Immortal : A Collection of The Miracles of Qur'an.

Ten Reasons Muhammad have not authored the Qur'an. (Part two)

Ten Reasons Muhammad could have not authored the Qur'an. (Part two)

Site and resource : http://www.manyprophetsonemessage.com/2014/03/18/ten-reasons-muhammad-could-not-have-authored-the-quran/

6. WENT AGAINST CUSTOMS AND NORMS OF SOCIETY

The tribal society at the time of Prophet Muhammad gave little care or regard to those who were in positions of weakness in society, particularly women. The doctrine laid out in the Qur'an considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. For example it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female infants, a practice prohibited in the Qur'an:

"And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief. He hides himself from the people because of the ill of which he has been informed. Should he keep it in humiliation or bury it in the ground? Unquestionably, evil is what they decide." [Chapter 16, verses 58-59]

In those days before Islam, women were treated like slaves or property. Their personal consent concerning anything related to their well-being was considered unimportant, to such a degree that they were never even treated as a party to a marriage contract. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands. Again the Qur'an served to put an end to this:

"O you who have believed, it is not lawful for you to inherit women by compulsion..." [Chapter 4, verse 19]

Women were often used for one purpose, sexual gratification, and then discarded. The Pagan Arabs had no limit to the number of wives that they could marry. In fact Islam is the only Abrahamic religion whose Scripture explicitly limits the maximum number of wives (to four), on the condition that they are treated fairly and justly:

"And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then [marry only] one..." [Chapter 4, verse 3]

Before Islam, women had no independence, could own no property and were not allowed to inherit. Again the Qur'an guaranteed women a fair share of property:

"For men is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, and for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, be it little or much - an obligatory share." [Chapter 4, verse 7]

It must be noted that by comparison the Biblical rules of inheritance afford women no such rights. The laws of inheritance are outlined in Numbers 27:8-11 in the Bible. Accordingly to these laws a daughter can inherit only if no male heirs exist. Even in comparison to the Secular West, Islam was way ahead of its time. From the point of view of economic rights, we have to remember that in Europe until the 19th century, women did not have the right to own their own property. When they were married, either it would transfer to the husband or she would not be able to dispense of it without permission of her husband. In Britain, perhaps the first country to give women some property rights, laws were passed in the year 1860 known as "Married Women Property Act." More than 1,300 years earlier, that right was clearly established in Islamic law.

Prophet Muhammad had absolutely nothing to gain by uplifting the status and rights of women in tribal Arabia. Quite the opposite in fact, as the stance of the Qur'an only served to alienate those who were in positions of power and had a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

7. ABUNDANCE OF FALSIFICATION TESTS

For the sake of argument, were Muhammad the author of the Qur'an, with his sole mission and purpose in life being to accumulate as much power as possible throughout Arabia, then why does the Qur'an contain an abundance of falsification tests, such that were any one of them to be achieved or proven true by his many enemies and sceptics then it would have completely destroyed Islam as a religion. Here are just a few examples::