Ultimate Destination Every Muslim Aspires to Reach

The highest spiritual attainment in Islam is entering Alla’s Paradise and live there for eternity. On the ‘Day of Last Judgment’ or Qiyamah, Allah will forgive every sins of his beloved believers and allow them to enter his Paradise due to the only merit of their belief in Allah’s Koran and the Prophet-hood of Muhammad. Or simply for the merit of believing in the Kalema Taib that reads, “La Ilaha Illallah, Mohmmadur Rasulullah”. On that day, Allah will raise each and every human being from his grave and assemble them to assess their deeds in this world and hence to send them to either hell or heaven. The people would be assembled on the Day of Resurrection bare footed, naked and uncircumcised (Sahih Muslim: 6844, 6846, 6847). In one occasion Ayesha asked, “Will the male and the female be together on that day and would they be looking at one another?” Allah’s Messenger visibly became annoyed with this vexed question and replied, “The matter would be too serious for them to look at one another” (Sahih Muslim: 6844).

“On the Day of Resurrection, Allah would bring the sun very close to the people and there would be left only a distance of one mile” (Sahih Muslim: 6852). After the judgement, each and every Muslim, due to the merit of believing in Allah’s Koran and the Allah’s Prophet Muhammad, would be admitted into the paradise (jannah), while the entire lot of non-Muslims (kafirs) will be thrown into hell-fire. It should also be mentioned here that, Allah will be extremely cruel to Hindus as they are idolatrous. So Koran says, “You (the disbeliever or the kafir) and all your idols shall be the fuel of Hell; therein you all go down. Were they true gods, your idols would not go there; but in they shall abide for ever. They shall groan with pain and be bereft of hearing” (21:98-100).

The wisdom of Allah has created eight kinds of Paradise to maintain a hierarchy among the believers and these are (1) Kheld, (2) Dar-es-salam, (3) Darul, (4) Adan, (5) Nayeem, (6) Mawa, (7) Alluyin and (8) Ferdaus. Best places of the Paradise are reserved for Prophets, the martyrs of jihad and ghazis or slayers of infidels. So the Koran say, “We shall pardon your (believer’s) evil deeds and admit you with all honour to Paradise” (4:31). “Allah will not forgive those who serve other gods besides him. … He that serves other gods besides him is guilty of a heinous sin” (4:48). “Allah will not forgive idolatry. He will forgive all other sins. He says that, who serves other gods besides Allah, has strayed far from the truth” (4:116). “Allah will do away with their (believers’) foulest deeds” (39: 35). As mentioned above, the believers would find places in different kinds of Paradise according to their hierarchy, and hence- “The (common) inmates of the paradise will look to the upper apartment of the paradise as you see the planets in the sky” (Sahih Muslim: 6788 & 6789). And all those, who do not believe in Islam, will be thrown into hell-fire. It again reflects that Islam is a doctrine of hate.

The fire in Hell would be quite different from ordinary fire. It would be 70 times more intense than mundane fire (Sahih Muslim: 6811). The wisdom of Allah has created seven categories of Hell to suit different kinds of kafirs and the intensity of fire and height of the flames will be different in these Hells. In some Hell, fire will reach the ankles, somewhere it will reach the knees, somewhere to the waists and somewhere to the collar-bones (SM: 6815, 6816). Hindus are not simple kafirs, but kafirs of the worst kind, as they are idol worshipers. As a punishment for this fault as well as for the most serious fault of creating partners to Allah by way of worshiping other gods, they would therefore be thrown into Havia, the most tormenting Hell, where the height of the flames of hell-fire would reach one’s scalp. While the Jews and Christians, for their merit of not being idolatrous, would be thrown into less tormenting Hell.

In this eternal Hell-fire, Allah would roast the kafirs again and again, and every time He will replace their skins with new ones, so that they could suffer this inhuman torture without any pause (Koran- 4:56). There will be no death for the inmates of the Paradise and no death for the inmates of the Hell (SM: 6827, 6829), and this announcement will increase the delight of the dwellers of the Paradise, while it would increase the grief of the inmates of the Hell (SM: 6830). Furthermore, the kafirs in Hell would have very strange appearances. For example, the molar teeth or the canine teeth of an unbeliever in Hell would be like Uhud (a hill in the neighbourhood of Mecca) and the thickness of his skin would be three night’s journey (SM: 6831) and the distance between his two shoulders would also be three night’s journey for a swift rider (SM: 6832).

Believers in Paradise (Jannah):

While the unbelievers will perish in Hell, the believers, though fallen and evil doers, will joyfully enter Allah’s Paradise where there are rivers of pure water, milk, pure honey and divine wine are flowing and the Koran says, “Allah will do away with their foulest deeds” (39:35). “As for those who led the way, the First of the muhajirs (Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina) and the ansar (Muslims of Medina who helped muhajirs) , and those who nobly followed them, Allah is pleased with them and they with Him. He has prepared for them gardens watered by running streams, where they shall dwell for ever. That is the supreme triumph” (9:100). “He will forgive, you your sins and admit you to gardens watered by running streams; He will lodge you in pleasant mansions in the garden of Eden. That is the supreme triumph.” (61:12). The Koran also says “This is the Paradise which the righteous (Muslims) have been promised. There shall flow in it rivers of unpolluted water, and rivers of ever fresh milk; rivers of delectable wine and rivers of clearest honey. They shall eat therein every fruit and receive forgiveness from their Lord” (47:15).

