The document provides a detailed examination of Islamic teachings, practices, and societal norms regarding women, violence, and religious obligations. It discusses the hierarchical roles of women in Islam, including restrictions on their freedoms, marital expectations, and punishments for violations. Additionally, it explores Muhammad's life, the establishment of Sharia law, the concept of jihad, and the interaction between religion and politics within Islam.

1. Islam
The Hadith II
Dr. Robert Patton

2. Women
 More women than men are in hell –
they are ungrateful to their husbands
 Women are inferior mentally and in
religion

3. Women
 Allah is unpleased with a woman who
refuses to have sex with her husband
until her husband is pleased with her
again

4. Women
 Woman in adultery – stoned to
death. The man gets 100 lashes
and exile for one year
 A woman pregnant out of wedlock
shames the family. One solution
is no education and marry young

5. Women
 There are a number of rules for
women during menstruation.
 However, they are also found
among the Jews, and in
 most oral cultures have a number
of taboos

6. Women
 Women should be accompanied by her
husband or a close male relative if she
travels more than a day
 The wife cannot fast without her
husband’s permission, and only allow
persons into the home by her husband’s
permission

7. Women
 The most important thing about a
woman is sex.
 Temporary wives are also OK – by
agreement.
 Forced sex on captives is permitted

8. Women
 No tattoos – done on others or to
yourself
 No prostitution
 Even male in-laws should be careful
going into a woman’s home

9. Al-Ghazali - Allah’s punishment
of women
 Menstruation
 Childbirth
 Separation from parents and
marriage to a stranger

10. Al-Ghazali - Allah’s punishment
of women
 Pregnancy
 No control over her own person
 Lesser share in inheritance

11. Al-Ghazali - Allah’s punishment
of women
 She can suffer divorce but cannot
divorce
 OK for men to have 4 wives, but
women only one husband

12. Al-Ghazali - Allah’s punishment
of women
 Stay secluded in the house
 Keep her head covered in the
house
 Testimony worth ½ of a man’s

13. Al-Ghazali on Allah’s punishment
of women
 Must be accompanied by a near
relative to go out of the house
 Cannot participate in Friday and feast
day prayers and funerals like men
 Cannot rule or be a judge
 Merit of 1000, 999 are men and 1 for
women

14. Al-Ghazali - Allah’s punishment
of women
 If the husband dies, they must
wait 4 months and 10 days before
remarrying
 If divorced, they must wait 3
months or 3 menstrual periods
before remarrying

15. Sex
 There are a variety of rules for
both men and women to wash or
clean themselves. These are
spelled out in great detail

16. Sex
 Temporary wife is OK if you
simply give her a garment
 Do not worry about getting
captured slave girls pregnant

17. Sex
 If a woman refuses sex to her
husband, the angels are angry that
entire night
 Ok to have sex with captured women
whose husbands are alive after their
menstrual cycle
 Exact methods of sex explicitly
mentioned

18. Apostates
 Kill for 3 reasons – murder, adultery,
and apostacy
 Those who kill apostates will be
rewarded at judgment day

19. Apostates
 Muhammad’s handling murderers – cut
off hands and feet, gouge out eyes with
hot pokers, throw on sharp rocks to die
of thirst

20. Folk Islamic Beliefsstion
 Muhammad – some folk Islamic beliefs
 Magic – felt he was hexed, cured by
Allah, but later filled in the well where
the witchcraft was supposedly
 Believed in the evil eye – claimed
Abraham did
 Eat food that fell down and clean your
fingers; don’t leave any for Satan

21. Folk Islamic beliefs& folk
Islam
 Satan touches everyone with two
fingers at birth except Jesus – missed
and touched the placenta
 Keep children close to you for the first
hour of the day

22. Folk Islamic beliefs& folk
Islam
 3 knots in the back of the sleeper’s
head.
 Think of Allah, and one loosened;
 purified, another untied;
 say prayers, the third untied

23. Folk Islamic beliefs
 Stifle a yawn – Allah hates it, but
loves sneezing – then say “May
Allah give you mercy”
 Satan cannot enter a closed door.
 Cap your bottles, cover dishes,
and pray to Allah

24. Folk Islamic beliefs
 Good dreams from Allah; bad
dreams from Satan:
 Then ask Allah’s protection and
blow to the left 3 times and you
are protected

25. Jinns (form of evil spirit)
 Roam at night. Eat dung and bones
 Cover dishes, cap water, lock doors,
turn out the lights
 Some jinns investigated a barrier to
them, heard the Qur’an and were
converted

26. Science
 Muhammad claims that at night the sun
goes under the throne of Allah and
awaits permission to rise

27. Science
 Only Allah knows the sex of a child in
utero, the weather, and the time and
place someone will die
 Everyone going to paradise will have
the form of Adam

28. After conception
 40 days as a clot of blood in the
mother’s womb, then 40 days as
a piece of flesh

29. After conception folk
religion
 Then an angel is sent to
pronounce four words that
determine his actions, his time of
death, his occupation, and
whether he will be blessed or
cursed by Allah

