Did Muhammad split the Moon in two?

Muhammad has a very famous miracle of splitting the moon and it’s documented in Muslim texts particularly the Hadith and Quran. According to the story, some pagan leaders of the Quraysh tribe challenged Muhammad if he’s a prophet. Muhammad pointed towards the moon and by the power of Allah, it was split in half.

Some Muslims use the evidence of a crack on the moon to support the miracle of their prophet. However the circumference of the moon is 10917 kilometres and the crack is only 300 kilometres long. Even the radius of the moon doesn’t match with the crack. NASA has also debunked this claim of Muslims. They have said the crack is a graben formed by crustal stretching millions of years ago.

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There is no historical and scientific evidence to support this miracle of Muhammad which is even acknowledged by anti Hindus like Dhruv Rathee. If the moon was truly split in half, it would be all over the world but other than Muslim records, no record mentions it. From a scientific POV, if an object with the mass of the moon were split in two and separated, the gravitational disruption would cause catastrophic tidal waves, tectonic shifts, and alter Earth’s orbit and ending life on Earth. Moon is spherical, not a piece of idli that can be split.

Muhammad’s other miracles like flying on a winged horse, water flowing from fingers, Earth is flat, semen from ribs etc are also not scientifically possible. Muslim emperors like the Mughal emperor Akbar also questioned the miracles of prophet and was hated by orthodox Muslims like Badayuni. A horse like creature with wings violates basic laws of aerodynamics and biology.

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To lift a mammalian body of that weight into the air, the wingspan would need to be physically impossible, and the muscular structure required would crush the creature. The text states the journey through the “Seven Heavens” happened in a single night. Modern astrophysics proves that our universe is vast beyond comprehension.

Muhammad’s wife, Aisha stated that his physical body never left her sight and that the journey was purely a spiritual vision, directly contradicting the literal physical miracle claim. Quran itself denies that the prophet could perform any physical miracles as he was a prophet and not a miracle worker. Islam also claims that the Earth is flat which has been debunked by modern science. At least, Hindus keep mindful of science while making stories like when Hanuman went to eat the Sun, he was overwhelmed by the heat and fell down and Varaha Dev lifted a round Earth.

One night the Emperor, in Fath-ullah’s presence, said to Bir Bar, “I really wonder how any one in his senses can believe that a man, whose body has a certain weight, could in the space of a moment leave his bed, go up to heaven, there have 90,000 conversations with God, and yet on his return find his bed still warm ! ” So also was the splitting of the moon ridiculed. “Why,” said His Majesty, lifting up one foot “it is really impossible for me to lift up the other.

What silly stories men will believe” And that wretch [Bir Bar] and some other wretches— whose names be forgotten, — said ” Yea, Your Majesty is right,” and chirped in confirmation.

Badayuni’s Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh.

Culled from Qora.com

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