His father was an illiterate camel herder according to historical evidence.
He too was an illiterate.
You are telling us he was an orphan?
Revisionism?
"MUSLIM SCHOLAR" <semaun@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> JESUS coming from god muhamad coming from orphan NOBODY LIKE HIM
>
> The truth is rather ignoble. Muslim scholars know nothing about
Muhammad's
> birth, and very little about his childhood. They missed his birthday by
> eighteen years when they claimed he was born in the year of the
elephant,
> recently dated to 552 A.D. But to make their prophet fit Qusayy's
profile
> of being forty when he staked his claim to the Ka'aba, Islamic
historians
> claim Muhammad was born in 570 - exactly forty years before the first
> "revelation." Missing a date this im****tant by eighteen years calls all
of
> Islam's oral testimony into question. By way of example, this did not
> occur: Ishaq:70 "I heard a Jew calling out at the top of his voice from
> Yathrib, 'O Jews, tonight has risen a star under which Ahmad is to be
> born.'"
>
> Born fatherless, Muhammad's mother abandoned him, giving him up to be
> suckled by a Bedouin woman. With his father dead and his mother poor, no
> wet-nurse wanted the infant because the burden exceeded the potential
> remuneration. Raising another's child in the inhospitable desert was
done
> for money, not love. The least qualified of the wet-nurses, we are told,
> after failing to find a wealthy kid, reluctantly snatched the last
> available newborn, the would-be prophet, and hauled him off into the
> wilderness. A Hadith explains: Ishaq:70 "Halima went forth with her baby
> whom she was nursing, with other women, in search of babies to nurse.
She
> was destitute and could not sleep because of the weeping of her hungry
> child. She had no milk to give him." Halima was obviously in no position
> to suckle another child. This was a disaster waiting to happen.
>
> Ishaq:71 "When Halima reached Mecca, she set out to look for foster
> children. The Apostle of Allah was offered to everyone of us, and each
> woman refused him when she was told he was an orphan, because we hoped
to
> get payment from the child's father. We said, 'An orphan!' And we
spurned
> him because of that. Every woman who came with me got a suckling except
> me. And when we decided to depart, I said, 'I do not like the idea of
> returning with my friends without a suckling. I will take that orphan.'
I
> took him for the sole reason that I could not find anyone else." So much
> for the "light" theory. Women were throwing themselves at Muhammad's dad
> to sire him, but no one wanted to raise him. That doesn't make any
sense.
>
> What happened out there in the blowing sands and blistering heat is
> anybody's guess. All we know is that a baby was abandoned by his mother
> and given to a woman who was ill prepared to care for him. The only
> testimony that survives is in the Qur'an - a haunting and recurring
theme
> that suggests he may have been abused. Allah's revelations speak of an
> orphan boy with wealthy relatives being abandoned, treated poorly, and
> being shut out of the family business - The Ka'aba Inc. Permutations of
> this theme permeate Allah's book, compelling the Muslim sages to give
this
> mess a prophetic twist.
>
> Ibn Ishaq claims that when Muhammad was two, Halima brought him back to
> his mother Aminah. Ishaq:72 "But she sent him back. Some months after
his
> return to the desert two men in white seized the boy, threw him down and
> opened up his belly, stirring it up." We are told that Muhammad was
> "livid." "Halima said, 'I am afraid that this child has had a stroke, so
I
> want to take him back before the result appears.' She carried him back
to
> Aminah and said, 'I am afraid that ill will befall him, so I have
brought
> him back to you.' She asked what had happened. I said, 'I fear that a
> demon has possessed him.'" She was right.
>
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