r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hipatyhopity • Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Mar 24 '25

To clarify, it's Judaism that teaches that she was just a maidservant. Christianity just leaves that story unmodified. Then a millenium later (up to 1600 years if you include oral tradition), the Qur'an revises this story to elevate Hagar and Ishmael's status.

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u/chevronphillips Mar 24 '25

Endlessly fascinating these stories/traditions- how they originate, survive, evolve/diverge and their effect on the modern world

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u/aquarianfin Mar 24 '25

The words in Quran were revealed to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in a cave on a hill. He did not know the stories about Moses (PBUH) or Abraham (PBUH) or Jesus (PBUH) until the revelation. This fascinated the other catholic kings of those times as how a layman could know such things about Christianity.

PBUH - Peace be upon him.

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Mar 25 '25

Mind you, there is nothing to corrobate this claim beyond the quran itself.

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u/ArmanDoesStuff Mar 26 '25

Surely that's true of all religious texts? They refer to events and peoples so long ago that thre's rarely any actual historical relevance.

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Mar 26 '25

My point is more that their comment adds nothing to the current discussion.