MUSLIMS...WAS ALEXANDER THE GREAT A MUSLlM?

Question

Zulqarnain (a name in the islamic q'uran) refers to Alexander the Great. Because the uncanny similarities between the two characters are too extreme to discard as otherwise. Before you proceed onto the website for details :
http://debate.domini.org/newton/index.html#q
I summarise the website here for you, in case muslims are too slow to understand what the website is saying.
1 – The Quran’s Sura 18 (kindly refer to own quran for reference) speaks of Zulqarnain, and a powerful nation called Gog and Magog and how a gigantic and strong barrier of iron (poured over molten lead) was built between two steep mountain sides. So high that it was impossible to scale over it or dig through it. The millions of Gog and Magog were behind this structure until the Day of Resurrection (Q.18:92-98; 21:96-97).

But… where did the story of this dam and the iron gate and Gog and Magog come from? The story came from a legend, a myth that has no historical reality, called the “Romance of Alexander”. Telling these kinds of legends was a popular pastime of ancient people. It is equivalent to movies nowadays.

“The episode of the building of the gate against Gog and Magog is found in the Christian legend concerning Alexander, and in the poetic version of Jacob of Serugh which was written not later than A.D. 521. The Koran was written over a century after this version”.[8]

Dear reader, let’s forget about the legends for the time being. Suppose there were no legends and that the Qur’an did not borrow the story from a legend. And the facts are this: The Qur’an indeed mentioned a huge impregnable structure that will last to the end of times, but this structure is no where to be found. It does not exist and did not exist. The ABSENCE of this colossal structure would ALSO bring to question the validity of the Qur’an. So, either ways, the quran is proven to be lying.

Muslims have a choice here. To accept or reject the discovered gates of Alexander by the ancient muslims. Accept it as proof of of Zulqarnian (but unfortunately Alexander is no muslim! And died young) OR they can reject entirely this discovery and call the quran bull because the COLOSSAL structure does not exist.

Unfortunately for them, the parallels between the story of Zul-Qarnain and the Legend concerning Alexander the Great are too numerous they point to one conclusion: The story concerning Zul-Qarnain in the Qur'an has come from the Legends concerning Alexander the Great. Of course this conclusion provides the muslims no relief since the q’uran says Alexander was a muslim who died young when historical facts shows the direct opposite.

This is why muslims (true ones) have to resort to violence always to get their points across because whatever they say catches them back and they are stuck trying to defend their lies with more lies.

The story of zulqarnian says that he saw the sun setting into a muddy spring.

Correction, the q'uran says alexander died in old age as a muslim.

Check your history books!

The point here is, the q'uran spouts so much trash and lies, it simply does not hold up.

Alexander saw the sun setting in a muddy spring? was a muslim who died in old age? Where the heck did the muslims come from? CAVES?

The point here is, the q'uran spouts so much trash and lies, it simply does not hold up.

Alexander saw the sun setting in a muddy spring? was a muslim who died in old age? Where the heck did the muslims come from? CAVES?

mrb10, that's why you're still a muslim. You chose to be damned by your choice of being an ignoramus for life.

Answer 1

First of all it is too much to read.

but the Quran has lots of history in it. Alexander wasn't a Muslim but his name has been known to the world up until now.
There are alot of other historical names mentioned in the Quran who weren't Muslims. They can range from atheists to polytheists.

Answer 2

Alexander the Great sometimes is identified in Persian and Arabic traditions sources as Dhul-Qarnayn, Arabic for the "Two-Horned One", possibly a reference to the appearance of a horn-headed figure that appears on coins minted during his rule and later imitated in ancient Middle Eastern coinage. If this theory is followed, accounts of the Alexander legend, can be found in Qur'an if Alexander is the Dhul-Qarnayn mentioned in the Quran.

It can be found in the Persian tradition too if the theory is accurate. The same traditions from the Pseudo-Callisthenes were combined in Persia with Sassanid Persian ideas about Alexander in the Iskandarnamah. In this tradition, Alexander built a wall of iron and melted copper in which Gog and Magog are confined.

Some Muslim scholars disagree that Alexander was Dhul-Qarnayn. There are actually some theories that Dhul-Qarnayn was a Persian King with a vast Empire as well, possibly King Cyrus the Great. The reason being is Dhul-Qarnayn is described in the Holy Quran as a monotheist believer who worshipped Allah (God). Taking this into consideration this removes Alexander as a candidate for Dhul-Qarnayn as it is well known that Alexander was a man who followed the Hellenistic traditions of Greece making him a polytheist not a monotheist.

Answer 3

Blah Blah Blah...too much to read so I just read the bottom part about Muslim choices and my choice is to say...

You say previously in questions that you are an ex-Muslim, so why are you still obsessing about a religion that you no longer claim? Maybe you know deep down that you are making a mistake to leave Islam...and that if you deny Allah that you will never make it to Jinna.

Quit trying to prove things that are wrong...

EDIT: So if you are no longer a Muslim, then what religion have you chosen to follow?

Answer 4

Your question makes no darn sense. Alexander was Greek, that means he believed in Zeus and all the other greek gods, centuries before Islam was founded.

Your complete ignorance of this shines like a cell phone in a movie theater.

Answer 5

Alexander the Great was from Macedonia, which is north of Greece. He was born 350 BC, while Muhammad was born 570 AD. There is no way Alex was a Muslim, b/c the religion did not exist.

Answer 6

Uh, Alexander the Great pre-dates Islam, and he was from Macedonia. He did conquer certain areas. No.

Answer 7

Not possible. Alexander was around a thousand years before Muhammad.

Answer 8

Dude...

You are not a Muslim, you are totally biased against Islam, and it seems to me that you have nothing to do but come here and bash Islam.

My point....


Grow up, please.


Peace.

Answer 9

Alexander the great was greek so he believed in greek gods.

Answer 10

Alexander was bisexual. Is Islam accepting of that?