Quora Answer: How do Muslim Scholars Answer Accusations Made about Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) by Christian Converts like Nabeel Asif Qureshi?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is my answer to a Quora question: “ How do Muslim scholars answer accusations made, on Muhammad ( s.a.w. ), by Christian converts like Nabeel Asif Qureshi? ” Nabeel Asif Qureshi was Ahmadi before he converted to Protestant Christianity. That means, he was not even considered a Muslim by mainstream Islam, but a member of a heretical sect. Even as an Ahmadi, his opinions on matters of theology would have been discounted. Secondly, Nabeel Qureshi was neither a scholar of Islam nor Christianity. He was a lay preacher with opinions on both religions. He was not trained in the religious sciences of either, and had no facility with Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Koine Greek or Latin – the languages of scripture. In that light, he has a right to his opinions. From a Muslim scholar’s perspective, those opinions carried little weight. To paraphrase a Yemeni proverb, we cannot respo...