Can all religions be of Sumerian origin?
- I have been doing research on Islam and atheism for a long time in order to change my belief from imitative belief to investigative belief. First of all, I started reading the translation of the Quran; to be honest, I did not see as many contradictions in it as the atheists say. Almost everything is consistent with one another, but I do not think this book contains anything that a human being cannot write. Quite ordinary things and mostly old events are narrated. This confirms the atheists’ thesis that the Quran is a compilation of old stories. I mean, could Allah not have sent something more miraculous?
- When you open it up and look inside, it is a book full of stories, especially the stories of the ancient people. Could it not really have been more miraculous?
- When miracles are mentioned, almost everyone talks about the miracles of the Quran. However, some people say that those miracles are not real. The simplest one is this: it is stated probably in the chapter of al-Anbiya that the heavens and the earth were united and then they were separated. And those who support miracles say that it indicates big bang. However, the Sumerian legends also mention it.
- Coincidentally, most of the things written in the books of the heavenly religions are very similar to ancient Sumerian, Greek and Egyptian legends.
- Is it also a coincidence that all religions originated in the same geography?
- Why did one heavenly religion not emerge in the Far East, for example?
Submitted by on Wed, 15/01/2025 - 12:12
Dear Brother / Sister,
- The first time of the true religions is the time of the Prophet Adam. Adam, the first human being, was also the first prophet.
The Sumerians are the people of an ancient civilization that lived between 4,000-2,000 BC.
“…And there never was a people, without a warner having lived among them (in the past).” (Fatir, 35/24)
As it is stated in the verse above, a prophet was sent to all people who lived, from the Prophet Adam to Muhammad (pbuh). In fact, according to Islamic belief, people who have not heard the message of a prophet have no responsibility.
This fact is underlined in the following verse.
“…Nor would We visit with Our Wrath until We had sent a messenger (to give warning).” (al-Isra, 17/15)
- As it is understood from these explanations, many prophets were sent to the Sumerians, who had been on the stage of history for about 2,000 years. The good and true aspects of the Sumerian civilization were shaped in the light of the divine revelation taught by those prophets.
Therefore, the fact that some of the truths proclaimed by the later heavenly religions were also prevalent during the Sumerian period does not indicate that those religions were copied from them, but that the Sumerian civilization, like all religions, was based on the teachings of the original heavenly religions.
As a matter of fact, the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) lived in 2,000 BC, when the Sumerians were in their last stages.
So, after the religions that were the source of the Sumerian civilization, which lasted for a long period of time, a new era of Abrahamic religions began with the Prophet Ibrahim. The source of both of these civilizations are the religions sent by Allah.
- Since all of the Abrahamic religions that have survived for thousands of years are located in the Middle East, and since the source of people’s knowledge on this issue is these living religions, our knowledge has inevitably been limited to the religions in this geography.
Otherwise, as it is mentioned in the verse in question above, prophets were sent to every region where there were people. Only some of these prophets, whose number is stated to be 124 thousand in the Islamic literature, are known to have emerged in the Middle East.
As a matter of fact, Imam Rabbani reports that he saw many prophets coming in the Indian region through discovery. Imam Rabbani’s explanations mean this: “Those prophets are the true source of the attributes of Allah seen in India and some of the knowledge that glorify and sanctify them and other important knowledge.” (see Arabic, al-Maktubat, Letter 259, 1/313-315)
In other words, celestial religions are not exclusive to the Middle East.
However, the fact that the Middle East was the region where Adam and Eve first met when they were sent to the earth from Paradise, and the fact that many prophets came from this region, which is the first cradle of humanity, is a matter of course.
- As for the question about the Sumerians also having the knowledge given by the verse in the chapter of al-Anbiya that points to the “Big Bang” theory, we can state the following:
a) First of all, a sound document (of Sumerian origin) must be shown that this knowledge was also present in the Sumerians. As long as this document is not shown, this claim (as it is seen in some other issues) cannot be more than the bragging of some heathens.
b) If such a document is shown, there is no doubt that it is information taken from the prophets of Allah at that time, as we have mentioned above. For it is unthinkable that people at that time were aware of such an ontological issue.
c) There can be no claim as unreasonable as claiming that this knowledge in Islam was copied from the Sumerians because, as it is clearly declared in the Quran, to think that an illiterate person like the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) could have read a Sumerian script and made copies from it in a very illiterate environment in a time period when ignorance was rampant, is really beyond reason.
d) “It is known that writing, which is the most important invention in human history according to most experts, was first used by Sumerian priests around 3500 BC. Sumerian priests used writing to list the goods in temples and warehouses.” This statement shows that the Sumerians had religion and priests.
So, Allah, who taught some knowledge to the Sumerians through revelation, also revealed the same knowledge to later religions.
In other words, there is no copying of knowledge, but unity of source.
Questions on Islam
- Which prophet was sent to the Sumerians?
- Which prophet was sent to the Sumerians?
- How would you answer the claims that the incidents like the Deluge of Noah (Nuh) and the Red Sea being split into two are mentioned in the Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian resources and that they were copied from those resources?
- Some Islamophobes claim that Islam copied mandaeism (Sabeans in Qur'an) can you refute this argument?
- Is it a sign that the Quran was copied from the Torah as it mentions the names of the prophets sent in the Middle East?
- Why did the majority of the prophets emerge in Middle East? Were there prophets sent to all communities?
- It is said that some scientific and historical facts that are mentioned in the Qur'an, coming from various cultures and nations of the world. How can you clarify this?
- Prophet Nuh [Noah] (Peace be upon him)
- Could Islam, the Old Testament and the New Testament have been affected by Sumerians?
- Why did Hz. Adam and Hz. Hawwa meet in Arafat?