Allah at the Service of Muhammad
The Strongest Evidence Against Islam
When people leave Islam and are asked why, they usually talk about the violence, the treatment of women, Muhammad’s marriages. All of it is true, and any one of these is reason enough to walk away from Islam. But if you ask me what finally broke my faith twenty years ago, I wouldn’t point to any of these. In fact, I don’t condemn Muhammad and his companions for living the life that was the norm in their time, if anything, I condemn the sanctification of that life, and its transmission down through the ages as religion.
It wasn’t any of these that made me throw the Quran, literally, into the garbage in my parents’ house that night. It was something called the occasions of revelation. Islam has an entire science devoted to it, a respected branch of scholarship called asbāb al-nuzūl, the genre that helps Muslims understand the context in which each verse of the Quran was revealed. And thanks to generations of Muslims, those circumstances were preserved as carefully as the Quran itself.
By the end of this article you will understand why this is the most damning evidence against Islam there is. Honestly, I can’t fathom how anyone can read what follows and remain a Muslim.