Since getting officially banned from Sunni Answers, we decided to go undercover to continue our mission of posing important questions for the brilliant Shaykh Abū Ādam al-Narūjiī.
In a recent public service announcement about the Prophet Muhammad, the good Shaykh made the following claim:
“The best human beings are the Prophets (may Allah increase their honor), and the best Prophet is our beloved prophet Muhammad.
We recently sent special agent “Hossam Bokhari” (a.k.a. me) to pose the following question for our beloved Shaykh:
dear brother
how to answer the kuffaar who say that we moslem cannot show that prophet muhammad salalahu alihiwasalam was the BEST PROPHET and the BEST HUMAN BEING ever. how to show this to them?
hossam bokhari
To this question, we were given the following response
“I would not attempt this with non-Muslims, because if they are not convinced that Aļļaah is one and does not resemble His creation, then how would convince them of something that is not as obvious. In general you should avoid discussing anything but tawĥiid with non-Muslims, and even that should be avoided unless you are qualified to debate such an issue. Tawĥiid is the most obvious issue in the religion, and the most important. If they do not accept it, they won’t accept anything else, and they will still be non-Muslims even if you could convince them of other issues than tawĥiid.”
Of course! It is patently obvious that the Prophet Muhammad was the best human being who ever lived. Anyone who doesn’t already see that isn’t even worth talking to. The reasoning couldn’t be more pristine.
Thanks again, dear Shaykh, for that thoroughly enlightening response!
July 28, 2008 at 5:28 pm |
Would you teach Shakespeare’s poetry to a child who doesn’t even know the alphabet?
You’re an idiot and a half and deserve to be called so.
The sheikh gave a perfectly valid answer and your posting it only proves youre a bigger idiot than you realise. I only wish you were a little smarter so that you could realise the depth of your own stupidity.
You do not deserve any respect or sympathy. Shut this blog and take your sympathy whoring somewhere else.
Yah yah… go cry at how nasty Muslims have been to you.
You’re not looking for knowledge. You’re looking for excuses to confront Muslims… and when you come across someone smarter than yourself (which isn’t very hard) you open up a cry baby thread!
LOL
July 31, 2008 at 5:53 pm |
Now there’s a refreshingly calm, sober response. Thank heavens your post does not at all come across as the insatiably bitter ramblings of a psychologically unstable Muslim fundamentalist who foams at the mouth each time his silly religion isn’t given fawning deference.
August 6, 2008 at 5:26 pm |
boo hoo hoo … cry more … you are so righteous and psychologically stable you had the burning itch to open this sorry excuse of a blog and put up this display of your intellectual impotence… you think by putting up this pseudo-intellectual mish mash of sarcasm and a few sophisticated sounding words, your real intention will be concealed- which really is to vent your hatred of Islam and Muslims and anything smarter than yourselves… but you dont realise how disgraceful and stupid you make yourself out to be…
once again… cry boo hoo hoo… Muslim fundy frothing at the mouth and showing me the mirror… boo hoo hoo… woe is me… cry, baby… cry! lol … come on … go ahead with your pseudo-intellectual sounding sarcasm, read: boo hoo hoo… how do these guys always manage to get us
August 6, 2008 at 8:32 pm |
Now, why am I not surprised that you just couldn’t stay away?
I assure you, I’m just crumbling under the torrent of psychological pressure you’ve unleashed above. I mean, I just might be so consumed by guilt, shame, and embarrassment, not to mention overwhelmed by the undeniable truth of Islam, that I’ll simply be forced to shut down this blog and convert to Islam immediately… Nah!
By the way, from the comment above, it’s obvious that you have a very high opinion of your intellectual powers. (You would not be the first or only Muslim to have so high an opinion of himself.) Well, in that case, perhaps you could answer the question that the good Shaykh refused to answer: how can it be shown that the Prophet Muhammad was the best human being who ever lived? I mean, Muslims make the claim and actually believe it, don’t they? It’s not intended to be some sort of bad joke, right? The claim isn’t meaningless or self-contained, is it? It implies that everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. In that case, how can the claim be shown to be true? How can it be shown, for example, that your Prophet was a better human being, than, say, Socrates, the Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? To what standards and criteria could you possibly appeal to prove that your Prophet was the best human being who ever lived? If the answer is that the truth of the claim is obvious and doesn’t require proof, then can’t precisely the same answer be given by everyone else about anyone else? If the claim can’t be shown to be true, then isn’t it just another cheap and empty claim, like so many other cheap and empty claims made by dutiful Muslim believers eager to believe in absurdities without logic or evidence?
Come on, Muslim: here’s your chance to demonstrate your herculean intellectual abilities and substantiate one of the biggest claims of your faith. Perhaps if you can answer this question, I very well might convert. Can you do it? Don’t let me down, Muslim!
August 7, 2008 at 12:08 pm |
The best method in my humble opinion of showing others that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the best, is by immersing yourself in his manners and way of living.
when someone asks you……….How did you learn to be so graceful in the face of adversity, kind, compassionate, polite, caring and considerate………..then you can tell them the answer where this is coming from and they will become respectful and curious.
Allah know best!
August 7, 2008 at 4:25 pm |
This doesn’t demonstrate that Muhammad was the best human being who ever lived. He may have been graceful, kind, compassionate, and so forth, but so were millions of other people. The claim that Muhammad was more graceful, kind, compassionate, and so on, than everyone else who ever lived, including the great leaders of other spiritual movements, is not only unprovable, but also just plain arrogant.
I, for one, have seen more grace, kindness, compassion, politeness, care, and consideration from devout Buddhists than I have from devout Muslims. (Do Muslims really seem graceful when their religion is criticized?) If I go by your reasoning, I would have to conclude that the founder of Buddhism was a greater human being than the founder of Islam.
January 22, 2009 at 7:21 pm |
Go America!!!