Many muslims love to laud on the Qur'an and hadiths the depth of their knowledge and foresight. A book supposedly inspired by God should possess these qualities. The hadith, while not considered as authorative as the Qur'an, is still considered inspired. So let's review some of the inspired words within these tomes.
This first one is particularly damning for muslims as they love to take figurative language in the Bible and twist it to make it seem scientifically inaccurate. From the hadith below their can be no doubt that Muhammad considered the sun a living sentient being and actually thought it rose and fell. If he had just said the sun rises it would have been no big deal, as even people today say that in light of the fact the earth is rotating, but Muhammad made it abundantly clear that he thought the sun literally rose and fell.
Bukhari:V4B54N421 "I walked hand in hand with the Prophet when the sun was about to set. We did not stop looking at it. The Prophet asked, 'Do you know where the sun goes at sunset.' I replied, 'Allah and His Apostle know better.' He said, 'It travels until it falls down and prostrates Itself underneath the Throne. The angels who are in charge of the sun prostrate themselves, also. The sun asks permission to rise again. It is permitted. Then it will prostrate itself again but this prostration will not be accepted. The sun then says, "My Lord, where do You command me to rise, from where I set or from where I rose?"
If you ever wondered why the days in summer are longer and the days of winter are shorter Muhammad had it figured out.
Tabari I:232 "Gabriel brings to the sun a garment of luminosity from the light of Allah's Throne according to the measure of the hours of the day. The garment is longer in the summer and shorter in the winter, and of intermediate length in autumn and spring. The sun puts on that garment as one of you here puts on his clothes."
Be sure to pack plenty of Hell block since it is hell that causes hot days and not the sun.
Bukhari:V1B10N510 "Allah's Apostle said, 'If it is very hot, the severity of the heat is from the raging of the Hell Fire.'"
Muhammad knew that the moon wasn't made of cheese. It was in fact a sun.
Tabari I:234 "Allah thus sent Gabriel to drag his wing three times over the face of the moon, which at the time was a sun. He effaced its luminosity and left the light in it. This corresponds with the Qur'an
Meteorites didn't cause the dark spots on the moon. Gabriel's wing did.
Sura 17:12 'We have blotted out the sign of the night, and We have made the sign of the day something to see by.' The blackness you can see as lines on the moon is a trace of the blotting."
If you thought it was Helios that had the market on sun chariots think again. Allah would kick the sun out of the chariot to cause eclipses.
Tabari I:236 "When the sun rises upon its chariot from one of those springs it is accompanied by 360 angels with outspread wings.... When Allah wishes to test the sun and the moon, showing His servants a sign and thereby getting them to obey, the sun tumbles from the chariot and falls into the deep end of that ocean. When Allah wants to increase the significance of the sign and frighten His servants severely, all of the sun falls and nothing of it remains in the chariot. That is a total eclipse of the sun. It is a misfortune for the sun."
If you wondered where the sun goes at night don't worry Muhammad had it figured out.
Qur'an 18:83 "They ask you about Dhu'l-Qarnain [Alexander]. Say, 'I will cite something of his story. We gave him authority in the land and means of accomplishing his goals. So he followed a path until he reached the setting place of the sun. He saw that it set in black, muddy, hot water. Near it he found people."
Genetics shmenetics. It is all about who reaches climax first. Shows what those scientist know.
Bukhari:V4B55N546 "Allah's Apostle said, 'Gabriel has just now told me of the answer. If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife and gets discharge first, the child will resemble him, and if the woman gets discharge first, the child will resemble her.'"
40 days+40 days+40 days=120 days or 4 months. That is how long it takes a human to form in thier mother's womb, or so says "the true and truly inspired".
Bukhari:V4B54N430 "Allah's Apostle, the true and truly inspired said, 'Regarding the matter of the creation of a human being: humans are put together in the womb of the mother in forty days. Then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period. He becomes a piece of flesh for forty days. Then Allah sends an angel who is ordered to write four things: the new creature's deeds, livelihood, date of death, and whether he will be blessed or wretched. He will do whatever is written for him.'"
So much for the equinoxes. The seasons are all about hell.
Bukhari:V4B54N482 "Allah's Apostle said, 'The Hell Fire complained to its Lord saying, "O my Lord! My different parts are eating each other up." So, He allowed it to take two breaths, one in winter, the other in summer. This is the reason for the severe heat and bitter cold you find in weather.'"
There is a nugget of truth in the below hadith. The angel that came to Muhammad is indeed an enemy to the Jews, but he is not Gabriel.
Ishaq:255 "Jewish rabbis came to the Apostle and asked him to answer four questions saying, 'If you do so we will follow you, testify to your truth, and believe in you.' They began, 'Why does a boy resemble his mother when the semen comes from the father?' Muhammad replied, 'Do you not know that a man's semen is white and thick and a woman's is yellow and thin? The likeness goes with that which comes to the top.' 'Agreed,' the rabbis proclaimed. 'Tell us about your sleep.' 'Do you not know that a sleep which you allege I do not have is when the eye sleeps but the heart is awake?' 'Tell us about what Israel [Jacob] voluntarily forbade himself.' 'Do you not know that the food he loved best was the flesh and milk of camels or perhaps two lobes of liver, kidneys, and fat?' 'Tell us about the spirit.' ''Do you not know that it is Gabriel, he who comes to me?' 'Agreed,' the rabbis said. 'But Muhammad, your spirit is an enemy to us, an angel who comes only with violence and the shedding of blood, and were it not for that we would follow you."
Star Wars is as scientifically accurate as Muhammad. Sound can travel through space.
Tabari I:236 "Allah created two cities out in space, each with ten thousand gates, each 6 kilometers distant from the other. By Allah, were those people not so many and so noisy, all the inhabitants of this world would hear the loud crash made by the sun falling when it rises and when it sets. Gabriel took me to them during my Night Journey from the Sacred Mosque [the Ka'aba] to the Farthest Mosque [the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem]. I told the people of these cities to worship Allah but they refused to listen to me."
According to Muhammad there are no eclipses of any kind
Qur'an 36:38 "The sun keeps revolving in its orbit at the dispensation of the All-Knowing. And the Moon, We have measured for her mansions till she returns like dried date stalks. It is not permitted for the Sun to overtake the Moon, nor can the Night outstrip the Day. Each (just) swims along, floating in (its own) orbit as a Sign as in a race. And we made similar vessels [chariots] for them to ride. But we could have drowned them if we pleased."
Or maybe he did believe in them? Maybe they were making up for lost time after Muhammad said they didn't happen.
Tabari I:332 "The sun and the moon were in eclipse for seven days and nights."
Allah doesn't seem to be the only one getting in on the creation biz. Oh and by the way the stars are missles against devils.
Qur'an 67:3 "We created seven heavens, one above the other. Muhammad, can you see any fault in Ar-Rahman's creation? Look again: Can you see any rifts or fissures? Then look again and yet again. Your gaze turns back dazed and tired. We have adorned the lowest skies with lamps, and We have made them missiles to drive away the devils and against the stone Satans, and for them We have prepared the doom of Hell and the penalty of torment in the most intense Blazing Fire."
And just when you thought the phases of the moon were due to it's position in conjunction with the earth and sun.
Qur'an 2:189 "They ask you about the New Moons. Say: They are but signs to mark fixed seasons in (the affairs of) men, and for Hajj Pilgrimage."
