St. Thomas Aquinas on Muhammad and his Doctrine

Saint Thomas Aquinas, born in the 13th century, was a renowned Dominican friar, philosopher, and theologian who is considered one of the greatest medieval thinkers. His works, such as Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles, are highly influential in the fields of theology, philosophy, and ethics.
The following quote from Summa Contra Gentiles, written between 1259 and 1265, presents a critical analysis of the teachings of Muhammad, highlighting the perceived shortcomings and contradictions within his doctrine.
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[@Medunjanin91]

Salam Aleykum peace to producer of this video and attending viewers. Just chiming in to say that the claims against Muhammad’s character are woefully questionable. This isn’t to say that I am in opposition to the character and nature of Thomas’ work, just advising people to go forward themselves and do a thorough analysis of the life of Muhammad. It doesn’t follow that he was vile and corrupt as claimed. Peace.

[@PiousPearls27]

Thank you my friend, I appreciate your comment. God bless!

[@Questforenigma]

You know when the Mohameden cultists get offended, that inconvenient truths have been revealed about its founder 😂

[@There-is-no-God-but-Allah775]

claims aren't truths unless you can't contradict them. Every statement made by this Quino guy has nothing to do with the truth.

[@UnionSince452]

@@There-is-no-God-but-Allah775 Before you critique an argument, I suggest you get his name correct, otherwise any serious person knows you haven't taken the time to understand the argument and intellectually refute it. Its Aquinas, btw.

[@dankmatter3068]

@@There-is-no-God-but-Allah775Your name is an oxymoron, sorry to day but allah is not God. The gods of the gentiles are demons, as it is said in the bible.

[@There-is-no-God-but-Allah775]

@@UnionSince452 A qu anus never had a library of billions of books about Islam accessible at his finger tips. He probably never even had a translated version of the Quran. Despite the internet and the ability to search and translate in seconds, Christians of today have their heads way up their asses. So No I am not going to waste my time taking wisdom from christians that lived at a time when internet didn't exist and the church was burning witches. There are no debates to be had here. This guy's name is A Qu Anus.

[@nabelodal7112]

I thought St. Thomas Aquinas was something when I was a student. The stories could almost make me cry. Through this video, I saw how ignorant he was, and his works and existence is no longer credible. Those statements could not have been from any scholar who studied Islam. Ignorant people makes statement of things that they do not have knowledge about to guile the more ignorant St. Aquinas refer to as Gentiles. Why is he so obsessed with carnal pleasures? Aquinas must have been a self-taught, isolated scholar, didn't really seek knowledge.

[@PiousPearls27]

Short video coming out tomorrow will answer part of your question. As for carnal pleasure in general, it stimulates lower faculties like anger, greed, impatience and so on. Hence it should be avoided. God bless!

[@nabelodal7112]

@@PiousPearls27 Sure. If you want to really disprove the last Prophet, it's only fair if you sincerely study Islam first, you can set your objective to be "Muhammad is not a Prophet" and investigate sincerely for your own benefit. Otherwise, you'll only be corrupting yourself. I'll send you a guide if I find my old files.

[@Chariseirene7]

No Aquinas studied under men very skilled in knowledge, at very reputable institutions. See his five arguments for the existance of God. The man was obviously a genius. Of course he was not perfect in every respect, but none the less a genius.

[@nabelodal7112]

@@Chariseirene7 Yes, he has extraordinary achievements in his field, but it's not like you can't attain the same. That's why it's hard to believe those statements are really from him. There are also many Muslim Philosophers who I think are more intelligent than St. Aquinas, but like all others who threaded the path of proving God's existence or inexistence through Philosophy, their quests have never reached absolute conclusion, that is because our minds are too limited, God knows that so He sent the Quran using simple language for all of us to easily get acquainted with Him without going overboard or wasting our lives away with the works of Socrates, Plato and the likes so therefore we can live more productively. The St. Aquinas statement in this videos is obviously meant to keep people away from learning about Islam. Instead, why don't we be totally honest with ourselves, have an upright mind and look at what Islam is. Promise, it won't be as hard as learning from these Saints and Philosophers (including Muslim Philosophers).

[@Chariseirene7]

@@nabelodal7112 have you read the quran?

