The key to being a good practicioner of one's religion, lies within knowing its origin(s).
It is often ritual for many of us culturally inclined Black people to admonish Christians for not knowing the origins of their beliefs, starting from slavery on back to ancient times, however Many Muslims of African descent are guilty of this crime of ignorance as well.
This site: http://www.dhushara.com/book/orsin/orsin3.htm
Gives a wealth of info about the Pre-Islamic origins of Arabia, as they are intricately connected with Ethiopia (by way of SHEBA) and the ancient world.
It also gives in-depth look at the QUR'AN, from a historical, anthropological and ontological perspective.
One such interesting find, is the fact that the Arabian God "ALLAH" finds "his" correlations in the SABEAN GODDESS ILLUMQUH.
Sources also date the trinity of the so-called Daughters of "ALLAH" back to ancient Sumeria.
Regardless, each of these gods and goddesses were of pantheon of 360 Gods, of which ALLAH and "his" daughters were but a few.
The number of gods also corresponds to the number of days in the lunar calendar, as most of these deities were Lunar in nature.
Of more interesting note, is the fact that each and every single one of the 99+1 names for ALLAH comes from the 360 deities as well.
AL-WADDUD (the Loving), the 47TH name for ALLAH corresponds to the deity known as AL-WAAD, the god of love.
Also of interest is how Prophet Muhammad himself spoke lovingly of all of these deities, in his original version of the QUR'AN, but then removed them from his texts, claiming that it was SATAN that inspired him to write about them, and not GABRIEL (proving that even the final version of the QUR'AN after Muhammad's death is not the original version).
This site also gives an account of how the "Great Prophet Abraham" was also a sun, moon and star worshipper (more specifically, changing his focus from lunar to solar worship), as denoted in the QUR'AN itself.
One of the best statements from this site is:
However polytheists did not make such a literal identification. The image or astronomical form a deity was symbolic - a realization of their nature. As we have seen, the followers of the high moon god perceived the deity in very much the same terms Muhammad describes al-Llah., even questioning whether a mere human prophet can act as an intermediary withthe cosmic godhead. The ancients all knew the sun and moon rose and set. Some were very great astronomers.
I would advise all who read this site, to please cross-research the info, which will be quite easy to do, since the site gives excellent bibliographical references.
PEACE
It is often ritual for many of us culturally inclined Black people to admonish Christians for not knowing the origins of their beliefs, starting from slavery on back to ancient times, however Many Muslims of African descent are guilty of this crime of ignorance as well.
This site: http://www.dhushara.com/book/orsin/orsin3.htm
Gives a wealth of info about the Pre-Islamic origins of Arabia, as they are intricately connected with Ethiopia (by way of SHEBA) and the ancient world.
It also gives in-depth look at the QUR'AN, from a historical, anthropological and ontological perspective.
One such interesting find, is the fact that the Arabian God "ALLAH" finds "his" correlations in the SABEAN GODDESS ILLUMQUH.
Sources also date the trinity of the so-called Daughters of "ALLAH" back to ancient Sumeria.
Regardless, each of these gods and goddesses were of pantheon of 360 Gods, of which ALLAH and "his" daughters were but a few.
The number of gods also corresponds to the number of days in the lunar calendar, as most of these deities were Lunar in nature.
Of more interesting note, is the fact that each and every single one of the 99+1 names for ALLAH comes from the 360 deities as well.
AL-WADDUD (the Loving), the 47TH name for ALLAH corresponds to the deity known as AL-WAAD, the god of love.
Also of interest is how Prophet Muhammad himself spoke lovingly of all of these deities, in his original version of the QUR'AN, but then removed them from his texts, claiming that it was SATAN that inspired him to write about them, and not GABRIEL (proving that even the final version of the QUR'AN after Muhammad's death is not the original version).
This site also gives an account of how the "Great Prophet Abraham" was also a sun, moon and star worshipper (more specifically, changing his focus from lunar to solar worship), as denoted in the QUR'AN itself.
One of the best statements from this site is:
However polytheists did not make such a literal identification. The image or astronomical form a deity was symbolic - a realization of their nature. As we have seen, the followers of the high moon god perceived the deity in very much the same terms Muhammad describes al-Llah., even questioning whether a mere human prophet can act as an intermediary withthe cosmic godhead. The ancients all knew the sun and moon rose and set. Some were very great astronomers.
I would advise all who read this site, to please cross-research the info, which will be quite easy to do, since the site gives excellent bibliographical references.
PEACE