Maybe he was a Quaker.
Maybe he was a Quaker.
I think this man has finally explained the wierdness of Islam and its founder. Seriously. It makes sense. Mohammed was an ill man who was having hallucinations and he was very, very bad man too. The mystery is solved for me. Islam is the intellectual and spiritual creation of a bad man with a brain disorder.
"shaken, not stirred."
Too bad that the crazy fokker didn't swallow his tongue and choke to death - when he had his first seizure. How different world history would be.
The Koran should be renamed the "Epileptic Pedophile Prophecies"
I've been saying this for years.
When asked by a reporter from the Canton Repository if the same diagnosis could apply to Jesus, Buddha or other religious figures, Sadeghian replied there aren't nearly as many independent historical documents detailing their lives."
It wouldn't because the kind of seizures werent recounted in the comparable scriptures. But for Mohammed, there was ample evidence in the biographical record (via Quran and other scriptures) to indicate epilepsy as a possible source of his visions ...
"Returning to Khadija, he informed her of the visions. We are told that she accepted them as a true revelation from heaven, and encouraged him to announce his mission. Thereafter he had many similar visions. Often, when they came, he fell to the ground in a convulsion or swoon; perspiration covered his brow; even the camel on which he was sitting felt the excitement, and moved fitfully.' Mohammed later attributed his gray hairs to these experiences. When pressed to describe the process of revelation, he answered that the entire text of the Koran existed in heaven, and Gabriel communicated that one fragment at a time to him, usually. Asked how he could remember these divine discourses, he explained that the archangel made him repeat every word. Others who were near the Prophet at the time neither saw nor heard the angel.
Possibly his convulsions were epileptic seizures; they were sometimes accompanied by a sound reported by him as like the ringing of a bell, a frequent occurrence in epileptic fits. But we hear of no tongue- biting, no loss of prehensile strength, such as usually occurs in epilepsy; nor does Mohammed's history show that degeneration of brain power which epilepsy generally brings; on the contrary, he advanced in clarity of thought and in confident leadership and power until his sixtieth year.25 The evidence is inconclusive; at least it has not sufficed to convince any orthodox Mohammedan. "
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/mecca.htm
Then there is this diagnosis:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5973
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Theophanes, a monk (752-817), wrote in his Chronography that Muhammad suffered from epilepsy. From that time most historians repeated this opinion. When in the late 19th century better notions of psychopathology became common, this diagnosis was challenged. Some thought his disease was hysteria or hystero-epilepsy, although for most scientists epilepsy was excluded. There was no definitive answer to this question. A better scientific examination of the sources has made clear that all symptoms of acromegaly are present with some psychopathological paranoid traits. Acromegaly is caused by a small tumour of the hypophysis, beginning most of the time about the fortieth year and ending in the sixtieth year with an apoplexy of the hypophysis."
See also this article:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina41204.htm
"He fell to the ground like one intoxicated or overcome by sleep; and in the coldest day his forehead would be bedewed with large drops of perspiration. Inspiration descended unexpectedly, and without any previous warning." [2]
"Then Allah's Apostle returned with that experience; and the muscles between his neck and shoulders were trembling till he came upon Khadija (his wife) and said, "Cover me!" They covered him, and when the state of fear was over" [3] and [4]
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