PROPHET MOHAMMAD AND HIS BIRTH I search for the way, but not the way to the ka,ba and the temple .for I see in the former a troop of idolaters and in the latter a band of self- worshippers. At mecca in 570 Amena b. wahb give to a child named Mohammad, his father, Abdullah had died before he opened his eyes and he lost his mother when he was five years old. A little later his influential and generous grandfather, abd ol- Mottaleb banihashem , who had been his sole protector and sustainer, also passed away. Thereafter this child, who had several quite wealthy paternal uncles, was brought up by the poorest but bravest of them, Abu taleb. Ahead lay an astonishing career, perhaps unique in the world’s record of self – made men who have created history. Thousands of books have been written about this extraordinary man’s life, about the events of the twenty three years of his mission, about everything that he did and said. Scholars and researchers actually have at their disposal more information about him than about any of the great men of history before him. Yet we still lack an objective and rationally acceptable book presenting a portrait of him unclouded by preconcenceptions, supposition, and fanaticisms, or if such a book has been written, I have not seen it. Moslems, as well as other, have disregarded the historical facts. They have continually striven to turn this man into an imaginary superhuman being, a sort of God in human clothes, and have generally ignored the ample evidence of his humanity. They have been ready to set aside the law of cause and effect, which governs real life, and present their fantasies as miracles. About Mohammad’s life up to 610, when he reached the age of forty, nothing of any importance is recorded. In the accounts of the period, and even in the biographies of the prophet, there are no reports of anything’s remarkable or out of the ordinary. Yet by the end of the 3th -9th century the great historian and Quran-commentator Tabari, in his exegesis of, could insert an unsubstantiated statement about the prophet’s birth which show prone the people were in those days to create and repeat impossible myths, and how even a historian could not stick to history. The verse says, if you are in doubt over what we have sent down to our servant, look to the we which is plural, bring a sura like it, and call your witnesses , other than God, if you are truthful . The statement which Tabari adds to his explanations of the verse is as follows before the prophet’s appointment, a rumor had spread in mecca that a messenger from God with the name Mohammad would appear and that the east and the west of the world would fall under his way. At that time forty women in mecca were with child, and every one of them, after giving birth, named her son Mohammad in case he might be the expected messenger. The fatuity of this statement is too obvious for comment. Nobody in mecca could have heard such a rumor or foreseen the appearance of a prophet named Mohammad. Mohammad’s protector and guardian Abu Taleb, who died without embracing Islam, must certainly have heard nothing and seen nothing. Mohammad himself did not know before his appointment that he was going to be prophet, as verse 17 of sura 10 yunos eloquently attests. Had God so willed, I should not have recited it to you, and would not have made it known to you. I dwelt among you for a lifetime before it there was no registration statistics at Mecca to show that in the year 570 only forty women gave birth and that all without exception named their sons Mohammad. Did Mohammad in his childhood have forty playmates of the same age and name?
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