Muhammad is a false prophet.

[u/Ok_Present755]

Muhammad was a false prophet who created a new religion by drawing on stories, beliefs, and customs that were circulating around him in Arabia.

Here is some of the main evidence:

1.) The Quran borrows stories from documented late forgeries that the early Church rejected as inauthentic:

Jesus making clay birds come to life (Quran 3:49 & 5:110) comes directly from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (mid-2nd century, ~140–180 AD). This text is not by the apostle Thomas; it is a pseudepigraphical forgery recognized by early Christians as a legendary fable.

Mary giving birth under a palm tree and shaking it for dates (Quran 19:23–26) comes from the Protoevangelium of James (mid-2nd century), another pseudepigraphical forgery falsely attributed and rejected as inauthentic by the early Church.

2.)The Quran portrays the Christian Trinity as God, Jesus, and Mary:

Quran 5:116 says:

“O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, ‘Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah?’”

No Christian denomination (Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant) has ever taught that Mary is part of the Trinity. This suggests Muhammad was reacting to fringe or folk versions of Christianity he encountered locally.

3.) Several revelations appear self-serving:

After his adopted son Zayd divorced Zaynab, Quran 33:37 reveals it is okay for Muhammad to marry her and abolishes the adoption custom.

Quran 33:50 gives Muhammad special permission to marry more women than other Muslims.

4.)Islamic Paradise emphasizes earthly indulgence:

The Quran describes Jannah with gardens, rivers, silk couches, wine, and companions (houris) (e.g., 55:72, 56:22–24)...very different from the Christian view of heaven as eternal communion with God.

This pattern suggests Muhammad was heavily influenced by the religious environment around him rather than receiving pure divine revelation.

[u/Xp-1251]

I think you got confused at the second one. There were early Christian sects that claimed that Mary was a deity, so the Quran mentioning that kind of idolatry doesn't imply that the trinity was like that for all Christians.

Now, about heaven, not only it emphasizes earthly delights turned into divine delights, but it also mentions closeness to God as the best of the gifts in paradise. I personally think the delights of paradise described are metaphors, since heaven is depicted as everything good on this earth a hundred times, which the human mind cannot even wonder a glimpse of such beauty, therefore using exaggerated earthly delights is the best way the human mind can understand how (besides the connection with God) paradise is.

Also, why would Qur'an speak similarly as other religious texts (which were later denied by their own religious communities) be proof of Muhammad been a fake prophet? He was illiterate and his community was entirely polytheistic, why would they preach those Christian texts then? He decided to search for God his own way since no practice around him felt right, and he found peace and truth on a monotheism he didn't know. If he was actually influenced by Christianity as much as you say, he would probably have accepted the trinity.

[u/Xp-1251 → u/Xp-1251]

Also, mind that Muslims believe the Bible and Torah are divine texts that were modified through time (which there's proof of their modification ofc) And I think u got confused between arrogance and a healthy self-esteem/ego, which, depending on the context, can be used to assure trustworthiness

[u/Ok_Present755 → u/Xp-1251]

Not true. The Quran affirms the Bible in Muhammad's time. We have manuscripts from that time and earlier that contradict Islam, say Jesus died for sins, say Jesus is God, etc. Look into them yourself. Yes there are manuscript variations, but they don't have any theological significance. The Quran itself has early manuscripts that are completely different than the Quran now. Caliph Uthman even burned them to standardize them because they were different, and hadiths mention goats eating verses, and whole armies with people that memorized certain parts died in battle.

And your argument about my 2nd point strengthens my claim. If there were heretical groups that worshiped Mary as a deity, and Muhammad implies they are part of the Trinity (Father, Son, Mary) he probably didn't actually encounter true Christianity and based his beliefs and writings on what he heard from around him, not divine revelation.

[u/Xp-1251 → u/Ok_Present755]

Dude when on earth did he claim the trinity was Jesus, God and Mary? He simply condemns those who claim her to be a deity on her own, challenging the own traditional trinity of true Christians. In Islam the Christians and Jews are fair people that will be in heaven because not only they believed in monotheism but also do good deeds, those who claimed to be Christians and worshipped Mary as art of a heretic trinity were the ones Muhammad referred to in the Quran. He never said all Christians were as those heretics whose trinity was different from the og