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A74637	The confusion of Muhamed's sect, or a confutation of the Turkish Alcoran. Being a discovery of many secret policies and practices in that religion, not till now revealed. / Written originally in Spanish, by Johannes Andreas Maurus, who was one of their bishops and afterwards turned Christian. Translated into English by I.N.	Maurus, Johannes, fl. 1654.; Notstock, Joshua.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1296_1	92,641	268

been and is still consufed not agreeing together especially in their sutes of Law or Judicature Mariages and Divorces And yee must know that the sayings and deeds of Muhamed in the said Books are reduced to four kinds or sorts viz. to certain and true Defective Abrupt and Weak Those words or works of Mahumed which have the testimony of his Wife Axa and the ten Disciples when they say that they saw Mahumed do or say such and such things arecalled true certain and what is said of Mahumed and is reported by his other Wives without the testimony of Axa or any of his disciples is called Defective and those works and words which have but the testimony of the learned and principall men which lived in Muhameds time are called abrupt that is that they came not to the knowledge of any disciple nor of the said Axa and the fourth kind of words and works are those which proceed from good Doctors after Muhamed gave out that hee was sick and infirm In Arabick they are called Caheh Dahif Mancof Zaquini All which I prove by what a Doctor sayes who made the Book of Flowers which was collected out of the said six Books For he sayes in his Preface that all the Contents in his Book of Flowers were drawn from the certain and true sayings of Muhamed and all that is written in another Book which another Doctor collected he sayes is of the certain defective cut-off or abrupt and sick The words in Arabick are these O quuille me c. These six Books of the Suné treat of all that Muhamed spake and did and commanded to be done as will appear by the Contents of the following Chapters in which said six Books there are as many Contradictions fooleries superfluous irrationall and ungrounded things as there be in the Alcoran and the Moores say that the Alcoran is the word of God which is incredible CHAP. IIII. The fourth Chapter of this book handleth certain arguments which may be framed and brought against the Alchoran proving that it is false of it self and not the word of God And also against Muhameds Suné proving that it is of it self a ridiculous thing and fit for men of little knowledge and judgment THe first argument is from what is said in the second Chapter of the fourth book which is in Arabick Ogna Nofigha c. i. e. that at the end of the world a trumpet or horn shall sound and the Angels in Heaven and men on earth shall fall down dead and afterwards the said trumpet or horn shall sound again and all aswell Angels as men shall rise again wherein the Alchoran affirmeth that Angels are mortall and that they must all dye and rise again the which impugneth divine and humane Law and is against all naturall reason and that for severall causes First because Angels are spirits having no body but spirit onely and not having bodies they cannot dye for death is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body and in regard men are compos'd of body and soul when the soul is separated from the body and departed the body becomes a Caryon and the soul goes whether God pleaseth according to every mans deserts and works and because the body is composed of the four Elements it corrupteth and turneth to earth but the soul of man after it is created never dyes how then can it be as the Alcoran says that Angels dye when humane souls dye not The second cause is because Adam's sin was the occasion of his death by which sinning all his posterity were condemned to dye whence it follows that if he had not sinned neither he nor any of his posterity had been subject to death Now tell me O Moore what sins have the Angels committed whereby they have deserved death as Adam who incurred it by sin The third cause or ground is a naturall reason which gives all men to know and understand that Angels dye not neither can dye which is this Lucifer and all the Angels that sinned with him by their pride against God were for this sin deprived of the glory of Heaven and Paradice and were cast into the bottomless pit for ever and were not condemned to dye because they were spirits And if the devils by reason of their sins were not condemned to dye how is it that the Alcoran sayes that Angels shall dye So from these three grounds we may conclude that Angels shall not dye and that he that says that Angels dye speaks not the truth and in regard the Alcoran says that Angels dye I say it is not of God nor the word of God The second Argument is from what the Alcoran sayes in severall Chapters and namely in the first Chapter of the first book in the first Chapter of the second and fourth books in which three Chapters he relates the Creation