In a hadis narrated by Abu Huraira, a close companion of prophet Muhammad, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said, “I have prepared (the paradise) for My pious servants which no eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, and no human heart has ever perceived but it is testified by the book of Allah. … No soul knows what comfort has been concealed from them, as a reward for what they did” (Sahih Muslim: 6779, 6780, 6781, 6782 & 6783). “In paradise there would be two rivers Saiban and Jaiban. Beside that, people would find Euphrates and Nile are all among the rivers of paradise” (Sahih uslimM: 6807).

To describe Islamic Paradise, Sir W. Muir writes, “Rest and passive enjoyment; verdant gardens watered by murmuring rivulets, wherein the believers, clothed in green silk brocades and silver ornaments, repose beneath the wide-spreading shade on couches well furnished with cushions and carpets, drink the sweet waters of the fountains, and quaff aromatic wines such as the Arab loved from goblets placed before them or handed round in silver cups resplendent as glass by beautiful youths; while clusters of fruits hang close-by inviting the hand to gather them; – such is the paradise framed to captivate the inhabitants of the thirsty sterile Mecca”. Another element is soon added to complete the Paradise of the pleasure-loving Arabs – “Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and damsels with swelling bosoms, of an equal age, and a full cup” (78:31). ….. “In the oft described shady gardens ‘with fruits and meats, and beakers of wine causing not the head to ache, neither disturbing the reason’, these damsels of the paradise are introduced as “Lovely large-eyed girls resembling pearls hidden in their shells, a reward for that which the faithful have wrought. …Verily We have created them of a rare creation; We have made them virgins, fascinating, of an equal age “(52:21).

The believers after entering Paradise would assume completely changed appearances and hence the hadis of Sahih Muslim says, “The (members) of the first group to get into the paradise would have their faces as bright as full moon during the night, and the next group would have their faces as bright as the shining stars in the sky” (Sahih Muslim: 6793). Not only their appearances but also their physiology as well as metabolic activities would also be greatly altered. “The members of the first group that would be admitted to the paradise would have their faces as bright as the full moon during the night. They would neither spit nor suffer catarrh, nor void excrement. They would have their utensils and their combs made of gold and silver and the fuel of their braziers would be aloes and their sweat will be musk and every one of them would have two spouses (so beautiful) that the marrow of their shanks would be visible through the flesh. There would be no dissension amongst them and no enmity in their hearts”.(Sahih Muslim: 6797, 6798, 6800). They (the dwellers of paradise) would neither pass water, nor void excrement, nor will they suffer from catarrh, nor will they spit, and their combs would be made of gold, and their sweat will be musk, the fuel of their brazier will be aloes, and their wives will be large-eyed maidens and their form would be alike as one single person after the form of their father (Adam) sixty cubits tall (Sahih Muslim: 6795, 6796).

To describe His Paradise, Allah, in Koran, says, “The righteous shall surely dwell in bliss. Reclining upon soft couches they will gaze around them; and in their faces you shall mark the glow of joy. They shall drink of a pure wine, securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk, for this let all men emulously strive; a wine tempered with the waters of Tasnim, a spring at which the favoured will refresh themselves” (36:5-22). “But the true servants of Allah shall be well provided for, feasting on fruit, and honoured in the gardens of delight. Reclining face to face upon soft couches, they shall be served with a goblet filled at a gushing fountain, white and delicious to those who drink. It will neither dull their senses nor befuddle them” (37: 47). As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high-bosomed maidens for companions: a truly overflowing cup”.(78: 31) “To dark-eyes houris, We shall wed them. Fruits we shall give them, and such meats as they desire. …there shall wait on them young boys of their own as Fair as virgin pearls” (52:17-24). One may find similar description of Alla’s paradise in the verses (55: 46-55), (76:5-18), (88:8-16) and (83:22-28) of the Koran.

Houries

The chief attractions of Allah’s Paradise are houries or Heavenly damsels, who are virgins, chaste, dark eyed with swelling bosoms and never become older than 16 and the Koran says, “as for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high-bosomed maidens for companions: a truly overflowing cup” (78:31-34). “They shall sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches. Surely that is the supreme triumph. Let every man labour to achieve it” (37; 48-50).

“We created houris and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand: a multitude from the men of old, and a multitude from the later. …And theirs shall be dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds. They shall recline on couches raised on high in the shade of thornless sidrahs and clusters of talh; amidst gushing waters and abundant fruits, un-forbidden. never-ending. We created houris and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand: a multitude from the men of old, and a multitude from the later”(56:22-40). One may further description of houries in the verses (55:56-78), (44:51-57) etc of the Koran.

Regarding these houris, Sir W. Muir says “So long the Prophet lived in Mecca with his only wife Khadija, houris were simply rewards of Allah. But later, after the death of Khadija, when the Prophet started marrying several wives, houris became legal wives. So Allah said, “And there would be none without a wife in paradise” (Sahih Muslim: 6793).

It is not clearly specified in scriptures that how many of these heavenly damsels a believer in Paradise would get. As quoted above, somewhere Allah says that each believer would get two houries as their wives. Somewhere Allah promises many, e.g. He allots 72 of them for the saheeds, who die in fighting for Allah’s cause. But extreme sensuality of the Prophet of Arabia has been reflected in a hadis narrated by Abu Huraira, that says, even the most wretched, the most fallen believer in Allah’s Paradise would own a vast compound which would contain seventy mansions of pearls, every mansion would contain seventy houses of rubies, every house would have seventy rooms of emeralds, every room would contain seventy couches, and every couch would be covered with seventy carpets of every colour, and a houri would be sitting on each carpet. Furthermore, every such above mentioned rooms would have seventy tables laid out, and on every table there would be seventy dishes of seventy colours and every room would also have seventy maid slaves. Every believer would have the capability of copulating with each of these houris and maids. Simple calculations will show that the believer will get (70 x 70 x 70 x 70 x 70=) 1,680,700,000 or 1.6807 billion houris.(Ram Swarup, Understanding Islam Through Hadis, Voice of India, New Delhi, 1983, p-205)

According another hadis narrated by Abu Sa’id, all these women would put on see-through garments. According to another tradition mentioned by Aldous Huxley, every orgasm in Allah’s Paradise would last for 600 years (Aldous Huxley, Moksha, Chatto & Windus, London, 1980, p-112).