30. More “science”
 The first sign of judgment is a
great fire uniting east and west
 The first meal in paradise is fish
liver

31. and more science
 If a mouse falls in fat, throw the
mouse and surrounding fat away
 If a fly drops in liquid, submerge the
fly and then discard it
 Black cumin can cure any disease
except death

32. Bodily functions
 Spit to the left or behind your foot
 Do not go to the bathroom facing
Mecca or directly away from it; if
necessary, turn your face and ask
Allah’s forgiveness
 Use your left hand to clean yourself
when using the bathroom

33. Bodily functions
 Pray for Allah’s protection
 Make ablutions on awakening
 You must repeat your prayer if
going to the bathroom or passing
gas

34. Animals
 Dogs – just to hunt or guard a farm. If
he licks something, wash it 7 times.
No pets
 Prayers nullified if a dog, an ass, or a
woman passes before them
 All black dogs should be killed
 No money from dogs, prostitution, or
fortune telling

35. Snakes & other critters
 Kill snakes, especially with 2 stripes
down the back, or short or mutilated
tails, which can cause miscarriages &
blindness
 Breeding fees are illegal
 Crows see angels; donkeys see Satan

36. Art
 Angels will not enter homes with
pictures or a dog inside
 Pictures of people are forbidden
unless you can bring them to life

37. Muhammad
 Big hands and feet
 Average size and build, curly longish
hair, first not parted, later parted

38. Muhammad
 Debates as to whether he died his
hair
 He was unusually white
 He often got angry; he cursed others

39. Muhammad’s wives
 Favorite – Aisha. Legally married age 6
or 7; took to his home and consumated
age 9. Still played with dolls with her
girlfriends – permitted by Muhammad
 Total I saw was at least 10 – first group
of four: Aisha, Safiya, Haifsa & Sauda.
When 40, Sauda gave her turn sleeping
with Muhammad to Aisha

40. Muhammad’s wives
 Safiya was taken as a wife and not
just as a slave girl
 None of Muhammad’s wives in
Medina were ever pregnant
 He had a beautiful Coptic pleasure
slave with whom he spent much time;
she bore him a son

41. Muhammad’s wives
 After allowing Coptic slave Mary,
into his harem in Medina, his
wives began to argue and got him
mad.
 He separated from all for 29
days.
 Then each in turn stated that she
wanted to remain married to him.

42. Was Muhammad
illiterate?
 He was certainly intelligent as a
businessman.
 Apparently he asked for the
chance to write last instructions
prior to his death – so probably
not illiterate

43. Muhammad’s night trip
 Tradition states that Muhammad went
to heaven with Gabriel after he was
washed with water from Zamzam.
 He was addressed by many, including
Adam, Idris, Moses, Jesus and
Abraham as a holy man and prophet

44. Muhammad’s night trip
 He was given 50 prayers, which
were finally reduced to 5 after
Moses suggested that 50 were
too many.

45. Muhammad’s habits
 Always worked from right to left
 Did not like the smell of onions or
garlic
 Did not like clouds in the sky

46. Muhammad’s habits
 Don’t stand and eat or drink
 Put on the right sandal first
 Don’t lie on your back with one
foot crossed on top another

47. Muhammad’s modesty
 Apparently modest
 Did not appear nude
 When he went to the toilet,
someone followed with a stick,
staff and water

48. Muhammad’s slaves
 There were several quotes that
showed he had a lot of slaves
 Muhammad loved jihad,

49. The Qur’an
 Believed to be God’s inspired words,
word for word without omission,
mistakes or errors existing before
creation.

50. The Qur’an
 Given by Gabriel – the first time he
appeared to Muhammad in the cave,
 Gabriel squeezed him tightly and
commanded to read. He claimed that
he could not read.

51. Qur’an
 Returning home, he asked his wife to
hide himself
 She took him to Waraqa, a Christian,
who told him that it was Gabriel, who
had also been sent to Moses, and that
he would be opposed.

52. Qur’an
 Originally written on date palm
leaves, stones, parchment, bones,
etc.
 Given to Abu Bakr, to Umar, and
eventually to his daughter Hafsa

53. Qur’an
 Gabriel recited it in 7 different
dialects
 Sometimes the inspiration is like a
bell, and at other times, the angel in
the body of a man

54. Qur’an
 For a while, revelations ceased after
Waraqa died.
 Muhammad showed that some verses
were abrogated later, and some were
metaphorical

55. Qur’an
 Uthman commanded Zaid, Said,
Abdullah and Abdur-Rahman to collect
the verses of the Qur’an.
 If disagreements about the verse in
Arabic, they could also use the
language of the Quraysh.

