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A Compendium of Answers to Allegations Against Islam (Vol.1) M ORIENNay, We hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood does perish! (Qur’an 21:18) A Compendium of Answers to Allegations Against Islam (vol.1) Abrogation in Qur’an, Alleged errors in Qur’an, Prophet’s Married Life, Ahadith about women, Kissing of Black Stone, Killing of Umm Qirfa and much more … (REVISED EDITION) 26/10/2010 Waqar Akbar Cheema Concise, comprehensive and teeth-breaking answers to 30 common allegations. A must read for every Muslim Da‟wee in the cyber world. OPEN LICENSE The Author gives an open license to every Muslim, individual or organization, to reproduce or translate this document without alternations and without prior permission. All I ask is to place a reference to either of the following sites; www.islamicsearchcenter.com www.letmeturnthetables.blogspot.com Wallah! If I had the means I would have flooded the world with such literature. 2 Tables of Contents Preface ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 How to answer the lies against Islam? ............................................................................................................ 6 ANSWERS TO LIES ABOUT THE HOLY QUR‘AN ...........................................................7 1-Does Allah misguide people? ...................................................................................................................... 7 2- Truth about Abrogation in Qur‟an ............................................................................................................ 11 3- Myth of the lost verse about stoning exposed ........................................................................................... 15 4- Lie of the lost verse about breastfeeding exposed ..................................................................................... 18 5- Lie of the Satanic Verse exposed.............................................................................................................. 20 6- Does anyone other than Allah know the time of rain and as to what is in the womb? ................................ 25 7- Why Qur‟an uses masculine pronouns for Allah? ..................................................................................... 28 8- Why Qur‟an calls Mary sister of Aaron? .................................................................................................. 29 9- Does Qur‟an err in describing the Christian concept of God? ................................................................... 31 10- Does Allah practice deceit and guile according to Qur‟an? ..................................................................... 32 ANSWERS TO LIES ABOUT THE HOLY PROPHET (PBUH): ...................................... 37 1- Why was the Prophet polygamous? .......................................................................................................... 37 2- Why Holy Prophet‟s (PBUH) married young „Aisha (RA)? ..................................................................... 41 3- Was Holy Prophet‟s marriage with Safiya (RA) justified? ........................................................................ 44 4- Why the Prophet used to visit all his wives in one night? ......................................................................... 47 5- Why were the Wives of the Prophet not allowed to remarry after his demise? .......................................... 49 6- Did Holy Prophet (pbuh) commit sin? ...................................................................................................... 50 7- On physical conditions the Prophet (PBUH) experienced at the time of revelation ................................... 54 ANSWERS TO LIES ABOUT WOMEN RIGHTS IN ISLAM ........................................... 60 1- Are women deficient in intelligence? ....................................................................................................... 60 2- Do women form majority in the hell? ....................................................................................................... 62 3- Does Islam allow wife beating? ................................................................................................................ 64 4- Does Islam equate women with donkeys & dogs? (Question of annulment of prayers) ............................. 66 5- Does Islam equate women with animals & slaves? (Question of seeking refuge) ...................................... 69 6- What Islam says about physical relations with slave women? ................................................................... 69 7- Why Muslim women are not allowed to marry Christian or Jewish men? ................................................. 71 8- Is there any bad omen in women? ............................................................................................................ 71 3 9- Why are women required to seek husband‟s permission for voluntary fasting? ......................................... 73 MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES ................................................................................................. 74 1- Why Muslims Kiss the Black Stone? ........................................................................................................ 74 2- Truth about the story of killing of Umm Qirfa .......................................................................................... 75 3- Is there any contradiction between Ahadith about Muslims being in Hell? ............................................... 79 4- Is the Islamic concept of God devoid of love? .......................................................................................... 82 Closing Remarks .......................................................................................................................................... 83 4 Preface In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent and all praise and blessings be upon the Last of the Prophets and Messengers. It was some three years back when I started discussing and debating with non-Muslims on various online forums. And during the course of all those discussions I felt a great need for well researched, concise and comprehensive answers to various questions about Islam raised by different people. While sometimes I did find good answers on various Islamic websites, sometimes I was disappointed. I decided to make up for the gap. I made a dedicated blog for this purpose. And today my blog along with my newly launched website with a little broader scope are a part of my bid to speak for the Truth. I do not claim that I actually filled the gap or the job is done but with the best of my efforts put in and the heartening response from the readers I hope this effort is atleast worth enough to inspire more people to join in the noble mission of clarifying the doubts and answering the allegations against the Noble Faith of Islam. I stand in gratitude to all those brothers and sisters who one way or the other helped me in producing these responses. And I thank the Almighty Allah for accepting me for this noble cause. 5 How to answer the lies against Islam? Crusades, as they say, may have ended centuries ago but the crusading spirit is alive still. Innumerable polemics written against Islam and slanders against the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the Holy Quran are a practical manifestation of the same. Muslims have been putting in their efforts to launch an academic Jihad against this spirit. But in these times when the World Wide Web paradigm has exposed the innocent minds to this ever rising crusading onslaught there is a necessity to arm and enable each one of the Muslims to take up this challenge. In the following lines I give certain points that will, Insha‟Allah, help you understand the roots of the lies against Islam and, if a little effort is put in, enable you to expose them. Following reasons explain as to how certain people are able to make allegations against Islam and why naïve Muslims are taken off-guard. I am confident that if a person has adequate knowledge, he can easily make a rebuttal to all the slanders against our Noble Faith considering the following points. So, here you go; 1- Taking a single Ayah or a Hadith in isolation from the rest of Islamic rubric (rest of the Quran and other Ahadith). 2- Isolating an Ayah or a Hadith from its context. 3- Ignoring the fact that not all Ahadith are authentic; infact some are termed as weak and some even as fabrication by Muhaddithin (Masters of the Sciences of Hadith). 4- Extensive use of the traditions from history books like those of Al-Tabari, Ibn Ishaaq and Ibn S‟ad etc which contain raw material about early Muslims and include numerous unauthentic narrations. Infact their compilers didn‟t take the amount of care as is done in Hadith compilations. (Scholars did their best either not to narrate unauthentic narrations or to mention their weakness when they dealt with narrations of legal and juristic importance but not so with those merely of historical import). 5- Disregard to the fact that not all the narrations that may have connected chains of trustworthy narrators serve as evidence. One needs to take into account what other narrators relate about the same issue and compare with different narrations before making an inference or deduction. 6- Indifference to the delicacies and subtleties of the Arabic language. A single word or phrase may have quite different meanings in different contexts. 7- Not understanding the peculiar
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