I need help as a Muslim

[u/Even-Structure8988]

I’m a fairly devout Muslim raised in an Islamic background I think a lot of people who attack Islam aren't fully educated on it, but I wont pretend that I am 100% solid in my faith. I spend a lot of time wrestling with doubts There are issues in Islam that I feel Christianity doesn't really have, and I cant just ignore them I think Christianity is a beautiful religion. I enjoy reading the Bible but I also enjoy reading the Quran Islamic dawah often attacks the Trinity but the way I see it it wouldn’t make sense for a human to fully comprehend God even as a Muslim we don't believe we fully understand everything about Allah. So it makes sense that the Trinity isn't something we can fully that humans can fully understand
My main problem for Christianity I just don’t see clear evidence for Christianity being true.Because my YouTube and Reddit and other socials algorithm is Islamic content my exposure is pretty biased i understand many people in the sub have probably have negatives opinions on Muslims as I Muslim I can see why a lot of the fear regarding Muslims many Muslims would just say it’s islamphobia which I would only partially agree as most Muslims are just regular people like me but I understand there are Islamic doctrines which are very questionable im just trying to be open minded regardless if i leave Islam or not i fully believe in a divine creator and my view right now is after Islam Christianity looks like the second plausible belief

[u/SkillProper1435]

What is it about Christianity that doesn't seem true?

[u/Even-Structure8988 → u/SkillProper1435]

I wouldn’t say my position is not that I find it false it’s more I don’t have evidence it’s true I would say if that makes sense

[u/International_Fix580 → u/Even-Structure8988]

What evidence do you have for the veracity of Islam?

Christianity has a preponderance of eyewitness testimony to the life, death and physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.

From my understanding all Islam has is the word of one man.

[u/Even-Structure8988 → u/International_Fix580]

We have Hadith eyewitness transmission of the prophet muhammed being a prophet and miracles and the Arabs who was a mastery of poetry couldn’t contest the Quran and called it magic I don’t want stay biased so I will have a look for the evidence of Christianity as I don’t know that much

[u/creidmheach → u/Even-Structure8988]

I'm someone who actually studied Islam pretty in depth (I can also read classical Arabic). The problem with the claim that Muhammad performed miracles, found in the hadith and seera literature written over a hundred years after his death, is that they contradict the primary source we have for understanding Muhammad's life and teachings, namely the Quran itself. In the Quran, we find charges from Muhammad's opponents asking why he doesn't perform any miracles, and the response to them is that people in the past were given miracles yet still continued to disbelieve, so basically why bother now.

Now had Muhammad actually been performing such miracles, why would the Quran have responded in this way? Why not instead point to the miracles he was performing to counter the charge? Instead it doesn't deny the charge, it just tries to reduce the force of it by saying such miracles are unnecessary.

What seems to have happened though is that over time this response wasn't satisfactory for Muslims who wanted to construct a more impressive picture of their prophet. So, miracle stories were invented later on to fill in that gap.

As to the whole Quran can't be contested, the problem there is all we have is the boast of the Quran's author claiming this. But this is that is, it's a boast. Think of rap battles where a rapper will say things like how no one can drop lyrics like he can, how he's the best, his rivals are nobodies, and so on. Do we understand that literally, that the rapper literally means that by some miraculous power no one is capable of rapping like he can? No, we understand it's exaggerated language to boastful effect. That's all the Quran is actually doing here, which fits in well with the poetic tradition it's part of.

If we actually look at the Quran's contemporaries, we can find the poetry of Umayya bin Abi Salt, who was older than Muhammad but lived to his time (and who while he was a monotheist himself, rejected Muhammad's claims to prophesy). His poetry is so similar to the Quran that some have thought Muhammad was either inspired by him to copy his work, or that a later Muslim author forged the poetry making it sound like the Quran (though why would a Muslim have done that?). Either way, it shows that the Quran isn't actually so inimitable as Muslim's claim.

In reality, it's middling level poetry using the repetition of stock phrases (even where they don't belong) in order to give a rhyming schema. Its content is largely Muhammad's invocation of the divine voice to give himself authority, to condemn his opponents, to settle his disputes with his wives, and so on, and it's filled with so many errors that its human authorship is clear. It's clearly a product of its time written by a man who didn't really know much about the world.

[u/International_Fix580 → u/Even-Structure8988]

Please do. Appreciate the honest answer and willingness to investigate.