Drinking Muhammad's Blood (Fun Islamic Fact #13)

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where I share facts about Muhammad
and the Qur'an,

whenever jihadis go on a killing spree.

Do you like to drink human blood?

I don't mean wine or grape juice

I mean actual blood that's oozing
out of a human being?

If so, have I got a religion for you.

In Qadi Iyad's "Ash-Shifa,"
page 36, we read:

"There was also a time when

Malik Ibn Sinan drank his blood

on the Day of Uhud and licked it up.

The Prophet allowed him to do that
and then said,

'The Fire will not touch you.'"

So, Malik wouldn't go to Hell because

he drank Muhammad's blood.

I guess any mosquitos or fleas
or bedbugs

that bit Muhammad are going to be
in paradise,

since they drank his blood.

"Something similar occurred when

Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr drank
cupped blood.

(This was blood drawn from Muhammad during
the Islamic practice of cupping.)

The Prophet said,

'Woe to you from the people and woe
to the people from you,'

but he did not object to what
he had done."

The Islamic scholars at Islam Q&A give
a number of additional accounts.

For instance:

"Concerning this topic there is a mursal
hadeeth that was narrated by

Sa'eed ibn Mansoor via
Umar ibn al-Saa'ib,

who said that he heard that when
the Prophet was wounded,

Maalik the father of Abu Sa'eed
al-Khudri,

sucked the wound so as to clean it
until there was no blood and the

whiteness of his skin showed.

It was said to him:
'Spit it out.'

He said:

'No, by Allaah, I will never
spit it out.'

Then he went and fought.

And the Prophet said:

'Whoever wants to see one of the people
of Paradise, let him look at this man.'

Then he was martyred."

Notice that, according to Muhammad,

the people of Paradise are the people
who are so obsessed with him that they

want to drink his blood.

But don't let yet another clear case
of idolizing Muhammad make us forget

that Islam promotes pure reverence
for Allah.

Those of you who study Islamic doctrine
may be wondering how Muslim scholars

can reconcile drinking Muhammad's blood
with Islamic dietary restrictions,

which forbid drinking blood.

Fortunately, the scholars of Islam Q&A
answer this for us.

"How can the scholars reconcile between
what is stated about blood being

naajis (impure) and the idea of
Abd-Allaah ibn al-Zubayr

drinking the blood of the Prophet?

They said:

'This is one of the things that applied
only to the Prophet,

where the ruling applied only to him
and not to the rest of his ummah.'"

The response goes on to note that

"some of the scholars stated that the
blood of the Prophet

was taahir (pure), based on the story
of Abd-Allaah ibn al-Zubayr."

So, whether you suck it from
an open wound,

drink it from a cup,

or lick it off the ground,

Muhammad's miracle-magic prophet blood
is the only blood for true Muslims.

Welcome to Islam,

the religion that tells you that you can't
know where you're going when you die

unless you drink Muhammad's blood or
die while slaughtering unbelievers.