Diving In
Muhammad, you know your father, he was the priest of the Kaaba. You could inherit, rule the Kaaba, and so rule Mecca. You know, replace Pharaoh.
But, you know, I’m illegitimate. Amina made it known that Abdullah wasn’t my father with her miracle talk about me. Waraqa, bless his soul, was my real father. I’m the son of a Syrian; I’m not of my tribe.
But, we could,…
Lie about it? That would be silly. Only the naive and children would believe that. All the adults and old people know I’m illegitimate. And besides, what’s my speech to my tribe? “Follow what the Father has revealed?”
I can predict it now, “Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing.”
Koran Contradiction 