A Response to Three Questions of a Christian — Page 4
4 Second— If Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had been a Messenger, he would not have responded so help- lessly to questions put to him at that time, saying that God knows; meaning, I do not know. Nor would he have spoken incorrectly concerning the number of A sha b-e-Kahf [the People of the Cave]. Likewise, he would not have said that the Sun becomes concealed in, or sinks into, a murky pool. As a matter of fact, the Sun is 90 million times larger than the earth, so how can it possibly become concealed in a pool of murky water? Third— Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was never ever granted any miracle, as is stated in S u rah al-‘Ankab u t (Translation of the Arabic): ‘They say, “Why were not some Signs sent down for him from his Lord”. ’ (This means not even one, because the word ال — l a in this verse, which is categori- cal, implies the negation of the class as a whole. ) Then, in S u rah Ban i Isr a ’ i l, we also read: ‘And We ceased to send Signs because people had rejected them before. ’ By this, it is clearly evident that God did not give him any miracle. In reality, had he been given even one miracle, he would not have been in doubt about his prophethood or the Quran.