In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Assalam Alaykum Wa Rahmat Allah (Peace and mercy of Allah be upon you).
For the past few days, some preachers and scholars have been spreading Youtube videos under the trend of "The challenge of Islam".
where each preacher has to present evidence of the trueness of Islam in 7 minutes.
He then invites others to take on the challenge.
Recently, Dr.Munzer Al-sakkar had sent me the challenge.
I accept the challenge and thank him for his trust.
However, I have decided to forward this challenge to the atheists themselves..
..instead of sending it to any other (Muslim) brothers.
as some of them may not have enough time to act upon the challenge
and I do not wish to burden anyone.
"SIMPLY"
I start, seeking help from Allah.
No matter how much evidence I present, whether logical, rational, scientific or historical...
...for the credibility of the prophecy of Muhammad (PBUH)
those who deny, doubt or claim they are agnostics...
...will keep saying that this evidence is not sufficient.
Simply becuase they separate them and criticize each of them on their own...
...claiming that it's not impossible for someone to write an eloquent book...
...or for someone to be an ascetic and a moral leader...
...then to claim the prophecy falsely or delusionally.
Or that all the precise details in his biography which was passed down to us from one generation to the next, throughout 14 centuries...
...have been forged.
According to this scale, not a single historical fact will remain valid.
Atheists then won't believe that the king of Babylon Hammurabi enforced a code of law including exactly 282 articles...
...about 1700 years BC.
neither will he believe that the forces of Ramses the second, for example...
...came from Egypt to Syria to face the Hittites in the city of Kadesh...
...exactly 1274 years BC.
He also won't believe that Alexander The Great conquered Persia in the year 335 BC.
He won't even believe that the sculptures that we have today...
...really represent the faces of the Greek Philosophers and the Roman emperors.
Yet these atheists and agnostics often oddly believe such occurrences...
...and consider them as academic, scientific and authentic facts.
Atheists don't wonder why not a single book or even an oral statement from the enemies of Muhammad made it through...
...showing that he's an impostor, or even presenting an image differing from his character.
but how could thousands of people who lived in his time conspire to convey to the next generations....
...an utmost beautiful image of the ethics of this man.
There were hypocrites in his era...
...then the apostates increased after the Islamic conquests...
...then many factions and sects appeared, attacking Islam from the inside.
Why did they present corrupted, esoteric explanations of the religion....
...and do not present a different biography about Muhammad (PBUH).
Why did his image remain clean in all history resources throughout millions of pages?
His biography is the most abundant in the history of mankind.
In Christian Europe, The Bible was written in other languages...
...and most of the people were illiterate, and the scripture was not available...
...and when it was first printed in the mid of the 16th century...
...researchers started uncovering its stunning contradictions...
...leading to atheism becoming common in the next generations.
Well, why didn't atheism become a phenomenon in the Islamic world....
...throughout 14 centuries.
It did not become apparent until recent years....
...and under external pressure during the civilizational collapse of the Muslims.
But not because of local analysis of the text similar to the ones conducted in Europe.
Why did millions of common people memorize the Quran, and why was it not hidden?
Also, there was not a single successful attempt at changing a single word or letter therein.
All of its readings are recorded and transcripted by consensus and continuous referencing.....
...until today to the Prophet himself.
No respectable scientist or philosopher wrote a valuable book...
...scrutinizing the Quran and uncovering its claimed contradictions during all this time.
In Europe, philosophers started criticizing the Bible immediately after it was printed.
While in Islamic history we have tons of books that were written in interpreting the Quran.....
...and unveiling its eloquent and linguistic miracles.
And unraveling the stories of ancient nations.
Also deducing Islamic rules and Islamic Jurisprudence and even the principles of knowledge.
How could one man write this great book...
...which is not a poem, nor a simple literature text.
All without a single error being pointed out by literacy and history reviewers during all these centuries,
and without even finding any scientific contradiction in the modern age.
How could Muhammad collect the stories of the past nations while he was illiterate?
