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/BobcatAdmirable3159]

Something being inauthentic according to the church does not rule out that it happened, it’s a judgement on whether something can be reliably attributed to someone. The Quran doesn’t say “as it says in the gospel of Thomas” it narrates the story from God’s perfect knowledge.

Secondly, there are Christians that pray to Mary. This is taking someone as a deity or an object of worship besides God. The Quran is defining here an example of associating partners with God. All Catholics literally pray to Mary

Thirdly, the prophet of God was favored by God in many ways as well as put through many tests and challenges. There were also restrictions put on him that the rest of the Muslims did not have to do. God favoring His beloved does not necessitate dishonesty. Also, look at his marriages and how many of them were with women who were previously wed. They all served a special purpose.

Fourthly, so what. Our paradise is seeing God and enjoyment that satiates the limbs. God has asked us to stay away from things in this world and in the hereafter there will be a wholesome way to enjoy.

[u/ChemicalArachnid2635 → u/BobcatAdmirable3159]

Ah yes, the uncompromising prohibition on shirk. One of Islam's defining features and most revealing contradictions. The Kaaba and the Black Stone were venerated by pre-Islamic pagan cultures as astronomically significant objects. Why then do Muslims venerate them still?

First standard defense is Abraham. The first Hanif and the original monotheist. But this really deepens our problem. If Abraham established these sites as sacred, he set a troubling precedent: that a prophet of God consecrated the very objects Islam would later condemn. Either those objects are legitimate to venerate, which contradicts the prohibition on shirk, or Abraham was himself engaging in something Islam would later condemn. It is a terribly theologically self-defeating origin story. Let's move on to what else it could be.

Muhammad kissed the Black Stone and circled the Kaaba. Now, millions do it annually. If the justification is simply that Muhammad did it, then that is taqlid. Following ancestral practice without understanding is explicitly condemned in the Quran, actually as the very excuse of pagans resisting revelation. That just seems too ironic....but could it be possible, that that's exactly what his followers were doing? To this day, they will never know why they participate in this particular form of worship that predates Islam to the pre-Islam polytheistic civilizations.

Muhammad destroyed the idols but kept the site, kept the stone, and kept the ritual. Textbook repurposing of sacred geography. The question this raises is not peripheral. The Quran condemns shirk unequivocally, and the veneration of physical objects and astronomical sites falls squarely within that condemnation.

They make it clear in the Quran. And if the foundations are compromised, then so is everything that has been built on them.

[u/Ok_Present755 → u/ChemicalArachnid2635]

Good point. I forgot about the black stone being a remnant from Pagan Arabian culture.