When any of us reads the Quran, we think that its events take place in a desert environment similar to the climate of southern Hijaz. This is due to the preconceived idea that arose with us as part of the same belief, so we projects this image onto most of the events and scenes mentioned in the texts, and we look past the simplest evidence that confirms the complete image of the truth of the Quranic description.
But what if we put the Quran in the hands of a neutral person who knows nothing about Islam or the environment of those to whom the Quran was revealed? He will certainly arrive at a completely different reality and will attribute the geography of the Quran to an environment that is more moderate and closer to the climate of North Africa or the Levant, and not to the desert, which is not mentioned even once in the Quran! And because the Qur’an was revealed to the inhabitants of a specific geographical area, it is natural that it would cite to them fruits and animals known to them and which they use for their daily needs, rather than cite the nature of another place that only a few of them know from their travels. If we were to place this Qur’an in the hands of someone who knows nothing about Islam and tell him that this book came from the heart of the desert, he would laugh in amazement at its mention of animals such as the lion that the Qur’an used as an example, and the donkeys fleeing from it as an example for those who disbelieved.
So why do they turn away from the reminder? (49) As if they were wild donkeys (50) Fleeing from a lion (51) Surah Al-Muddaththir.
A description of a phenomenon familiar in the community of the Messenger and known to all of them. Otherwise, when this text was revealed, they would have said, “What is your Qur’an talking about, Muhammad?” The same goes for the elephant and the famous story of Abraha. Assuming that the elephant in the language of the Qur’an means the elephant, it is impossible for an animal that consumes about 150 kilograms of grass daily and drink 40 liters of water to travel hundreds of kilometers in the hot desert, which would certainly double its usual nutritional needs, especially water.
Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? (1) Did He not make their plot go astray? (2) And sent against them birds in flocks (3) Striking them with stones of baked clay. (4) And made them like eaten straw. (5) Surah Al-Fil
With the exception of camels, all the animals mentioned in the Qur’an live in areas with a Moderate environment even pigs are not found in desert areas, so how can an animal that they do not eat at all and does not live among them be forbidden to them?
One of the problems facing those who attributed the place of the Muhammadan mission to the the desert is the frequent mention of fruits, crops and plants in various texts.
"He causes to grow for you thereby the crops, olives, palm trees, grapevines and from all the fruits. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought. (11) Surah An-Nahl"
"And from the fruits of the palm trees and grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who reason. (67) Surah An-Nahl"
"And a sign for them is the dead land. We have given it life and produced from it grain, and from it they eat. (33) And We have placed therein Gardens of palm trees and grapevines, and We caused springs to gush forth therein. (34) Surah Yasin"
What is this? Grapes, olives, gardens, orchards, springs. Are we in a desert or in a garden! And we will find confirmation and repetition of these same fruits so it is clear that they are indeed the fruits of the region addressed in the Qur’an, in addition to the clear relationship between them and the sea and their constant use of ships.
"And it is He who has subjected the sea so that you may eat from it tender meat and extract from it ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships plying through it, and that you may seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful"(14) Surah An-Nahl
The Qur’an also explicitly indicates the existence of two seas in the region
"and the two seas are not alike. This one is fresh and sweet, palatable to drink, and that one is salty and bitter. And from each you eat meat Fresh, and you bring forth ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships therein, plying their course, that you may seek of His bounty, and perhaps you will be grateful" (12) Surah Fatir
And it confirms the proximity of those addressed in its texts and those around them to the sea and their constant use of ships, which completely negates what came in the biography of the sects
When re-reading the texts of the Qur’an with neutral eyes, we will see that location to which they attributed the events of the Qur’an contradicts in every way the true geography of the Qur’an, which is no longer hidden from researchers specializing in the field and which remains one of the most important keys to re-reading the true history of Islam, which will at the same time contribute to re-reading and correcting the biography of the Messenger Muhammad and exonerating him from all the obscenities and crimes attributed to him in the heritage of the sects the time has come to expose this conspiracy and the great crime against history and the Islamic religion, although this truth will be shocking to many and completely unacceptable, but this is the price of the call to the truth to which the Most Gracious called us
"Indeed, We have brought you the truth, but most of you hate the truth" (78) Surah Az-Zukhruf
But what if we put the Quran in the hands of a neutral person who knows nothing about Islam or the environment of those to whom the Quran was revealed? He will certainly arrive at a completely different reality and will attribute the geography of the Quran to an environment that is more moderate and closer to the climate of North Africa or the Levant, and not to the desert, which is not mentioned even once in the Quran! And because the Qur’an was revealed to the inhabitants of a specific geographical area, it is natural that it would cite to them fruits and animals known to them and which they use for their daily needs, rather than cite the nature of another place that only a few of them know from their travels. If we were to place this Qur’an in the hands of someone who knows nothing about Islam and tell him that this book came from the heart of the desert, he would laugh in amazement at its mention of animals such as the lion that the Qur’an used as an example, and the donkeys fleeing from it as an example for those who disbelieved.