[@mana7412]

I see you got a little bump since last time. Lots of demons in denial in the comments proving St. Thomas points to a T. 🤭 ❤❤❤

[@PiousPearls27]

Thanks mana. Good to see you again. God bless!

[@hamzahabbas4257]

'Muhammad promised carnal pleasure' eh? Unless he's talking about life after death I have no idea what he's referring to here.

[@sciking8756]

Sex slavery with girls captives in war, to name the first thing in my head

[@Mateus.007]

Duh. Exactly that.

[@Chariseirene7]

We all know about the virgins dude. Do you know what the word "houri" means? You need to repent and turn to the true, triune God of Abraham. Don't exchange the truth for a lie.

[@Chariseirene7]

By the way, Jesus is the only way. Jesus, can forgive your sin of idolatry and serving false gods. Just repent bro, come on over to church.

[@bamzerdaniel1997]

@@Chariseirene7 idolatry? Christian’s are the one who have paintings and idols in churches, when have you seen idols in a mosque? You are the one who worships a human prophet.

[@bamzerdaniel1997]

if this was said by Aquinas, he was lacking a lot of knowledge

[@salmansheikh4377]

Every word is accurate. Muhammad did no miracles. Muhammad waged jihad to spread Islam. The learned Jews of the time never accepted Islam and were killed. Quran describes the breasts of hooris. I think its spot on.

[@bowlineastronomenov5507]

What he says pretty much summarized what Islam is.😂😂😂

[@Chariseirene7]

Muhammed didn't even know that Christians are monotheistic! Muhammed thought that Christians believe in three gods. And he even thought that Mary was one of the three. You need the Bible bro, repent and believe the Gospel.

[@tekamer6566]

@@Chariseirene7 you are a pagan polytheist it is true. You have forgotten of the father who created you and Jesus. You no longer pray to the father you only speak a human name Jesus You take away gods power and make it split in the like of Holy Spirit. You need the Bible more than me brother

[@the1allahprays2]

​@@tekamer6566you're no longer a Muslim, thanks to your comment. Allah is a father to no one. That's straight from the Quran, now repent or face capital punishment...

[@dankmatter3068]

Muslims having conniptions in the comments always nice, truth hurts.

[@PiousPearls27]

Although not the intention of the video, the reactions sure seem to be proving something. God bless! ❤️

[@zaydkhan6885]

Seems St Thomas Aquinas learnt islam from McDonald's Mc Cheese lmao

[@TK-lx6oc]

He exposed ur satanic islam cult, especially since muhammed got bewitched by evil black magic

[@Chariseirene7]

I don't really know what that even means. But you have the Internet so there is no excuse for you not to know that Islam is a false religion. I hope to soon make a video about this!

[@zaydkhan6885]

​@@Chariseirene7 You don't need the internet but honesty and sincerity to realise that Islam is the Absolute truth and everything else is bogus. It's ludicrous that you still believe Christianity has anything to do with Jesus(as).

[@zaydkhan6885]

@@TK-lx6oc haha Can Satan oppose himself? lmao try harder Man worshipping pagans

[@UnionSince452]

@@zaydkhan6885 Sorry but you're wrong. Islam has way too many errors, is a heretical offshoot of Christian Arianism, and spread at first through violence and conquest. Compare this to Christianity, who the early followers for 300 years were martyred, yet still spread throughout the entire known world, including to Arabia before the warlord converted people through war, persecution and taxes. These are facts of history. All we need to know which proves Christianity is the Truth is that Christ died and resurrected from the dead. That act alone validates the entire Christian religion and proves its truth. In your words, Islam is the "ultimate truth" on no basis other than Muslims believe the Qu'ran is the word of Allah because the Qu'ran says so - which is an invalid circular argument. By the way, the Qu'ran affirms the Injeel, which is ironic because we have the same Injeel from the time the Qu'ran was written until now (Greek Septuagint, Latin Vulgate and the Peshitta). These Gospels affirm the divinity of Christ, which the Qu'ran affirms. The Qu'ran also refers to Allah as "we". A common defence of this is that "it is simply a term for Allah's royalty"... excet the origins of using "We" as a royal term comes from the 11th century, 500 years after the Qu'ran was written ... You're welcome to validate these claims yourself.

