Not convincing. You haven't explained how 49,000 years of mankind were able to learn Mohammad's message.
Even if we go back to Abraham, that's only a tiny fraction of the time that man has lived on earth. So how did God's message get to all those people who didn't have any scripture?
13:38
And We have already sent messengers before you and assigned to them wives anddescendants. And it was not for a messenger to come with a sign except by permission of Allah . For every term is a decree.
So there are many scriptures, not only the ones mentioned in the Quraan. However, they were not preserved because they were meant for that age only. Even the bible we see today is not the Injeel mentioned in the Quraan, because even the Injeel was not preserved.
17:86
And if We willed, We could surely do away with that which We revealed to you. Then you would not find for yourself concerning it an advocate against Us.
However the bible still contains some of the teaching of Jesus peace be up on him thats why there is part of it which is true. I am sure that you have noticed BIG contradictions in the bible. Somewhere you see the massage to worship God, other places you see things that contradict it and somewhere you begin questioning holiness of God.
17:86 And if We willed, We could surely do away with that which We revealed to you. Then you would not find for yourself concerning it an advocate against Us.
Now I have told you before that there is a difference between prophets and messengers. As only messengers received scriptures. Hadiths say that the number of prophets is around 124000 and number of messengers is 313
Regarding the time before Abrahim, I repeat Quraan doesnt mention all prophets but it mentions only 25. Out of those, Adam, Idris, Noah, Hud, and Saleh peace be upon them came before Abraham peace be upon him. These prophets lived for a long period.
29:14
And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers.
And may I ask if you accept evolution? If so, it raises some interesting questions. Was Neanderthal human? If he could not read, how did he study God's scriptures?
Go back one million years. There is a creature which looks very much like a man, but it's not a man. Was it also able to learn of God?
As for evolution I dont believe in it. It is just a theory and there isnt a scientific proof.
The first miracle of the Quraan is that it was revealed to Muhammad peace be upon him who was illiterate. This is a miracle because the Arabs at that time were excellent people in their language in which they just stand infront of you and come up with 50 lines of poems without preparing. The miracle for those people is in these verses:
2:23 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah , if you should be truthful.
17:88 Say, "If mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they were to each other assistants."
Now let us talk about the other miracles.
36:77 Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?
21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
78:7 And the mountains as stakes?
25:53 And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.
21:33 And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all [heavenly bodies] in an orbit are swimming.
21:30 Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?
39:6 He created you from one soul. Then He made from it its mate, and He produced for you from the grazing livestock eight mates. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, within three darknesses. That is Allah , your Lord; to Him belongs dominion
But I don't follow Islam, so I don't believe all of that. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Jesus never even existed as a man. I think he's a character created by the gospel writers.
I understand that.
I think that the Gospel of John was written by a man who knew nothing of Jesus and who knew even less about God than I know. I think he made up the dialogue which you have quoted and put it into Jesus' mouth.
This makes sense. I can't support my argument on that.
If there really was a Muhammad and if he really believed that he was hearing the voice of God, I'm sorry, but I can only see him as confused.
I think this will explain things better, the first revelation
This is the account, as reported in the Sahih of Bukhari:
Narrated Aisha the mother of the faithful believers: The commencement of the divine inspiration to Allah's apostle was in the form of good dreams which came like bright daylight (i.e. true) and then the love of seclusion was bestowed upon him.
He used to go in seclusion in the Cave of Hira', where he used to worship (Allah alone) continuously for many days before his desire to see his family. He used to take with him food for the stay and then come back to (his wife) Khadija to take his food likewise again, till suddenly the truth descended upon him while he was in the Cave of Hira'.
The angel came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet replied 'I do not know how to read'. The Prophet added, 'The angel caught me (forcibly) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read and I replied, "I do not know how to read". Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read, but again I replied, "I do not know how to read" (or what shall I read?). Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then released me and said: "Read, in the name of Your Lord, who created, created man from a clot. Read! And Your Lord is the most bountiful" ... [Bukhari, I, No. 3; VI, No. 478; Muslim I, No. 301.]
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Recite in the name of your Lord who created
Created man from a clinging substance.
Dig as deep as suits you.