Glemans:

From the above descriptions it becomes evident that the Islamic paradise, which offers as the ultimate destination for the Muslims, is nothing but a five star super luxury brothel. Perhaps no worldly brothel has quite good stock of young boys, to be offered to the customers to do sodomy. But in the Islamic Paradise, by the grace of most merciful Allah, each and every believer will be supplied with plenty of most charming, beautiful and obedient Heavenly young boys, called gelemans, to do sodomy with them, and hence the Koran says, “They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who to the beholder’s eyes will seem like sprinkled pearls. When you gaze upon that scene you will behold a kingdom blissful and glorious. They shall be arrayed in garments of fine green silk and rich brocade, and adorned with bracelets of silver.” (76:19-22). “…and there shall wait on them immortal youths with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine, that will neither pain their heads nor take away their reason; with fruits of their own choice and flesh of fowls that they relish” (56: 11-21).

How many of these heavenly boys or gelemans a believer will own in Allah’s Paradise? A tradition says that every believer in Paradise, irrespective of his hierarchy, will own 1000 gelemans. According to a hadis narrated by Anas, everyone will get 10,000 slaves. According to a hadis narrated by Abu Sa’id, the number of slave boys, a believer will own, will be not less than 1000 and not more than 80,000 (Ram Swarup, ibid, p-205).

There are three main aspects of a mundane brothel and they are (1) good food, (2) good wine and (3) charming women and Allah’s brothel called Paradise provides all the three in profuse quantities and that too absolutely free of cost. In addition to that, (a) wine in Allah’s brothel does not cause the head to ache, (b) that wine would be securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk, (c) the visitors of Allah’s brothel would neither pass water, nor void excrement, nor will they suffer from catarrh, nor will they spit, (d) they would eat divine fruits and desired preparations of meat, (e) the dark-eyed women of Allah’s brothel would always remain virgins and chaste, (f) they would not get older than sweet sixteen, (g) they would wear see-through garments, (h) the visitors of the Allah’s brothel would be able to see the marrow of their bones, and above all (i) every orgasm in Allah’s Paradise with these heavenly damsels would last for 600 years and (j) the visitors would be provided with pretty young boys, who would never be older than 16, for doing sodomy too.

Some Other Features of Allah’s Brothel:

A Bengali author, Mr. A T M Rafiqul Hasan, in his book Aat Behest O Saat Dojokh (Eight kinds of Heaven and Seven Kinds of Hell, Muslim Library, Calcutta, 2003), has clarified some other rare aspects of Allah’s brothel. For example, a grape of Allah’s Paradise would contain enough juice to fill up a cask and a date palm of Paradise would be as long as twelve cubits that would not bear any seed. The trees in Allah’s Paradise would be capable of playing any kind of movement including walking. If an inmate of Paradise desires to taste a fruit, even of a distant tree, the tree would come near to him and push the desired fruit into his mouth.

It has been mentioned above that a visitor of Allah’s brothel would be able to copulate with billions of heavenly damsels or houris. But what would be the nature of ejaculation of such copulations? Mr. Rafiqul Hasan has thrown considerable light on this aspect of Allah’s brothel. He narrates that, one day a companion of the Prophet asked him to enlighten him on this matter and in his reply the Prophet said that, ejaculation of semen in Allah’s brothel would be entirely different from an ejaculation in this world. Firstly, the semen of an inmate of Allah’s brothel would be a puff of fragrant air and an ejaculation of this peculiar semen would give the inmate a million times more pleasure than worldly ejaculation. Secondly, the worldly ejaculation diminishes the vigour and energy of the man. But it would be entirely opposite in Allah’s brothel. An ejaculation here would increase the vigour of the inmate by million times.

Conclusion:

In the previous instalment, we have seen that Hindu Dharma assigns Moksha, an entirely spiritual concept, as the ultimate goal to be attained by man. It has also been pointed out that, through the concept of Moksha, Hindu Dharma aspires to raise man from humanity to divinity. On the contrary, Islam prescribes the paradise as the ultimate destination of man which is nothing but a brothel full of sensuality and sex. And hence, sensuality and sex is the final word of Islam. In fact, it was not possible for the illiterate pastoral people of Arabia, the originators of the creed of Islam, to conceive any better goal for man.

From the above discussions, it is not difficult for the reader to comprehend that there is a gulf of difference between the Hindu Dharma and Islam. Hindu dharma wants to elevate man to divinity, while Islam wants to drag man down to bestiality. And hence it needs a fool to say that these two are same.

(to be continued)

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*Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta.

