Ali Sina - Understanding Muhammad

Muhammad’s Personality Profile
4. Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation, or failing that,
wishes to be feared and notorious (narcissistic supply)
5. Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment.
Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations
6. Is “interpersonally exploitative” i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
7. Is devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the
feelings and needs of others
8. Is constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
9. Is arrogant, has haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated,
contradicted, or confronted 93
All these traits were confirmed in Muhammad. Apart from thinking
he was the anointed messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets
(Q.33:40), Muhammad regarded himself as Khayru-l-Khalq (the Best of
Creation), an “excellent example” (Q.33:21), and explicitly or implicitly
hinted to be “exalted above other prophets in degrees” (Q.2:253). He
claimed to be “the preferred one” (Q.17:55), to have been sent as a “Mercy
to the worlds” (Q.21:107), to have been risen “to a praised estate”
(Q.17:79) – a station which he said none but he would receive – and this is
the Station of Intercession at the right hand of the Almighty next to his
Glorious Throne. In other words, he would be the person who would
advise God as to who should be sent to Hell and who should be admitted to
Heaven. These are just some of Muhammad’s megalomaniac claims about
his own lofty station that are reported in the Qur’an.
The following two verses express vividly Muhammad’s sense of self
importance and grandiosity.
Truly, Allâh and His angels send praise and blessings [forever] upon the Prophet. O
you who believe! Praise and bless the Prophet with utmost laud and blessing.
(Q.33:56)
In order that you (O men) may believe in Allâh and His Messenger, that you may
assist and honor Him, and celebrate His praise morning and evening. (Q.48:9)
93 The language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from:
American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental
disorders, fourth edition (DSM IV). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Sam Vaknin. (1999). Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited, first edition. Prague and
Skopje: Narcissus Publication. ("Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"
http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/faq1.html )
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