Reason 2

Muhammad repeatedly attempted suicide

Article author: Jay Zeke Malakai

Article editor: Unedited

 

As we briefly touched on in the previous article, Muhammad tried to kill himself because of the "revelations" he recieved from what we established was actually the devil. We looked as a passage from Ibn Ishaq, which reads "Now none of God's creatures was more hateful to me than an (ecstatic) poet or a man possessed: I could not even look at them. I thought, Woe is me poet or possessed—Never shall Quraysh say this of me! I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest."

 

Muhammad was so afraid of this creature calling itself Gabriel, and that he would be persecuted by his tribe, that he thought to hurl himself from a cliff. This isn't an isolated incident either. In muslims sources, we find multiple examples of Muhammad attempting to kill himself not just when he recieved revelations, but also when they stopped too. In Sahih al-Bukhari 6982 we read But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Revelation was also paused for a while and the Prophet became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains and everytime he went up to the top of a mountain in order to throw himself down, Jibril would appear before him and say, “O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah’s Messenger in truth”, whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm down and would return home. And whenever the period of the coming of the Revelation used to become long, he would do as before, but when he used to reach the top of a mountain, Jibril would appear before him and say to him what he had said before. (Emphasis mine.)

 

So here we see that whenever something goes even slightly wrong in Muhammad's life, his initial response is to climb a mountain and try to throw himself off. A contrast as large as between day and night can be drawn here between revelations recieved by Muhammad and revelations truly given in the name of God. While Muhammad's messenger terrifies him to the point of suicide, messengers sent by God always tell their recipients not to be afraid. Gabriel, for example, terrifies Mary when he appears to her, but he also tells her immediately that she does not need to be afraid (Luke 1:29-30).

 

Can we really trust a man who is so faithless about his own religion that he would throw himself from a cliff at the first sign of trouble? Could Muhammad trust an "angel" that was so categorically different from the true messengers of God, even though the Bible had already warned that demons could behave exactly like messengers of God more than 500 years before Muhammad was even born? The multiple suicide attempts of Muhammad suggest that his revelations were more demonic than divine.