Test your knowledge of the historical origins of the rituals of Islam found in the Qur'an.

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The Qur'an refers to people, places, things, and events which are nowhere explained or defined within the Qur'an itself.
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These things were not explained because it was assumed that the people hearing the Qur'an already knew them.
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Some passages in the Qur'an would be unintelligible without recourse to pre-Islamic history.
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All Islamic scholars use pre-Islamic history to explain parts of the Qur'an
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Thus it is both legitimate and proper to use pre-Islamic history to explain the Qur'an
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Yusuf Ali does this when it comes to such things as the She-Camel, the Elephant Army, the Twelve Springs, the Youths in the Cave, the Blind Man, and many other things found in the Qur'an
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Mecca was a pre-Islamic pagan center of worship
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The Kabah in Mecca was a pagan temple filled with 360 idols.
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Archeologists have found three other ancient Kabahs in Arabia.
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The pagans prayed by bowing down toward Mecca several times a day
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They made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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When they got to Mecca, they ran between two hills.
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They ran around the Kabah seven times.
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They kissed and caressed a large black stone on the wall of the Kabah.
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They sacrificed an animal.
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They threw a magical number of stones at a pillar of the devil.
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They held their public meetings on Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday.
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They fasted during the day and feasted at night for one month.
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The pagan fast began and ended with the moon in its crescent phase.
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They performed ritual washings before prayers.
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As one of their washings before prayer, they snorted water up and then out of their nose.
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They cut off the hands of thieves.
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They forbade marrying sisters.
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They forbid the eating of swine flesh.
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In pre-Islamic Arabian genealogies, Ishmael is nowhere mentioned as the father of the Arabs.
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Abraham, the father of Ishmael, was not an Arab.
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Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, was an Egyptian and thus not an Arab.
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Since his mother and his father were not Arabs, Ishmael was not an Arab.
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Ishmael could not be the "Father" of the Arabs because they already existed before he was born
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According to the historical and literary evidence, Abraham and Ishmael lived in Palestine.
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They never lived in Mecca.
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They never built the Kabah.
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They never established the rituals connected with the Kabah such as the pilgrimage.
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According to Arab history, the Kabah at Mecca was built by Kosia, the pagan great-grandfather of Muhammad.
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The word "Al-Ilah" was used by pagan Arabs in reference to one of the gods worshipped at the Kabah.
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The word "Al_Ilah" was shortened into "Allah."
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The moon-god was called "Al-Ilah" and then "Allah" by some Arab pagans in Southern Arabia.
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Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat were worshipped by the pagan Arabs as "The Daughters of Allah."
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Muhammad's father lived and died as a pagan and yet the word "Allah" was part of his name.
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Yusuf Ali points out in his translation of the Qur'an that the moon was worshipped as a god by pagan Arabs.
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Many of the pagan rituals associated with the worship of Allah and his daughters were incorporated into the Qur'an and are now part of Islam.
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The religion of Islam has adopted the name, the rituals, and the crescent moon symbol of the pagan Arab moon-god.
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Some of the material found in the Qur'an can be traced back to pre-Islamic pagan Arabian religions.
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Infidels are recorded in the Qur'an as saying that Muhammad took old wive's tales and myths and put them into the Qur'an.
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The Qur'an warns against asking questions about Islam because if the answers are revealed, you will lose your faith.
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