112 – EPILEPTIC PROPHET PART 5 – ANGER ANXIETY PARANOIA SEXUALITY DELUSIONS
This episode is the 5th installment in the series ‘The Epileptic Prophet’ in which Abdullah Gondal and I tackle the question of Muhammad’s mental health and possible epilepsy. Our aim is to provide an alternative explanation to Muhammad’s supposed prophethood from a neurological perspective.
We kicked off the episode by discussing behavioral changes/characteristics attributed to interictal behavior in temporal lobe epilepsy. We compared these characteristics to those of Muhammad as described in various hadith corpus and other Islamic literature. Gondal and I then presented a clip by Dr. Ali Sina detailing Muhammad’s narcissism and how it fits in perfectly with the theory that Muhammad was an epileptic.
We also discussed Muhammad’s anger issues and how he would overreact to small provocations. We cited various hadith which report that Muhammad’s face would turn red due to anger even while delivering teachings. In other hadith it is reported that he would get extremely angry when questioned by his companions and at one time he threw a tantrum after missing the angel Gabriel.
The conversation then moved on to the topic of Muhammad’s anxiety. We discussed how mundane things like gusty winds, clouds, thunder, and lightning would trigger Muhammad’s anxiety. We also talked about Muhammad’s weird fixation with praying for the dead. We went through various hadith that show Muhammad running to the graveyard sometimes during the dead of the night purportedly to pray for the dead.
We finished the episode on the topic of Capgras and how it affects epileptic patients. We went through various hadith and Seerah which show how Muhammad used to confuse Dhiya Kalbi for Gabriel.
We invite you to take a listen to this detailed and entertaining episode.
YouTube version of this series:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/WlO4nZUGVf4
Part 2: https://youtu.be/ZI16w6Sl3DE
Part 3: https://youtu.be/fD4FyXSN96k
Part 4: https://youtu.be/Z-IgOnBCv3U
Part 5: https://youtu.be/g0-vhNlxJhw
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introductions
2:40 Changes in people suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy – Dr. Dede Korkut
10:40 Muhammad’s narcissism – Dr. Ali Sina
14:18 Muhammad’s anger issues, yelling while preaching
18:50 Don’t smile around Gabriel. Muhammad’s red face from anger and more anger problems.
43:18 Comments from the chat
50:30 Muhammad had anxiety attacks because of heavy winds, thunder, solar eclipse, and the call to prayer.
59:23 Running off to the graveyard to pray for the dead?
1:06:00 Muhammad found talking to a dead body inside the grave.
1:07:55 Comments from the live chat
1:09:05 Muhammad’s Hyper and hyposexuality – Dr. Abbas
1:33:46 Aisha – A dream come true or child rape?
1:35:50 Revelation under the blanket of Aisha? Sexual triggers?
1:37:35 Descriptions of virgins in Jannah, 72 wives in paradise.
1:39:49 Muhammad married dead women?
1:41:50 Capgras – Impostor syndrome and epilepsy. Muhammad mistakes Dhiya Kalbi as Gabriel
2:09:37 A quick recap of the night journey
2:15:30 The tree that stretches from the 6th heaven to the 7th heaven.
2:23:09 A quick summary of the episode and a sneak peek of the upcoming episode
2:28:17 Final remarks.
List of resources:
- Characteristics attributed to Interictal behavior in temporal lobe epilepsy – Life Alert: The Medical Case of Muhammad by Dr. Dede Korkut
2. Angry and ripping curtains – Sahih Al-Bukhari 6109 bk 78 hadith 136, Sahih Muslim 2107f bk 37 hadith 138
3. Yelling while preaching – Mishkat al-Masabih 1407 bk 4 hadith 808, Bulugh al-Maram bk 2 hadith 368
4. Don’t smile around Gabriel – Musnad Az-Zubair bin al-Awwam p34
5. Red face from anger – Muwatta Malik bk58 hadith 14
6. Turned red like a pomegranate – Sunan Ibn Majah 85 Vol 1 bk 1 hadith 85
7. Muhammad overreacting when questioned – Sahih al-Bukhari 2427 bk45 hadith 2, Sahih Muslim 1722d bk 31 hadith 4, Sunan Abi Dawud 1704 bk10 hadith 4, Sahih al-Bukhari 6291 bk79 hadith 63, Sahih Muslim 1062b bk12 hadith 185
8. Muhammad’s anger issues – Sahih al-Bukhari 7160 bk 93 hadith 24, Sahih al-Bukhari 7291 bk 96 hadith 22, Sunan Ibn Majah 1973 bk 9 hadith 129, the chapter on virtues narrated by Jami at-Tirmidhi
9. Muhammad’s anger after missing Gabriel – Sahih Muslim 2104a bk 37 hadith 126, Riyad as- Salihin 1686 bk 17 hadith 176
10. Gusts of winds caused Muhammad anxiety – Sahih al-Bukhari 1034 bk 15 hadith 29
11. Muhammad has attacks after seeing clouds – Sahih al-Bukhari 3206 bk 59 hadith 17, Sahih Muslim 899a bk9 hadith 15
12. Thunder and lightning caused Muhammad to have panic attacks – Sunan ibn Majah 3891 bk 34 hadith 65, Sahih Muslim 899b bk 9 hadith 16,
13. Muhammad having panic attacks because of solar eclipse – Sahih Muslim 912 bk 10 hadith 26
14. Muhammad having anxiety attacks because of the call to prayer – Sunan Abi-Dawud 498 bk2 hadith 108
15. Running to the graveyard at night to pray for the dead – Sunan an-Nasai 2038 bk21 hadith 221, 2039 bk 21 222; Sunan an-Nasai 3963 bk 36 hadith 25;
16. Muhammad found talking to a dead body inside a grave –
17. Muhammad talking to an invisible man – Musnad of Abdullah bin al-Abbas p552
18. Marrying 15 – 18 wives in the last 10 yrs of his life – Seerah Ibn Kathir p424, History of Tabari p127 – 139
19. Muhammad touches a woman without consent – Sahih al-Bukhari 5255 bk 68 hadith 5, Sunan Ibn Majah 2050 bk 10 hadith 35
20. Muhammad had sex with 9 to 11 women in one night – Sahih al-Bukhari 268 bk 5 hadith 21, Sahih al-Bukhari 5068 bk 67 hadith 6, Bulugh al-Maram book 8 hadith 1036 (English translation)
21. Muhammad’s supposed sexual prowess – Jami at-Tirmidhi 2536 bk 38 hadith 14
22. Deflowering virgins in Jannah? – Surah 36 verse 55, 78:33
23. Aisha – A dream come true or child rape? – Sahih al-Bukhari 3895 bk 63 hadith 120, Sahih al-Bukhari 6130 bk 78 hadith 157, Sihah Muslim 2438a bk 44 hadith 113, Sunan an-Nasai 3378 bk 26 hadith 123
24. Revelation under the blanket of Aisha? – Sunan an-Nasai 3949 bk 36 hadith 11, Sunan an-Nasai 3950 bk36 hadith 12
25. Transparent, light-emitting virgins in Jannah – Sahih al-Bukhari 3254 bk 59 hadith 64, Sahih al-Bukhari 6568 bk 81 hadith 156, Jami at-Tirmidhi 1651 bk 22 hadith 34
26. 72 Wives in paradise – Jami at-Tirmidhi 1663 bk 22 hadith 46, Mishkat al-Masabih 3834 bk19 hadith 46
27. Muhammad will marry Maryam and Asiya? – https://islamqa.org/maliki/seekersguidance-maliki/85508/is-it-authentically-reported-that-the-prophet-will-marry-maryam-and-asiya/
28. Capgras and epilepsy – https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/impostor-syndrome-capgras
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030384678780029X
- An epileptic displaying capgras – https://www.sid.ir/en/Journal/ViewPaper.aspx?ID=29796
- Dhiya Kalbi was Gabriel – Muhammad’s capgras – Sahih al-Bukhari 4980 bk 66 hadith 2, Sahih Muuslim 2451 bk 44 hadith 145
- Angels being photographed – https://www.islamweb.org/en/fatwa/82159/angels-being-photographed
- Dhiya Kalbi tells Muhammad to attack Qurayza and Muhammad thinks it’s Gabriel – Seerah Ibn Sihaq p461
- Muhammad mistakes Dhiya Kalbi as Gabriel – History of Tabari p27 – 29
- The Gabriel hadith – Sunan an-Nasai 4991 bk 47 hadith 7, Jami at-Tirmidhi Vol 1 bk 46 hadith 3649
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