Muhammad And The Disblievers

They demanded, however, more palpable evidence; miracles addressed to the senses; that he should cause the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the dead to rise; or that he should work changes in the face of nature; cause the fountain to gush forth; change a sterile place into a garden, with palm-trees, and vines, and running streams; cause a place of gold to rise, decked with jewels and precious stones; or ascend by a ladder into heaven in their presence. Or, if the Quran did indeed, as he affirmed, come down from heaven; that they might see it as it descended, or behold the angel who brought it; and then they .would believe Muhammad replied sometimes by arguments, sometimes by denunciations. He claimed to be nothing more than a man sent .by Allah an apostle Life of Mahomet and and his successors by Washington irving