I was blog crawling when I came across Jivha’s Blog. The post on Haj stampede caught my attention. I went about surfing on the net on mecca, haj and islam… to my amusement the found some extemely interesting and thought provoking articles on origin of Islam and pre-islamic arab. The articles are extremely baised, yet cannot be discounted as a whimsical collection of coherent phrases. They do seem to have a point in what they have to say. If Keepers of Quoran were to read this, they would probably flame under their skins.
A collection of 8 articles by Aditi Chaturvedi talks claims that the land of arab was a hotbed of a thriving vedic culture before prophet mohammad invaded them and attempted to obliterate all signs of the culture, replacing it with his “new” religion.
The ideas put forth collection of articles is far fetched, but not without a basis. It goes on to describe the similarities in the sanskrit and arabic words, the allegded “shiv ling” at mecca near the kaaba and has its own theory on how islam came about, and why Muhammad had to flee from mecca to medina, why his life was in danger and so on and so forth. I can quote excerpts from the articles, but that might hurt the sentiments of muslims here, so I refrain from it. Here are the links to the articles and ppl interested can go through them. I must, however, add that if you easily offended by ideas questioning the snacitity of Quoran and the birth of islam, then dont follow the links. For people who are looking for a fresh perspective and are open to ideas, it would make a really good reading. You can’t take everything that’s said in the articles at the face value, but you cant deny everything either…. so here goes.
Sword of truth archives:Vedic Past of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Also, here is a thread of discussion on a related articles (not sure which one) that suggests that the rock at mecca was a siva temple, etc. etc.
Islam Renaissance Research Ranch
Disclaimer: I dont subscribe to any of the ideas put forth in the articles or the discussion thread mention above. I am merely provding it for reference. The conclusions drawn are authors’ own and not mine.
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