Islam Rediscovered
4. Religion
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these great prophets. We find no reference in the
ancient history of Iraq to Abraham. Similarly,
Egyptian history makes no mention of Moses.
In a similar way, as testified to by the Qur’an, Jesus
was a prophet. Even Gautam Buddh is considered a
prophet by his followers. But neither Jesus Christ
nor Gautam Buddh comes up to the strict standards
of history. For example, there are long periods of
Jesus’s life about which nothing is known, and the
stories of the New Testament were not written until
more than a century after his death. Three
languages—Syriac, Greek and Hebrew—were
prevalent during the time of Christ, yet we have no
way of knowing, with certainty, about the language
in which he communicated his message to his
people.
In the times of Gautam Buddh, Pali and Sanskrit
were in vogue. But there is no historical evidence as
to which language he spoke. The actual words
spoken by Gautam Buddh are not on record. There
are some who claim to have proofs that Gautam
Buddh spoke in Pali, but it has not been established
by the scholars of Buddhism.
