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The Gnostic's Proof - Hamza ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani

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Meaning: "I spend the night with my Lord, so He feeds me and gives me drink." Thus, he denied regarding himself, by this saying, eating and drinking. And [instances] like this are many; we have left them for brevity.

If you say: But Allah Almighty has said: (Muhammad is not but a messenger. [Other] messengers have passed on before him. So if he was to die or be killed, would you turn back on your heels?)1. And He said on the tongue of Muhammad, Mighty is his Might: (Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed...")2.

And He said, narrating about the Messiah [Al-Masih]: (The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed on before him. And his mother was a supporter of truth. They both used to eat food)3.

And He said: (We had certainly sent Noah to his people)4.

And He said: (We have certainly sent messengers before you)5.

Then you say: The answer to it has preceded by his saying: "I am only a man like you."

Footnotes

1Surah Al-Imran – Verse 144
2Surah Al-Kahf – Verse 110
3Surah Al-Ma'idah – Verse 75
4Surah Al-A'raf – Verse 59
5Surah Ar-Ra'd – Verse 38 and Surah Ar-Rum – Verse 47
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