Intro

All information here is from the oldest biography of Mohammed: “the life of Muhammad” from Ishaq Sirat Rasul Allah.  The book can be found here

Pre Islamic Period

• the Arabs took stones from the Ka’ba and get around as It was the Ka’ba and begin to do it with every stone (p. 35)
• the Najran and other Arabs used to worship big palm-tree  (p. 15)

Mohammed prophethood in the other book

Gospel

• a Christian saw the seal of Prophethood on the shoulder of Muhammed as described in the Christian book  (their book is correct to alter) (p. 80)

• The jews and Christians spoke about the apostle before his mission. It was about the description of him in their Scriptures  (their scriptures were correct, not changed) (p. 90)
• John wrote the Gospel down  (the earliest Muslims knew the gospel of John)(p. 104)
• the testament of the son of Mary (did Jesus have a testament) (p. 104)
• John Gospel: the comforter or spirit of truth will be Muhammed (p. 104) (but he is not in us)
• Christian: By God, he is truly the prophet whom we expect and finds in our books (p.656)
• Christian: we find him in our book (p.656)
• Christian: ‘Your master is a prophet who has been sent; we know him by his description, and we find him mentioned by name in our scriptures.'(p.656)
  •   it means: the Christian books are correct and M. is to be found there by name. Where it is written

Torah

• you will find him described in your Torah (it means the Torah in right. Where then?) (p.241)
• Abu Bakr said to the jews that they will find Muhammed  written in the Torah and the Gospel (it means doesn’t book are correct, no changed) (p.263)
• Muhammed to the jews: I am the apostle of God. You will find it. it is written in the Torah that you have (it means the Torah is correct, where can we find it?+) (p.270)

About Mohammed

Reward promise from God

• Muhammed sent by God and he opened to him the treasure of Caesar and Chosroes . (it is about to conquer and stealing the treasure of others) (p. 113)

Companions

• Ali the first man to believe in the apostle (p. 114)
• Bilal did the call of the prayer because he has a more penetrating voice (p.236)

Intolerance

• when the apostle openly displayed Islam, people did not withdraw or turn again him, until he spoke disparagingly of their gods  (p. 118)
• if you don’t follow M. you be slaughtered,  burned in the fire of Hell (p.222)
• 2 religions should not be allowed to remain in the peninsula of the Arabs (p.523)
• M. said: 2 religions shall not remain together in the peninsula of the Arabs (p.525)  (there is no more: your religion and my religion)
• the last injunction the apostle gave was in his words: ‘Let not two religions be left in the Arabian peninsula.’ you religion and my religion was over (p.689)
• a jew or  Christian is no to be turned from his religion, but he must pay the poll tax for every adult, male or female, free or slave. (p.643)#
• a Christian or a Jew is not to be turned from their religion. but he has to pay the poll tax for every adult (p.647-648)

Challenge (he did nothing)

•   his contradictors asked him to resurrect their forefathers and other sins,  but he gave an excuse and did nothing (p. 134)
  • he didn’t do it.
• he rabbis proposed to the Quraish to test Muhammed with 3 questions: the young men who disappeared in ancient days, the mighty traveler who reached the confine of both West and East (Alexander the Great),  about the spirit. (p. 136)
  • about the spirit, he didn’t know,
  • about the traveler, alexander the great he responses  was not right in  the Quran, because he is presented as Muslim
  • about the young boy, he gave a  comic response

Invitation to Islam

• the Prophet went to Thaqif to seek help against  his enemies and hope that they will receive his message(p.192)       
• the apostle sends out troops in the district round Mecca inviting men to God: he did not order them to fight. Khalid b. al-Walid killed some of them. the prophet sent Ali to pay the bloodwit. (p.561)

Reactions to critics

• the prophet has killed in mecca some people who had satirized and insulted him  (p.597)
• the enemies of M. proposed him money (p. 133)

Some conversions

• some jews became Muslim to retain their property (p.438)
• after the peace of al-Budaybiya, many enter Islam (p.507)
• the Arabs knew that they could not fight the apostle or display enmity towards hIm they entered into God’s religion in batches’ as God said, coming to him from all directions(p.628)

Jihad/war

General

• Al-Aqaba: the Ansars (Helpers) have the duty of  making war (p.198)
• Apostel receive permission to fight (p.212)
• The treaty of Medina between the Muslims and the jews (p.233)   

