No Record of the city of Mecca before 4th Century AD.

[OPF]

All things testify to the supreme truth of ALLAH.

If an atheist goes out to try to disprove ALLAH they will collect a set of evident truths against the misconceptions of ALLAH. Those very same evident truths will prove ALLAH's word to be correct (e.g. evolution).

Total catch 22, for truth itself can never be again rendered false.

[huruf]

I have found this text by Patricia Crone:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-europe_islam/mohammed_3866.jsp
The title is

What do we actually know about Mohamed?

I was not expecting much because of other thing I found in the internet about the writer, which probbly were not objective with her or hislam or the Prophet.

However this test to me seems not too bad. In fact I find it hopeful. It points to something I have been suspecting all the time: that there is A LOOOOOOT to be done in archeology, because up till now, Arabia in the part is practically virgin, but what is being uncovered without much exploration turns out to be very promising that Arabia in that part was not the void it is represented to be.

Of course, those who do not believe that the Qur'an is a revelation as much as anything can be a revelation, will always pretend that the Qur'an consists of borrowings from Christian and Jewish tradition, as if those were better guaranty than the Qur'an, but I do not see from facts coming to life through real science any threat to the "reputation" of the Qur'an. Obviously the Qur'an itself gurantees itself for whoever finds it truthful.

Salaam

[huruf]

The fact that the writer of the article mntioned in the first message of the thread is a Christian means nothing bad or good, but the institution he writes for, I have checked, is a professional Muslim basher under the guise of science and enlightement of Muslims.

Here what it says under their heading "Bible"



The Qur?an or the Bible

The Qur?an repeats the mythology in vogue at the time of Mohammed.  His thoughts reflect ancient teachings about the earth, the sun and the creation.  These teachings can be traced in the well-known mythology of the people of the middle and far East.

So, I sam sorry for Rifaat Amari, but he is a pawn or an emplyee of that institution and not a desinterested person, whose judgement, as it is, would deserve credibility, without very good and verifiable proof of what is attempted to proove with his article.


Salaam

 

[DaresBears]

Absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence.