This episode is the 6th installment in the series ‘The Epileptic Prophet’ in which Abdullah Gondal and I tackle the question of Muhammad’s mental health and possible epilepsy. Our aim is to provide an alternative explanation to  Muhammad’s supposed prophethood from a neurological perspective. In this episode, we explore Muhammad’s possible OCD, violence, and hypergraphia.

We started the episode by discussing Muhammad’s narcissism. We presented an excerpt of an interview by Dr. Ali Sina in which he explains Muhammad’s narcissistic traits and possible causes for such levels of narcissism. Gondal and I then went on to talk about Muhammad’s delusions of grandeur.

The conversation then moved on to Muhammad’s hallucinations including his purported friendship with angel Gabriel. We went through various hadith and seerah which document such hallucinations. Another issue we discussed is Muhammad’s supposed visions and how questionable his claims are. We talked about the hadith in which the angel Gabriel supposedly visited Muhammad and taught him how to pray and perform ablution. Lastly, we compared the hallucinations and visions to those of contemporary epileptic patients who also have OCD and hypergraphia.

We ended the conversation on the topic of violence and epilepsy. We discussed how epilepsy patients sometimes have a tendency to be violent or to incite violence. Gondal and I then went through various Quranic verses as well as hadith which document Muhammad’s violence, the vigilantism, and forced conversions of prisoners of war that Muhammad encouraged. We also discussed the Banu Qurayza massacre.

This episode was very eye-opening and I invite you to take a listen. 

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Here are the previous episodes in this series:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/WlO4nZUGVf4

Part 2: https://youtu.be/ZI16w6Sl3DE

Part 3: https://youtu.be/fD4FyXSN96k

Part 4: https://youtu.be/Z-IgOnBCv3U

Timestamp:

0:00 Introductions

3:15 Muhammad the narcissist - Dr. Ali Sina.

13:00 Another chest opening incident - hadith

14:35 Muhammad’s delusions - A green screen covering the horizon, the seal of the prophet?

17:25 The holy spittle, holy sweat, urine, and poop of Muhammad.

25:40 A tree that sees genies? People manipulating Muhammad.

29:10 Talking cows and wolves. The vision of nations in the sky.

31:05 More of Muhammad’s hallucinations - hanging out with Gabriel,  riding during the funeral.

35:13 Comments from the live chat.

37:53 Muhammad reports seeing 12 angels rushing around the mosque - hadith.

39:45 Disappointment after being stood up by Muhammad.

41:22 Sick Muhammad imagines angel Gabriel visiting him, Gabriel came down to lead Muhammad in prayer?

48:58 Allah and Gabriel praise Khadija, Muhammad chocking Satan.

52:44 Muhammad’s auditory and visual hallucinations.

55:00 Genies request Muhammad to stop wiping with bones and dung, communicating with genies

57:13 Muhammad recites Surah Rahman to the genies

59:18 Angels hate onions and garlic?

1:03:20 Comments from the live chat.

1:04:45 Hypergraphia and temporal lobe epilepsy - Dr. Abbas

1:09:13 Psycho Quran - the theme of extreme torture in the first 5 revealed chapters.

1:14:45 Muhammad’s hypergraphia - Dr. Dede Korkut

1:17:26 Contemporary cases of hypergraphia.

1:22:06 The Quranic compositions degraded in rhyme as Muhammad aged - Dr. Abbas

1:27:06 Violence and epilepsy - Dr. Abbas. Massacre of Banu Qurayza.

1:40:36 How challenging delusional patients cause them to be more irritable - Dr. Abbas.

1:42:40 Muhammad the murderer, vigilantism, and forced conversions of prisoners of war to Islam.

1:48:19 Scrupulosity, OCD, and epilepsy.

1:59:54 A quick recap of the stream and preview of the upcoming episode.

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Another chest-splitting incident?