitivities. The Oxford English Dictionary indicates that Mahound, the name Rushdie gives the prophet, has been used in medieval and modern times to lambaste monsters, false gods, and Muhammad.
Auld Mahoun.. Lack of concern to understand and anxiety over a potential threat are common threads found in most of the judgments by those who have found Muhammad repulsive. Even after understanding, non-Muslims will likely retain points of disagreement with Muhammad.
But with the emotional contempt removed, an appreciation can arise and points of agreement may be recognized. To prevent the erroneous idea that no one in Christendom has had a kind word for Muhammad, other voices should be heard.
Timothy, a Nestorian Christian and an eighth-century patriarch of the Assyrian Church, stated:. He taught the way of good works; he opposed idolatry and polytheism; he taught about God, his Word, and his Spirit; he showed his zeal by fighting against idolatry with the sword; like Abraham he left his kinfolk rather than worship idols.
George Sale became the earliest Westerner to rise above bigotry toward Muhammad when he translated the Quran into English from Arabic for the first time. In the twentieth century, non-Muslim scholars have increasingly acknowledged the greatness of Muhammad. For five decades Anglican bishop Kenneth Cragg has been writing books to publicize the admirable qualities of Islam and has translated selections from Arabic religious literature.
Its Arabic eloquence is indicative of its source in God. Franciscan missionary Guilio Basetti-Sani offers this positive judgment:. Mohammad, seen from the perspective of a thorough study of the Quran, emerges as one of the great religious souls of non-Christian mankind. He introduced his people, the sons of Ishmael, to faith in the God of Abraham, thus fulfilling the ancient promise of God to Abraham of a special blessing for the son of the slave girl Agar and her offspring.
Though he declared that he was neither a saint nor an intercessor, he was nevertheless a witness, the herald of Gods judgments.
He stands out as one of the great figures of history. Historian Will Durant likewise concludes his treatment of Muhammad with this tribute:.
If we judge greatness by influence, he was one of the giants of history. He undertook to raise the spiritual and moral level of a people harassed into barbarism by heat and foodless wastes, and he succeeded more completely than any other reformer; seldom has any man so fully realized his dream.
When he began, Arabia was a desert flotsam of idolatrous tribes; when he died it was a nation. Hart ranks the three most influential persons in history in this order: Muhammad, Isaac Newton, and Jesus. For international understanding, Christianity and Islam are the most important religions to study.
They are, by far, the two largest religions of the world, with adherents numbering approximately half of the global population. Areas in which Islam predominates comprise a wide band of generally arid land above the equator from West Africa to Southeast Asia. In addition, there are many millions of non-Arabic Muslims in the temperate zones of China and Russia.
Arabs comprise only 15 percent of the Muslim population. While western Asia is the birthplace of both Islam and Christianity, the largest concentrations of both religions are far removed from that area.
As a Christian raised Man, this is a challenging pursuit, and it does not stop at Islam. It will continue to all main religions worldwide. I do want to tell you that I feel there is honesty and truth in reality in the words I have heard in the song that I mentioned. I think this might be caused due to environments and my firm belief in Good or Bad. So please stay good, sir, and do not let hate sink into your thoughts.
I also hope this for myself and everyone. Love is the answer! I believe!!! Allah bless you brother At the end,Christians will know that Jesus is a prophet from the Allah and he is not a god, may Allah show them the way. Our creator is love,he has provided us with one of the best beautiful planet Earth to live happily. Jesus is one hundred percent free from sin more than Muhammed, Muhammed was just a mere motal being,therefore, he use brutality to cover his shameful behavior.
But as any Christian knows that Isaac did receive the blessing. Read Psalms ,2 and 5,6. Just something to think about. Khalid there is different between fast growing and truth, because the holy Bible says the way to hell is more broader than that of paradise. So my dear Friend Iam not condenming Mohammed but be wise in your choice, i rest my comment. Lemme guess, a Christian posted this. Muhammad never sinned, He never wanted to commit suicide as suicide is forbidden in Islam.
Islam literally comes from the word Salaam which means Peace. Jesus never said he was the son of God. Christians are claiming that he said so. He is a human too and he will return to tell you that. And Moses fell down in a swoon. Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light!
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