Reward

• in paradise, there is all the gold, silver, clothes, servants that people can desire (is that from God or from Human how to desire many things) (p. 162)
• the people of Medina (Ansars- helpers) get in return to their loyalty (for fighting for the prophet): “the paradise” (p.205)
• After M. received the Permission to fight, the Ansar (helper from Medina) accepted to fight for him (second Aqabaa) and he promised them as reward the paradise (p.208)
• if you follow M. you will be kings of the Arabs and the Persians  (p.222)
• Promise that the Muslims will enjoy the treasures of Chosroes and Caesar.  (He wanted to conquer them and take their property as bounty/spoil of war) (p.243)
• M. used to promise the Muslims that they will eat the treasures of Chosroes and Caesar. (p.454)
• Badr everyone who will be slain by fighting with steadfast, courage, advancing, will go to paradise.  A man takes a sword and fights until he was slain (p.300)
• death for God sake (fighting for God),  is better (p.397)
• Muhammed saw a martyr with his 2 wives from the dark-eyed houris(p.519)
• when a martyr is slain, his two wives from the dark-eyed houris pet him, wiping the dust from his face, saying the while, ‘May God put dust on the face of the man who put dust on your face and slay him who slew you (p.519)

Defensive

• when the Uncle on Muhammed(his protector and defender) died, the Quraysh begin to treat him in an offensive way (p.191)
• the Muslims have become confident because Umar and Hamza will protect the apostles. Why not God-like Jesus (p. 157)
• the Prophet went to Thaqif to seek help against  his enemies and hope that they will receive his message (p.192)        
• God ordered some tribes to protect the prophet. why can he do it himself (p.195)
• Allah allowed them to fight only because they are been unjustly treated (p.213)

Offensive

• .. fight till  … and religion is for God alone (p.213)
• religion shall belong to Allah… and fight till monotheism may be pure … (p.324)
• after the battle a Trench, M. decides to attack the Quraysh and he attacked them until the conquest of Mecca (p.469)
• the apostle ordered to fight the polytheist  who had broken the special agreement “as well as those who had a general agreement after 4 months” (Quran 9:1-7)(p.619)
• … we are God’s helpers and the assistants of His apostle, and will fight men until they believe in God; and he who believes in God and His apostle has protected his life and property from us; and he who disbelieves we will fight in God unceasingly and killing him will be a small matter to us.(p.629)
• … The apostle put him in command of those of hIs people who had accepted Islam and ordered him to fight the neighboring polytheists from the tribes of the Yaman with them. …(p.642)
• … men asked to be informed about Islam and killing of polytheists … (p.643)
• … a believer must help against polytheists … (p.643)
• the apostle congratulates a man to be first of Himyar to accept Islam and to have killed the polytheists (p.643)

Peacefull verse

• your religion and my religion ( people asked Muhammed to worship their gods and then they will worship his god. it was in Mecca before the apostle became powerfull) (p.165)

Battles

BADR

• Badr: the apostle heard that Abu Sufyan was coming from Syria with a large caravan of Quraysh containing their money and merchandise and asked the Muslims to attack him. Abu Sufyan heard about it and called the Quraysh to come out and defend their properties (p.289)
• Badr: the Muslims went out to capture the caravan of Abu Sufyan and the people from Quraysh went out to protect it. (p.325)
• Battle of Badr: Muhammed has gone out only to find the Quraysh caravan and he met his enemies (p.610)

Banu Qaynuqa (Jewish tribes from Medina)

• the jews broke the treaty with the prophet: a Muslim woman was immodestly exposed by a jew and they laughed her. A Muslim killed him, then the jews killed the Muslim and the Muslim’s family called on the Muslims to help against the jews. (read commentary 568 at  the end of the book – p.751)  (p.363)
  • Muslims have not right, because the Muslim didn’t have the right first to kill the jew first.

Banu Qurayza    

• the jews Banu Quryaza are beheaded (p.464)

Khaibar

• After the peace treaty with the Quraish M.  went to attack Khaibar ()
• Khaybar was the principal town of Hijaz, in fertility, fortification, and population. (p.519)
• Khaybar was the garden of the Hijaz and the town of the jews (p.519)
• Mohammed had conquered Khaybar, married the daughter of their king and their property belong to him and his companions (p.520)
• The account of the division of the spoil of Khaybar. how Muhammed did divide the spoil among himself and his companions (p.521-522)
• the people of Fadak (after hearing the defeat of Khaybar) offer peace to the prophet on condition that they should keep half of their produce. Fadak become the private property of the prophet (p.523)

Conquest of Mecca

• Conquest of Mecca: the Quraish broke their covenant with the apostle after killing Khuazaa’a who was in treaty with the prophet (p.542)

