(1)WAS HE (peace be upon him) A MADMAN?


Was Muhammad (peace be upon him) deluded? There are many instances in the life of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that it is clear he really thought he was a Prophet. Thus some opponents of Islam suggest that rather than being a liar, he was a madman.

However this causes many problems also. How could Muhammad (peace be upon him) keep on getting things correct, which were not common knowledge at his time? For example, the Qur’an refers to many scientific facts, in all of these facts there are no mistakes, even though most of these facts were only proven to be true in the last few decades. Maurice Bucaille the physician;

“In a century, where for many, scientific truth has dealt a deathblow to religious belief, it is precisely the discoveries of science that in an objective examination of the Islamic revelation have heightened the supernatural nature of certain aspects of the revelation.”


There are many prophecies made by Muhammad (peace be upon him) and also within the Qur’an. Again, there are no mistakes. For example, the prophesy that the Qur’an would be preserved in its original form for all times. How could Muhammad (peace be upon him) know that the book would remain unaltered for 100s, and up to this day, over 1400 years? If we wrote a book today, the chances of it being preserved let alone preserved in its original form are remote. Yet the Qur’an is still preserved, word for word, letter for letter.



Again, in the Qur’an, God tells Muhammad (peace be upon him) that He will protect him from Mankind. How could Muhammad (peace be upon him) know that he would have a natural death? This prophesy is all the more amazing when you look at the persecution attempts on his (peace be upon him)’s life, and numerous battles Muhammad (peace be upon him) had to fight for his faith.




The story of Abu Lahab, one of the fiercest early opponents of Islam, supports Muhammad (peace be upon him)’s authenticity. Several years before he died, a verse was revealed in the Qur’an which stated that he would remain in the Hell-fire forever, i.e. he would never become a Muslim. All the man had to do to destroy (and disprove the Qur’an) was to say he had become a Muslim (even if he didn’t mean it), but he never did this, even on his death-bed.

Many books have been written arguing in favour of one hypothesis or another. It is important to note, however that you cannot be a madman and a liar at the same time.

A madman has no reason to lie because he really believes he is a Prophet.