At a time when non-Muslims are constantly warned to speak respectfully of Muhammad, or else offended Muslims might respond with violence—to the shame and blame of those who exercise their freedom of expression—consider what Muslims regularly say about the things non-Muslims hold dear.
Recently during his televised Arabic-language program, Dr. Salem Abdul Galil—previously deputy minister of Egypt’s religious endowments for preaching—gleefully declared that, among other biblical women (Moses’ sister and Pharaoh’s wife), “our prophet Muhammad—prayers and peace be upon him—will be married to Mary in paradise.” (Note: the Arabic word for “marriage” denotes “legal sexual relations” and is devoid of Western, “romantic,” or Platonic connotations.)
Where did Galil—this governmental official who also holds that Muslims can wear the hated crucifix to deceive Christians—get this idea? As usual, from Muhammad himself. In a hadith that was deemed reliable enough to be included in the renowned Ibn Kathir’s corpus, Muhammad declared that “Allah will wed me in paradise to Mary, Daughter of Imran”[1] (whom Muslims identify with Jesus’ mother).
If few Christians today know about this Islamic claim, medieval Christians living in Muslim-occupied nations were aware of it. There, Muslims regularly threw this fantasy in the face of Catholic and Orthodox Christians who venerated Mary as the “Eternal Virgin.”
Thus, Eulogius of Cordoba, an indigenous Christian of Muslim-occupied Spain, once wrote, “I will not repeat the sacrilege which that impure dog [Muhammad] dared proffer about the Blessed Virgin, Queen of the World, holy mother of our venerable Lord and Savior. He claimed that in the next world he would deflower her.”
As usual, it was Eulogius’ offensive words about Muhammad—and not the latter’s offensive words about Mary—that had dire consequences: he, as well as many other Spanish Christians vociferously critical of Muhammad, were found guilty of speaking against Islam and publicly tortured and executed in “Golden Age” Cordoba in 859.
Not only do many Western academics suppress or whitewash such historical anecdotes of Muslim persecution of Christians, but some—whether intentionally or out of ignorance—warp them in an effort to portray Christian victims of Islam as Christian persecutors of Islam. Thus, after quoting Eulogius’ aforementioned lament against Muhammad, John V. Tolan, a professor and member of Academia Europaea, writes:
This outrageous claim [that Muhammad will marry Mary], it seems, is Eulogius’s invention; I know of no other Christian polemicist who makes this accusation against Muhammad. Eulogius fabricates lies designed to shock his Christian reader. This way, even those elements of Islam that resemble Christianity (such as reverence of Jesus and his virgin mother) are deformed and blackened, so as to prevent the Christian from admiring anything about the Muslim other. The goal is to inspire hatred for the “oppressors” …. Eulogius sets out to show that the Muslim is not a friend but a potential rapist of Christ’s virgins (Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, p.93).
As already seen, however, it was Muhammad himself—not any “Christian polemicist”—who “fabricates lies designed to shock,” namely that Mary will be his eternal concubine. But facts apparently don’t matter to academics like Tolan, who are more eager to demonize Eulogius in an effort to exonerate the “offended” Muslims who slaughtered him.
Putting real or feigned history aside, let’s return to modern day Egypt and consider why Dr. Galil—a governmental official described as a “moderate,” a bridge-builder between Muslims and Christians—would openly say what he knows millions of Orthodox Christians in Egypt will find repugnant: that Christ’s mother would be given to—and have sex with—what Christians deem a false prophet?
To be sure, many Egyptian Christians did express outrage, including on social media, though none responded with violence. Had a leading Christian cleric, or even a little Coptic boy, claimed that Aisha—Muhammad’s favorite wife, who holds a venerated place in Sunni tradition—will be married to and have sex with a false prophet, he would’ve been beaten and, if not killed in the process, imprisoned under Egypt’s “anti -defamation of religions” law, which supposedly protects both Islam and Christianity.
But as every Muslim and Christian knows, Egypt’s “anti-defamation of religions” law—which has been responsible for the arrest and punishment of many Copts accused of mocking Islam on social media—is in reality an anti-defamation of Islam law. Things held sacred by Christians are free game—including, apparently, for “moderate” governmental officials.
After all, Islam—beginning with its prophet and all throughout its scriptures—is built on defaming non-Muslims and their religions, Judaism and Christianity in particular. So how can repeating what Islam holds to be true ever be deemed blasphemous by Muslims—infidel sensitivities be damned?
[1] From al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, an early collection of hadith compiled by Imam Tabarani.
YoCuz says
It is?
But Mohamad was a FALSE PROPHET ..
Why should I (a Former Porn Addict) delivered by Christ want to be tempted with some False Prophets Sick fantasies?
You NEED TO READ Jeremiah 23!
Futile Minds says
By now Mohammad knows that there are no virgins to ‘deflower’ where he landed, let alone Mary to marry.
It is amazing that radical Muslims seem obsessed with rape and that that act of violence turns them on. In our society rape is abhorred, yet just as amazing, is that so many people today kowtow to Islam in spite of their vile and cruel behaviour.
People have been blinded because of their unbelief (in the true God ).
Guest says
It pains me, a non-Christian, to have read that anyone can utter or think anything otherwise besides worshipping the Holy Mother. I am sickened.
Islam is anything but holy.
The more one delves into it, the closer Hell comes to one.
Thank you for opening our eyes to the chronic mental illness that is Islam.
Futile Minds says
It is time we stop calling SIN a mental illness.
Gerredina says
What I don’t understand is that the pope, who is a maryan worshipper is not raising up in revolt about these statements and telling them that this is an insult to the Christian religion. Mary the mother of Jesus will not be marrying anyone in heaven as Jesus stated their will be no more marriage in heaven and Mohammed won’t even be there. Instead the pope is shaking hands with the perpetrators of these lies and deceptions.
sohnes says
I do understand, why he does not.
“The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They
adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and
all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men.”
Nostra Aetate, official RCC document.
There are more documents of that sort. They want to get cozy, it seems.
Zoran Dzoic says
Take a look at this video and you will understand why, it’s worth the time to watch, a lecture of two parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgJ6tjpWJC0&t=1s
reyol says
Mohammad is having his pelvis crushed by the queen of the succubi – marriage such as it is in hell!
Lancelot Blackeburne says
Excellent article Raymond Ibrahim. Please keep them coming.
cracktech says
I’ll be damned! This is the first time I have heard about this hadith and coming from El-Sisi’s goons in Egypt, the same people who sentenced a 3 year old child to life imprisonment for terror attacks? And expect that they are experts in Islam, you gotta to be kidding! Never heard of this hadiths.
Franklin Bowlby says
Keep up the good work, Raymond, exposing the ugly truth about this demonic belief system. And please stay safe.