Joe's Jewish View on Islam's Origins (Part 3)

We move on from Umar (or Amr, Ambrose, Mahmet, etc...) to his successor, whose name was not recorded. The SIN says he was called Uthman, but there are no records of this name as a leader in the 7th century. Nonetheless, we do know that this successor sent emissaries to China, to the Tang Chinese dynasty in 651 AD. In their records they speak of a King called 'Tashik' (from Tachkastan - northern Iraq today), ruling at the right time. So, he would have possibly been a Messianic Sadducee as well. The SIN says he commissioned the Qu'ran, and this is supported by the fact that The patriarch of Rome, pope Martin I was put on trial and sentenced to death having been found guilty of collaboration with the Saracens on their book. Indeed we do have some Qur'anic material at this time (i.e. the Birmingham folios, dated from 568 - 645 AD, containing 33 verses from Surahs 18-20) but all borrowed from the Bible, coupled with the tale of 7 sleepers, none of which are Islamic. The Saracens subsequently attack the Byzantines, so they have the patriarch simply exiled instead, and the Saracens desist. Joe thinks this was because this new book, was made up of Christian hymns and lectionaries. Note that the Saracens didn't send a similar book to the Chinese, but only to Pope Martin. Why? Martin was cooperating with Visigoths at that time against Byzantium. Did the Saracens think they might share a similar theology. Joe notes that every verse in the Qur'an, once you take away the dots and vowels, and only read the 16 radical letters which would have been in existence in the 7th century Arabic, it can then be understood from a Monophysite Christian perspective, thus suggesting it was written by them. What's more, Pope Martin was a Monophysite Christian, in opposition to the Byzantines, who were following Monothelitism, a Church of the East Heresy, at the time. The idea that the nascent 7th century Qur'an were primarily derived from Christian & Jewish sources agrees with Gunther Luling's, Christoph Luxenberg's and Peter von Siver's (Univ. of Utah) very recent research. This could explain why the Saracens and the Christians may have been working on this earliest Qur'an together, since it would have been supportive of Christian beliefs. After this unknown successor to Omar dies, Muawiya comes to power. He is initially opposed to Christianity, but when his demon-possessed daughter is healed by a Christian priest, he also converts to Christianity, which is well noted on the coins he mints during his reign in the West, where he lived and ruled from (i.e. Damascus). It is not until the 690s when Abd al-Malik is in power that we find a somewhat anti-Christian Umayyad ruler in Damascus. According to Joe, Abd al-Malik was a Messianic Hebrew, and not a Muslim. This, he says, is born out in the inscriptions found on the Dome of the Rock which he built in 691 AD, which are all Monophysite references to Moses and Jesus, not a man named Muhammad, since only Judaic sects visited the Rock prohibited to Christians. Abdul Malik was sending a message to Judaic sects that rejected Jesus as the Judaic Mahmad, the Temple of the Judaic Mahamadim (the Body of the Jewish Messiah). Joe also disputes Gibson's interpretation of research on the earliest Qibla directions, suggesting that the mosques were indeed Synagogues as per Sozomenus, with Qiblas facing the Holy Land in general not always intended specifically only to Petra. Joe notes that the reference to a change in Qiblah mentioned in Surah 2:144 "So, turn your face towards the 'Al Masjid al Haram'" refers to turning their faces towards 'Jesus', who is also known as the 'al Tariq'. Hence under Abdul Malik they began facing wherever the acephali wanted to worship 'Christ'. That is why there are so many Qibla directions. Only the Abbasid Masjids began to face the Abbasid shrine in Hejaz Mecca as they rose to power in the 8th century and completely changed the religion by the 9th century. They changed the meaning of Al-Haram from meaning the Body of Christ to meaning Mecca. So the conversion of Umar from Sadducee-Ishmaelite to Messianic Hebrew started the Ball rolling for a new Messianic Hebrew movement in opposition first to Monothelitism then Dyoenergism which briefly flourished before being forced underground by the Abbasids. Joe's Red Judaism site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHmaIx7u2VvZRHNXViafQQ Joe’s Red Judaism Patreon Account: @ism © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2021 (54,760) Music: 'Reaching the Sky', by Alexander Nakarada, from filmmusic-io