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I'm not bright enough to understand what you just said to me. What I am, as a Catholic, saying to these PDFers, twitteratis and googly/wiki scholars is that MY belief in Christ is not based on history but faith. I am saying that they should stop finding offense where there is none!Sounds more like you dont accept or consider the wrong context in this situation.
Channel 4 Islam - The Untold Story
In this ground-breaking film, historian Tom Holland explores how a new religion - Islam - emerged from the seedbed of the ancient world, and asks what we really know for certain about its rise. The result is an extraordinary detective story. Traditionally, Muslims and non-Muslims alike have believed that Islam was born in the full light of history. But a large number of historians now doubt that presumption, and question much of what Muslim tradition has to tell us about the birth of Islam.
He is talking about the history books as they are taught today in the western atheist world. That's the context at least.Maybe he does not consider religious books as authentic historical source of information.
there is no doubt there existed a person called Mohammed but very little is known of his life
P.S: historians deny the authenticity of hadees
BTW the four main Christian Gospels of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John depicting life of Hazrat Eisa were written somewhere in 70 - 100 AD which shows there is a history.
saying that all of Christianity is a lie (Jesus isnt mentioned in history)!
But the problem with defending imran khan is ,if Muslims deny the existence of Jesus,then the foundation of Islam will collapse like a pack of cards too.
If some one says the same for Prophet Muhammad he will be
Mate, remember that Jesus which we call Esa is a Prophet (peace be upon him) and all prophets are revered in Islam and we believe in their prophethood and also they all preached the same core teachings that there is only ONE God without any partners. However what IK referred to I think is to the historical Jesus.I am Christian and yes it has been discussed before, but not intensely or angrily or anything or even frequently. Also, anyone can make any video. Videos dont change people's "realities"/truths with things like religion. We just saw another video here about Islam and its origin. you think thats going to change anything about how Muslims live or see their religion now??? Offcourse not.
I agree with Imran here..
If someone has time to watch the full video, the context of his talk was about the documentation of the system. Evert aspect of the life of Muhammad (PBUH) has been documented, by the first hand accounts. There is a system of chain of narrations. We have ashtiname preserved with Muhammad (PBUH) hand print.. It has been authenticated by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. We have some first hand accounts of non-Muslims who documented some of the wars...
While he said that there is no mention of Hazrat Isa in History books, it doesn't mean that he was saying the Hazrat Isa (PBUH) didn't exist.. He meant to say (and he cleared this in his talk as well) that the nizaam is not documented. No one even knows how he prayed.
He was wrong about Musa (PBUH) as well by the way when he said that Hazrat Musa (PBUH) system is somehow documented.. no it's not.. No history book tells us that when he was born.. what system of law he implemented, how he used to pray etc etc.. People are still trying to identify him as Thuthmoses I, or Thutmoses II (which I believe both were not Musa (PBUH)..
Again, it doesn't mean that Musa (PBUH) didn't exist, because denying this will take us out of Islam.. We believe that he existed because Quran talks about him.. and Jesus Christ as well.. but can we say that we can implement Musa (PBUH) system? No.. we can't say that..
In Islam, we exactly know when Zakat (which is an advanced system of taxation in a way if properly implemented) becomes obligatory.. what are the specific timings of Prayers.. when to start and end fasting.. we have very slight variations and that's it.. we even have been told how to drink water, how to trim our nails, how to take bath for maximum purity, how to behave with parents, wives, children, neighbors, other Muslims, minorities.. it's all documented.. not in Quran, but first hand accounts called Hadeeth.. And we even have a system to classify hadith..
I don't know why people are criticizing Imran Khan.. There were 100s of ulema sitting in that conference and no one questioned his statement, because they understood that clearly.. yet people like Talat Hussain, Umar Cheema and the likes.. who don't have knowledge of deen and history, are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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