Who taught him?
Where is the committee that was collecting, correcting and revising for him...
...then present the final text to the people, which is unchangeable?
By the way, superseding some verses was not a retraction but a modification of some Islamic rules due to the changing circumstances.
And if this committee was real...
...why was it that good? unlike those who wrote the Bible.
Why was it of utmost specifications?
While now we have huge contradictions left by the rabbis of The People of Israel...
...when they rewrote the Torah their own way.
How did Muhammad or this claimed committee succeed in creating an integrated moral, social and political code?
How did they form the laws of marriage and divorce, and the rules of wars, penalties, expiation...
... and the sums of Zakah and the complex calculations of inheritance?
How was Muhammad succeeding in presenting these regulations for the first time with no mistakes?
Why couldn't the founder of the (eg. Bahaism faith) who was allegedly a prophet present something similar?
on the contrary, his code was full of mistakes despite the support of the British.
How did many sudden inquiries come to Muhammad as a political, military leader and a judge...
...then the Divine Revelation descended upon him so he gives the solutions in the very time of need?
With the solutions being an ideal.
Also if he was pretending to be a supernatural human, as those who falsely alleged prophecy,...
...claiming the connection with supreme beings and Universal mind.
Then why did he sometimes say that he didn't have an answer and he had to wait?
why was he humble, confessing that the revelation didn't descend upon him as he pleases?
Sometimes not even saving him from some personal embarrassing matters
such as the case of the defamation of his wife Aisha, when he remained silent for a whole month before clearing her name and his honor, by revelation.
How did many future prophecies mentioned by the prophet come true?
Either in the Quran or in his preaches to his companions, conveyed by divine revelation.
e.g. The story of the Roman triumph within three to nine years.
Which is a short and specific period.
While at that time, the political predictions were showing quite the contrary.
And countless stories came true during the Prophet's life, then in the time of his companions.
Did his Advocates fabricate these stories after it happened to claim that he was a Prophet?
In that case, how was a Hadith narrated to us about fighting a certain people with small eyes and broad snub noses...
...and after 600 years of Muhammad's death, Muslims fought the Mongols?
How did many of the Small Signs of the Judgment Day come true in this current era?
One of them: "When you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings."
And many more examples that need more time.
The crucial question is...
...why didn't any prophecy fail among all of these prophecies?
Why did Nostradamus and all other augurs fail throughout history?
Including the advocates of the New Age movement which is common in the West nowadays.
Why are their predictions always vague and open to interpretation in many different ways?
And even so, it turns out to be false and contradicted.
While none of Muhammad's prophecies failed.
Why was he socializing every day with people instead of hiding and appointing guards and sentinels...
...so his fraud did not get uncovered during everyday dealings or in any accidental act?
Is there any impostor who can deceive the masses in this way?
I haved reviewed many biographies of recent impostors, especially Indian ones.
e.g. Osho, his village in the US was flowing with sex and drugs...
...and he had a fleet of Rolls-Royce cars.
And Bikram, who also migrated from India to the US.
And found an empire of yoga schools.
He presented himself to the media as the purest and finest of people, using his own words.
And when journalists asked him why he is living affluently...
...he said: this is the usual standard of life in Beverly Hills...
...the place in which the stars of Hollywood live.
Eventually, he was exposed and accused of raping and harassing dozens of women...
...and he fled from the US before getting prosecuted.
Why couldn't these guys make a balance, despite their alleged mottoes of pureness and asceticism?
Why were they corrupted and did not resist power, authority, women and luxury temptations?
Why was there a veil between them and common people?
Why did they fake holiness in public even in their way of speaking or acting ?
They were not even acting spontaneously .
On the other hand, Aisha (the prophet s wife) once said:
“We, the family of Muhammad (PBUH), would stay for a month during which no fire is lit (for cooking) and we have only dates and water.”
The Hadiths about the asceticism of prophet Muhammad alone needs more than 7 minutes.