of the world and the history of Adam how he was created of earth by the hand and Workmanship of God and how God inspired life into him and further in the said Chapters he says and affirms that after Adam was created God Commanded the Angels to bow themselves down to the ground and worship Adam and that they all did so except Sathan who refused to doe it and God asked him why hee would not worship him whom he had made with his own hands and he says that Sathan answered that he was Created of a more excellent nature viz. Of fire and Adam of durt then God cursed Sathan and he and all those who had the like will as he were cast into the bottomless pit and are cursed for ever All this the Alcoran affirms saying that the cause of the fall of Sathan and the evill Angels was because that they would not worship Adam nor prostrate themselves before him and the words in Arabick are thus Ognaidcale c. And doe signifie that which we have related and declared above which is not onely an untruth but also a great Heresy and Blasphemy Now speak O Moore and observe whether this hath any sense or reason in it for you must conceive that if such a thing were true it would have been written in the first of the five books of Moses which is called the book of Genesis or the Creation wherein he sets down the Creation of the world and how God created all Celestiall and Terrestriall things but doth not mention any such imposture and you must observe that God would never command that any should be worshipped but himself so that the Alcoran sayes that which was never true and which can never enter into the brains of a reasonable man and therefore in conclusion I say that the Alcoran hath not any reason or truth in it The third Argument is upon the first Chapter of the third Book where hee sayes that the Virgin Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ was the Sister of Aaron and Moses and sayes in Arabick thus Ogia Mariamu ya ohta Aron i. e. O Mary O

me and to any one that hath sence and discretion it seems to be a root of Idolatrie to turn ones face and to pray towards the House and Tower where the Idoll was Therefore consider O Moore and weigh all the premisses and what followes and thou wilt find that from the beginning of Muhamed's Law untill it was finished it alwaies proceeded from bad to worse was incongruous and offensive full of divers confusions scandalls and vain fancies which things give us to know that it neither was nor is the Law of God The third Offence hapned upon occasion of a very scandalous and villanous Act and great oversight which Muhamed cōmitted viz. When he sayd Mattins with the Moores which praier is called in Arabick Zalatacobbe and was reading a Chapter of the Alcoran being the 15th Chapter of the fourth book which is called the Chapter of the Starre in which Chapter he mentions the said Idol called Alethe aluze and another Idoll called Menete Azalicite and after naming them sayes that they are Idolls and wicked Devils For Muhamed reading the said Chapter and naming these two Idols in stead of saying that they were most abominable and wicked Devills sayd that they were most high Gods and that it was good to hope in them And Muhamed not onely committed an Error in reading and saying these words but also prostrated himself on the ground and divers Moores with him but some of the Moores did not prostrate themselves but told Mahumed that he had committed an error in reading so and prostrating himself And when Muhamed perceived his error he answered them saying that the Devill made him mistake and had taken away the good words of the Alcoran and inserted the words which he had spoken and that through the deceit of the Devill hee had erred in reading so and in prostrating himself The which divers of the Moores took notice of and being offended with it turned to their former sects and wayes of worship Thus Muhamed was not free from temptations though hee gave out that the Angel Gabriel took the black coar out of his heart Wherefore O Moore you must acknowledge that that is not true which Muhamed saies in the first Chapter That the Angell launced his breast and took forth his heart and cut out the black coar or filthy matter to the end that he might not be tempted of the Devill at any time For if that had been true the Devill had not now tempted him nor had made him say what he did nor had he magnified the Idols and prostrated himself to the ground to worship them whereof divers took notice as we said before And when Muhamed knew that the people were offended and that all the people of Mecca and the Moores and Jewes murmured against him and his Moores hee instituted a Verse which is written in the fourth Chapter of the third Book which is in Arabick thus Guame alcerne c. That God never sent any Prophet which was not tempted and when hee read the words of God the Devill would be busie and put some other words amongst them Neverthelesse saies he God commandeth to take away the evill and confirm the good and by this Verse Muhomed informed the Moores that that