Let's pretend for the sake of Debate Christianity is true and that the only way to get to heaven is to accept Jesus into your heart.

Satan does not want people to accept Jesus. So what does he do? He visits some random person in the desert and says he's Gabriel. He also says that Jesus was just a man and the REAL way to get to heaven is to be Muslim.

He then helps Muhammad split the moon. He helps Muhammad spread his message. He flies him on a winged horse to a fake heaven he made.

There is no way at all to know it wasn't Satan that Muhammad was talking to.

If this happened, he would have essentially convinced over a billion people to follow a false religion that will lead them to Hell.

Now, I do not believe in God or the Devil, but if the Devil was real, I feel like he would do this.

So why, Muslims do you believe it wasn't Satan that visited Muhammad?

What evidence do you have for the Quran being true that Satan couldn't have put in there?

According to Islamic tradition, the contents of the Quran are revelations that Muhammad received from the angel Gabriel over the course of twenty two years. Muhammad is believed to have received the first of these supposed revelations in 610 C.E., when he was about forty years old and meditating in a cave. The event is described as follows:

Sahih Bukhari: Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3 (Link)

The angel came to him and asked him to read. The Prophet replied, "I do not know how to read. The Prophet added, "The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read and I replied, 'I do not know how to read.' Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read but again I replied, 'I do not know how to read (or what shall I read)?' Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then released me and said, 'Read in the name of your Lord, who has created (all that exists) has created man from a clot. Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous."

Note how violent the supposed interaction between the angel and Muhammad is described as having been, and note that the being never identifies itself (neither as Gabriel nor as an angel in general).

Now, consider how differently the interactions that Gabriel is believed to have had with other individuals is described in the following passages.

Daniel 8:16-19

15. Now it came to pass when I, Daniel, perceived that vision, that I sought understanding, and behold, there stood before me one who appeared like a man.

16. And I heard the voice of a man in the midst of the Ulai, and he called and said, "Gabriel, enable this one to understand the vision."

17. And he came beside the place where I was standing, and when he came, I became frightened, and I fell upon my face. Then he said to me, "Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the time of the end."

18. Now, when he spoke to me, I fell into a sound sleep upon my face to the ground, and he touched me and stood me up where I had been standing.

19. And he said to me, "Behold I am letting you know what will be at the end of the fury, for it is the end of the time.

Note that in contrast to Muhammad's experience, Gabriel is identified by name in the presence of Daniel and Gabriel does not inflict pain on Daniel when interacting him but merely touches him in order to rouse him back to consciousness after her fainted due to seeing Gabriel.

Consider the following passages as well.

Luke 1:11-13

11. Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

12. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear.

13. But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.

Luke 1:19

19. The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

Luke 1:28-30

28. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

29. Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.

30. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.

Note that in contrast to Muhammad's experience, Gabriel is nonviolent and comforts those to whom he delivers messages when they exhibit fear of him.

Also note that Muhammad himself described his supposed reception of revelations as being similar to the ringing of a bell on some occasions and that such occasions were the most severe for him (severe being a word used to describe something bad). And note that he described the bell as "the musical instrument of Satan" on another occasion, which implies that - according to his own logic - the occasions on which his supposed reception of revelations were similar to a bell were experiences stemming from Satan.

Sahih Muslim, no.5765 (Link)

'A'isha reported that Harith b. Hisham asked Allah's Apostle ﷺ: How does the the wahi (inspiration) come to you? He said: *At times it comes to me like the ringing of a bell and that is most severe for me* and when it is over I retain that (what I had received in the form of wahi), and at times an Angel in the form of a human being comes to me (and speaks) and I retain whatever he speaks.

Sahih Muslim, no. 5279 (Link)

Abu Huraira reported Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: The bell is the musical instrument of the Satan.

Now, consider 2 Corinthians 11:12-15 (especially verse 14)

12. And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.

13. For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

14. *****And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.*

15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

Hence, we must conclude in accordance with the logic of the Abrahamic scriptures that preceded Muhammad, that Muhammad did not receive revelations from Gabriel but that he received lies from Satan masquerading as an angel.

