Hypothetically speaking, if Mohammed had never been born, what religion would Muslims be today?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

A lot of people in that region were pagans at the time, so its possible those religions would still be flourishing, such as Zoroastrianism. Many Muslims in Africa would probably still have their native pagan religions. Christianity probably would have eventually pushed its ways into some of those areas as well.

Answer 2

Islamic

They believed that when God gave the 'keys to the kingdom' to Isaac, he actually gave them to his illegitimate brother...Ishmael.

The Judeo/Christian lineage is Abraham..Isaac...Jacob

The Muslim lineage is Abraham...Ishmael

The Ishmaelites became through rough translation...Islamists.

Genesis 16:12...speaking of Ishmael....

"His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

Very prophetic I'd say...who says the Bible is not right, and does not have relevence in today's world..

Mohammed was a prophet, who after recieving a vision fromGod, changed Islam.

All Mohammed did, was turn a thriving religion, a society at the time that boasted some of the greatest minds and sciences in the world...into a backwards, warring religion that tried to drag themselves back to a 'better' time. That is still their mission...hating the Jews and the Christians is only part of it...hating the modern world is also a big part of their anger.

It was Muhammed that destroyed Christianity in the old world...ever wonder why in the birthplace of Christianity...there is none...Muhammed is the answer.

The Crusades were nothing more than a defense and counter attack against the Muhammedists that attempted to destroy Christianity. This is never taught anymore. We are taught the Crusades are about warring Christians trying to conquer the world for Jesus...that is not true...if it were...Christianity would still be thriving in the mid-east.

Without Mohammed, Islam would very likely be a peaceful religion in the world.

Answer 3

Zoroastrianism was the religion of the area but it was falling into disfavor around the time of Muhhamed . Islam is basically a reworking of Zoroastrianism , Judism , and Catholicism .
I imagine most of them would have eventually joined the Catholic Church or very possibly someone else would have started another religion based primarily on the OT in the Arab Areas , in order to mount a military response to Catholic and Jewish expansion . At the time of Muhhamed , most Jews and Catholics considered the Arabs to be a barbaric , sinful , untrustworthy race of people . And in fact Muhammed wanted the Arabs to change their business practices to be more respectable . He instituted many new business laws including a ban on charging for loans , and severe punisments for stealing . Of course this did nor apply to "war" where women, children ,and valubles were stolen from Jewish and Christian Caravans , homes , and shops .

bong's links (below) don't answer the question . They are just links to Islamic propanda sites .

Answer 4

Well that is easy. Mohamed lived in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. In those days, Arabia, and especially Mecca and its black stone was a center for Idolatry. So No Mohamed, no expansion of Islam, no Muslims and the populations would have kept their original beliefs possibly (pagans).
Hope that helps.

Well perhaps I would be killed for daring to say that if I was in a Muslim country, but I'm not Muslim nor in a Muslim country right now so that should help ;-)

Answer 5

Since the British occupied most of the Arabian nations way back when, they'd probably have gotten converted to christianity (the poor souls). You might find a few who followed the early desert traditions believing in djini and all that, and maybe a few following jewish traditions. And you'd also have to account for other local faiths in whatever geographic area you were referring to. But they wouldn't all be just one religion.

The same goes with Christians - if Jesus had never come, what religion would Christians be?'
Severa dozen European religions, buddhist, hindu, shinto, taoist, etc etc etc.

Answer 6

No, because of the fact i'm uncertain what i might do with out God. he's my desire. and that i understand that to be the comparable for many others. who's to declare that no person's faith is optimal? Is it relatively worse to have many theories and have one (or one and a a million/2, based on the translation commentary) be good than to have not have been given any theories in any respect? Or one theory, that could or might no longer be nicely suited? A theory, one that has some hazard to be nicely suited yet isn't sure and can't clarify each and every thing, and no desire for 1000's, possibly 1000's, of individuals? that isn't any longer faith that's a situation: that's the individuals who make faith right into a situation. i might never harm all people for believing something distinctive than I do, because of the fact the Bible says to no longer abuse your self or all people else. no longer that I blindly persist with: I even have my own evaluations, and specific, my own interpretation. i don't have faith a passage potential a undeniable element basically because of the fact the universal public does. i don't have faith that homosexuality is erroneous because of the fact of uptight people who call themselves Christians yet are particularly merciless do, and that i don't have faith that any one is condemned to Hell for issues that they apologized for. It basically does not look good to me.

Answer 7

I understand that there were some very strong sects of Christianity [but not affiliated with the Roman Catholic church] in the middle east, after having been taught and nurtured by some of the apostles. These were forceably converted by Muhammed.
Give me a day and I'll see about getting you some references from a professor of antiquities that mentioned this...

EDIT: This came from a discussion with Dr Wilfred Griggs, director of ancient studies and professor of ancient scripture at BYU. I have emailed him regarding his sources -- if you're interested, email me

Answer 8

Geographically speaking, Zoroastrianism was the religion of many of the residents of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan,Syria, Azerbiajan, Jordan, Turkey, and India.

From a religions roots perspective, the Jewish faith pre-dates the creation of Christianity and Islam:

"Genesis, the first book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, contains two origin stories, both of which are accepted as the creation of the world by today's Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths."

Answer 9

That would depend on what region they're in. In the centuries after Mohammed, Islam spread as far west as Spain, and as far east as Indonesia, and different religions had been predominant in different areas - Christianity in most of the European/North African areas, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions in Asia. Without Islam, most of those people probably would have remained in their predominant religions.

Answer 10

Why stupid hypothetical questions. According to plan of God every Prophet is born on the time and date God has already written for him.