The Koran denies Jesus Christ was crucified. The Koran says it took
God eight days to create the world. The Koran says that one of Noah’s three
sons refused to go into the Ark and was drowned in the Flood. The Koran says it
was Pharaoh’s wife, not his daughter, who adopted Moses.
The Koran says Abraham took his son Ishmael, not Isaac, for a
sacrifice. The Koran says Abraham lived in the valley of Mecca, not Hebron. The
Koran says Abraham—get this—rebuilt the Islamic Kabah (it says Adam was the
original architect!). The Koran says Abraham was thrown into a fire by Nimrod,
even though Nimrod had been dead for centuries by the time of Abraham’s life.
As author Robert Morey explains in his incredible 1992 expose book The Islamic Invasion, “The
seventh-century Arab, and Muhammad in particular, did not think in terms of
linear time, that is, historical chronology. In the West, people think of
history in terms of a straight line with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
“In the East, people think in terms of never-ending cycles.
Evidently, in the Middle East at the time of Muhammad, Arabs did not have any
settled conception of time at all. Arab stories and legends put together
places, people, and events in one present vision as if they were all living at
the same time!
“This is why throughout the Quran, Nimrod and Abraham, Haman and
Moses, Mary and Aaron, etc. were all pictured as living and working together.
This is why the Quran can put together the flood and Moses, the tower of Babel
and Pharaoh, etc. as if all those things happened at the same time.
“This is a very serious challenge to the integrity of the Quran
because it violates the historic chronology of the Bible and secular history at
the same time.”
*****
The Koran says that not only did Solomon understand “the language of
the birds” but that “winds also performed his will, and the jinn . . . To him
were obedient demons of the most diverse sorts, and the evil spirits were given
into his hand.”
The Koran’s male and female “jinns” were spirits to be worshipped and feared and could be found in trees, stones, rivers and mountains.
“In terms of pre-Islamic religious life, the basic orientation of
the people was that of superstition—the Arabs believed in the ‘evil eye,’ the
casting of curses and spells, magic stones, fatalism, fetishes, and the
fabulous stories of the jinns, or what we call in English genies or fairies,”
reports Morey.
“Most people in their childhood have read some of the fantastic fables found in The Arabian Nights, stories of Aladdin’s lamp, of flying carpets, etc. It is no surprise therefore to find that the Koran also contains references to such things as the evil eye, curses, fatalism, and the fabulous jinns (Sura 55; 72; 113 and 114).
“In many Islamic countries, Muslims still wear an amulet around the
neck in which a part of the Koran is recorded to ward off the ‘evil eye.’ ”
*****
According to the Koran (Suras 46:29-35; 72:1-28), Muhammad, on his
way back from Mecca, preached to and converted the jinns who, in turn, preached
Islam to the masses.
“Thus, the male and female spirits who inhabited the trees, the rocks, and the waters of Arabia were now Muslims and under the control of Muhammad,” writes Morey. “This is a classic form of shamanism in which Muhammad now claimed to be in control of the spirits of the earth.”
Morey reports that Muhammad’s mother Aminah, in fact, often claimed
to be visited by jinns: “Muhammad’s mother was involved in what we call today
the ‘occult arts,’ and this basic orientation is thought by some scholars to
have been inherited by her son.
In fact, it was when Muhammad was in a trancelike state that he’d
receive his “divine” visitations and then rise and proclaim what had been
“handed down” to him.
“From the description of the bodily movements that were often
connected with his trances, many scholars have stated that these were epileptic
seizures,” writes Morey. “For example, the Shorter
Encyclopedia of Islam, published by Cornell University, points out that the
Hadith itself describes ‘the half-abnormal ecstatic condition with which he was
overcome.’
“What must be remembered is that in the Arab culture of Muhammad’s
day, epileptic seizures were interpreted as a religious sign of either demonic
possession or divine visitation.
“Muhammad initially considered both options as possible
interpretations of his experience. At first he worried about the possibility
that he was demon possessed . . . The bodily characteristics connected with his
religious trance seemed even to Muhammad to parallel those of people in his
community who would fall down in fits and of whom others would say that they
were possessed of devils.
“He became so depressed that he decided to commit suicide. But on his way to the place where he was going to kill himself, he fell once again into a seizure. He experienced another vision in which he felt that he had been told not to kill himself because he was truly called of God.
“Yet even after this religious experience, he still became depressed
and filled with doubt.”
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