had befallen him from the Devill even as the like had befallen other Prophets and that God commanded that the evill words should be razed out of that Chapter and good words should be put in and that they should not marvell at this much lesse be offended at it and so upon this Verse the offence ceased and the Moores were silent This thing and offence is known but to few of the Alfaquie's and Doctors of their Law And I tell it thee O Moore that thou mayest know it if thou desirest the salvation of thy soul and that thou mayest acknowledge the truth and follow it There was another thing also at which the Moores were offended viz. when Muhamed took away his servant Zeidin's wife whereof we made mention above which act was very dishonest villanous and scandalous especially in such a one as Muhamed who thought himself a Prophet and the most perfect messenger that ever came into the world Muhamed having at that time nine wives and his servant onely one the which Muhamed took from him and added to his other nine and so his servant Zeiden remained wifelesse And this act hapned in this manner Muhamed knowing that his servant Zeiden had a fair wife and she being Muhamed's kinswoman one day Muhamed went to Zeidens house to visit her and having seen her told her that when her husband Zeiden came home shee should tell him that the Prophet Muhamed had been there and had seen a good * A Lobster or Crab 't is an Arabick Proverb as we say He found a dainty dish for his own Table Crab for his doore These very words are written in Arabick in the book Azar and doe import that Zeiden had chosen a good and fair wife for him When Zeiden came home his wife related unto him how Muhamed had been there and had said these words unto her which she could not understand But Zeiden presently told her the meaning of them saying that she was the Crab and the Door was a house and signified the master of the house At last Zeiden told his wife that Muhamed would have spoken with him for no end but to command him to put away his wife that he might have her Now tell me O Moore what meant Muhamed by those words and whether are they the words of a Prophet and holy man and what was his intent and what opinion had Zeiden of Muhamed when he presently conjectured and told his wife what Muhamed would doe And when Zeiden went to Mahumed's house and asked what his pleasure was Mahumed answered him that he must repudiate his wife because hee would have her himself and hereupon Zeiden went home and related the whole matter to his wife and after many tears and lamentations on both sides the married couple parted and the very same day Muhamed married her For which act the Moores were offended and murmured saying that it was not the act or deed of a Prophet nor of a holy man And although thereupon Muhamed was much ashamed yet he quickly ran to his remedy and made and composed certain Verses of the Alcoran and caused his Secretary to write them and presently gave them unto the Moores to read the which Verses are in the 17th Chapter of the third Book and run thus Gua id teculo c. i. e. O Muhamed when thou biddest thy servant Zeiden to take his wife again thou sayest that with thy mouth which thou meanest not in thy heart and wouldest conceal that which God knows very well to wit the love and affection which he bare to this woman and so God told him that seeing her husband Zeiden had already had his share in her God had commanded that Muhamed should marry her and that none should be offended

the faith of Jesus Christ why tarriest thou then O Moore why dost thou not become a Christian that thou mayest goe to the place where this Christian Martyr is I believe that divers Moores hear this aforesaid but doe not believe it but bid thou the Moore which denies it to read the gloss of Alzamaxeri and the gloss of Buhatia and if he doe not find what I have set down above word for word in the said two glosses let him call me the greatest lyer in the world This History his Grace Martin Gartia Lord Bishop of Barchinone hath set down in his Book of the Alcoran which I translated out of Arabick into the Spanish tongue by his Graces command and himself hath the said two Arabick glossaries Yee must know that the Alcoran holds forth and attributes three excellencies to our Lord Jesus Christ which it doth not give to any other of the Prophets not to Moses Abraham David no nor to Muhamed The first is that which the Alcoran mentions in the second Chapter of the first Book viz. That he ascended to Heaven in Soul and Body and upon this place the Suné sayes that he must come into the world to judge as a just Judge in Arabick and the Suné he sayes thus Oguayniziolo c. i. e that Jesus the Son of Mary shall come down to the earth and shall be a just Judge therein The second excellency which the Alcoran attributes to Jesus Christ is that it calls him Calimethuallah i. e. The word of God The third is that he is called in the Alcoran Rohc alkodus allah i. e. The holy Spirit of God of which two names never was any man worthy nor ever will be so that