{"id":3911,"date":"2019-03-07T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2019-10-15T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:39:55","slug":"the-historical-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"The Historical Muhammad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Question from Jannatul:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>surely u can deny God(ALLAH) but how will u deny the very existence of His prophet muhammad who lived in this earth and His revelations, all the predictions are coming true, what do u think about them&#8230;&#8230;.Have u studied the Quran and pondered over Islam, if not I advice u to do it right away <br><br> <strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a Wikipedia article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historicity_of_Muhammad\">historicity of Muhammad<\/a> which says that &#8221; the\u00a0historicity of Muhammad, <strong>aside from his existence<\/strong>, is debated. &#8221;  There is enough evidence of the existence of the man Muhammad that the fact that he existed is generally <strong>not<\/strong> debated.  All the debate concerning him is focused on two things, as far as I can gather: the truth of the supernatural claims surrounding him (i.e. his interactions with Allah) and the morality of his actions (e.g. ordering the deaths of unbelievers, or marrying and bedding a girl of nine or ten).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for his prophecies, <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=75\">here<\/a> are my thoughts on prophecies in general, and <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=812\">here<\/a> is an article on the exposure of supposed prophecies in the Quran as far from prophetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Jannatul: surely u can deny God(ALLAH) but how will u deny the very existence of His prophet muhammad who lived in this earth and His revelations, all the predictions are coming true, what do u think about them&#8230;&#8230;.Have u studied the Quran and pondered over Islam, if not I advice u to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Historical Muhammad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,6],"tags":[286,727,16],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-text","tag-islam","tag-muhammad","tag-prophecies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-115","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}