The Angel of Peace - Fatima |
The Story of Muhammad
and Gabriel the Genie
Could
those who blindly follow Muhammad as their heaven-sent prophet and leader and
adhere to Islam as the one divinely revealed religion and the only true way to
salvation possibly be deceived by Satan?
City Journal, Spring 2004, published an article by
Theodore Dalrymple, titled When
Islam Breaks Down. Dalrymple said, “No Muslim in an Islamic society would
dare to suggest that the Koran was not divinely dictated through the mouth of the
Prophet but rather was a compilation of a charismatic man’s words, and
incorporating, with no very great originality, Judaic, Christian, and Zoroastrian
elements.”
To be sure, Muslims
believe that the Koran is of divine origin, eternal and co-existing in the very
essence of Allah and is his sacred and direct word dictated in Arabic by the Angel
Gabriel to Muhammad, containing Islamic revelations and doctrine. They believe
that through Muhammad’s visions of the Archangel Gabriel, the Koran was
revealed by installments, some at Mecca and some at Medina, over the span of
twenty-three years. As the words flowed from Gabriel to the inspired lips of
the Prophet Muhammad, they were written down upon palm leaves, leather or wood
by his secretaries Zeid and Abdullah.