Exposing Islam

Why Does Allah Give Moses and Jesus Clear Miracles, But Not Muhammad?

Thesis:

The Qur'an affirms that Moses and Jesus were supported with overt, public, supernatural miracles—yet when it comes to Muhammad, no such miracles are historically recorded or publicly witnessed. This asymmetry raises serious theological and epistemological issues regarding the consistency, fairness, and credibility of the Islamic claim to prophethood.

📜 I. MIRACLES GRANTED TO EARLIER PROPHETS (ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN)

🔹 Moses:

Parting of the Red Sea (Qur’an 26:63)
Staff turning into a serpent (Qur’an 7:107)
Plagues of Egypt (Qur’an 7:133)
Water from the rock, manna and quails (Qur’an 2:57–60)

🔹 Jesus:

Healing the blind and the leper (Qur’an 3:49, 5:110)
Raising the dead (Qur’an 3:49)
Breathing life into clay birds (Qur’an 3:49)
Foretelling unseen knowledge (Qur’an 3:49)

🧠 These are empirical miracles, performed in front of people, intended as direct proof of divine authority.

❌ II. THE ABSENCE OF PUBLIC MIRACLES FOR MUHAMMAD

The Qur'an explicitly denies giving Muhammad public miracles when requested by his opponents:

📖 Qur'an 17:90–93

“They said: We will not believe you until... you cause a spring to gush forth... or bring Allah and the angels before us…”

📖 Qur'an 29:50

“They say: Why are not signs sent down upon him from his Lord? Say: The signs are only with Allah, and I am only a plain warner.”

📖 Qur'an 6:37

“They say: Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?”

The Qur'an rebuffs miracle requests, offering instead:

The Qur'an itself as a "miracle" (Qur’an 2:23)
Muhammad’s moral example
Warnings of judgment

🧠 This contrasts starkly with Moses and Jesus, whose miracles were visible, repeatable, and externally verifiable.

🧪 III. THEOLOGICAL AND LOGICAL PROBLEMS

🔍 A. Logical Inconsistency

Why would earlier nations get clear, public miracles, but the final, universal prophet get none?
If previous nations were punished for disbelieving in miracles, how is it just to demand belief without any?

Example: Pharaoh rejected Moses despite miracles—he was punished. But Quraysh rejected Muhammad without being shown equivalent proof.

🔍 B. Epistemological Deficiency

Qur’anic miracle claims for Jesus and Moses are retold, not demonstrated.
Muhammad’s only “miracle” is the Qur’an itself—subjective, unverifiable, and linguistically bound.

Miracle challenge in Qur’an 2:23 (“produce a surah like it”) is not falsifiable and not equivalent to raising the dead.

🔍 C. Incongruity with Finality Claim

Islam claims Muhammad is the seal of the prophets and the final messenger.
Logically, the final prophet to all nations would require the strongest and clearest evidence—not the least.

📚 IV. ISLAMIC RESPONSES AND THEIR FAILINGS

Apologetic Claim	Forensic Rebuttal
“The Qur’an is the miracle.”	Subjective claim; non-Arabic speakers can't evaluate it; literary merit ≠ supernatural sign.
“Hadiths report miracles (e.g., moon splitting).”	These are unverifiable reports from decades later, not witnessed by the broader public. No non-Muslim sources confirm them.
“People didn’t believe even with miracles before.”	Then why give them to Moses and Jesus? The argument collapses into divine arbitrariness.
“Miracles would force belief.”	Moses’ miracles didn’t; Jesus’ didn’t. This objection contradicts Qur’anic history.

❌ FINAL LOGICAL CONCLUSION

If:

Allah gave Moses and Jesus overt miracles as evidence of prophethood,
The Qur’an states Muhammad was not given such signs,
And the Qur’an itself is not a testable or universal miracle,

Then:

❌ Muhammad's prophethood lacks the empirical validation provided to earlier prophets.
This makes the Islamic claim logically and evidentially weaker, not stronger, despite claiming to be the final and universal message.

📢 Final Word

You cannot claim theological continuity with Moses and Jesus, and then deny the very mechanism by which their prophethood was validated.
The absence of empirical miracles for Muhammad—by the Qur’an’s own admission—creates a fatal asymmetry in evidence, undermining the credibility of Islamic revelation.