Re: Mohammed the man vs Mohammed the prophet.
Good question that is becoming increasingly necessay - just looking at some of the threads active right now.
In one thread there’s a question raging about the Zaid Zainab affair and M’s role, motives and actions
In another somebody is questioning the difference amonst how muslims do and ought deal with other religions.
The underlying theme recurs in all these - should we associate some of the prophet’s actions as a personal mortal thing and not bundle it with islam or should all his words and deeds be considered islam.
After looking at these threads imo islam is better of not being burdened with some of these acts which are, to say the least, controversial.
Ofcourse there are those from the 6th century that believe questioning anything M is wrong and would call for beheading!
If the prphet is not deemed different from islam and all of his words and deeds are to be considered islam as some less-educated will have it, it creates major problems. Because if prophet and religion are the same, then muslims have to follow teachings of Jesus or stop arguoing that it is older than M!
Your still here. Anyway, just thought I’d stop by and say Hello. And say something about one of your paragraphs (I’ve emboldened it).
No we should not associate every mortal moment of his life with Islam but this is not enough to set a premises for throwing out things at will when we are unable to correlate them out of a lack of knowledge.