Although he had an independent income from spoils and prizes.
And he really could live a better life.
At least like ourselves in the middle class if he refused kings' life.
But he didn't, on the contrary, he didn't leave any money in his house and used to give it away right after receiving it.
He didn't change a thing in his life style since he was oppressed in Mecca...
...until he became a State leader in Medina.
Does it make any sense for someone seeking leadership of his pagan and backward people of Quraysh...
...to bring a totally different religion, and ask people to change their whole life politically and economically?
Let's assume that all the history narrated to us by his companions about his suffering in Mecca is exaggerated,
In what worldly set of mind can we understand his endurance in Mecca for 13 years...
...While being bullied and denied?
And no one believed him other than dozens from Yathrib and few people from other tribes.
Was it not better for him to try another method to control the masses?
And all of this while putting aside the fact that Quraysh offered him a powerful status amongst them just to abandon his preaching.
All observations were indicating that they would kill him and stop his preaching throughout those years.
Why was he taking a risk then?
13 years without any sign of upcoming relief...
...putting aside becoming a man of power an politics.
Why was he enduring Quraysh men harming him almost on a daily basis...
...and he didn't lose his temper not even once.
The great philosophers whose biographies were transmitted to us through the Greece...
...Which was written by their advocates and supporters...
...presented for us normal human situations for those big shots.
Why is Muhammad different?
How could he combine both being humble and having a firm and strong personality?
Even after his migration and becoming a man of power with an army and advocates that hold him sacred...
...why didn't he change?
Why didn't he lose his temper when facing impolite behaviors coming from some ignorants?
e.g. when a nomad suddenly attacked Muhammad while he was among his companions...
... the nomad pulled him by his cloak that he bruised his neck...
and the nomad said: "Give me of Allah's wealth that you possess".
Then the prophet laughed and ordered to give him something.
And there isn't enough time to mention similar situations...
...and everytime he was of utmost politeness.
How could he not lose his temper in front of people not even once?
Nowadays, if someone becomes famous, even if he obliged himself to be humble...
...he will get angry with some fans' behaviors.
Especially the ignorant ones and the fools.
How was Muhammad this forgiving ?
How was he balancing between leading a nation, joking with children, answering the slaves...
...old people, being humble with the poor and paying attention to everyone's details around him?
Were all of these mere lies and exaggerations fabricated by his advocates after his death?
Well, is there any civilization that made rules to scrutinize and test the past information as did the muslims?
All of Muhammad's biography has been scrutinized in the same method.
This method is known that any orientalist or neutral researcher can study and test it.
Most of the great orientalists who didn't even convert to Islam...
...confirmed all of these great and unusual features of Muhammad's personality.
But believing in Islam needs will.
And to consider all these details as whole,
Then adding the uncountable achievements of the companions...
...and their shifting from bacchanalian infidels to legends such as the ones portrayed in other nations.
Also adding the biography of the Guided Caliphs whose examples were unmatched in all times...
...a biography of ordinary men, not Infallible prophets and without direct divine revelations.
But they held the legacy of this Prophet, and totally destroyed the Great Persian empire.
They seized large strategic areas from the Roman-Byzantine Empire...
...without any past experience in politics or military.
Then they established an unprecedented forgiving system for the non-Muslim residents.
Reflecting on these short details alone is enough to take an undoubted decision...
...that all of this isn't a lie nor a coincidence.
You can still hold to denial like many orientalists did, who didn't cede...
...and didn't have enough courage to announce their faith in the prophecy of this man.
But most of them took their hats off to the great personality of Muhammad and his marvelous achievements.
and some of them even admitted that Muhammad is the greatest man of all times.
Unfortunately, faith isn't just a choice that follows what we please and does not conform to our worldly interests...
...but it's the purpose of our existence.
and denying it means meeting a great threat.
And the lifetime might be over at any moment.
No one knows when he will die,
and no one will return to retake this test.
(Finally) Peace be upon you.