So as we know the Quran claims Muhammad was visited by the angel Gabriel, who gifted him the ability to read (he was previously illiterate) and set him on his religious quest to convert Arabia

However we know that Satan masquerades himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) and that one of the ways to rebuke evil spirits is to ask them to proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that those who refuse are not from God (1 John 4:2)

Which of course, famously "Gabriel" didn't do in this meeting, but instead set Muhammad on a quest to delegitimise the divinity of Jesus.

So, do you think it was in fact Satan or one of his followers who disguised himself as an angel of God. Or alternatively do you think the entire story was just falsified by Muhammad? I've heard differing opinions on this

"Gabriel the angel that Muhamamd was supposed to have met in the cave while meditating and who brought down the Qur'an for recitation. In the first encounter, Aisha related that when Muhammad did not recite, Gabriel caught him (forcefully) and pressed him so hard that he could not bear it any more, and this was repeated three times. Gabriel left Muhammad terribly shaken. Muhammad feared that something might have happened to him, returned and asked Khadija to cover him until his fear was gone. Muhammad thought that the spirit was a jinn. (Sahih Bukhari 1.3) He even contemplated commiting suicide by throwing himself down a mountain.

Muhammad (pbuh) & Khadija's Thigh:-

   Ibn Ishaq recorded that when the spirit came to Muhammad another time, Khadija tested him: 

Isma`il b. Abu Hakim, a freedman of the family of al-Zubayr, told me on Khadija's authority that she said to the apostle of Allah, 'O son of my uncle, are you able to tell me about your visitant, when he comes to you?" He replied that he could, and she asked him to tell her when he came.

   So when Gabriel came to him, as he was wont, the apostle said to Khadija, 'This is Gabriel who has just come to me.' `Get up, O son of my uncle,' she said,

and sit by my left thigh.' The apostle did so, and she said,Can you see him?' Yes,' he said. She said,Then turn around and sit on my right thigh.' He did so, and she said, Can you see him?' When he said that he could she asked him to move and sit in her lap. When he had done this she again asked if he could see him, and when he said yes, she disclosed her form and cast aside her veil while the apostle was sitting in her lap. Then she said,Can you see him?' And he replied, No.' She said,O son of my uncle, rejoice and be of good heart, by Allah he is an angel and not a satan. (Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, tr. Guillaume, 1967, p. 107)

   Abed El Malak Bin Hisham wrote the biography of Mohammed and he mentions that when Mohammed was at the cave of Hira, outside of Mecca, he was alone, when a spirit came and squeezed him, and told him, "Read." He went to this wife scared. And he continued to be in doubt of what happened to him. And one day, his wife Khadijah said to him, "Mohammed, let us put that on a test. When the spirit comes to you, tell me, and we will test if that spirit is really Gabriel the angel, or a bad spirit." He said OK.        

   One day, he was sitting with her, and he said, "Khadijah, the spirit came!" She said, "Come, and sit on my right side." So, he sat on her right side. She said, "Mohammed, do you see the spirit?" He said, "Yes." She said, "Then sit on my left side." So, he switched and he sat on her left side. "Do you see the spirit?"Khadijah asked. "Yes," Mohammed answered. "Then sit on my lap." He sits on her lap. "Do you still see the spirit?" "Yes," Mohammed answered. Then she uncovered herself to show some of her feminine parts of body. And then she said, "Do you see the spirit?" He said, "No." She said, "That spirit is good because he doesn't want to see my feminine part. You are the prophet of Allah." And by that he came to be convinced that that spirit who was talking to him was the angel Gabriel, and a good spirit, because when he saw his wife almost naked, he didn't stay to see.

This testing is very interesting and appeared to be a cultural/traditional method of testing spirits. In Chinese culture, however, demons and devils are the ones afraid of female nude appearances, the exact opposite of the test by Khadija." (In which the good spirit, Gabriel "was afraid" or did not want to see Khadija naked).