The
Angelic Doctor Saint Thomas Aquinas on Mohammedanism:
"He
(Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the
concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that
were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure.
In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs
of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped
by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths
that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest
falsity.
He did not
bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly
gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only
divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth.
On the
Contrary, Mohammed said
that he was sent in the power of his arms - which are signs not lacking even to
robbers and tyrants.
What is more,
no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the
beginning (1). Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert
wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers
Mohammed forced others to become his follower's by the violence of his arms.
Nor do divine
pronouncements on part of preceding prophets offer him any witness.
On the
contrary, he perverts
almost all the testimony of the Old and the New Testaments by making them into
a fabrication of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It
was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read
the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity.
It is thus
clear that those who place faith in his words believe foolishly."
- Summa
Contra Gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 16, Art. 4. Footnote: 1. Sura 21:5, Sura
44:14; Sura 16:103, Sura 37:36
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