I think this is the knock down, ultimate argument that utterly destroys any credibility that Islam might have. It’s called the ‘Islamic Dilemma’, made famous by David Wood.
I will only be using the Qur'an for this, although Wood has been known to support it with hadiths as well. The reason I will be leaving aside the hadiths, is that using the Qur'an is a stronger case. The Qur'an is essentially the Muslim equivalent to our Bible. It’s the Holy Scripture from God himself. The hadiths are commentaries on it and biographies of Muhammad. Some Muslims treat them as authoritative like the Scripture, but not all do, and even those who do might try to wriggle out of the conclusion by suggesting that the particular hadith you are referring to isn’t trustworthy. So it’s best to stick to the Qur'an, because a Muslim can never say that you can’t trust Allah’s own book.
The Islamic Dilemma itself is very straight forward, but it takes a little bit of ground work to get to it, so let’s start with that.
Muslims are commanded in the Qur'an to say:
