This angered the community which considered that the author, through his fictional retelling of the birth of Islam’s key events, implied that Prophet Muhammad is himself the source of revealed truths and not God. To make matters worse, the author chose a provocative name for Prophet Muhammad, with the novel’s version calling him Mahound – a moniker sometimes used during the Middle Ages by Christians who considered him a “devil”.Īlso, Rushdie’s Mahound puts his own words into the angel Gibreel’s mouth and delivers edicts to his followers that “conveniently bolster his self-serving purposes”, Independent reported. Gibreel, in these dreams, meets another central character in ways that seem similar to Islam’s traditional account of how the angel met Prophet Muhammad. In ‘The Satanic Verses’, one of the main characters - Gibreel Farishta - has a series of dreams in which he becomes his namesake, the angel Gibreel, the Independent explained. These words were then repeated by Muhammad to his followers, eventually written down and became the verses and chapters of the Quran. Muslims across the world believe that the angel Gibreel – Gabriel in English – visited the Prophet Muhammad and recited God’s words to him over a 22-year period.
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