Prophet on Lust

Qur’an 33:51	“You may have whomever you desire; there is no blame.”
Tabari VIII:187	“The [sixty-two-year old] Messenger of Allah married Mulaykah. She was young and beautiful. One of the Prophet’s wives came to her and said, ‘Are you not ashamed to marry a man who killed your father during the day he conquered Mecca?” She therefore took refuge from him.”
Qur’an 66:1	“O Prophet! Why forbid yourself that which Allah has made lawful to you? You seek to please your consorts.”
Qur’an 66:4	“If you (women) turn in repentance to him, it would be better. Your hearts have been impaired, for you desired (the ban) [on how many girls Muhammad could play with at a time]. But if you back each other up against (Muhammad), truly Allah is his protector, and Gabriel, and everyone who believes – and furthermore, the angels will back (him) up.”
Qur’an 66:5	“Maybe, if he divorces you (all), Allah will give him in exchange consorts better than you – submissive, faithful, obedient, adorers who worship, who travel, and are inclined to fasting – previously married or virgins.”
Tabari VIII:117	“Dihyah had asked the Messenger for Safiyah when the Prophet chose her for himself. Muhammad gave Dihyah her two cousins instead.” Ishaq:511 “When he protested, wanting to keep Safiyah for himself, the Apostle traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.”
Bukhari:V5B59N524	“The Muslims said among themselves, ‘Will Safiyah be one of the Prophet’s wives or just a lady captive and one of his possessions?'”
Tabari VIII:110	“When Abu Sufyan learned that the Prophet had taken her, he said, ‘That stallion’s nose is not to be restrained!'”
Bukhari:V4B52N143 V5B59N523	“When we reached Khaybar, Muhammad said that Allah had enabled him to conquer them. It was then that the beauty of Safiyah was described to him. Her husband had been killed [by Muhammad], so Allah’s Apostle selected her for himself. He took her along with him till we reached a place where her menses were over and he took her for his wife, consummating his marriage to her, and forcing her to wear the veil.'”
Tabari VIII:122 Ishaq:515	“Muhammad commanded that Safiyah should be kept behind him and he threw his cloak over her. Thus the Muslims knew that he had chosen her for himself.”
Ishaq:517	“When the Apostle took Safiyah on his way out of town, she was beautified and combed, putting her in a fitting state for the Messenger. The Apostle passed the night with her in his tent. Abu Ayyub, girt with his sword, guarded the Apostle, going round the tent until he saw him emerge in the morning. Abu said, ‘I was afraid for you with this woman for you have killed her father, her husband, and her people.”
Qur’an 33:30	“O Consorts of the Prophet! If…any of you are devout, obedient, and submissive in the service to Allah and His Messenger, and does good, to her shall We grant her reward twice. We have prepared for her a generously rich provision.”
Tabari IX:126	“The Messenger of Allah married fifteen women. He combined eleven at a time and left behind nine.”
Ishaq:311	“The Apostle saw Ummu’l when she was a baby crawling before his feet and said, ‘If she grows up, I will marry her.’ But he died before he was able to do so.”
Tabari VII:7	“The Prophet married Aisha in Mecca three years before the Hijrah, after the death of Khadija. At the time she was six.” Ishaq:281 “When the Apostle came to Medina he was fifty-three.”
Tabari IX:128	“When the Prophet married Aisha she very young and not yet ready for consummation.”
Bukhari:V9B87N139-40	“Allah’s Apostle told Aisha, ‘You were shown to me twice in my dreams [a.k.a. sexual fantasies]. I beheld a man or angel carrying you in a silken cloth. He said to me, “She is yours, so uncover her.” And behold, it was you. I would then say to myself, “If this is from Allah, then it must happen.”‘”
Tabari IX:131	“My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was then brought in while the Messenger was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. Then the men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old.”
Tabari IX:133	“Juwayriyyah was chosen by the Messenger for himself on the day of the Muraysi raid from the captives.” “Muhammad married Umm, who had embraced Christianity.”
Tabari IX:134	“Muhammad took Zaynab [his daughter-in-law] but Allah did not find any fault in the [incestuous] relationship and ordered the marriage.”
Tabari IX:135	“When the Prophet scrutinized the captives on the day of Khaybar, he threw his cloak over Safayah. Thus she was his chosen one.” Tabari IX:139 “The Messenger married Ghaziyyah after the news of her beauty and skill had reached him.”
Tabari IX:137	“Allah granted Rayhanah of the [Jewish] Qurayza to His Messenger as booty [but only after she had been forced to watch him decapitate her father and brother, seen her mother hauled off to be raped, and her sisters sold into slavery].”
Tabari IX:137	“Mariyah, a Copt slave, was presented to the Prophet. She was given to him by Muqawqis, the ruler of Alexandria.”
Tabari IX:138	“The Prophet married Aliyyah, a Bakr woman. He gave her gifts for divorce and left her. He also married Qutaylah, but he died before he could consummate the marriage.”
Tabari IX:139	“Layla approached the Prophet while his back was to the sun and clapped him on his shoulder. He asked her who it was and she replied, ‘I am the daughter of one who competes with the wind. I am Layla. I have come to offer myself to you.’ He replied, ‘I accept.'” [Layla shared her story with her parents.] “They said, ‘What a bad thing you have done! You are a self-respecting girl, but the Prophet is a womanizer.'”
Tabari IX:147	“A eunuch named Mubur was presented to Muhammad along with two slave girls. One he took as a concubine, the other he gave to Haasn.”
Ishaq:186	“He took me into Paradise and there I saw a damsel with dark red lips. I asked her to whom she belonged, for she pleased me much when I saw her.”
Bukhari:V4B52N211	“I participated in a Ghazwa [raid] with the Prophet. I said, ‘Apostle, I am a bridegroom.’ He asked me whether I had married a virgin or matron. I answered, ‘A matron.’ He said, ‘Why not a virgin who would have played with you? Then you could have played with her.’ ‘Apostle! My father was martyred and I have some young sisters, so I felt it not proper that I should marry a young girl as young as them.'”
Tabari VIII:100	“The Messenger sent Hatib to Muqawqis, the ruler of Alexandria. Hatib delivered the letter of the Prophet, and Muqawqis gave Allah’s Apostle four slave girls.”
