Muhammad's Miracles?

From WikiIslam

It is no secret that faith blinds and the believer cannot see anything wrong with the object of his or her devotion. This is the reason why while Muslims claim to see errors in the beliefs of Christians, Jews or Hindus, yet they are unable to see the absurdities in their own Faith..

Muslims love Muhammad to the extent that they want to dress like him, speak the same language that he spoke, behave the way he behaved and eat the food that he ate. This is not an indication of the greatness of Muhammad but the unconditional, fanatical and blind faith of his believers. Followers of all cults eulogize and adulate their leader as a divine being. This is no indication that their leaders were really superior beings. Humans need heroes and fabricate them. Often when these heroes die they assume a mythological status much bigger than life. That is when their human nature and defects are hidden form the eyes of their adulators.

Muslims have not seen Muhammad. They rely entirely on second hand stories about their prophet. Those stories idolize him beyond human reason. Many of those Hadithes are forged, exaggerated by ruffians and are baseless. See for examples the following Hadith that says Muhammad split the moon:

Or this one that claims he made water from nothing:

Or multiplied bread:

Of course when challenged by sceptics, Muhammad repeatedly denied being able to perform any miracles. He admitted that although other prophets before him were given the power of performing miracles, his only miracle was the Qur'an:

There are many verses in the Qur'an which reaffirm this last Hadith, proving that Muhammad never performed any miracles. In the following verse, Muhammad is acknowledging that other prophets before him came with miracles or clear signs but still people rejected them, highlighting the futility of miracles as the proof of his revelation:

All along, the unbelievers asked Muhammad to perform a miracle so that they too could believe. All they got in response was,

And he would reply:

People doubted Muhammad due to seeing nothing extraordinary or miraculous in him:

But Muhammad kept telling them that he is just an ordinary man, not an angel, meaning people should not expect miracles from him!

Common sense dictates that no one would deny and call a man who performs such mighty miracles like splitting the moon (as believed by all Muslims) a “mad man” or “possessed”. But the people who knew him actually called him by these names:

No one would demand him miracles if he had already performed one:

But Muhammad responded:

The Quraishites kept asking for a sign or a miracle to believe and Muhammad kept repeating that he was only a warner:

There are many more ayat that tell the same story. People asking for miracles and him saying “I am just a man, just like you, only a warner”. Clear proof that Muhammad never performed any miracles is found in the following verse where it says that people rejected even those who came with miracles and clear signs, meaning miracles are not helpful:

In the above verses Muhammad has been denying any supernatural power. If he could perform the miracles attributed to him in those ahadith, what is the meaning of these verses? In the following verse he clearly rejects miracles as the proof of prophethood comparing them to witchcraft:

He was right! What is the use of miracles, anyway? Miracles may serve as proof for those who witness them, but mean nothing to others. Muhammad was right in emphasizing that the real miracle is his message or the Qur'an, as that is what really counts. Although this is a valid principle, the Qur'an fails to deliver. It is no miracle at all, but a book full of errors and inconsistencies.

Muhammad was not a superior human being for two reasons:

1. Many of Ahadith and verses from the Qur'an, if right, reveal him to have been an angry, ruthless, unforgiving, deceitful, and impious man. Acts like looting merchant caravans, killing those who decide to have their own faith and not follow him, cursing his enemies, treating women as second class citizens and calling them deficient in intelligence, cowardly assassinating his opponents like a common gangster, allowing the rape of non-Muslim women and many more acts like these which are not precisely the spiritual characteristics that a moral and sane person would seek in a man they would like to follow and emulate. His deeds are far from the deeds of an "honored messenger" as he claimed to be in Qur'an 69:40.
2. Some of today's modern Muslims, especially those whose standard of ethics is colored by western/humanistic precepts of right and wrong, try to distance themselves from those hadithes that depict Muhammad as a ruthless immoral and unethical monster. They deny the validity of those hadithes and all that show Muhammad in a negative light. However, if those hadithes and verses are forged, then the whole validity of Islam crumbles and there is no reason for anyone to believe in a mythological figure whose real life and words are unknown.