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{{Quote|{{Quran|58|12}}|O you who have faith! When you converse privately with the Apostle, offer a charity before your private talk. That is better for you and purer. But if you cannot afford [to make the offering], then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|58|12}}|O you who have faith! When you converse privately with the Apostle, offer a charity before your private talk. That is better for you and purer. But if you cannot afford [to make the offering], then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.}} | ||
This may have dismayed some followers looking at the next verse. | This may have dismayed some followers looking at the next verse. | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|58|13}}|Were you dismayed by having to offer charities before your private talks? Since you did not do it, and Allah has excused you [for not be able to comply], now maintain the prayer and pay the zakat, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah is well aware of what you do.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|58|13}}|Were you dismayed by having to offer charities before your private talks? Since you did not do it, and Allah has excused you [for not be able to comply], now maintain the prayer and pay the zakat, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah is well aware of what you do.}}Especially considering the contradictory messages with previous verses on the messenger strictly not asking for any reward in {{Quran|25|56-58}} seemingly as a sign of truthfulness, (and {{Quran|12|104}}). Similarly the previous messenger Noah/Nūḥ is said to say a similar line in {{Quran|11|29}}, as others are said to have done in {{Quran|6|90}}, matching the principle of m''essenger uniformitarianism'' (where all messengers are said to preach the same message), a key aspect of Qur'anic theology.<ref>Durie, Mark. ''The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion'' (pp. 281-294). ''5.3 Messenger Uniformitarianism.'' Lexington Books. 2018.</ref> | ||
=== Followers are told not to speak in hostility about Muhammad in private === | === Followers are told not to speak in hostility about Muhammad in private === | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|58|9-10}}|O you who have faith! When you converse secretly, do not hold private conversations [imbued] with sin and aggression and disobedience to the Apostle, but converse in [a spirit of] piety and Godfearing, and be wary of Allah toward whom you will be gathered. | {{Quote|{{Quran|58|9-10}}|O you who have faith! When you converse secretly, do not hold private conversations [imbued] with sin and aggression and disobedience to the Apostle, but converse in [a spirit of] piety and Godfearing, and be wary of Allah toward whom you will be gathered. | ||
Indeed [malicious] secret talks are from Satan, that he may upset the faithful, but he cannot harm them in any way except by Allah’s leave, and in Allah let all the faithful put their trust.}} | Indeed [malicious] secret talks are from Satan, that he may upset the faithful, but he cannot harm them in any way except by Allah’s leave, and in Allah let all the faithful put their trust.}} | ||
=== Followers should pray for him === | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|33|56}}|Indeed, Allah confers blessing upon the Prophet, and His angels [ask Him to do so]. O you who have believed, ask [Allah to confer] blessing upon him and ask [Allah to grant him] peace.}} | |||
One also has to wonder about the logic behind God asking Muhammad to tell others to pray to God (i.e. allegedly himself) for him (Muhammad), considering God already has complete knowledge and control over all affairs. | |||
=== War booty goes to Muhammad === | |||
We see that war booty (goods and property seized from battle) is essentially controlled by Muhammad. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|8|1}}|They ask thee (O Muhammad) of the spoils of war. Say: The spoils of war belong to Allah and the messenger, so keep your duty to Allah, and adjust the matter of your difference, and obey Allah and His messenger, if ye are (true) believers.}} | |||
A fifth is to go to directly to him, his close companions, as well as the poor/needy in a separate verse. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|8|41}}|And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the kinsman (who hath need) and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if ye believe in Allah and that which We revealed unto Our slave on the Day of Discrimination, the day when the two armies met. And Allah is Able to do all things.}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||