Did Muhammad seek a Catholic priest opinion or consultation when he claim to received a revelation from Angel?

Question

Gabriel

Answer 1

Waraqa bin Nofal, a relative of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, Mohammad's first wife was Mohammad's Mentor to Christianity, if this is what you wanted to know.

Waraqa was a Christian Missionary who taught Mohammad all he knew about the Bible.

A small clarification is warranted here. The Catholic Church did not hold sway there, it was the Coptic Church.

The Muslims up there seem to be confusing Waraqa with a Jew Rabbi. Khadijah wasn't Jew nor Christian, she was a pagan who was being converted by her relative and took her husband with her. Mohammad, however, was a Jew, by birth, belonging to the beni al Quraish Jewish tribe.

Sheesh, are the Muslims here totally confused? Mohammad wasn't a trader, he worked for his wife - Khadijah's caravan. Waraqa wasn't a Jew looking for any "Prophet", he was spreading Christianity and became Mohammad's Teacher, to whom Mohammad went to learn about the Bible.

After his training, Mohammad said that he had a visitation by Gabriel and then went to the Cave, for his "meetings" with Gabriel.

If you don't believe me, go read the Koran!

It's all clearly told there.

Cheers!

ST

Answer 2

He did not.

His wife, Lady Khadeeja, is said to have seeked a jewish man who was looking for the coming of the prophet they were waiting for, he had watched the signs and concluded that the Prophet Muhammad was the messenger they were waiting for. Catholics were not predominant in Arabia, Jews were, as a minority, right after Pagans

Also, the idea that the Prophets wife had taken the Prophet to Waraqa bin Nawfal to read him the Gospel in Arabic, is untrue, mainly because the earliest manuscripts of an Arabic translation of the Gospel are found in collections of St. Catherine's monastery at Mt. Sinai…dating from 867 AD.

Answer 3

During the early 7th century, a trader named Muhammad was meditating in a cave near Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia, when he experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel who declared Muhammad to be a prophet of God. Other revelations followed, and Muhammad began to preach to others, reciting in verse the instructions he had received from God. These revelations became the Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam.
he also went to the priest who was catholic and was the cousin of his wife khadija.... the priest told that the vision he exprienced was of the angel Gabriel...who bring the messege of Allah to his prophets....
Muhammad probably heard Christians and Jews expound their religious views at commercial fairs in Mecca, and, troubled by the questions they raised, he periodically withdrew to a cave outside Mecca to meditate and pray for guidance. During one of these retreats he experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel, who proclaimed him a prophet of God. He was greatly perplexed by the experience but was reassured by his wife, and, as new revelations followed, he came to accept his prophetic mission. His wife and his cousin Ali became his first followers, and eventually he began to preach in public, reciting the verses of his revelation, which came to be known as the Qur'an (Koran). He gained some prominent converts, but the movement grew slowly.

Answer 4

Waraqa bin Nawfal was the son of Khadija's paternal uncle. Khadija was the first wife of prophet Muhammad and the first witness to the prophethood of Muhammad. Waraqa was one of the four men who left the pagan faith of Mecca in search for the Hanifite roots ( the religion of Abraham ) and returned as a Christian.
".....Khadija then accompanied him to her cousin Waraqa bin Naufal bin Asad bin 'Abdul 'Uzza, who, during the PreIslamic Period became a Christian and used to write the writing with Hebrew letters. He would write from the Gospel in Hebrew as much as Allah wished him to write. He was an old man and had lost his eyesight. Khadija said to Waraqa, "Listen to the story of your nephew, O my cousin!" Waraqa asked, "O my nephew! What have you seen?" Allah's Apostle described whatever he had seen. Waraqa said, "This is the same one who keeps the secrets (angel Gabriel) whom Allah had sent to Moses. I wish I were young and could live up to the time when your people would turn you out." Allah's Apostle asked, "Will they drive me out?" Waraqa replied in the affirmative and said, "Anyone (man) who came with something similar to what you have brought was treated with hostility; and if I should remain alive till the day when you will be turned out then I would support you strongly." But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while. "

SAHIH AL-BUKHARI:Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3:
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Answer 5

I have read that a distant cousin of Mohammad was a Christian. Also, it is clear that Mohammad had heard some of the apocryphal also, in that Mohammad denied the Trinity & wrote the Trinity was Father God, Mary & Jesus. That isn't a true Christian belief.

Christians believe the Trinity to be Creator = God the Father, Word & Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

According to Quran, Mohammed sought the protection of a Christian Ruler, because his own country man were trying to kill him. If not for the kindness of that Christian, Mohammed would have been dead and there would be no Islam.
Every studied Moslem knows this is in the Quran.

Answer 7

Mohammedanism was a heresy, not a new religion: That is the essential point to grasp before going any further. It was not a pagan contrast with the Church; it was a perversion of Christian doctrine. Its vitality and endurance soon gave it the appearance of a new religion, but those who were contemporary with its rise saw it for what it was—not a denial but an adaptation and a misuse of the Christian thing.

The chief heresiarch, Mohammed, was not, like most heresiarchs, a man of Catholic birth and doctrine. He sprang from pagans. But that which he taught was in the main Catholic doctrine, albeit oversimplified. He took over very few of those old pagan ideas that might have been native to him from his descent. But the very foundation of his teaching was that prime Catholic doctrine, the unity and omnipotence of God. The world of good spirits and angels and of evil spirits in rebellion against God was a part of the teaching, with a chief evil spirit, such as Christendom had recognized. Mohammed preached with insistence that prime Catholic doctrine, on the human side—the immortality of the soul and its responsibility for actions in this life, coupled with the consequent doctrine of punishment and reward after death.

Mohammed gave to our Lord the highest reverence and to our Lady also. On the Day of Judgment (another Catholic idea that he taught) it was our Lord, according to Mohammed, who would be the judge of mankind, not he, Mohammed. The Mother of Christ, "the Lady Miriam," was ever for him the first of womankind. His followers even got from the early Fathers some vague hint of her Immaculate Conception.

But the central point where this new heresy struck home with a mortal blow against Catholic tradition was a full denial of the Incarnation. Mohammed taught that our Lord was the greatest of all the prophets, but still only a prophet: a man like other men. He eliminated the Trinity altogether.

With that denial of the Incarnation went the whole sacramental structure. He refused to know anything of the Eucharist, with its Real Presence; he stopped the sacrifice of the Mass and therefore the institution of a special priesthood. In other words, he, like so many other lesser heresiarchs, founded his heresy on simplification.

Mohammed’s teaching never developed among the mass of his followers, or in his own mind, a detailed theology. He was content to accept all that appealed to him in the Catholic scheme and to reject all that seemed to him, and to so many others of his time, too complicated or mysterious to be true. Simplicity was the note of the whole affair; and since all heresies draw their strength from some true doctrine, Mohammedanism drew its strength from the true Catholic doctrines that it retained: the equality of all men before God—"All true believers are brothers." It zealously preached and throve on the paramount claims of justice, social and economic.

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Answer 8

Probably not, he had already received a blessing/prophecy as a youth from a reprobate monk - so he must have felt that he had his own authority to create what he wanted to...

Answer 9

Probably since he was a tool of the Catholic Church to try to control the arabs. It backfired on them when the Arabs captured Jerusalem and wouldnt turn over control to the pope. Then the crusades started.

Answer 10

When God speaks it is impossible to not hear and obey.
When Gods resonance is heard it is unmistakable.
There was no need for Muhammad (PBUH), to ask for consultation on the subject!
God speaks to whom ever God chooses!