Bukhari:V9B86N98	“The Prophet said, ‘A virgin should not be married till she is asked for her consent.’ ‘O Apostle! How will the virgin express her consent?’ He said, ‘By remaining silent.'”
Bukhari:V5B59N342	“Umar said, ‘When my daughter Hafsa lost her husband in the battle of Badr, Allah’s Apostle demanded her hand in marriage and I married her to him.'”
Tabari VIII:1	“In this year the Messenger married Zaynab bt. Jahsh [a first cousin: Allah’s Messenger came to the house of Zayd bin [son of] Muhammad. Perhaps the Messenger missed him at that moment. Zaynab, Zayd’s wife, rose to meet him. She was dressed only in a shift…. She jumped up eagerly and excited the admiration of Allah’s Messenger, so that he turned away murmuring something that could scarcely be understood. However, he did say overtly, ‘Glory be to Allah Almighty, who causes hearts to turn!’ So Zayd went to Muhammad. ‘Prophet, I have heard that you came to my house. Why didn’t you go in? [Dad,] Perhaps Zaynab has excited your admiration, so I will leave her.'”
Tabari VIII:4	“One day Muhammad went out looking for Zayd. Now there was a covering of haircloth over the doorway, but the wind had lifted the covering so that the doorway was uncovered. Zaynab was in her chamber, undressed, and admiration for her entered the heart of the Prophet. After that Allah made her unattractive to Zayd.'”
Tabari VIII:3	“Zayd left her, and she became free. While the Messenger of Allah was talking with Aisha, a fainting overcame him. When he was released from it, he smiled and said, ‘Who will go to Zaynab to tell her the good news? Allah has married her to me.’ Then the Prophet recited [Qur’an 33] to the end of the passage. Aisha said, ‘I became very uneasy because of what we heard about her beauty and another thing, the loftiest of matters, what Allah had done for her by personally giving her to him in marriage. I said that she would boast of it over us.'”
Qur’an 33:4	“Allah has not made your wives whom you divorce your mothers: nor has He made your adopted sons your sons. Such is (only) your (manner of) speech by your mouths.”
Qur’an 33:6	“The Prophet has a greater claim on the faithful than they have on themselves, and his wives are their mothers…. This is written in the Book.”
Qur’an 33:37	“You hid in your mind and your heart that which Allah was about to manifest: you feared the people, but it is more fitting that thou shouldst fear Allah. Then when Zayd had dissolved (his marriage) with her, with the necessary (formality), We gave her to you, joining her in marriage to you: in order that there may be no difficulty or sin for the Believers in the wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have dissolved with the necessary (formality) (their marriage) with them. And Allah’s command must be fulfilled.”
Qur’an 33:38	“There can be no difficulty, harm, or reproach to the Prophet in doing what Allah has ordained to him as a duty. It was the practice (approved) of Allah amongst those of old that have passed away. And the commandment of Allah is a decree determined. (It is the practice of those) who deliver the Messages of Allah, and fear Him. Allah keeps good account. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allah, and the Last of the Prophets with the Seal: and Allah has full knowledge of all things.”
Qur’an 33:48	“And obey not (the behests) of the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites. Disregard their noxious talk and heed not their annoyances, but put thy trust in Allah. For enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.”
Qur’an 33:50	“O Prophet! We have made lawful to you all the wives to whom you have paid dowers; and those whom your hands possess out of the prisoners of war spoils whom Allah has assigned to you; and daughters of your paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of your uncles and aunts, who migrated with you; and any believing woman if the Prophet wishes her; this is a privilege for you only, and not for the rest of the Believers; We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom they possess; in order that there should be no difficulty for you and that you should be free from blame.”
Qur’an 33:51	“You may put off whom you please, and you may take to you whomever you desire. You may defer any of them you please, and you may have whomever you desire; there is no blame on you if you invite one who you had set aside. It is no sin.”
Qur’an 33:28	“O Prophet, say to your wives and consorts: ‘If you desire this world’s life and its glittering adornment, then come! I will provide them for your enjoyment and set you free in a handsome manner. And if you desire Allah and His Messenger and the latter abode, then lo! Allah hath prepared for the good-doers an immense reward.”
Qur’an 33:30	“O Consorts of the Prophet! If any of you are guilty of unseemly conduct, shamelessness, or lewdness, the punishment will be doubled, and that is easy for Allah. But any of you that is devout, obedient, and submissive in the service to Allah and His Messenger, and does good, to her shall We grant her reward twice. We have prepared for her a generously rich provision.”
Qur’an 33:32	“Consorts of the Prophet! You are not like any of the (other) women. Fear and keep your duty, lest one in whose heart is a disease should be moved with desire. Stay quietly in your apartment. Make not a dazzling display like that of the former times of Ignorance. Perform the devotion, pay the zakat; and obey Allah and His Messenger. And Allah wishes to cleanse you with a thorough cleansing. And bear in mind that which is recited in your houses of the revelations of Allah and the wisdom.”
Qur’an 33:36	“It is not fitting for a Muslim man or woman to have any choice in their affairs when a matter has been decided for them by Allah and His Messenger. They have no option. If any one disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he is indeed on a wrong Path.”
Qur’an 4:23	“Prohibited to you are: your mothers, daughters, sisters…. Also (prohibited are) women already married, except slaves who are captives.” [Rape is okay with Team Islam.]
Bukhari:V5B59N459	“I entered the Mosque, saw Abu, sat beside him and asked about sex. Abu Said said, ‘We went out with Allah’s Apostle and we received female slaves from among the captives. We desired women and we loved to do coitus interruptus.'”

