The Angel That Drove Muhammad to Suicide

But it doesn't stop there. It gets even worse. Muhammad considered killing himself

after meeting this Angel Gabriel. He intended several times to throw himself from the tops of

high mountains. This verse is crazy. According to Ibn Ishaq Sirah, the Life of Muhammad,

"Now, none of God's creatures was more hateful to me than a poet or a man possessed.

I could not even look at them. I said to myself, 'Woe is me, poet or possessed.

Never shall Quraysh say this of me. I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself

down, that I might kill myself and gain rest.' So I went forth to do so."

He intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains. But every time he