RELIGION ! WHERE DID ISLAM COME FROM !,,, !THE PAGAN SOURCES OF ISLAM!
Muhammad adopted the pagan "religion of his parents" Muhammad’s grandfather was the guardian of the Kabah.
The influence of the religion of Muhammad’s parents, is the second most important factor in the rise of Islam. It is well documented that people rarely drift far from the religion of their parents. Contrary to Muslim myth, Muhammad’s family into which he was born, were pagan, and Muhammad himself worshipped all the idols at the Kabah. Islam, however retained almost all the pagan ritual associated with his father’s pagan religion, but with a new monotheistic twist. So Muhammad, after wandering around trying to start his religion outside of Arabia, decided to make his home town the center of the planet.
1. Muslim tradition
2. insists that he had no dealing with the pagan cults of his native city. This seems unlikely, and there are clear indications in his later life to suggest that, like everyone else, he practised the religion of his fathers. We are told elsewhere that he sacrificed a sheep to the goddess al- 'Uzza. One little-known tradition has him offering meat which had been sacrificed to idols to a monotheist, who refused it and rebuked him. He is said to have belonged to the hums, a brotherhood which practised its own special rites at Meccan ceremonies and observed additional taboos. (Mohammed, Maxime Rodinson, 1961, translated by Anne Carter, 1971, p 38-49) The grandfather of Muhammad, 'Abdu ‘l-Muttalib, the son of Hashim, became the custodian of the Sacred House; and during his time, the Ka'bah being considered too low in its structure, the Quraish wished to raise it; so they demolished it and then they rebuilt till the work reached the place of the black stone. Each tribe wishing to have the honour of raising the black stone into its place, they quarreled amongst themselves. But they at last agreed that the first man who should enter the gate of the enclosure should be umpire Muhammad was the first to enter, and be was appointed umpire. He thereupon ordered them to place the stone upon a cloth and each tribe by its representative to take hold of the cloth and lift it into its place. The dispute was thus ended, and when the stone had reached its proper place, Muhammad fixed it is its situation with his own hand. (A Dictionary Of Islam, Thomas Patrick Hughes, 1965, Kaba, p 256)
3. The old Arabian paganism was at that time in a process of disintegration, but Judaism and Christianity were widely represented in the peninsula, and to a lesser extent Zoro-astrianism and certain Gnostic sects. Several preachers of monotheism had arisen and each had gained a following, but it was Muhammad who succeeded in syncretizing certain basic elements of Judaeo-Christian faith and practice with native Arabian beliefs and, by his own burning faith in his mission and indomitable courage in carrying out that mission, initiated what has become one of the world religions of our day. (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion, Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p xi-xiv)
The influence of the religion of Muhammad’s parents, is the second most important factor in the rise of Islam. It is well documented that people rarely drift far from the religion of their parents. Contrary to Muslim myth, Muhammad’s family into which he was born, were pagan, and Muhammad himself worshipped all the idols at the Kabah. Islam, however retained almost all the pagan ritual associated with his father’s pagan religion, but with a new monotheistic twist. So Muhammad, after wandering around trying to start his religion outside of Arabia, decided to make his home town the center of the planet.
1. Muslim tradition
2. insists that he had no dealing with the pagan cults of his native city. This seems unlikely, and there are clear indications in his later life to suggest that, like everyone else, he practised the religion of his fathers. We are told elsewhere that he sacrificed a sheep to the goddess al- 'Uzza. One little-known tradition has him offering meat which had been sacrificed to idols to a monotheist, who refused it and rebuked him. He is said to have belonged to the hums, a brotherhood which practised its own special rites at Meccan ceremonies and observed additional taboos. (Mohammed, Maxime Rodinson, 1961, translated by Anne Carter, 1971, p 38-49) The grandfather of Muhammad, 'Abdu ‘l-Muttalib, the son of Hashim, became the custodian of the Sacred House; and during his time, the Ka'bah being considered too low in its structure, the Quraish wished to raise it; so they demolished it and then they rebuilt till the work reached the place of the black stone. Each tribe wishing to have the honour of raising the black stone into its place, they quarreled amongst themselves. But they at last agreed that the first man who should enter the gate of the enclosure should be umpire Muhammad was the first to enter, and be was appointed umpire. He thereupon ordered them to place the stone upon a cloth and each tribe by its representative to take hold of the cloth and lift it into its place. The dispute was thus ended, and when the stone had reached its proper place, Muhammad fixed it is its situation with his own hand. (A Dictionary Of Islam, Thomas Patrick Hughes, 1965, Kaba, p 256)
3. The old Arabian paganism was at that time in a process of disintegration, but Judaism and Christianity were widely represented in the peninsula, and to a lesser extent Zoro-astrianism and certain Gnostic sects. Several preachers of monotheism had arisen and each had gained a following, but it was Muhammad who succeeded in syncretizing certain basic elements of Judaeo-Christian faith and practice with native Arabian beliefs and, by his own burning faith in his mission and indomitable courage in carrying out that mission, initiated what has become one of the world religions of our day. (Islam: Muhammad and His Religion, Arthur Jeffery, 1958, p xi-xiv)
As Muhammad developed Islam he borrowed from the other regional religions present in the Mideast. These religions include Judaism, Christianity, Sabeanism, Zoroastrianism, and forms of paganism. Judaism is the largest contributor to Islam, followed by Christianity, then followed by the various pagan religions, and Muhammad’s mind. These pagan borrowings constitute significant facets of Islam and this article details some of these pagan contributions.