What would Muhammad do?

If this true-to-life image of Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet of Islam, offends you more than the murder of thousands of innocent people explicitly in the name of Islam and Allah each year, then it means that you are definitely a Muslim (or at least a well-known type of Muslim) and this page is for you. As a Muslim, you know that life is full of tough choices.  Do you behead or not behead?  Have adult relations with your buddy’s 9-year-old child…?  Take a female sex slave… ? For followers of the Religion of Peace, it all comes down to knowing what Muhammad did when faced with the same decisions (based on reliable Muslim sources, of course).  In fact, the more you know about the founder of Islam the better, even if you aren’t Muslim. Forget all those shifty-eyed apologists, trying to make Muhammad out to be some sort of “Jesus clone” based on a few obscure anecdotes.  The prophet of Islam definitely wasn’t one to turn the other cheek or keep his worldly appetites in check. You want the truth?  Think you can handle it?  Well, here you are then… What Would Muhammad Do? (a checklist)

Would Muhammad…?	YES!	NO!	Muslim Source (Links)
Have sex with a 9-year-old girl?			Hadith
Advocate beheading?			Qur’an
Require women to cover their faces?			Qur’an & Hadith
Befriend Christians and Jews?			Qur’an
Own slaves?			Qur’an & Hadith
Marry his daughter-in-law?			Qur’an
Approve of prostitution?			Qur’an & Hadith
Gluttonize?			Ibn Ishaq
Recommend wife-beating?			Qur’an & Hadith
Hit his own wife?			Hadith
Kill prisoners of war?			Hadith
Advocate suicide attacks?			Qur’an & Hadith
Kill apostates?			Qur’an & Hadith
Tell sick persons to heal them-selves by drinking camel urine?			Hadith
Beat children who don�t pray?			Hadith
Have boys as young as 13-years-old beheaded?			Hadith
Have eleven wives? (at one time)			Hadith
Approve of Sex with Minors?			Qur’an
Lie?			Qur’an & Hadith
Enslave women and children?			Hadith & Ibn Ishaq
Stone adulterers to death?			Hadith
Torture a man out of greed?			Ibn Ishaq
Consider men and women equal partners?			Qur’an & Hadith
Steal?			Qur’an & Hadith
Kill someone for insulting him?			Qur’an & Hadith
Preach love for people of all religions?			Qur’an & Hadith
Extort money from other religions?			Qur’an & Hadith
Keep women as sex slaves?			Qur’an
Force conversions to Islam?			Qur’an & Hadith
Commit acts of terror?			Qur’an & Hadith
Kill a woman?			Biographers
Capture a woman and rape her?			Hadith
Encourage the rape of women in front of their husbands?			Hadith (Abu Dawud: 2150)

Oh, and don’t forget that according to Allah himself (speaking through Muhammad, of course) Muhammad is the most “beautiful pattern of conduct” and “example” for mankind to follow (Qur’an Sura 33:21)!

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Genocide – Bible secret 1

From: http://irregulartimes.com/secrets1.html

Christians like to tell the rest of us that their religion teaches peace, love and understanding. They also are fond of saying that the Bible is the greatest book ever written. Well, folks, they can’t have it both ways. The fact is that the Bible promotes genocide, the systematic destruction of entire populations of human beings. If that’s Christian compassion, then I’m the Pope.

Don’t believe that the Bible teaches genocide? Check out the following verses, just two of the many from the Bible that suggest that God himself thinks that genocide is a wonderful idea:

Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.)

Exodus, Chapter 34, verses 11-14

You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

Leviticus, Chapter 26, verses 7-9

So this is God’s love: if he looks favorably upon you, he’ll help you go out and slaughter ten thousand people just because they belong to another ethic group and are already living on the land you want for yourself. Furthermore, the Bible says that he wants you to go out and commit cultural genocide, destroying the religious buildings and holy objects of rival religions. So come on, Christians! Hop to it! Surely you believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, don’t you? I’ll bet you can find some non-Christian temple and start your pillage today!

If you think I’m being sarcastic, or am just making an academic point about a couple of long-forgotten verses that have no connection to the way that Christianity is practiced today, you’re wrong. These biblical verses, and others like them, have been used by Christians for thousands of years to justify hundreds, if not thousands, of horrific acts of genocide. Just in the last couple of years, the Christian Yugoslav government led by the popular leader Slobodan Milosevic slaughtered huge numbers of ethnic Albanian Muslims, citing the Bible’s genocidal language as justification.

Top 6 Incestuous Relationships In The Bible

From: http://listverse.com/religion/top-6-incestuous-relationships-in-the-bible/

Religious scholars say that God suspended the laws of incest in the early days of man in order to ensure that man spread on the earth. In the words of the commentators of the Douay Rheims Bible: “God [dispensed] with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated.” Despite that, these tales are not all simply matters of procreation – particularly item 1. So, here is a list of 6 of the more questionable relationships in the Bible.

6

Cain and his Wife

And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth, at the east side of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch. [Genesis 4:16-17]

Cain was the first born son of Adam and Eve, and Abel was the second. In Genesis 4 we read how Cain kills his brother and is sent east of Eden where he marries a woman and “lays” with her. Because Adam and Eve were the first humans – from whom all people come – Cain’s wife was his sister – and, consequently, all of the early Biblical relationships were incestuous (with the exception of Adam and Eve). Cain, incidentally, was the guy that caused so much trouble for the Mormon’s who believed that the cursed “Mark of Cain” meant black skin, leading them to forbid blacks from entering the Mormon priesthood (God “revealed” that they were allowed to let black skinned people in to the priesthood in 1978). You can read more about that blunder here. In the image above we see Cain killing his brother Abel.

