(February 5, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Rayaan Wrote:This is in a different time-line (like the new star trek movies). Remember that paragraph started with a mighty IF.(February 5, 2015 at 6:02 pm)pocaracas Wrote: The tale that Abd Al-Malik spread throughout his empire could very well have been a cunning lie, at a time when no one alive would know better and most people just wouldn't care... but it would bring them together under a single nation and religion... and it clearly worked.
But before you were saying that the tale/rumor could have started somewhere between Abd-Al-Malik and Muhammad. Now you went back to saying that Abd-Al-Malik started the tale before anyone else knew anything about it?
This is another potential way things could have unraveled, for all I know...
(February 5, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Plus, I think it's almost impossible that the people who were alive at that time would have all forgotten who Muhammad was, and yet only Abd-Al-Malik would know something about him.
Well, Once upon a time, there was a Teacher of Righteousness.... in time, somehow, his deeds became attributed to a Jesus.
It then becomes possible that once there was a leader of tribes, who in time, somehow, finds his deeds attributed to a Mohammad.
Nothing was recorded in due time and when something was finally recorded, it may have been with an agenda behind it.
And if this is the case, what can we say is true from that record?
