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When I was Muslim, this never made sense to me: How Muhammad reportedly received his first revelation.
According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad was alone in a cave when a being appeared, grabbed him, squeezed him repeatedly, and commanded him to read.
His reaction wasn't confidence.
It was fear.
He ran home terrified, convinced something supernatural had happened to him.
And that's where the story gets interesting.
His wife Khadijah took him to her cousin Waraqah, a Christian familiar with the Scriptures. After hearing the account, Waraqah reportedly identified it with the same source that came to Moses.
Think about that.
The Quran did not exist yet.
The framework being used to interpret Muhammad's experience came from the earlier Scriptures.
Then the revelations continued.
The reports describe intense physical experiences: sweating, trembling, hearing sounds, and periods of distress.
Whether you agree with Islam or not, these details raise important questions about the origin and nature of the experience.
Because when you compare it to the biblical accounts, many prophets receive clear callings rooted in God's prior revelation.
So the question becomes:
How should any claimed revelation be tested? By emotion? By experience? Or by the Scriptures that came before it?
For me, that question changed everything. Because one messenger points back to an empty tomb. The other points to a grave.
That distinction matters.
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.
For 30 years, Ebola was contained in DRC, and by God's grace Kenya protected its borders. Now, Ruto is justifying why Ebola should be brought into the heart of Kenya, using health workers as a conduit to eventually spread it. Reckless and dangerous.
@KICDKenya we must NOT integrate Madrasa which is purely reciting of Qur’an until a child can recite entire quran. This should never get into law and education policy. Let Muslim children recite Quran at home. Not in our public schools. We are NOT an Islamic state.
@KICDKenya we must NOT integrate Madrasa which is purely reciting of Qur’an until a child can recite entire quran. This should never get into law and education policy. Let Muslim children recite Quran at home. Not in our public schools. We are NOT an Islamic state.
@feisalfx@NytoP2PMwangi There's a spot designated for pick ups. They can't harass old people, expectant women, disabled people just coz they went to the mall.