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Content – MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ISLAM

• Introduction  

Misconceptions about Islamic Creed  

• The claim that Allah is the new God only for Muslims  
• Allah talks about Himself in plural expression  
• The claim that Muslims worship the Kabah and the Black
• Stone  
• Disbelievers will abide in the Hill-fire Is this Just despite the
• fact that their disbelief lasted only a short period in this life?

Misconceptions about the Qur’an  

• The Qur’an was written in Arabic so how can it be for all
• mankind who speak different languages?  
• It is claimed that someone taught Muhammad the Qur’an  
• It is claimed that Muhammad peace be upon him wrote the
• Qur’an from the scriptures of Jews and Christians  
• It is claimed that the Qur’an has contradictions  

Misconceptions about the Prophet Muhammad

• The claim that Prophet Muhammad was the founder of Islam
• and Muslims worship him  
• The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had nine wives
• Prophet Muhammad married a six-year-old girl while he was
• fifty years old  
• Some non-Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad, peace
• be upon him, is the prophet of Arabs only  
• Christians claim that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
• him, committed sins while Jesus did not Thus Jesus is better
• than Muhammad and Muslims reject Jesus  
• Some disbelievers claimed that Prophet Muhammad, peace be
• upon him, had Epileptic Seizures  

Misconceptions about Woman in Islam

• Polygamy in Islam  
• Polygamy through history  
• Why polygamy in Islam?
• Conditions for polygamy in Islam  
• Polygamy in modern societies  
• Muslim women inheritance  
• Muslim Woman‟s Dress Code  
• Two-woman witnesses  
• Men are in charge of women  
• The claim that woman rights are violated in Islam  
• Woman legal rights
• Woman and education rights  
• Woman and spiritual rights  

Misconceptions about Legal Penalties (Hudud

• Punishment for premeditated murder  
• Punishment for adultery in Islam  
• Punishment for theft in Islam
• Punishment for apostasy in Islam  

Misconceptions about Muslims and Human rights

• Divisions among Muslims  
• Backwardness of Muslims  
• Muslims and misconduct  
• Muslims and terrorism  
• Results of war against terrorism  
• The claim that Islam promotes racism and violates human
• rights  
• The claim that Islam promotes slavery  

Misconceptions about Jihad (Holy War

• What does Jihad in Islam mean?
• Why did not Muslims force non-Muslims to Islam?  
• Witnesses from non-Muslims  
• Holy war before Islam  
• Ethics of Jihad in Islam  

The claim that Prophet Muhammad was the founder of Islam and Muslims worship him

Islam means total submission to Allah (God) in all aspects of life with no objection. Islam was not named after Muhammad as Christianity, which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after the Buddha; nor was it named after the tribes of Arabs as Judaism after the tribe of Judah, and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the universal religion for all mankind from Adam until the Day of Judgment.

All prophets of Allah came to call people to Islam (to submit to Allah who created them). Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said: “The Prophets are brothers and their religion is one.” Also all prophets admitted that they are Muslims because they had full submission to Allah. The Qur‟an stressed the prophets‟ submission to Allah in many places of the Qur‟an (2:132, 2:133 and 3:52).

Therefore, Islam is not a new religion brought by Muhammad, peace be upon him, only to Arabs; rather it is the true religion of Allah for all mankind from Adam until the end of this world re-expressed in its final form through the message of the Qur‟an and the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him.

The claim that Muslims worship Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is absolutely false because it is well-known that Muslims worship non but Allah and no need to debate it. It is adequate to say that the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the Islamic history and the practice of Muslims tell us that no one has worshiped Muhammad.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had nine wives

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had nine wives while Muslims are allowed to have up to only four wives. Opponents of Islam claimed that Muhammad wanted to fulfill his sexual desire with these wives because he was a lustful man.

Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, came to convey the message from Allah. He had to follow the orders from Allah. Allah prescribed for Muslim men to marry up to four women while He allowed His messenger to marry more than four.

He married Kadijah, the first wife, before he became a prophet. She was fifteen years older than him and he did not marry another woman during her life for twenty five years. Then after her death, he married other women for the following reasons:

-He married Aishah, the daughter of Abu Bakr; and married Hafsah, the daughter of Omar, to honor their parents, the best of his companions.

-He married Um Salamh, Zinab daughter of Khuzimah, and Saudah, daughter of Zumah, after the death of their husbands to honor them for their sacrifice for the sake of Allah and to protect them and their children.