Tabuk

• Tabuk: the prophet get ordered to raid the Byzantine (p.602)
• Some bedouin came to apologize for not going, but God would not accept their excuse (p. 603)
• Tabuk. a Muslim stay behind because he is addicted to the women and  he fears not to control himself by seeing the byzantine women  (p.602)
• when the apostle reached Tabuk, the governor of Ayla came and made a treaty with him and paid him the poll tax (p.607)
• the apostle summoned Khalid b. al-Walid and sent him to Ukaydir at Düma (Christian ruler of Düma). He made peace with him on condition that he paid the poll-tax (p.607-608)
• Battle of Tabuk: if the Muslims don’t want to fight at Tabuk got will punish them and replace them with other people (p.621)

Other

• a Muslim with an order of the prophet, raid a caravan and brought it to the prophet with spoils in it (p.364)
• THE KILLING OF KA’B B. AL-ASHRAF (p.364)
• after Khaybar, the apostle sent out raiding parties and expeditions (p.530)

Old prophet and other

DHU-L-QARRNAYN

• Dhu-l-Qarrnayn was Alexander, who build Alexandria in Egypt  (read commentary 186 at the end of the book – p.719)  He was not an Egyptian  (p. 139)
• Dhu-Qarrnayn was an angel who measured the earth beneath by ropes (very false) (p. 139)

Jews/Israelites

• the jews worship Uzayr (it is false)  (p.163)

Jesus

• Jesus complained to god because some of his companions refused to go where he sent them because it was a long journey. every one of them was able to speak the language of the people to whom he was sent. (p.653)
  • Paul and Peter was sent to Rome, Mathew to the land of cannibals, Thomas to Babel the land of the east,  Philip to Carthage (Afrika),  John to Ephesus James to Jerusalem Bartholomew to Arabia, Simon to the land of Berbers
  • for the prophet, Paul was a follower of Jesus.    

Other (black people)

•  whoever want to see Satan let him take a look at Nahtalb. al-Harith”. He was a sturdy black man WIth long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks.

Quran / verses in context

Religious (In-) Tolerance

• your religion and my religion ( people asked Muhammed to worship their gods and then they will worship his god. it was in Mecca before the apostle became powerfull) (p.165)
• M. wrote the jews of Khaibar: you will find “Muhammed the apostle of God in your scripture” ( it means their scripture is correct. where can we find it?) if you don’t it is no compulsion for you. (p.256)
• some Muslims remained friends with the jews. and Allah prohibited this friendship. (p.262)

Battle

• the. first 100 verses of the sura of the cow (2) came down in reference to these Jewish rabbis and the hypocrites of Aus and Khazraj (p.247)
• after the battle of Badr, God sent down the whole sura Anfal(8) about it with regard to their quarreling about the spoils: the spoils belong Allah and his apostle (p.321)
• there are 6 verses in the Sura family of Imran (3) concerning the day of Uhud (p.391-392)
• Sura of the confederates (33): was revealed in reference to the Qurayza and the  trench (battle)(p.466)
• verse 9.111 (god bought the life of a believer and grand him paradise) ends the narrative dealing with Tabük
• SURAT 9
  • verse 9:3-4: the Muslims have to fight the polytheists everywhere (p.618)
  • Ali and Abu Bakr announced the treaty (p.619)
  • verses 9.5: fight them everywhere you find them (p.618)
  • verses 9.5-6: Exception of the polytheist who has a treaty with the prophet  (a tribe allies of Quraysh, who no fight the prophet).  (p.618)
  • Battle of Tabuk: if the Muslims don’t want to fight at Tabuk got will punish them and replace them with other people (p.621)
  • verses 9:29-30: the prophet forbid the polytheist to approach the sacred month (and market). people fear that the market will be cut off and trade will be destroyed. and God said: if you fear poverty, I will enrich you with bounty, in some other way.  He ordered them to fight the people of the book and take of them poll tax as compensation.   (p.620)
  • verse 9.111 (god bought the life of the believer and grand him paradise) ends the narrative dealing with Tabük

Other books/ Torah / Gospel

• Surat 2.75  after a party of Jews who listen to the word of Allah, changed it. (it was in the time of Mose when some jews contradict him. it doesn’t mean that the jews changed the  Torah) (p.251)
• the jews said that Salomon was a Sorcerer (why do the book of Salomon belong to the tank – Jewish bible) (p.255)

Inspired by Muslims

• Allah revealed: 20 will overcome 200 and 100 will overcome 1000. The Muslims were shocked.  God canceled it and revealed: 100 will overcome 200 and 1000 will overcome 2000 (the Quran is inspired in his revelation by the Muslims)(p.326)