ZABAD STONE & ISLAM

Zabad stone is a pre-Islamic stone tablet found at Zabad in Syria with a bold trilingual inscription. In other words, Zabad stone is the Arabic Rosseta stone. But unlike Rosseta stone, which is a bilingual dedication in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic script and Greek, the Zabad stone is a trilingual dedication in Greek, Syriac and Arabic.

Godfrey Higgins in his book, Anacalypsis, contended that Greek, Aramaic/Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic were all connected, perhaps, to the same root. Be that as it may, the Zabad tablet further highlights this connection. While the root of pre-Islamic Arabic script can be traced back to Southern Arabia or Yemen, scholars believe that the root of Quranic Arabic can be traced back to the orthodox-Christian provinces of Al Hira and Al Anbar, in the present day South-Central and Western Iraq.

Now that we have some knowledge about the root of Quranic Arabic, let us look at some Quranic words and names; popularly, thought to be of Arabic origin but that aren't.

1. Quran

2. Allah

3. Hadith

4. Hira

5. Sura

6. Muhammed

The word QUR'AN came out of the triconsonantal Judeo-Christian Syriac root "QRN," meaning to read the Pentateuch or the Bible.

The name ALLAH can be traced back to its Syriac root "ALAHA," which can further be traced back to its Egyptian root "UR RA," meaning the great one, the SUN.  

The word HADITH, according to the traditional Islamic narrative, stands for the compendium of literary work outside the Qur'an. However, Haditha was a historical Christian stronghold just outside the Al Anbar province, present day Iraq, where the Kufic Arabic script was formulated (I.e. "Al Bariac" script).

HIRA is the name of the cave where Muhammed supposedly received his first revelations from Allah through Jubril or Gabriel. However, Al Hira was actually an ancient Christian province, present day South-Central Iraq, where Qur'anic Arabic script was partially formulated (I.e. Al Hiraic script).

The word SURA, according to the traditional Islamic narrative, means a chapter of the Quran. However, "SURA" was a historical Jewish city state in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq. It was the seat of the popular Jewish academy, the Sura Yeshiva Academy.

The name Hammed can be traced back to its triconsonantal Judeo-Christian Syriac root "HMD," meaning praiseworthy. The question is: what's praiseworthy? Well what's praiseworthy is "MU," the Egyptian word for water. Thus, the name Muhammed came from the combination of Syriac and Egyptian words. 

Now if Muhammed supposedly received the Quran at cave Hira from god, how is it that the key words in the Quran are not even of Arabic origin. Is Islam another form of Christianity?

* Culled from Shakka Ahmose lectures "Christian/Judeo Reality of Islam*