Sacred Myths

The Earth rests on the back of an ox, and the sun is a wheel pulled by angels every day. The Hinn, Binn, and Jinn inhabited the Earth centuries before the creation of man..

Iram of the Pillars still stands in Yemen, Harut and Marut are still in Babylon teaching people magic, and the Anqa is a real creature, not one of the impossibilities as we were told..

Al-Khidr is still alive, Dhul-Qarnayn is Alexander the Great, and Nimrod flew into space to kill the Lord of Heaven and then returned. As for the Prophet Solomon, a demon stole his kingdom for forty days before he reclaimed it from him..

Do not be surprised, dear reader, for some of the most famous books of Islamic heritage contain these words, and more. Some ancient religious storytellers would narrate them to people, who would then believe and circulate them..

Some described them as falsehoods, others called them "inserted lies," and still others referred to them as "Isra'iliyyat" (Israelite traditions).

In any case, the existence of such narratives indicates that Muslims have their myths, just as the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and people of ancient Iraq and Syria, among others, had theirs..

We will discuss these sacred myths, the myths of the ancients that infiltrated the Muslim heritage.