The three main Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - all originated in the Arabian Peninsula. The three religion share similarities because they believe in the common prophets and stories, i.e. the creation of man/Adam and Eve, Noah's Flood, Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, Moses and his miracles etc.
My question is, as per popular Islamic belief, 124,000 prophets were sent to every part of the world, why don't we have other religions which has the same common stories and prophets as the three Abrahamic religions?
Why didn't a religion develop in let's say Latin America or India or Europe, that also believes in Noah, Moses or Jacob, or how Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were banished to earth?
Prophets are sent for the guidance and reformation of Nations. They are neither banished to earth, nor they are sent to barren lands with No Homo Sapiens.
Quran uses word " Adam " Inter changebly for two
1. Adam (evolved Human Being ie Homo Sapien)
2. Hazrat Adam AS (Prophet)
In the story of Adam and Eve the Adam in question is Hazrat Adam AS.
Evolutionary process had got so far that Human race (Man) was now capable of receiving guidance which distinguish between right and wrong, previously he was going through developing stage, he was developing in that respect so before he could not have understood guidance and was not able to distinguish between right and wrong but now the evolutionary process had come to a peak in that sense that physically and mentally Man had developed to what we are today and he was able to comprehend the guidance that was sent to him. This is when Allah raised amongst already existing Adams, First Prophet Hazrat Adam AS.
In Surah e Baqarah what does Allah says ?
" I am going to raise a Succesor "
A SUCESSOR is someone who comes after. He is not the first one.
Again I reiterate there is no need to raise a Prophet in a Barren land with no Homo Sapiens.
What happened to the teaching and followers of those prophets, and why did they all wipe out and only the three Abrahamic religions that all originated in the Arabian Peninsula, survived?
How come there is no holy book/scripture that originated outside the Arab world/Middle East but has striking similarities with the Bible, Torah and the Quran?
This isn't a rhetorical question and I'm open to any convincing explanation. However, I have discussed this point with quite a few people and scholars in Pakistan, UK and the U.S., and I have yet to come across any justification/explanation that can be deemed as satisfactory.
In my opinion, it really adds a lot of weight to the Atheist argument that these three faiths are nothing but Arabian inventions where Christianity was plagiarized from Judaism and Islam was plagiarized from Christianity, because the explanation that the other prophets fizzled out and only the Arabian prophets and teaching survived seems very simplistic and convenient to make sense.
There are a lot of students of comparative religion on this forum so I am interested in their views and explanations.
The Prophets of Other Religions
As you have discussed about the prophets of the Bible and the Quran so your query is about the the Prophets of other religions and nations
According to the Quran, God has sent His messengers to every nation:
"There is not a people but a Warner has gone among them" (35:25)
"For every nation there is a Messenger" (10:48)
The Muslims, therefore, believe that earlier religions were also founded by God's messengers. Their teachings, however, were corrupted by their followers over the course of time. Below are given the names of some of the founders of other religions who could be equated to the prophets of the Quran and the Bible.
1. Luqman: mentioned in the Quran by name but his territory is
unknown. According to some scholars he was the
Greek
"Aesop" while according to others he was a
Prophet in
Abyssinia. Luqman does not correspond to
any Biblical prophet.
Zoroaster The founder of Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion of
Iran. Zoroaster's period is roughly placed at around
1500 B.C.
Krishna Krishna is known among the Hindus as an
"Avatar"
Ram Chandar or a manifestation of God. It appears that both
Krishna and Ram Chandar were the Hindu equivalent
of the Quranic
nabis. They, however, were not the
founders of the Hindu religion.
Mahavira Founder of
Jainism, Mahavira lived in India in the
sixth century B.C. He tried to abolish the caste system
that existed in Hinduism.
Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was the founder of the
Buddhist faith. He lived in India in the sixth
Century B.C. The word 'Buddha' means the Enlightened
One.
Confucius: Founder of Confucianism,
a Chinese religion.
Confucius lived in China in the fifth century B.C. His
teachings placed great emphasis on
social ethics.
Lao Tze: The founder of the
Tao religion of China who lived in
the
sixth century B.C.
Now your immediate question will be how these people are estimated as Prophets. Well Allah lays a very hard principle for Khaatam an Nabee-een Pbuh in Surah e AL-Haaqa.
Allah says that if he Mohammad Pbuh would have associated something with me which I did not tell him than I would have cut his Life artery and would have given him death there and than. Many Ahl e Sunnat Islamic Scholars of pre 1800 have called this verse of Quran as " Qandeel e Sadaqat " barrometer of judging any claimant of Prophethood's claim as true or false.
They say it this was the criteria for He Pbuh than it applies on all claimants of Prophethood.
When Allah kills the imposter He also destroys his legacy and followers and they become extinct within few years as if they never existed.
If you look at today's Hindus and Budhmatt's they in itself are a proof. There numbers and existence that what Allah's rules of segregation of True from false are they followers of Krishna and Budh As cannot be dumped in false category. Allah did not crush the claimant's chain and legacy.
You replied to [MENTION=138254]Syed1[/MENTION] posts and ruled out those as myths of Zakir Naik.
This is a fact that Budh and Krishna Prophecised about coming of He Pbuh. I can quote multiple Prophecies from those religious scriptures. But the point is that none of those prophecies will be literal word to word. None said on that x date in x city x country at x time in x'S home Mohammad Pbuh will get born through this lady X so accept him there and than. Remeber Bible's prophecy about He Pbuh was not direct literal either.
So there were many many Christians, Hindus, Budhists etc who accepted He Pbuh and Islam as they thought than as per there minds Prophecies regarding He Pbuh coming have been fulfilled so they accepted Him Pbuh. Some righteous people of those faiths were also guided by Allah.
So question is Can an Imposter Prophet prophecise about coming of He Pbuh after him ? Ans is No.
Lastly you ll say what sort of Prophet is a Prophet who himself doesnt believe in Allah's One-ness ?
Well today Christians have a belief of Trinity. Ceratinly Hazrat Eesa As did not tell them about this. Even on day of judgement as per Quran He As will say I did not tell my followers this. After me they developed this belief.
Religions got corrupted.
Modern day Hinduism is not what Krishna preached as per my understanding. Krishna just like first Prophet Adam As preached One-ness of God. A little example,
Krishna for instance, his being called
`murli dhar' (flute player). Apparently, the flute is singing the song or creating the music but there is
breath behind it. Then he has more hands than ordinary people and he has a body, a well defined body, but instead of two hands he has four hands and he is also known to have possessed wings. Now, what do these symbols, or if they are not symbols, the literal facts indicate, that is the question! As you said, he gave us the glad tiding that every one thousand years
`I will reappear in my original form'. Is this the original form of God? Is this the space of human stature, with four arms, he can be confined and then disappear somewhere and then begin to rule from there. This is a very, very limited understanding of the nature of God which he has created. How could Lord Krishna (as) say that? There has to be some misunderstanding of his message or misinterpretation of his words.
Such misunderstandings do appear in every religion because of the specific religious terminology. Take, for instance, the use of the word `wings'. The Holy Qur'an also uses the word `wings' in relation to angels. But the Holy Qur'an makes it specifically clear that these are not the `wings' used to fly with, only that the `wings' are indicative of attributes. So, if there are `two arms', the attributes are half the number possessed by a person who has four arms. The angels grew in attributes and in this world, according to the Holy Qur'an, they have four wings. But in the hereafter they will have eight 'wings' and these are all metaphorical terms and figures, let's say. For instance,
the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) himself is told to lower his 'wing' of mercy over those who believe him. Then the people are told to lower their 'wings' over their parents. So these usages of the same word 'wing' elsewhere in the Qur'an makes it very clear to us that they are just terms which have been misunderstood and misapplied.
There is an example of
Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism aswell.
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