Islamic Practical Beliefs Like Namaz Etc Originated By Jews In Arabia
If the prophet was to unite all the tribes, he should avoid challenging their old well established notions of idolatry and other practices which were very dear to him. Also he should not criticise the Jews and Christians of his time to turn them into his enemies. No politically ambitious leader could ever invent a way to make his own tribe his enemy that he had to leave his native city to become an immigrant in a another city. There is no bonding force in his message for others, not even for Jews whose religion he was allegedly copying. The fact is, the prophet did not bring a brand new religion, but the same religion of Abraham he revived which was being followed by Jews and Arabs with all their innovations and digression. The traces of it were still alive in Arab and very well in practice with Jews like prayer, Zakat, and Hajj etc. The prophet just refined it and took it back to the old tradition of Abraham. That is why one find similarities with Judaism. God told in Quran that all the prophets were given the same religion and same was given to the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). the stories associated with the sacredness of fountain of Zamzam are not authentic. It was there well before Ishmael and his mother settled there