Today I am talking about Mohammad’s Marriage
When Mohammad reached the age of twenty, we say the beginning of manhood; he used to work with several men from Quraysh for a woman named ‘Khadija’. She was hiring them to work in her service and for the purpose of her interests. She was the daughter of Khuwailid from Bani Asad. After her marriage twice to Bani Makhzoum she inherited a huge fortune that helped her in the success of her interests and made her wealthy among the richest people of Macca.
The luck helped Mohammad so that they fell in love with each other. He was attached to her for her attractiveness and cunning, at her age of forty years. Mohammad married her, almost in the middle of his twenty years of age, because he found in her the best of women, at the time, with her high-class status and wealth. Perhaps she was to him like a second tender mother in place of his mother, whom he lost in his childhood. Khadija also found in him nobility, obedience, loyalty, respect, personal charm and the best quality of the spring of young manhood. Mohammad did not think of marrying another woman and he remained with her for the rest of her life.
Mohammad’s Hallucination and His Contemplation of God
From the happiness of Mohammad, self-assured tranquillity and peace of mind in his living life from the abundance of his wife Khadija’s money, his love for loneliness, solitude and always thinking about God increased.
As a result of excessive thinking and contemplation of God, he did not have the power of divinity or of the truth of God. His isolation sometimes from people, a mental state of obsession and a self-disturbed psychological state developed within him, he became a paranoid patient; this does not mean that he was a dangerous man who caused harm to people.
Mohammad transformed his idea, his worries and his longing to fight the polytheists, to change the backward pagan society of the peninsula after he was influenced by the Christian community in Damascus. He wrestled with and was obsessed with declaring himself a prophet as he longed, as it said and as he mentioned and repeated several times in the verses of the Qur’an: ‘Obey god and the prophet.’ The unknown god means the reality of himself, in his vision with him.
In fact, he was not a prophet, did not know prophecy, nor did he predict anything at all. Rather, he was a messenger in whom a revolutionary spirit grew out of the Torah and the Gospel about the Creator.
Then he rose up in revolt, enthusiastic in an imperfect manner other than the way of the divine message and power of Christ, to guide the polytheists of the peninsula as much as he could to the path of the one god that he had conceived of and believed in.
This hallucinatory type strikes every human being when he has weak or strong health, especially in the DNA and inheritance related to the lineage of his ancient ancestors. Also, when the individual confines his thinking to the same idea and has alternate images of imagination and vision. It makes no difference whether or not a person is poor or rich, illiterate or educated. This disease still keeps pace with the human creature of our time. The affected person imagines illusions and sometimes they hear voices and think they are facts, while they are a pathological disease fabrication, so he speaks hidden, mixed mysterious words that he did not make out loud.
We do not have sufficient information or facts about the health of Mohammad in his time. We have witnessed, with our own eyes, some people suffering from this state of health in the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century; intelligent intellectuals from a high aristocracy, university graduate and non-educated people from all over the world suffer from this health condition and this is not a disgrace. However, as proof of the state of Mohammad’s behaviour, we draw the reader’s attention to important information mentioned and presented in the history books and the Qur’an.
In The History of the Arabs, Dr Phillip Hitti mentions observations and descriptions of Mohammad’s behaviour and says:
1. ‘…Except that the people of Mohammad turned away from him. And when they sat and mentioned him on their tongues, they did not raise more than smiles of mockery and belittling.’
2. ‘Mohammad used to go to a cave at the top of “Mount Hera” in a distance of two parasangs, north of Macca, for reflection and inspiration. One day, while he was sleeping in this cave, he heard a voice commanding him saying: “Read in the name of your Lord who created.”’ Etc…Surat al-Alaq.
Sometimes, he heard sounds came such as the “clinking of bells”.
Today in the era of the art of modern science, specialization and progress, if a person goes to a mental health specialist, she/he is offered that he is confused and hears bells clinking and hidden sounds that disturb him and he undergoes the examination of that doctor and finds that he has a mental illness. The patient must submit to the doctor’s instructions and take the appropriate medication to relieve his ill health.
In his time and before him until a long time after him, medicine was not available to people to treat this disease.
To remind the reader, only Jesus, who had the divine power, helped people afflicted with insanity before Mohammad. Read the Gospel of Matthew 8:16-17. Mark 14:9-29. Luke 9:37-43.
These are excerpts from the book: “Is God a Lie or Are We? Certainly We Are!”
Author : Jamil Elias Kabalan
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