5

Abraham and Sara

Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. And after God brought me out of my father’s house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother. [Genesis 20:12-13]

Abraham married his half sister Sara in Ur. The King of Gerara took her from Abraham and God sent him a dream to tell him that he would be destroyed for taking a woman who already had a husband (God approved of the marriage between the brother and sister). The King returned Sara to Abraham and they remained together as a couple until she died at the age of 127. Incidentally, Abraham died 38 years later at the ripe old age of 175.

The X-Rated Paradise of Islam

In this article I shall describe the Islamic Paradise or Jannat which was invented by Prophet Mohammed to bribe the Arabs into committing hedious crimes by promising them materialistic things which they couldn’t obtain in the harsh desert. The paradise contains six important items: beautiful virgins, young boys, water, wine, fruits and wealth.

To prove my point I have taken verses from the Koran and quotes from the Hadiths.

VIRGINS (HOURIS)

Mohammed knew that sex would sell very well among the group of his lecherous followers who were motivated to fight battles by the promise of sex slaves and booty. By constantly emphasizing to his followers that they would get untouched virgins in Paradise, Mohammed is clearly expressing his “high” opinion of the institution of marriage and his fairness to women. Once the followers go to heaven, they can conveniently ditch their wives for the fresher and more pleasurable sexual encounters with ‘Houris’ (beautiful virgins). Not only that, the poor wives who gave up their virginity for the pleasure of their husbands do not get even one Male Sex Bomb. But wait, Allah is all merciful! He gives the wives the rare honour of watching their husbands deflower those 72 Houris (virgins) and 28 young pre-pubescent boys.

The relevant verses from the Koran are:

Koran 78:31
As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and high- bosomed virgins for companions: a truly overflowing cup.

Koran 37:40-48
…They will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches.

Koran 44:51-55
…Yes and We shall wed them to dark-eyed houris. (beautiful virgins)

Koran 52:17-20
…They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyed houris (virgins) we shall wed them…

Koran 55:56-57
In them will be bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before.Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny ?”

Koran 55:57-58
Virgins as fair as corals and rubies. Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny ?”

Koran 56:7-40
…We created the houris (the beautiful women) and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand.. “

Koran 55:70-77
“In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair… Dark eyed virgins sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor Jin will have touched before..

In the Hadiths, Mohammed goes one step further and expands the promise of virgins to include a free sex market where there is no limit of the number of sexual partners. Women and young boys are on display as if in a fruit market where you can choose the desired ripeness.

Cruelty and Violence in Bible

Onan's Sin : The Unspoken Bible

From http://www.usbible.com/Sex/Onans_sin.htm

In brief, when Judah sent his son Onan to impregnate his dead brother’s wife Tamar, he committed coitus interruptus and spilled his semen to avoid conception. Yahweh was not pleased and killed him. From this story, onanism has become synonymous with masturbation and coitus interruptus.

There have been a variety of interpretations why Yahweh was not pleased. Onan has been accused ofcovetousness and theft for disobeying his father Judah. He had no intent to reproduce. He showed selfish intent by denying offspring to his brother’s widow, and by employing an unnatural method. He refused to carry the royal line of Judah to David. He destroyed his seed. He was willfully disobedient towards Yahweh. Though Onan hasn’t been accused of homosexuality, the act of spilling semen stretches to homosexuality. In sum, religionists have applied the story of Onan to practically every form of male non-procreative sex.

Genesis 38 is ordinarily treated as if it contained two distinct stories, the first about Onan and the second about Judah and Tamar. Actually, Onan’s role is contained within the story of Judah and Tamar. It is not until we get to the end of the story when the real reason for Onan’s death becomes apparent.

Every interpretation I’ve seen relates Onan’s demise to coitus interruptus. This report argues that he wasn’t killed for reason of coitus interruptus. He was killed because of what he did before he committed coitus interruptus. That is by penetrating her, he consummated the marriage. Because Judah had married a Canaanite woman, Onan was half-Canaanite. Thus he blocked Judah’s name from the tribes of Israel.

The object of the story is to have Judah produce offspring with pedigree bloodlines. Unlike Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who married within their family, we are not told anything about Tamar’s background; but her behavior is flawless. There is a parallel to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The OT writers don’t portray their heroes as perfect, but neither are they condemned. Judah made the mistake of marrying a Canaanite woman. Onan and his older brother Er paid with their lives, but Judah saved his third son by keeping him away from Tamar. Even Judah’s Canaanite wife died prematurely, leaving Judah a widower.

This left an opportunity for Tamar to save Judah’s name. She was still young enough to bear children, and beautiful enough to lure Judah by dressing as a harlot. All ends happily when she bears twins.

There is a moral to this story. Ancient Hebrew law held that the next surviving brother shall take the widow of his deceased brother as his wife. He shall bear children to the name of the dead brother so his name may not be blotted out of Israel. Yahweh’s intervention preserved Judah’s pedigree name. Judah’s half Canaanite son has children by another woman and is never mentioned again.

DECONSTRUCTION

ONAN

SUMMARY – GENESIS 38:1-10

Judah, son of Jacob, married the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua and conceived three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. Judah took Tamar to be the wife of his first-born son Er, but Yahweh killed him for his wickedness. Judah sent Onan to Tamar to perform the duty of raising children for his brother. Not wanting to raise children for his brother, Onan went into Tamar but withdrew and spilled his semen on ground. This displeased Yahweh, so he killed him.