[@hafoothalmuflahi9784]

he did prove miracles unlike christianity muslims have a miracle we can hold in our hands many smart men followed him his teachings arent carnal

[@BitMan1010]

If you are speaking of the Quran, that is not true. The Quran is the most vague and stupid divine book to have ever written. So vague and stupid that it has needed 1400 years of hadith/tafsirs and scholarly re-interpretations from its vague words and contradictions.

[@hafoothalmuflahi9784]

@@BitMan1010 no it hasnt give me proofs

[@hafoothalmuflahi9784]

@@mika_el.7x70 who are u talking too

[@HassanAli-cc5vr]

@@BitMan1010 Incorrect. Hadith are not divine, can in fact be rejected as well. Hadith have no bearing on the Qur'an. Tafsir is not "re interpretation" it is a authentic interpretation by educated scholars centuries ago that look at the history of when the verse was revealed, in what context, what does it mean, the general implication of the verse on other verses,etc. Tafsir is also not the Quran and Muslims have lived before many books of Tafsir so how were they living? The Qur'an is completely clear in its words, and most of the issues Christians have arise from 1) Not knowing arabic, reading the english and coming to incomplete conclusions 2) Not knowing the history about a chapter 3) Cherry picking verses without reading ones before and after 4) Not realising Hadith are not divine 5) Not researching into their arguments and taking things at face value It is in fact clearer than the bible, which is riddled with thousands of contradictions.

[@bowlineastronomenov5507]

The mere thought that Allah entices their believers of 70 virgins waiting for them just proves that allah is a devil that satisfies them with sexual pleasure!

[@kalingtekseng3489]

Most foolish statements

[@dankmatter3068]

Why? Elaborate please.

[@kalingtekseng3489]

@@dankmatter3068 the appeal to carnal desires he says, when the Muslims are most scared of adultery and fornication as these are major sins in Islam. For major sins aren't forgiven easily and may earn one a passage to hell, while most Christians today fornicate and perform adultery. There concept of girlfriend and boyfriend, live in relationship, reproducing without marriage are the most common thing in Christianity and Christian countries. As for the miracles, before his prophethood there are more than a thousand miracles mentioned in some books. Right from his birth the miracles started. The Qur'an itself is a living miracle, we can witness this miracle for ourself instead of hearing accounts of it from past generations. He is prophecised in many religions of the world. And his laws don't contradict or seem meaningless to the reasoning.

[@PiousPearls27]

You're describing sin, not Christian teaching. As for free rein to carnal pleasure, tune in for tomorrow's short. Thanks for commenting! ❤️

[@kalingtekseng3489]

@@PiousPearls27 not a teaching but a teaching leads to all these sins... The teaching of Jesus already paying for a Christians sins, and of him being equal to God, which reduces the power and glory of God to that of the likeness of a man.

[@kalingtekseng3489]

Any why is my comment not visible... You trying to censor the truth... So that you spread falsehood without any objections and challenges?

[@fn1675]

Pea brain philosopher

[@PiousPearls27]

Thank you for your insight. God bless!

[@khalidkhatri100]

Read the book - ‘Divine perfection - Christianity and Islam on Sin and Salvation’ by Dr Usman Latif All of Thomas Aquinas’ and John Of Damascus’ arguments against Islam and Prophet Muhammad PBUH have been throughly refuted Even the modern scholars William lane Craig’s argument have been rebutted aptly in that book.

[@PiousPearls27]

Appreciate your comment. God bless!

[@khalidkhatri100]

@@PiousPearls27 ❤️God bless you too

[@khalidkhatri100]

@@PiousPearls27 Btw I found another article that is directly addressing the topic of Thomas Aquinas’ view by the same author You can read this one directly. Title - Polemics as Caricature: The False Portrayal of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ by John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas At the sapience institute website. I will link the link below Also do let me know after reading if you have any responses or recommendations for me

[@PiousPearls27]

@khalidkhatri100 Sure, I'll check it out. 'The Catechism Explained' by Francis Spirago and 'The City of God' by St. Augustine are two interesting reads that I can warmly recommend. Be well and stay safe! ❤️