What the Saints Said about Islam
“Whoever does not embrace the Catholic Christian faith is lost, like your false prophet Muhammad.”
-St. Peter Mavimenus (d. 8th century), martyr from Gaza. Response reported in the Martyriologum Romanum when he was asked to convert to Islam by a group of Muslims.
“There is also the superstition of the Ishmaelites which
to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner of
the Antichrist…. From that time to the present a false prophet Mohammed has appeared in their midst. This man, after having chanced
upon the Old and New Testaments and likewise, it seems, having conversed
with an Arian monk, devised his own heresy. Then, having insinuated
himself into the good graces of the people by a show of seeming piety,
he gave out that a certain book had been sent down to him from heaven.
He had set down some ridiculous compositions in this book of his and he
gave it to them as an object of veneration.”
-St. John Damascene (d. 749), Syrian Arab Catholic monk and scholar. Quoted from his book On Heresies under the section On the Heresy of the Ishmaelites (in The Fathers of the Church. Vol. 37. Translated by the Catholic University of America. CUA Press. 1958. Pages 153-160.)
“We profess Christ to be truly God and your false prophet Mohammed to be a precursor of the Antichrist and other profane doctrine.”
-Sts. Habenitus, Jeremiah, Peter, Sabinian, Walabonsus, and
Wistremundus (d. 851), martyrs of Cordoba, Spain. Reported in the
Memoriale Sanctorum in response to Spanish Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd Ar-Rahman
II’s ministers that they convert to Islam on pain of death.
“Any cult which denies the divinity of Christ, does not
profess the existence of the Holy Trinity, refutes baptism, defames
Christians, and derogates the priesthood, we consider to be damned. All, of which, the false prophet Mohammed has done”
-Sts. Aurelius, Felix, George, Liliosa, and Natalia (d. 852), martyrs of Cordoba, Spain. Reported in the Memoriale Sanctorum in response to Spanish Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd Ar-Rahman II’s ministers that they convert to Islam on pain of death.
“On the other hand, those who founded sects committed to
erroneous doctrines proceeded in a way that is opposite to this, the
point is clear in the case of the false prophet Mohammed. He seduced the people by
promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh
goads us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity
with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all
this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men.
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As for proofs
of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be
grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom.
Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with
doctrines of the greatest falsity. He did not bring forth any signs
produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to
divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals
an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the contrary, the false prophet Mohammed said
that he was sent in the power of his arms—which are signs not lacking
even to robbers and tyrants.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274), Theologian and Doctor of the Church. Quoted from his De Rationibus Fidei Contra Saracenos, Graecos, et Armenos and translated from Fr. Damian Fehlner’s Aquinas on Reasons for the Faith: Against the Muslims, Greeks, and Armenians (Franciscans of the Immaculate. 2002.).
“As we have seen, the false prophet Mohammed had neither supernatural
miracles nor natural motives of reason to persuade those of his sect. As
he lacked in everything, he took to bestial and barbaric means, which
is the force of arms. Thus he introduced and promulgated his message
with robberies, murders, and bloodshedding, destroying those who did not
want to receive it, and with the same means his ministers conserve this
today, until God placates his anger and destroys this pestilence from
the earth.
The false prophet Mohammed can also be figured for the dragon in the same
Apocalypse which says that the dragon swept up a third of the stars and
hurled down a third to earth. Although this line is more appropriately
understood concerning the Antichrist, the false prophet Mohammed was, and, is his precursor – the
prophet of Satan, father of the sons of haughtiness.
Even if all the things contained in his law were fables
in philosophy and errors in theology, even for those who do not possess
the light of reason, the very manners (Islam) teaches are from a school
of vicious bestialities. The false prophet Mohammed did not prove his new sect with any
motive, having neither supernatural miracles nor natural reasons, but
solely the force of arms, violence, fictions, lies, and carnal license.
It remains an impious, blasphemous, vicious cult, an innovation of the
devil, and the direct way into the fires of hell. It does not even merit
the name of being called a religion.”
-St. Juan de Ribera (d.1611), Archbishop of Valencia,
missionary to Spanish Muslims, and organizer of the Muslim expulsions of
1609 from Spain. Quoted in several locations from his 1599 Catechismo para la Instruccion de los Nuevos Convertidos de los Moros .
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“The Mahometan paradise, however, is only fit for for beasts of the field; and for filthy sensual pleasure. This is the apex of what is offered by the false prophet Mohammed to all the lost believers, there is nothing, no hope, no salvation...”
St. Alfonsus Liguori (d. 1787). Quoted from his book, The History of Heresies and their Refutation.
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