DECONSTRUCTION

Judah went to Adullam to meet his friend Hirah. There he saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua. He married her and they tried to have children right away.

¹It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
²There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,

She conceived three sons. Er first, then Onan, then Shelah.

³and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
⁴Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
⁵Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.

Judah chose Tamar to marry his first-born son Er. But Yahweh killed him because he was wicked.

⁶And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
⁷But Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

Then Judah told Onan to take his older brother’s place and produce an offspring for him.

⁸Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. After he penetrated Tamar, he pulled out and spilled his semen on the ground. -There were two actions. First he penetrated Tamar; then he withdrew and spilled semen on the ground. By penetrating her he became the rightful husband.

⁹But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

But Yahweh was displeased for what he did, so slew him.

¹⁰And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.

Incest: The unspoken Bible

From http://www.usbible.com/Sex/incest.htm

Adam and Eve

As absurd as it is for a man to give birth to a woman, rib or no rib, it sets up Eve as Adam’s daughter.

²¹So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh;
²²and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. (Gen. 2:21-22)

Then Eve became Adam’s wife and had two children, Cain and Abel.

¹Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”
²And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.(Gen. 4:1-2)

Cain

Literally interpreted, Cain’s wife had to be either Eve or an unnamed sister.

¹⁷Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. (Gen. 4:17)

It is more likely that the writers meant to show that Cain’s bloodlines went in a different direction. The word “Cain” resembles “Canaan.”

Noah and Ham

The man who God saw as the most righteous on earth had a drinking problem. No sooner did the ark settle on land when he planted a vineyard. One day Noah got drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. Ham walked in accidentally and saw his nakedness. When Ham told his brothers, they carefully walked in backwards and covered him up. The puritan Noah cursed him to be a slave to his brothers. The reference to what Ham had done to Noah could imply something beyond casual looking.

²⁰Noah was the first tiller of the soil. He planted a vineyard;
²¹and he drank of the wine, and became drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent.
²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
²³Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.
²⁴When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,
²⁵he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers.” (Gen. 9:20-25)

Abraham and Sarah

Abraham’s wife Sarah was his half sister by the same father.

¹²Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. (Gen. 20:12)

When entering Egypt, Abraham had had her pass off as his full sister.

¹⁰Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
¹¹When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;
¹²and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
¹³Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.” (Gen. 12:10-13)

Abraham was richly rewarded for pimping his wife to Pharaoh.

¹⁴When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
¹⁵And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
¹⁶And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels. (Gen. 12:14-16)

Yahweh later inflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah. When Pharaoh made the connection he let them both go with their gifts. In Genesis 20 Abraham and Sarah tried to pull the same hoax on King Abimelach. This time Yahweh revealed to Abimelech, before he had sex with Sarah, that she was married to Abraham. When Abimelech confronted Abraham over his treachery, Abraham revealed she was his half-sister by the same father. Still, Abimelech demonstrated his generosity by lavishing gifts, among them was 1,000 pieces of silver. For some reason Yahweh punished Abimelech by sterilizing all the women in his household. To Abraham’s credit he appealed to Yahweh to lift the curse, and it was lifted.

Lot and his daughters

Lot’s daughters got him drunk and conceived children. How Lot could be drunk and be able to get an erection is problematic. How he could ejaculate while being oblivious to his daughters’ presence also defies reconciliation. If we assume he was asleep, wet dreams cannot be timed. Perhaps, Lot faked his unconsciousness.

³¹And the first-born said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
³²Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”
³³So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
³⁴And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father.”
³⁵So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
³⁶Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father (Gen. 19:31-36)

Another one of Lot’s memorable gracious acts was to offer his virgin daughters to the men of Sodom to do as they please.

⁶Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him,
⁷and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
⁸Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” (Gen. 19:6-8)

Mohammad used his adopted son Ali as Bait

Tabari VI:142/Ishaq:222 “Thereupon Abu Jahl said, ‘I think that we should take one young, strong, well-born man from each clan and give each a sharp sword. They should make for him and strike him with their swords as one man and kill him.’

Gabriel came to the Messenger and said, ‘Do not spend this night in the bed in which you usually sleep.’ When the first third of the night had gone past, the young men gathered at his door and waited for him to go to sleep so that they could fall upon him. When Muhammad saw what they intended to do, he said to Ali [his adoptive son], ‘Lie on my bed and wrap yourself up in my green cloak, the one I use when I go to bed. Nothing unpleasant will befall you from them.'”

Today, I am using some early quotes from both Tabari and Ishaq. The context of this passage was when Muhammad’s tribe was fed up of Mohammad’s antics.

In this case, Mohammad knew that the men of the Quraish were going to descend upon him, and kill him. What Mohammad did was use his adopted son, Ali (father of the Shiites) as bait for the Quraish to kill.

Why did both Ishaq and Tabari include this story?
Is this the compassion and mercy that Mohammad preaches about, that when he is in trouble, he will give you his cloak to wear, where people would suspect you to be, and for him to run away? (For nice Jinns, he gives animal dung and bones, for his adopted son, he uses as a decoy to evade trouble — http://muslimhadith.blogspot.com/2008/05/animal-dung-is-food-of-jinns.html)

Or was Mohammad being kind to Ali, in order to allow Ali to wallow in Mohammad’s semen-soaked clothes — http://muslimhadith.blogspot.com/2008/05/mohammad-had-lots-of-semen-on-his.html)

Did both Tabari and Ishaq show this to allow Muslims to see what type of man Mohammad was, by willing to sacrifice his son to evade trouble, or, to show Mohammad’s prophetic abilities that “no harm” would come to Ali?