9/01/2005

Guests staying late? Get a revelation...

In all honesty, Mohammed comes across to me as nothing so much as a cult leader. Following on from my previous posting, I found it extremely telling that after his marriage to Zaynab, the ex-wife of his adopted son, he had some of his followers outstay their welcome in his tent.
Now, I'm familiar with the situation. After a good evening together, you serve the coffee, and yawn a bit, but people just don't get the message and call it a day. It's one of those social things that you just have to deal with, using tact and patience. Mohammed felt just as awkward. But he had a hotline to the Almighty, of course, so he could deal with it much more directly.
After they had gone, Mohammed again received a revelation from the very obliging Allah. If you bear in mind that muslims believe that the Quran was written down in heaven before the world began, this quote from it seems even more absurd..

“O you who believe! Do not go into the Prophet's rooms except after being given permission to come and eat, not waiting for the food to be prepared, However, when you are called, then go in and when you have eaten, then disperse, and do not remain wanting to chat together. If you do that, it causes injury to the Prophet though he is too reticent to tell you. But Allah is not reticent with the truth. "Qur’an (33:53-56)

Basically, Mohammed is too polite to tell you to leave, but Allah doesn't have a problem sorting out these inconveniences...

Now, if you'd heard these revelations and been told they were all 'given' to David Koresh, I don't think you'd be surprised. Which is just another example of why, as much as the muslims tell me Mohammed is the best of all creation, and a really top guy, I cannot take him seriously.

2 comments:

jools said...

excellent points libbie, this is julie from pw, married to a muslim :-( you might want to check out www.answeringislam.org a very helpful christian site. its incredible to me how so many professing christians don't have a problem with islam. its a real danger in our own nation, imho. God bless you dear sister.

Ephemeral Mortal said...

Not forgetting of course that Mohammed may well be 'the best of all creation, and a really top guy', but he's trusting in his own righteousness for his standing before God (amongst other things), instead of in the perfect righteousness of Christ.