Quran and Hadiths

[Rayaan]

Your ethnocentrism is showing Rayaan.

I was born into Bangladeshi Muslim parents. However, this doesn't mean that this is the only reason why believe in Islam because I'm old enough to think for myself and make my own decisions on matters of faith regardless of my cultural background. Maybe you are correct, but you can't be sure about that, because if I was born into a different family or in a different culture, then it's also possible that I would've converted to Islam as many people did (or maybe be an atheist), but there's no certainty on that.

I cannot think of any actual evidence ( aside from the koran itself and its reliability is what is in question) that your 'mohammad' ever existed.

What kind of evidences are you talking about?

There is already an overwhelming evidence of Muhammad's existence (aside from the Quran itself). For example, he had family members and companions who knew him and all of this is recorded in history with an unbroken chain of narrations. We also know the exact location of his tomb which is in this mosque (known as the Mosque of the Prophet). And there are volumes of hadith collections, which are essentially sayings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) on various Islamic topics. Where can all of this information come from if he didn't exist?

The history of the time is silent about him.

There are lots of historical info on Muhammad from many different sources (just like Aristotle, Caesar, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, and many others). The question is, why would you think that these people existed while denying that Muhammad existed (assuming that you're actually serious about this)?

Also, an astrophysicist named Michael Hart wrote a book titled "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History," and in his list, he put the Prophet Muhammad as the most influential person out of the 100 people that he mentioned. I don't know if this true or not, but regardless, history shows that Muhammad was very influential during his time and even today.

Xtians try to shake off the fact that no one mentioned jesus by claiming that he was just an insigificant wandering preacher but mohammad was supposed to be this great conquering warlord. History usually recalls such people.

We do have physical evidence that Muhammad was involved in battles.
Here are the pictures of some of the swords that he owned (which are stored in museums):

http://www.usna.edu/Users/humss/bwheeler...words.html

Yes, thank you. I think I now have a little better understanding of how you see Islam,which was my hope.

You're welcome. Also, feel free to say whatever you think about Islam regardless of whether I agree with you or not. I'm open to hearing everyone's opinions.