The Heart's Witness Against Muhammad: Propheting from Slavery

11/20/2012

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about our human nature and the natural law on the matter. The truth that chattel slavery is against the natural moral law is, like the right to religious freedom (properly understood), one of those moral truths that we have learned over many dead bodies and ruined lives, but at least we have learned it.

We know now, as a result of development of doctrine in this area and the Magisterial teaching of the Church, without any doubt that the natural law condemns chattel slavery. Under the natural law, which is the law of God, chattel slavery is haram, forbidden, foreclosed to any man.

(It is significant that, confronting international pressure, Islamic countries were among the last to make slavery illegal, and did so grudgingly. Saudi Arabia made slavery "illegal" in 1962. The Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. The United Arab Emirates in 1963. South Yemen in 1967. Oman in 1970. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania declared slavery illegal in 2007, but there is, in practice, still slavery there and in other Muslim countries. Some of the more radical elements are calling for a re-institution of slavery.)

So long as a Muslim listens to Muhammad and looks to Muhammad as the perfect man, and so long as the unchanging Shari'a occupies the Muslim's mind and the Muslim's heart and trumps the natural law of reason and of God there, the Muslim will be blinded to a fundamental moral truth: we are, on account of our humanity, all brothers and all entitled to the benefit and subject to the restrictions of the natural moral law.

It matters not who may be our parents, or what may be our tribe, our race, our color, or our creed. There is a fundamental law we share because we are human, and that law is a measure against which we can measure any other law, human or purportedly divine. As Tertullian put it so eloquently, all men are brothers because they have the natural law as their mother. Fratres autem vestri sumus, iure naturae matris unius.

In light of the natural law's condemnation of chattel slavery, and Muhammad's participation in chattel slavery, we can conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Muhammad was neither God's messenger, nor the seal of the prophets. He was but a man, his head perhaps in the clouds, but with feet of clay.

But someone who is a good Muslim, which I have no doubt Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan is, has become tone deaf to the universal melody of natural law. He has been taught by, and he is in thrall to, that mental slavery called Islam, a slavery that deadens the natural human sensitivity to the natural moral law. It squelches it ab initio.

Islam is a system, an ideology that hides behind the skirt, or perhaps better under the burqa of the irrational when pressed by reason, and becomes stuck in a vicious circle, an infinite loop, from which there is no outage.

Muhammad, his life, and his law are best. How do we know? They are the best because Allah and his messenger know best. How do we know that Allah and his messenger know best? We know they know best because Allah and his messenger know best that they know best. And how do we know that Allah and his messenger know best that they know best? Because Allah and his messenger know best that Allah and his messenger know best that Allah and his messenger know best.

You see where all this is going? We are caught in an infinite loop of irrationality, of Islamic moral fiat, of Muhammadan ipse dixit and nothing more.

(This article is adapted from the book written by the author entitled, The Heart's Witness Against Muhammad: Why the Natural Law Proves Muhammad False.)

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Andrew M. Greenwell is an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas, practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is married with three children. He maintains a blog entirely devoted to the natural law called Lex Christianorum. You can contact Andrew at agreenwell@harris-greenwell.com.
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Judy claar
5 months ago
Andrew M. Greenwell: Nothing says it like the Truth. And the sources of Truth you supplied. Thank you once again.
Peace and Blessings Be Upon You...
Andrew M. Greenwell
5 months ago
@Mahmoud: While I understand and sympathize with your desire to defend Muhammad, I do not think that your position is tenable. While Muhammad did capture persons and hold them for ransom, he also captured persons and held them as slaves (as did his followers). Muhammad captured, owned, and relied upon slave labor. While he manumitted some, and ransomed others, he did not manumit or ransom all his slaves.

In his book, Zad al-Ma'ad (Provisions for the Hereafter), the famous Sunni jurist Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (also known as Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr) (1292-1350 A.D.), identified Muhammad's male slaves:

Yakan Abu Sharh, Aflah, 'Ubayd, Dhakwan, Tahman, Mirwan, Hunayn, Sanad, Fadala Yamamin, Anjasha al-Hadi, Mad'am, Karkara, Abu Rafi', Thawban, Ab Kabsha, Salih, Rabah, Yara Nubyan, Fadila, Waqid, Mabur, Abu Waqid, Kasam, Abu 'Ayb, Abu Muwayhiba, Zayd Ibn Haritha, and also a black slave called Mahran, who was re-named (by Muhammad) Safina ('ship').

The same source identifies Muhammad's women slaves, two of them we know, from other sources, were his concubines (Rayhana and Mary the Copt):

Salma Um Rafi', Maymuna daughter of Abu Asib, Maymuna daughter of Sa'd, Khadra, Radwa, Razina, Um Damira, Rayhana, Mary the Coptic, in addition to two other maid-slaves, one of them given to him as a present by his cousin, Zaynab, and the other one captured in a war.

God bless you,
Andrew.
Mahmood Ahmad
5 months ago
Dear Andrew

'Permission to fight is given to those against whom war is made, because they have been wronged… Those who have been driven out from their homes unjustly only because they said, ‘Our Lord is God’ — And if God did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down temples and churches and synagogues and mosques... (22:40-41).
The Holy Qur'an.'
This is the type of warfare that Muhammad peace be upon him engaged in- for religious freedom. He did not take slaves but prisoners of war who would be released once ransom had been paid.
Andrew M Greenwell
5 months ago
@Mahmood: The "cause of Allah" which the alms in part support, is for jihad, which means more slaves for the muhajidun, the warriors. Muhammad attached great importance to alms-giving for the purpose of war.
Mahmood Ahmad
5 months ago
'The alms are only for the poor and the needy, and for those employed in connection therewith, and for those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and for the freeing of slaves, and for those in debt, and for the cause of Allah, and for the wayfarer — an ordinance from Allah. And Allah is All-Knowing, Wise.' (Surah Al Tauba Verse 9. The Holy Quran). This is a verse of the Holy Qur'an which establishes a goal of Islam and the money that is collected to free slaves.' Did Jesus according to the bible ever establish a goal for Christianity to free slaves.
Greg
5 months ago
Dear Mahmood Ahmad - he does not say that Muhammad did not free any slaves. Please, read the article. You are not an animal to react with emotions taking away your reasoning. You are a human being. A creation of God, and God makes everything good including you. He gave you reason, so please use it. I know - emotions are running high. We are all sinners and these things are controlling us instead of us controlling body. Please try!

BTW. The whole point is that being good does not mean being good to people who are good to us or who do what we want them to do. That everyone can do. Being good is being good to anyone, and that is NOT a human but Divine attribute. We can be good only when we open our hearts and let God bless others through us. In the past there were only two examples of such. Jesus Christ, and His mother Mary. Blessings to you!
Mahmood Ahmad
5 months ago
Muhammad peace be upon
him freed all of the slaves that his wife gave him when he got married. He adopted a slave as a son. This was even before he claimed to be a prophet. This article is untrue and anyone who knows about Muhammad peace he upon him knows its untruth.
Jorge
5 months ago
One os the most important, objective, honest and decisive analysis of islam, muhammad and allah, the unholy trinity of Pure Evil! Kudos for this brilliant piece of work!
pinto
5 months ago
very informative

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