Why don't muslems question the history of Islam they are taught?

Question

Scholars are finding more and more inconsistancies with the Hadith and Koran and have found connections with the God of Islam and the Arabian pagan Moon God.

If you have more information please let me know.

Please note I will not go to a pro-Islam website since they are very biased and I want as an unbiased database as I can get.

Answer 1

Why don't muslems question the history of Islam they are taught?

It would be a DEATH SENTANCE!


http://apostatesofislam.com/
http://www.islam-watch.org/
http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Science/index.htm
http://jihadwatch.org/

Answer 2

Uhh..not sure which scholars you are reading, but my guess is your fears of biased have already been acheived. Arabs are very big on family lineage and history, forefathers, etc. Many arab populations are extremely tribal. For that reason history, and accurately reported history, is probably a more central theme in their lives than that of the West or many other parts of the world.

"Muslim history" has actually been reviewed with a logical, strict eye for detail. The Hadiths have to be narrated and disseminated by only someone known to be trustworthy and a good citizen. If a narrator was once known to have lied or been unfair in a business deal, that hadith is no longer considered authentic.

So I actually believe Islamic history is much easier to prove than say, early Jewish, or early Christian history which was at least 600 years older, and not nearly as well investigated.

Your question reaks of bias from the get-go though, so my believe that you're truly looking for an explanation is met with skepticism. Your "Moon god" reference summed it up pretty quick.

3/5 prayer times a muslim is required to pray at are dictated by the position of the sun in the sky. What is more opposite than the sun to the moon? If the moon were god, the prayers would be at night, and tied with that.

Answer 3

Why don't christians question the history of Chrsitianity that they are taught? Jehovah can be traced back to a tribal god, too.

Did you know, for example, that the Jews once engaged in human sacrifice, as did many ancient tribes, and that this eventually gave way to animal sacrifice, and finally, symbolic sacrifice?

Are you aware of the connection between the Ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Judeo-Christian flood myth?

Have you studied the influence that the ancient Roman "sacrifice of the sacred king" had upon Christian symbolism?

Surely you realize Christmas and Easter are based on ancient pagan holidays? Or are you in complete denial as to the history of your own religion? Then you have your own answer right there, don't you?


Open your own eyes before you accuse others of being blind.

Answer 4

Not this moon god crap again. Oh well, here I go again. For starters, please find any verses of the holy Quran or any prophetic traditions that say anything at all about "moon god". See if you can find any.

And from among His Signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. Prostrate not to the sun nor to the moon, but prostrate to Allah Who created them, if you (really) worship Him. (Qur'an 41:37)


Secondly, read academic books written by prominent historians all around the world, i.e. The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam by John L Esposito, Muhammad The Prophet by Karen Armstrong, etc. If you're really into Islamic history you should have known at least, this 2 emminent scholars of Islam. Both are respectable members of the high-level group of United Nations Alliance of Civilisations.

For detailed information, kindly spend a few hours of your time reading:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Allah/moongod.html

I'm sorry but I cant post it here as it's very lengthy - it can make a best-selling book. If you sceptics out there really want to release yourselves from ignorance, please help yourselves by reading the whole thing. If not, well, it's up to you. At least, I've already tried.

Happy Holidays.

Peace and Love.

Answer 5

Scholars find inconsistencies with ALL religions. So why don't all religious people question the history of their own religions? Many people would no longer be religious. I think we need to look at the big picture here... If you don't question, you don't learn. If you don't consider the fact that you MAY be wrong about something, you may always be wrong about it and not know.

Those who do not question are sheep.

Answer 6

Maybe you should study the pagan traditions of Christianity before you decide to bash another religion. The historical phenomenon of Christianization, the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once, also includes the practice of converting pagan practices, pagan religious imagery, pagan sites and the pagan calendar to Christian uses. In Antiquity, Christianization was effected only partly through laws against sacrifice and sorcery and official conversions of temples to Christian churches. It was effected also by the degradation of pagan gods into daimones and the Christianization of existing rites.

In many cases, re-use of pre-Christian activities and beliefs was officially sanctioned; preserved in the Venerable Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a letter from Pope Gregory I to Mellitus, arguing that conversions were easier if people were allowed to retain the outward forms of their traditions, while claiming that the traditions were in honour of the Christian God, "to the end that, whilst some gratifications are outwardly permitted them, they may the more easily consent to the inward consolations of the grace of God". In essence, it was intended that the traditions and practices still existed, but that the reasoning behind them was forgotten. The existence of syncretism in Christian tradition has long been recognised by scholars, and in recent times many of the instances of syncretism have also been acknowledged by the Roman Catholic church.

This can be seen in Christmas (winter festival, Easter (spring), Christmas tree (German pagan tradition for ever life) stockings (German pagan tradition for pagan king to fill) the list can go on.

Answer 7

There can be inconsistancies with hadith but not with Quran( though those difference are not about the basic body of islam but about few incidences)...Islam is not at all related to old moon god...Moon is only important in islam becuase we follow lunar calender and thus our eids and remadhan are decided accordingly.and thts it..not more than that.


“Among His Signs are the Night and the Day and the Sun and Moon. Prostrate (adore) not to the Sun and the Moon but prostrate to God, Who created them, if it is Him ye wish to serve.” (Qur’an, 41: 37)

Moon god is just a heinous lie that is linked to islam just to prove it pagan religion. But thats not true.we follow Quran and beleive whtever is written in it.

Answer 8

It is understandable that people are upset with Muslims. There is alot of confusion, but Hate won't help anyone but the terrorist. They want to divide and conquer.

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Answer 9

All Hadith are not perfect. Many of the great scholars of Islam were also known to be great critics of the Hadith.

The Qur'an is perfect though.

The moon god thing is so unbelievably stupid.
Allah means God in Arabic, you could connect that with any old idol, doesn't make it true.

Answer 10

the way to be unbiased is to study both extremes and make up your mind knoiwing both. What you are doing is being terribly biased. You might want to look into the number of mistakes that people who claim to be "intellectual scientific people" have made.

Answer 11

Why don't you question the history you are taught of Jesus by your religion? Despite that the points taught by Christianity regarding the life of Jesus, people bury their head in the sand on the subject.

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