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Why do you follow demon possessed prophet? @ Speakers Corner

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16 June 2019 Speakers Corner London Ibn Ishaq "The Life of Muhammad" p 106. So I [Muhammad] read it, and he [Gabriel] departed from me. And I awoke from my sl

16 June 2019 Speakers Corner London
Ibn Ishaq "The Life of Muhammad" p 106.
So I [Muhammad] read it, and he [Gabriel] departed from me. And I awoke from my sleep, and it was though these words were written on my heart. (T: Now none of God's creatures was more hateful to me than an (ecstatic) poet or a man possessed: I could not even look at them. I thought, Woe is me poet or possessed - Never shall Quraysh say this of me! I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest. So I went forth to do so and then) when I was midway on the mountain, I heard a voice from heaven saying "O Muhammad! thou are the apostle of God and I am Gabriel."