-He married Safiah, daughter of Huyee Ibn Akhtab, (Jew) who saw in a dream that the full moon fell onto her; and when she told her uncle about the dream, he slammed her and he said, “Do you want to marry the prophet of Arabs”. The Prophet, peace be upon him, married her after the battle of Khaiber between Muslims and Jews in which her husband, father, brother, and uncle were killed.

-He married Um Habibah (Ramlah daughter of Abi Sufian) after her husband became a Christian in Abyssinia. It was impossible to go back to her father because he was the leader of Quraish and the enemy of Islam. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, married her to honor and protect her.

-He married Juiriah, daughter of Al-Hareth, after the battle of Bani Al-Mustaleq to Honor her father who became a Muslim after he came with a herd of camels as a ransom to free his daughter (Juiriah); who was captured during the battle of Bani Al-Mustaliq between Muslims and her tribe. He liked two camels so he decided to hide them and when he reached Al-Madinah, the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him asked him,” Where are the two camels that you have hidden in Al-agig? He wondered and said, “No one knew the place where I hide them.” Then He said, “I bear witness that there is no true god but Allah and you are the Messenger of Allah”. The man knew that it is Allah Who informed the Prophet about the place where he hided the two camels, thus he was a true messenger of Allah.

-He married Zainab, daughter of Jahsh, by order from Allah after she was divorced from her husband (Zaid Ibn Haretha), the Prophet’s adopted son, in order to abolish adoption. The adopted son was considered like the actual son, thus it was prohibited for someone to marry his adopted son’s wife after divorcing her.

According to the marriage history of the Prophet we cannot say that he married for sexual desire but for noble purposes. If he was a lustful person, he would not have married his first wife who was fifteen years older than him but he would have married a young woman or at least he would have married other young women beside her during the twenty five years marriage. In fact, he married only one virgin woman, Aishah, during his life. Also if he was a lustful person, he would not have married divorced women older than him.

Veccia Vaglieri, a famous Italian orientalist, said in her book “In Defense of Islam”: “Throughout the years of his youth, Muhammad only married one woman, even though the sexuality of man is at its peak during this period. Although he lived in the society he lived in, wherein plural marriage was considered the general rule, and divorce was very easy – he only married one woman, although she was older than him. He was a faithful husband to her for twenty-five years, and did not marry another woman, except after her death. He at that time was fifty years old. He married each of his wives thereafter for a social or political purpose; such that he wanted to honor the pious women, or wanted the loyalty of certain tribes so that Islam would spread amongst them. All the wives Muhammad married were not virgin, nor were they young or beautiful; except for A’ishah. So how can anyone claim that he was a lustful man? He was a man not a god. His wish to have a son may have also led him to marry; for the children that he had from Khadeejah all died. Moreover, he undertook the financial responsibilities of his large family, without having large resources. He was just and fair towards them all and did not differentiate between them at all. He followed the practice of previous Prophets such as Moses, whom no one objected to their plural marriage. Is the reason why people object to the plural marriage of Muhammad the fact that we know the minute details of his life, and know so little of the details of the lives of the Prophets before him?

Finally, prophets before Prophet Muhammad such as Moses, David and Salomon, peace be upon all of them, practiced plural marriage (Kings 9:16, 11:3 and 2 Chron. 11:21). This confirms that it is a divine law.

Prophet Muhammad married a six-year-old girl while he was fifty years old.

The opponents of Islam claimed that this is not a human act? Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, married Aishah, the daughter of Abu Bakr, while she was six years old but the actual marriage started when she was nine years old. It is scientifically accepted that a nine-year-old woman can be mature, especially in hot areas like Makkah where Aishah had grown up.

 In addition, early marriage from young girls was accepted at that time otherwise disbelievers would have condemned it to defame Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and Islam. Allah honored her to be the wife of the greatest Prophet. She was very happy with this marriage and she never complained.

The wisdom behind this early marriage is that she conveyed to Muslims many acts of worship and religious matters related to women that were impossible for any person to get from Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

She dedicated herself for the religion during the forty seven years after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him. She was ranked number three among the Prophet’s companions in reporting the Sunnah after Abu Hurairah and Abdullah Ibn Omar.

The Prophet, peace be upon him, advised his companions to get religious knowledge from her. In fact, this early marriage helped Aishah to spend adequate time with the Prophet to gain knowledge of Islam and the long life that she lived after the Prophet helped her to convey this knowledge to Muslims. May Allah put blessing upon her.

Some non-Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the prophet of Arabs only.

Allah the Almighty sent Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, with guidance and mercy to all mankind. Allah said:

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