General Arguments With Atheist

To regulate human’s way of life is not an easy task to do. When we look throughout history, we find that every civilization spared their utmost efforts to establish constitutions or sets of laws to serve people’s immediate and future demands in their political, social, civil, economical and judicial relations and conducts.

It is observable that this is a toiling mission conducted by congregations and committees, whereas each committee may consist of the elites, who are dedicated in their fields. Hence, it is highly improbable that such a mission can be accomplished by a single man. In fact these committees may hold consecutive sessions and subsequent assemblies in an attempt to produce an applicable, coherent and practical constitution.

Despite all these congregational accumulative efforts, we still see that there will always remain room for further amendments. In many cases these constitutions may last for few years or decades and later –due to their incompatibility with the new era demands- they are replaced by newer sets of laws.

So, is it possible that such a complicated process of establishing a nation’s constitution be accomplished by a single man?

What would be your reaction if such a matter was proven to be done by a single man? Not just an ordinary single man, but rather a person who is unlearned!   

And what if he were the only man –in the history of man- to accomplish that?

In reality, when we see people glorifying figures with immensely fewer achievements; shouldn’t that make this man a phenomenal figure of high eminence, who deserves higher admiration and reverence?

And what’s even more intriguing is to see the legislation, which he has brought forward, has lasted for more than 1400 years and is still compatible, coherent, respectable and protected against tampering with.

Not only that but –amazingly- he was able to set foundations and principles to accommodate the future’s demanding laws to serve and bring justice, order and harmony to the future’s revolutionary progress in human’s life style. This legislation always gives precedence to the utility of the general community, which is based on the core Islamic founded principles, over the individual’s self-centric desire or lust; while still maintaining the rights of the individuals in a fair  and justified manner.

Most importantly, this legislation not only organized man’s worldly materialistic relations and conducts, but also answered man’s most perplexed anthological inquiries and –additionally- fulfilled his spiritual and psychological demands.

It is apparent that the contemporary and most sophisticated man made secular laws and atheistic precepts had ignored man’s most perplexing inquiry: why are we here? And what is the purpose of our existence? And never gave much attention to man’s spiritual demands nor honored his intrinsic ethical values.

Thus, to have a set of legislations, which fulfill the spiritual, ethical, moral and materialistic expectations and necessities of mankind in a fair and consistent manner this can neither be achieved by a single man nor a congregation of men.

How can we come to such a conclusion?

Practically, no man was able to achieve that throughout history except for a Prophet. Additionally, the comprehensiveness of this legislation is a vivid manifestation of its divinity and that Muhammad  (PBUH) alone can never produce such an inclusive legislation unless he was supported by divine revelation. Thus, Muhammad  (PBUH) must be a true Prophet, who was appointed by God to convey His most fit laws to mankind.

Here are some of the legislations and few excerpts chosen from so many verses and statement of the Prophet (PBUH), which were conveyed by him to support the article’s contention:

All these comprehensive legislations patently testify that Muhammad (PBUH) cannot be but a true prophet sent by God. Also, history is another fair witness on how successful this unlettered man (PBUH) was in establishing a civilization, which altered the future of mankind, in a time where other civilizations were deeply indulging in ignorance; cruelly imposing injustice upon the poor and weak; and ruthlessly practicing the law of the jungle “survival of the fittest”. These legislations did not even ignore animals or non-living rights; all existence prospered within the bosom of the Islāmic justice.

Allah, the Exalted, had set the foundation of justice in many verses of the Qur’ān; amongst them is the following verse:

Amazingly, this same verse is written on the entrance wall of the school of law at university of Harvard[1].

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said, in the early time of his prophet hood when the Muslims were weak and aggressively assaulted against by their enemies that Allah will make His religion prevail and a day will come, when a woman will travel on her own from Al-Heerah in Iraq to Makkah fearing no one but God. This to imply the expansion of the Islāmic state and the ample security and justice people will enjoy.

This prophecy eventually became true; and the Islāmic state dominion expanded reaching the boarder of China East and the shores of the Atlantic Ocean West including the Iberian Peninsula and parts of Europe; and due to the applying of the Islāmic laws every individual within enjoyed security, had his rights preserved, transgression was immediately suppressed and people enjoyed justice to an optimum. Due to all that people flooded to Islām in great masses.

When you have a religion that goes down to take care of even how to respond to the call of nature -here- we ought to realize that it must be phenomenal, which makes it eminent that such religion, certainly, had given greater care and priority to issues of higher importance.

Once a Jew -in sarcastic manner- asked the Prophet’s companion Salman (RA): “Your Prophet had taught you everything even how to defecate!”

Salman (RA) confidently responded: “Yes, he has forbidden us to face the Qibla (Prayer direction) at the time of defecation or urination, or cleanse with right hand or with less than three pebbles, or with dung or bone”

Source: Muslim

The true scale in measuring how successful these legislations in bringing peace and security to Muslim communities are by comparing the crime, homicide, rape, suicide and theft rates of the Muslim communities to that of other nations. It is observable -throughout history- that when the Muslim governments were loyal to their Islāmic laws the crime rates were noticeably low.

One example, in some of the Islāmic countries until few years back when prayer used to be called and the people go to mosque –masjid- for congregational prayer, they would leave their stores’ doors open and only covered by a piece of cloth; and no one would dare to approach these stores for any theft attempt. But sadly, the Islāmic nations continued to be an easy prey for the postcolonial western vile interest, which ideologically persisted to subjugate the Islāmic nations via enforcing the western political paradigm, in an effort to alienate the Muslims’ state from its Islāmic legislation and secularize the Muslims’ political system.

Despite the enormous coercive western measures to separate the Islamic state from religion and to discount the Islamic legislation, still the crime rates are dramatically less compared to that of the civilized west.