MUHAMMAD REFUTED BY HIS OWN LOGIC: In the following hadith Muhammad is asked about the الْكُهَّانِ (the foretellers) and concedes that prophecies are not evidence of truth: //Narrated `Aisha: Some people asked Allahs Messenger about the fore-tellers He said. They are nothing They said, O Allahs Messenger ! Sometimes they tell us of a thing which turns out to be true. Allahs Messenger said, A Jinn snatches that true word and pours it Into the ear of his friend (the fore-teller) (as one puts something into a bottle) The foreteller then mixes with that word one hundred lies. Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 5762 In-book reference : Book 76, Hadith 76 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 7, Book 71, Hadith 657 sunnah/bukhari/76/76 // Analysis: ------------ from this hadith we can determine that: 1) Successful predictions are being given by people who are following a false religion and sahabas themselves testify that some of the prophecies made by the kahans are found to be true. at a minimum this proves that EVEN false beliefs can have successful prophecies. which means that giving of a prophecy is not evidence that the religion is true. thus in a single master stroke all the scientific miracles and historical predictions etc made by muslims are REFUTED 2) secondly Muhammad agrees that source of prophecy can be non-divine i,e the jinns. this again confirms that prediction of future by muhammad is no guarantee of him being a prophet as from a skeptical perspective it is legitimate to ask how muslims know that Muhammad was not being misguided by a jinn who pretended to be Gabriel ? infact the behavior of gabriel has been really suspicious. conclusion : although there are no successful predictions in the quran hadith etc. (all of the claims crumble on closer examination) however even if there were such prophecies the above shows that they would offer us no evidence that islam is true as per Muhammads OWN logic
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