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The Curse of the Meteor

- The Story of Islam about the Jihad against the Arabs

The Arabs who resided in the Arabian peninsula during the time of Mohammad worshipped different gods like Allah along with Allat, Mannat, Al-uzza, and Hubal. For more than four millennia before Islam, polytheism had been part of the psyche of the Bedouin Arabs who inhabited the Arabian peninsula. Four thousand years before Mohammad , the ancestors of the Semitic people who came from the same ethnic stock and who lived further north in Mesopotamia had a different pantheon of gods. These Semitic people who built the Babylonian, Assyrian, (Sumerian and Akkadian) civilizations worshipped gods like Gilgamesh, Ishtar, (a Goddess), Marduk, Tiamat, Adrammelech, Apsu, Enki, Ianna, Anu, Ereshkigal among others. But by the time of Mohammad , worship of these gods had become extinct as Mesopotamia had been overrun by the Achemenaians, the Greeks, the Parthians and the Sassanians. When Mohammad was born, the Sassanian (or Sassanids) were at the pinnacle of their power and they ruled Mesopotamia. The ancient religion of the Mesopotamian Arabs had been replaced by that of the Zoroastrians, with some pockets of Nestorian Christianity.

In fact when the Muslim Arabs invaded Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 637 C.E. it was then a part of the Zoroastrian Sassanid empire of Persia. The invading Muslim Arabs did not bother to destroy the ancient Mesopotamian shrines in the ruins of Nineveh where the temples to these forgotten gods had been built. The reason for this was that as these ruins held neither people who could be forcibly converted to Islam, nor any wealth that the Muslims could plunder, these ancient sites did not attract the attention of the marauding Muslim Arabs in the 7th century. So unlike Ctesiphon, Jerusalem, Caesarea, etc; the ancient Mesopotamian cities which lay in ruins were spared of being vandalized by the truculent Muslim Arabs.

Hence Nineveh was spared the fate of Ctesiphon and Caesarea which have been totally obliterated from their sites, or like Jerusalem which the Muslims co-opted in to Islam in 636 C.E. by constructing the Dome of the Rock, over the ruins of what was originally the Jewish Second Temple to god that had been destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 C.E. Another example of such co-option is Constantinople where the Hagia Sophia was converted into the Selimiye Mosque by the Muslim Turks in 1453 C.E.

To perpetuate the memory of his preponderance amongst his followers he also made his birthday another festival and named it Eid-e-Milad(Mawlid)-un-Nabi which translates as “Feast of the birth of the Prophet”