Monday, June 30, 2025

Islam Began with Muhammad — And That Changes Everything
The Fatal Fact That Shatters the “Eternal Faith” Claim

Islam teaches that it is not a new religion. According to the Qur’an, Islam is the original faith of humanity — revealed to Adam, preached by Noah, practiced by Abraham, followed by Moses and Jesus, and finally “restored” by Muhammad. This sweeping narrative gives Islam the authority of age, universality, and divine continuity.

But there’s one problem.

It’s not true.

Islam, as a religion, did not exist before Muhammad. It was born in 7th-century Arabia, with no trace of continuity before then. And that single historical fact is devastating to its foundational claim.


No Islam Before the 7th Century — At All

Despite the Quran’s assertions, no archaeological, textual, or historical evidence exists for Islam before Muhammad’s lifetime:

  • No Qur’an, hadith, or Islamic creed before ~610 CE.

  • No mosques, no prayer rituals, no pilgrimage to Mecca tied to Abraham.

  • No mention of Muhammad, the Kaaba, or Islamic practices in Jewish, Christian, Roman, or Persian sources.

  • No group between Jesus and Muhammad matches the Quran’s version of “true Muslims” — denying the crucifixion, affirming tawhid, and awaiting a final prophet.

For 2,000 years of recorded history before Muhammad, nothing resembling Islam existed.


Islam’s Retroactive Claims Fall Apart

The Qur’an calls Abraham a “Muslim” (3:67), says Jesus’ disciples were “Muslims” (3:52), and claims the Kaaba was built by Abraham and Ishmael (2:127). But these are anachronisms — projecting 7th-century ideas backward in time.

  • The Hebrew Bible never places Abraham in Arabia — only Canaan and Egypt.

  • The New Testament affirms Jesus’ divinity and crucifixion — both rejected by Islam.

  • Pre-Islamic Arab sources (Herodotus, Pliny) describe pagan worship, not monotheism.

  • No evidence of any prophet or Islamic belief system exists in Arabia between Ishmael (c. 2000 BCE) and Muhammad (610 CE).

These gaps aren’t just missing footnotes — they are historical voids. Black holes in the timeline that expose Islam’s claims as fabrications, not facts.


The Core Problem: Islam Wasn’t Restored — It Was Invented

If Islam began with Muhammad — as the evidence conclusively shows — then it cannot be:

  • The religion of Abraham, Moses, or Jesus.

  • A continuation of divine revelation.

  • A correction of corrupted scriptures.

It’s not a restoration. It’s an origin story — written after the fact.

The Quran’s backfilled narrative only works if no one checks the sources. But when we do, we find that Islam’s roots don’t go deep — they begin suddenly, in the 7th century, in a pagan Mecca newly rebranded as holy.


Final Verdict

Islam claims to be the final link in a divine chain stretching back to Adam. But history exposes it as a standalone invention, born in Muhammad’s Arabia — not the faith of the prophets, but a faith built about them.

And once that’s clear, the claim to eternal truth collapses.

Islam didn’t come first.

It came last — and then claimed first. 

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