This is a key point… one needs to look at the health of the person who wrote such a thing. It certainly was not of God.
I have read a book, ‘Understanding muhammad, A Psychobiography’ by Ali Sina (an ex-muslim who writes for faithfreedom and has many articles in
answering-islam). It goes into this and more.
Now, I will caution you that in bringing up some of his illnesses brings offense to some on these threads because they don’t realize that in 7th century Arabia - or anywhere on this earth - there were no medications to help mohammed like they have now. But, I find it useless to discuss with them any further since they have not read the book and wouldn’t read any of the websites and I don’t want to offend them either. Ali Sina backs his assertions up in the book.
And I have read elsewhere by different authors the same conclusions on some of the mental problems that mohammed had.
One is obvious - his hatred of women. To a child it is not understood why a mother would leave him - even if she died and had no control over that. But, mohammed was given to a wet nurse (which was common in those days) and the wet nurse handed him back due to ‘fits’. And then his mother died a few years later. His father died before he was born. It doesn’t really say how he was treated by the women in his life. But, it seems that he hated his mother so bad he had problems years later in honoring her grave.
And there are probably some of those problems that manifested in mohammed when he married a woman 15 years his senior and then later in life when he raped slaves (some were children), married a child, and piled up wives as he did slaves (well, he had more slaves than wives). And him denigrating them forevermore by his words and deeds for his followers to emulate.
I have even read some book on psychopathy, but I don’t think he was a real psychopath since he was bothered by jinns, bad dreams and what he called Satan later in his life.
mohammed
we find Muhammad anxious and afraid. He lived in constant fear, because he had caused the death of so many innocent victims in war and had asked his followers to help him get rid anyone who he thought was his enemies.
Whoever kills another person may dream that the spirits of the murdered victim follow him. Muhammad felt the influences of evil. He looked at many things created by God with fear because they looked evil to him. Muhammad was fearful.
Muhammad was afraid of the night and what dwelled in it. He was afraid of sorcerers and women who tried to influence others by making knots and blowing on them. Muhammad felt the power of evil spirits as one who had become envious. His fear is often found in the Qur’an and climaxes in deep terror of Allah.
How different from Muhammad is our Lord Jesus who said “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” ( John 14:27). Muhammad had no personal peace. He was an affrighted man, torn in his heart, desperate and unhappy. In the depth of his soul he was fearful of the night and sorcerers. He was especially afraid of envy. From every side, he saw himself under attack. We notice this in the last Sura of the Qur’an, an-Nas 114:1-5.
Much of this is why I don’t think he saw any angel - Gabriel or Lucifer. I think that mohammed was like some of the men our own 20th Century have witnessed - including some of them in this century - Hitler, Stalin, Ahmadinejad, etc. And this is why I continually ask, or state, such things like there will always be men (and women - but mostly men) like this who will do terrible things - we should question the ones who follow these sorts. Why would seemingly normal people allow this to happen and follow them blindly. Take Stalin for example - more Russians were killed by their own fellow Russians just following Stalin! The same with Mao. Or look at the German people - look how they allowed a beast to rule.
This is why I don’t see an end to these types. I see in our own times how easy it is for good men to do nothing, other men to just set aside goodness and follow such creeps. It is the story of our own human race.