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The information he gave about the Past
Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and
blessings, gave lots of information about past peoples and
events
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History is an important branch of
knowledge. It is not a science like physics or
biology. It mostly depends on documents that have
remained of the past. Although we can have knowledge
of the past and past events by means of documents, it
is quite often very difficult to penetrate into the
facts behind those events. We can hardly know the
intentions of historical ‘actors’ or
‘actresses’ and the real motives behind events. In
order to be able to judge rightly about persons and
events, the documents we have should be reliable.
Nevertheless, it is quite possible that personal
inclinations and interests, prejudices, and different
other motives may have a part of their own in
documents, and, worse, documents may have been
distorted. For example, if the Qur’an had not been
sent down to our Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace
and blessings, we could not have had true knowledge
about the Israelite Prophets and especially the
Prophet Jesus, and the original identity of
Christianity and Judaism. The Old and New Testaments
have been so frequently and badly distorted and
corrupted that it is impossible to open a way through
them to historical truths.
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The Prophet Muhammad, upon him be
peace and blessings, gave lots of information about
past peoples and events. Much of this information is
in the Qur’an. As well as the main points in the
histories of many past peoples and places like the
‘Ad, Thamud, Iram, Sodom and Gomorra, and ancient
Egypt, and the peoples of Noah, Abraham and Shu‘ayb,
we can also find in the Qur’an at least the general
outlines of the history of the Israelite people from
the beginning to the time of Jesus, particularly
including the time of the Prophets Moses, David and
Solomon, upon them be peace. It is highly interesting
that much of this information is in the Qur’anic
chapters which were revealed in the Makkan period of
Muhammad’s Prophethood, during which he had contact
with neither Christians nor Jews. When the Prophet
emigrated to Madina, Jewish and Christian scholars
asked him many questions about certain topics in the
Torah and Gospels and since they received from him
convincing answers, they could not object to any of
them.
Neither the Qur’an nor
the books of Tradition have been changed the least over
time and none of the information the Prophet gave about
the past has ever been contradicted
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Some of the information which the
Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings,
gave about the past is found in the books of Tradition
like Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Muslim, Sunan
al-Tirmidhi, and others. Neither the Qur’an nor
the books of Tradition have been changed the least
over time and none of the information the Prophet gave
about the past has ever been contradicted. Rather,
much of it has been affirmed the rest will also be
affirmed through future investigations and
excavations. This is an absolute, undeniable proof of
Muhammad’s Prophethood.
Prophet Muhammad, upon him
be peace and blessings, did not only give information
about past events and peoples, but he also analyzed them
with their causes and results
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The Prophet Muhammad, upon him be
peace and blessings, did not only give information
about past events and peoples, but he also analyzed
them with their causes and results. Thus, the
historical accounts of the Prophet, upon him be peace
and blessings, are of the kind that they presented
laws of history and the broad psychological, social
and economic principles concerning human individual
and collective life. In addition, these accounts are
masterpieces of literary style and eloquence, such
that it is impossible to produce a like of them.
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