56. Qur’an
 There were many died in battle who had
memorized the sayings, so now it is put
down in writing

57. Sharia law
Islam is a perfect cultural, political,
social and religious system from God
All Kafirs are man-made and offensive to
God
Sharia is political Islam
Jihad is war against Kafirs commanded
by both the Qur’an and hadiths

58. Sharia law
 Jihad is a community obligation – for
example, supplying a fighter. All sane
men after puberty must fight
 Leave a battle only if ill, wounded,
without a weapon, or Kafirs outnumber
you 2:1. Flee only for tactical
advantage

59. Sharia law
 Don’t kill women or children unless
fighting against Muslims.
 You can kill old men and monks.
 Don’t kill those who have submitted

60. Sharia law
 Have a truce or cease-fire only when
you need time to regroup.
 Never have a cease-fire when you have
the upper hand.
 No truce may last longer than 10 years

61. Sharia law
 Spoils – personal go to persons.
 Communal – 1/5 to Islam, the rest
divided among the fighters
 You can have as much spoil as
you can carry

62. Dhimmi protection under
Shari’a law
 Christians and Jews are
protected as long as they follow
the dhimmi laws and pay jizya
 The rules of dhimmi have been
outlined elsewhere

63. Apostates
 Apostates deserve death
 The spouse must wait 3 months, and
if the person persists in apostacy,
they are automatically divorced

64. Scourging
 Not in extreme heat or cold
 Not during pregnancy
 Whip not new or old
 Delivered to multiple areas, but not to
the face or vital organs
 Man standing; woman sitting and
covered

65. Stoning
 Done despite temperature, but not ill –
wait for recovery; for pregnancy until
the child is weaned.
 Kill homosexuals or lesbians
 Does not like masculine women or
effeminate men

66. Man and wife
 Wife should have sex whenever the
man wants unless physically unable
 Man can take wife with him.
 He can give permission in the city for
her to go for religion or see female
friends.

67. Man and wife
 Travel outside requires a male
relative.
 He must give permission for
those who come into his house

68. Rebellious wives
 Wife gives cold answer or refuses sex.
He is to warn her first,
 then refuse to sleep with her,
 As a last resort, to beat her, but not
on the face, or to draw blood or cause
injury.

69. Rebellious wives
 He also can refuse to support her if
she travels without his permission
 Also if she refuses sex when able

70. Injuries
 No payment for kafirs, apostates,
adulterers
 For accidental killing Muslim, blood
money or 2 months fasting
 Deliberate murder of a Muslim –
eternity in hell

71. Predestinationn
 There is a sense of
predestination.
 The Qur’an says that good deeds
are easy for the blessed and evil
deeds are easy for the cursed

72. Predestinationn
 The blessed will testify that
Muhammad is the slave of Allah and
his prophet
 People will see Allah on the judgment
day

73. Judgment day
 On that day, everyone will be
thrown into hell except Muslims,
Jews and Christians.
 They will be asked who they
worship

74. Judgment day
 Jews will say Ezra, son of God; they
will be deceived and go to hell; Allah
has no son
 Christians will say Jesus, son of God;
they will be thrown in hell because
Allah has no son

75. Judgment day
 Muhammad is superior spiritually to
Adam, Noah, Moses and Jesus…. the
most superior man in all creation.
 He will intercede for people and God
will listen to him although they will not
listen to Jesus.

76. Judgment day
 Men will come naked and
uncircumcised as they were at birth.
 Abraham will be the first person
dressed.
 Some Muslims will also be thrown
into hell as apostates

77. Hell and Paradise
 Hell will ask for more persons until
finally Allah stops it as full
 Paradise will have more space;
Allah can make more people to fill
it.

78. Hell and Paradise
 Do not pray for a kafir
 He saw a vision of people being
punished in hell for apostasy, greed,
usury
 Deliberate suicide does not go to
paradise

79. Ethical dualism
 There is a fundamental difference
between a Kafir and a Muslim.
 In some situations, you can respect a
Kafir, and tolerate him, but he is
NEVER equal to a Muslim.
 When dominant, Islam MUST suppress
the Kafir

80. Ethical dualism
 Islam is BOTH Meccan and Medinan.
 You cannot remove one or the other.
 It is perfect, and cannot reform.
 Any peace is temporary

81. What is necessary
 Shahada: The statement of both one
God is Allah and his final prophet is
Muhammad are BOTH needed.
 You must worship Allah precisely as
Muhammad did
It

82. What is necessary
 It is not the religion that needs
reformation as much as the
politics, which causes fear.
 Islam is universal and eternal

83. Religious & Political Islam
 Religious Islam – how to go to paradise
and avoid hell = Actually a minor part
of Islam
 Political Islam – how do deal with
kafirs, is the dominant part of the
trilogy
 Thus Islam is more political than
religious

84. Growth of Islam
 Meccan period of 13 years, 150
followers, or about 12/year
 Medinan period of 9 years – 100,000
followers, or more than 10,000 per
year
 Thus during Muhammad’s lifetime, the
growth of Islam was 0.3% religious
and 99.7% political