Nor can anyone possessed of the least particle of reason doubt that the virtual unanimity of so many nations in following this Prophet, Muhammad ﷺ; their abandonment of homes and wealth; their estrangement from fathers, sons, and clans for his sake; and their readiness to sacrifice their very lives before him—it would be sheer impossibility to attribute all of that to a lie. Granting that a small, paltry faction from those two communities, driven by sundry ulterior motives, might opt for unbelief after guidance had been made clear is far more conceivable than supposing the same of the Muslims who have filled the horizons of East and West and who, in every noble trait, are the most intelligent and complete of peoples (1).

So where, then, are the minds of the calf-worshippers and the cross-worshippers—those who have made every other rational person laugh at their intellects and revealed their limits by what they say about their deity—when set beside the minds of the Muslims?!

And if one should allow that an entire nation—including the very individuals the questioner has cited—could concur that the Lord of the worlds, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, descended from His Throne and Seat of Majesty, entered the womb of a woman at the very place of menstruation and blood for several months, then emerged from her birth canal (2) as a suckling infant who cried; that He grew little by little, eating, drinking, and urinating; that He could be healthy (3) and fall ill, rejoice and grieve, experience pleasure and feel pain; and that He later contrived a ruse against His enemy Iblis by enabling His other enemies, the Jews, to seize Him, drag Him to two pieces of wood on which to crucify Him—while the rabble and the riffraff (4) thronged before, behind, to His right and to His left, and He pleaded for help and wept—