having proved that Jesus Christ is the word of God and the holy Spirit of God it is proved that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and very God This appears in the third Chapter of the first Book of the Alcoran which in Arabick runs thus Omet mazeho c. i. e. The Messras Jesus the Son of Mary is no other than the word of God sent to Mary the Spirit of God himself and the messenger of God by which words O Moore thou mayest see that he declares that Jesus Christ is God and Man CHAP. XII The twelfth and last Chapter treateth and sheweth that Christians should not wonder why Muhamed's Sect hath so propagated and that the Moores should not be so presumptuous and say as they usually doe that if their Religion were not good it had never propagated so much for that reason is of no waight It likewise sheweth how Muhamed's Disciples carried themselves after his death and what discords contests and murthers were practised amongst them for dominion and the Vanities of this world and to become Kings Califes and great Potentates NOw to the end that Christians may not have occasion or ground to wonder and much less the Moores to presume I will lay down three causes whereby the Sect of the Moores hath propagated and augmented but not by any goodness in it self The first cause was that Muhamed began and instituted this Law or Religion of the Moores in a Nation very rustick ignorant beastly and Idolatrous being men voyd and destitute of all knowledge and understanding for amongst that people were no Logicians Astrologers Philosophers nor Physicians but they were all earthly given to eating drinking and luxury an ignorant and rude people as the Alcoran calls them in the first Chapter of the first Book in Arabick Sufeha i. e. ignorant people The Countrey likewise was full of Idolaters aswell in Arabia the happy as in Arabia the great and throughout all Persia and Armenia where were twelve sorts or Sects of Idolaters as we shewed in the first Chapter of this book some of them worshiped a tree unto which they Sacrifised and annually celebrated Feasts and a kind of Easter which tree they called Detulanger the Lord and Captain of the Province where this tree was in Muhamed's time was called Azamahinali Others worshipped a great statue made of a black metall which was three fathoms long this Idoll was called Bohinum and it was in the Province of Armenia the Lord and Captain of this Idoll in Muhameds time was called Alquazad Others in Armenia worshipped the Sun and the Prince of that people was called Sanharben Carquar They of Mecca and the Provinces adjacent worshipped Alzete and Alluza as we have said before so that Muhamed began his Sect amongst the most blockish people in the world and unto these Muhamed gave to understand that they were Idolaters and that they ought to worship the God of heaven and earth who was the true God who had Created the Heavens the Planets the earth and the waters that caused rain to fall from heaven and fruits to proceed from the earth for Man and beast that God who caused men to dye and after death to rise again for to reward every man according to his deserts with glory or punishment that God who created the Paradises with so many excellent things for the blessed and that God who created Hell with so many Torments for the Damned All which they of Mecca and the other Idolaters denyed and by his preaching this aforesaid to them which is the Contents of half the Alcoran divers began to believe in Muhameds Law or Sect many likewise were induced to believe Muhamed by reason of the great boasting and threatning which he used when hee read the Alcoran and the scrowles of the Punishment of their predecessors viz. Those who are drowned in the world by the Deluge and who escaped in the Ark of Noah also the People of Lot and of the five Cities which are very neer unto Mecca he also threatned and terrified them with the example of Pharaohs People and the nine plagues which God sent upon them and told them how they were swallowed up in the Sea because they did not believe in Moses hee also terrified them with the pains of Hell and with the horror of the things which hee writes of Hell which is obvious in divers chapters of the Alcoran and thus they beleeved in Muhamed and were perswaded that he who Created all things and hath power over all was the true God so that whereas Muhamed converted them to his own opinion and made them know nine Articles of the Christian faith and those other things of the Christian faith expressed in the precedent Chapter if he had as well given them knowledge of the whole Christian faith and had injoyned them to believe all the 12. Articles and be Baptised he had done very well and they had all been Christians but hee would not doe so because he could not that way have made himself so great as he did The immoderate ambition wherewith Muhamed was transported hath undone the Moores and been the cause of his own and their error and utter perdition Yet this wee must believe that the Moores who believed in God and acknowledged that he