Islam in orientalists view

How Orient list blame the Islam and prophet of Islam We discus here both statements of orient lists in favor and in opponent,

William muire states that

"Happening one day to visit the dwelling of his adopted son Zeid, he found him absent. As he knocked, zeinab wife of Zeid, started up in confusion to array herself decently for the prophet's reception. But her charms had already through the half opened door unveiled themselves too freel before his admiring gaze; and Mahomet smitten by the sight, exclaimed, "Gracious Lord! God Heavens! How thou dost turn the hearts of men!" The words uttered as he turned to go, were overheard by Zeinab, and she, proud of her conquest, was nothing loth to tell her husband of it. Zeid went at once to Mahomet, and offered to divorce his wife for him. "Keep thy wife to thyself," he answered, and fear God, but the words fell from unwilling lips." (Mahomet and Islam, p.129)

Again he state that, after marriage what happen and what Prophet (PBUH) did

"The marriage caused no small obloquy, and to save his reputation Mahomet fell back upon his oracle. A passage was promulgated which purports on the part of the Almighty to sonction the union, and even reprehends the prophet for hesitating to consummate it from the fear of man." (Mahomet and Islam, p.130)

"Could the burlesque of inspiration be carried further? yet this verse, as well as the revelation ehiding him for his scruples regarding Zeinab, and directions as to the Prophet's relations with his household, arw all in corporated in the coran, and to this day are gravely recited in due course, as a part of the word of God, in every Mosque throught Islam." (Mahomet and Islam,p.132)

Washington Irving states that

"One day he entered his house with the freedom with which a father enters the dwelling of a son. Zeid was absent, but Zeinab his wife, whom he had recently married, was at home, She was the daughter of Djaseh, of the country of Kaiba, and considered the fairest of her tribe. In the privacy of home she had laid aside her veil and part of her attire, so that her beauty stood revealed to the gaze of Mahomet on his sudden entrance. He could not refrain from expression of wonder and admiration to which she made no reply, But repeated them all to her husband on his return. Zeid knew the amerous susceptibility of Mahomet, and saw that he had been captivated by the beauty of Zeinab. Hastening after him, he offered to repudiate his wife; but the prophet forbade it as contrary to the law. The Zeal of Zeid was not to be checked; he loved his beautiful wife, but he venerated the prophet, and he divorced himself without delay. When the requisite term of separation had elapsed, Mahomet accepted, with gratitude, this pious sacrifice." (Mahomet and His Successors, vol.1 p.193)

Montgomery Watt condemn all these blames

Watt says

"Despite the stories, then it is unlikely that he was swept off his feet by physical attractiveness of Zaynab. The other wives are said to have feared her beauty; but her age when she married Muhammad was thirty five, or perhaps rather thirty eight, which is fairly advanced for an Arab women." (Muhammd at Medina p.331)

At another place watt says

"It is most unlikely that at the age of fifty six such a man as he should have been carried away by a passion for a women of thirty five or more."

"The criticism of Muhammad, then was based on a pre-Islamic idea that was rejected by Islam, and one aim of Muhammad in contracting the marriage to break the hold of the old idea over men's conduct. How important was this aim compared with others which he might have had." (Muhammad at Medina, p.330)