So why do they turn away from the reminder? (49) As if they were wild donkeys (50) Fleeing from a lion (51) Surah Al-Muddaththir.
A description of a phenomenon familiar in the community of the Messenger and known to all of them. Otherwise, when this text was revealed, they would have said, “What is your Qur’an talking about, Muhammad?” The same goes for the elephant and the famous story of Abraha. Assuming that the elephant in the language of the Qur’an means the elephant, it is impossible for an animal that consumes about 150 kilograms of grass daily and drink 40 liters of water to travel hundreds of kilometers in the hot desert, which would certainly double its usual nutritional needs, especially water.
Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? (1) Did He not make their plot go astray? (2) And sent against them birds in flocks (3) Striking them with stones of baked clay. (4) And made them like eaten straw. (5) Surah Al-Fil
With the exception of camels, all the animals mentioned in the Qur’an live in areas with a Moderate environment even pigs are not found in desert areas, so how can an animal that they do not eat at all and does not live among them be forbidden to them?
One of the problems facing those who attributed the place of the Muhammadan mission to the the desert is the frequent mention of fruits, crops and plants in various texts.
"He causes to grow for you thereby the crops, olives, palm trees, grapevines and from all the fruits. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought. (11) Surah An-Nahl"
"And from the fruits of the palm trees and grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who reason. (67) Surah An-Nahl"
"And a sign for them is the dead land. We have given it life and produced from it grain, and from it they eat. (33) And We have placed therein Gardens of palm trees and grapevines, and We caused springs to gush forth therein. (34) Surah Yasin"
What is this? Grapes, olives, gardens, orchards, springs. Are we in a desert or in a garden! And we will find confirmation and repetition of these same fruits so it is clear that they are indeed the fruits of the region addressed in the Qur’an, in addition to the clear relationship between them and the sea and their constant use of ships.
"And it is He who has subjected the sea so that you may eat from it tender meat and extract from it ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships plying through it, and that you may seek of His bounty; and perhaps you will be grateful"(14) Surah An-Nahl
The Qur’an also explicitly indicates the existence of two seas in the region
"and the two seas are not alike. This one is fresh and sweet, palatable to drink, and that one is salty and bitter. And from each you eat meat Fresh, and you bring forth ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships therein, plying their course, that you may seek of His bounty, and perhaps you will be grateful" (12) Surah Fatir
And it confirms the proximity of those addressed in its texts and those around them to the sea and their constant use of ships, which completely negates what came in the biography of the sects
When re-reading the texts of the Qur’an with neutral eyes, we will see that location to which they attributed the events of the Qur’an contradicts in every way the true geography of the Qur’an, which is no longer hidden from researchers specializing in the field and which remains one of the most important keys to re-reading the true history of Islam, which will at the same time contribute to re-reading and correcting the biography of the Messenger Muhammad and exonerating him from all the obscenities and crimes attributed to him in the heritage of the sects the time has come to expose this conspiracy and the great crime against history and the Islamic religion, although this truth will be shocking to many and completely unacceptable, but this is the price of the call to the truth to which the Most Gracious called us
"Indeed, We have brought you the truth, but most of you hate the truth" (78) Surah Az-Zukhruf
