We have already seen that Islamic society was shaped by a frequency of illegitimacy that caused the Arabs to accept the false idea that women can be pregnant for multiple years. And we have seen that Amina had such a long claimed pregnancy, and that despite accepting that extended pregnancies were possible, Muhammad’s “father’s” family did not really have confidence in his legitimacy. The final question, then, is understanding what was happening in Arab society that was behind all of this. What were Arab women up to, and specifically, how was it that Amina became an unwed mother?
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No Christian or Jew ever used MHMD, Muhammad, Machmad, Mahmed, etc., as a title for Jesus Christ or any messiah
One of the most outrageous claims about the pre-Islamic use of Muhammad or the written form MHMD is that this was an existing way in which Christians, Jews, or both referred to a messiah or to Jesus Christ specifically. There is no support for this. Not in any language. Not in any context. It has already been shown that in the Northwest Semitic languages, including Ugaritic and Canaanite as well as the specific Hebrew dialect and Aramaic/Syriac, the root HMD meant only “desire” and has no other meaning. The claim that any exilarch was called a “Muhammad” has been shown to be a fabrication by an anti-Christian proselytizer whom Jay Smith platforms. And furthermore, that it was an existing ordinary human name in Arabic and Old South Arabian has also been established, with the meaning of “praise” and no other. There are only a few false claims that remain to be debunked surrounding the assertion that “MHMD” in some form was used in some other context to refer to a/the Messiah.
“MHMD”/Muhammad was never a title in Hebrew or Aramaic, was never used for Jewish exilarchs, and means only “desire” in these languages
Despite many corrections, Jay Smith continues to teach indefensibly false things about the word MHMD in all its variants in different Semitic languages. We have debunked his false claim that Muhammad was never a name before Islam here. We debunk his claim that it “comes from” the Ugaritic language and means “annointed” or “chosen” as well as other claims here. In this third article, we will deal with the false claims he makes about the uses of MHMD in Hebrew and Aramaic. In Hebrew, the root HMD and all words derived from it never means anything except “desirable,” and it is never used as a title or as a name. In Aramaic (and Syriac), it has the same meaning, and again, it is never used as a title and it is not used as a name until Muhammad, the founder of Islam, appears in the sources. Finally, we will debunk the most flagrantly false claim, that MHMD or Muhammad or Mahmed or Makmad or some other variant of this name was used as a title of Jewish exiliarchs.
Muhammad’s illegitimacy proved through Islamic sources: Part 2, corroborating narrations
Previously, we have explored why Muhammad being illegitimate destroys his claims of being a prophet and Islam’s claims of possessing a “science” that can find truth. We have also laid out the framework which shows that the Islamic sources show Muhammad to have been born some 4.5 years or more after the death of Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib, his supposed father. While this is enough for Muslims to accept Muhammad’s age gap, non-Muslim scholars tend to regard numbers in such sources with a large degree of skepticism. They put more weight on the totality of the evidence. In this final segment, we will be exploring the many other ahadith that point to a continuing disbelief in Muhammad’s legitimacy by his contemporaries and also that he was not treated as a favored grandson of Abdul-Muttalib but as an inferior sort of relation.
Muhammad’s illegitimacy proved through Islamic sources: Part I, the birth gap
Despite attempts at damage control, early Islamic sources clearly portray Muhammad as an illegitimate child with an unknown father. This illegitimacy disproves Islam in five distinct ways. This article will summarize the direct evidence and context of the age gap between Muhammad and his uncle Hamza that proves that Muhammad was illegitimate. This is a follow up to the article that showed how if Muhammad was illegitimate, Islam has to be false.
Muhammad’s mother disproves Islam: the coverup of Muhammad’s illegitimacy invalidates the religion
The implications of the paternity fraud of Muhammad’s mother are far-reaching for Islam. Far from it remaining a personal matter or a mere embarrassment, the way that Islam and Muhammad himself have dealt with Muhammad’s illegitimacy disproves the religion in four distinct ways.
“MHMD”/Muhammad was never used as a title in Ugaritic or Canaanite, and “MHMD” means only “desire” in these languages
This article will explain why Semitic languages other than Arabic have the same letters as in Muhammad, “MHMD,” representing a word in their languages. It will lay out the relation between these languages and Arabic. It will also demonstrate that “MHMD”/Muhammad has never been used as a title or even as a name in two of the Northwest Semitic languages (Proto-Canaanite and Ugaritic) and that MHMD in those languages means “desire,” not “chosen one.”
MHMD/Muhammad is not a title but is an ordinary Arabic human name
MHMD, the written form of the name Muhammad, is recorded in three different traditions as a name for ordinary people in Arabia. This ordinary name found in both Arabic and the Old South Arabian language family before the birth of Islam’s Muhammad. Additionally, neither Muhammad nor MHMD has never been documented as a title in any language at any point from ancient times through the end of medieval period. To emphasize: “MHMD” as it is found in early writings cannot be a title grammatically, and it is also never used as a title in context.
This article will explore the use of MHMD/Muhammad specifically in Arabic and Old South Arabian contexts, explaining its documented use as a name, its meaning, its grammar, and its use in early Islamic writings. Another article will explore HMD/MHMD in other Semitic languages.