RE: Help with Islam
April 22, 2011 at 4:33 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2011 at 4:34 am by ruhollah.)
KichigaiNeko
The prophet came at a time when the average Arab had no problem burying female babies alive. At a time when almost everyone in the community called him a kook, threw stones at him, pissed on his front door, harassed his family, ...etc. The people of his time treated him in some of the worst ways imaginable.
However in the end, once he passed away everyone he knew converted to follow this religion. Why? There were Christians and Jewish communities all over in Arabia and all of those guys converted. Why were these guys convinced? What did the prophet do to have this kind of following?
I suggest you study the text, watch some lectures on youtube to have a better understanding. People at his time told him upfront that he was a kook, and he jacked all these stories from christianity/Judaism and yet they were all convinced in the end.
The prophet came at a time when the average Arab had no problem burying female babies alive. At a time when almost everyone in the community called him a kook, threw stones at him, pissed on his front door, harassed his family, ...etc. The people of his time treated him in some of the worst ways imaginable.
However in the end, once he passed away everyone he knew converted to follow this religion. Why? There were Christians and Jewish communities all over in Arabia and all of those guys converted. Why were these guys convinced? What did the prophet do to have this kind of following?
I suggest you study the text, watch some lectures on youtube to have a better understanding. People at his time told him upfront that he was a kook, and he jacked all these stories from christianity/Judaism and yet they were all convinced in the end.
(April 22, 2011 at 2:29 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:(April 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm)ruhollah Wrote: This holy book is considered to be a poetic miracle. The average person can interpret these verses in their favor.
I understand it to mean that it is a miracle that a desert dwelling goat herder had the nous to steal material from other goat herding desert dwellers and plagiarise material that can be found long before said goat herding desert dwellers even thought of writing, not to mention poetry???
(April 21, 2011 at 10:53 pm)ruhollah Wrote: To have a true sense of what these verses mean, they should consult s experts who study Arabian history and ancient semantic linguistics. These experts have a better sense of what these verses are referring to.
Well yes they do hence my comments above.