Muhammad Does Not Pass The Test Of A True Prophet

Quoted from the "ISLAM MUHAMMAD & THE KORAN"

MUHAMMAD FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS DEATH Chapter 2

Muhammad Does Not Pass The Test Of A True Prophet.

In the final analysis, we find that Muhammad is not a true prophet, for the true prophet according to the Bible must have special qualifications.

1. The true prophet, who is chosen by God to be the founder of a new religion must receive a direct call from God (Exodus 3:9,10). Muhammad received his call from the spirit which squeezed him at the cave of Hira.

2. The true prophet, chosen to declare a new religion, must be committed to holiness (2 Peter 1:21). The main interest of Muhammad was to have as many wives as he could, and not to live a holy life.

O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the captives of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated with thee; and any believing woman who gives herself to the prophet. If the prophet wishes to wed her; - this only for thee, and not for the believers (at large) (Surat Al-Ahzab 33:50).

3. The true prophet must perform miracles to authenticate his call. There is no mention in the Koran of a single miracle attributed to Muhammad.

4. The true prophet must utter prophecies that must be fulfilled to the letter. The only so-called prophetic utterance Muhammad recorded in his Koran is Surat Ar-Rum it says:

The Romans have been defeated - in a land close by: But they (even) after (this) defeat of theirs will soon be victorious within a few years, with Allah is the command in the past and in the future: On that day shall the believers rejoice (Surat Ar-Rum 30:2-4).

This surat cannot be considered a prophecy in any sense, for it does not mention who defeated the Romans, where they were defeated, or who shall be defeated by them. It seems strange that the Muslims would rejoice because of the victory of the Romans who were Catholics at that time.

Why do they not rejoice today for the victories of the Christians?

If one apples this set of criteria and the required qualifications of the prophet to Muhammad, one must conclude that he is not a true prophet.

In addition, Islam did not establish commandments or principles superior to those of judaism and christianity. All Muhammad did was to permit:

Polygamy instead of monogamy.
War and bloodshed instead of peace.
Revenge instead of forgiveness.
Salvation by good deeds, instead of salvation by the grace of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, and
A sensual paradise after death where the Muslims will have rivers of wine, women with wide lovely eyes and beautiful boys instead of a new heaven and new earth in which righteousness dwells (II Peter 3:13). (Compare Surat Al-Tur 52:17-24 to II Peter 3:13).

More importantly, Jesus Christ was the last Messenger of God to mankind, there was no one come after him. He is also the heir of all things. This is clear from the words we read in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. . . (Hebrew 1:1-3 NKJ).

The Koran declares that Allah is the one who will inherit all things:

It is We Who will inherit the earth, and all beings thereon: to Us will they all be returned (Surat Maryam 19:40).

Lo! and it is We, even We, Who quicken and give death, and we are the inheritor (Surat Al-Hijr 15:23 MPT).

If we acknowledge that Christ is the inheritor of all things, we have to confess that He is also God the Son. At the end of His earthly life, Jesus said to His disciples:

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:1-3).

Jesus told His disciples that He would come again to take them to His Father's house. He did not tell them that another prophet would come after him. It is not acceptable that God will send a slave after sending His eternal Son.