Atheism At The Time Of Prophet Muhammad SWS
These are two diferent things. In the above video, Ghamidi Sahab is commenting whether Atheism was prevalent in Arabia at the time of Prophet Muhammad (sws) and in the second video below which you referenced above, Ghamidi Sahab is explaining the history of Atheism. From Quran, it becomes clear that polytheism was the prevalent problem in the religious thought of Mecca and surrounding regions of Arabia. Had Atheism been prevalent the way polytheism was at that time, then Quran would have definitely critiqued that school of thought as well the way it has critiqued different polytheistic notions found in polytheists of Arabia and in people of the book. Quran, for us Muslims, is the most credible source of established history and whatever is mentioned in Quran we take it as an established fact. Quran has vehemently condemned polytheism and has given arguments to counter an atheist mind and to help an agnostic mind in its search for the truth. A significant portion of Quran contains arguments ranging from intuitive, intellectual, historical and empirical domains which are more than enough to answer atheistic viewpoint. __ Please refer to the video below from 46:12 to 53:10 https://youtu.be/LGtK-2nfEQI?t=2772
What we see as a rise in atheism is only in people formally identifying themselves as disbelievers. Atheism is an ancient idea; we not only find significant traces of it in ancient Greece as well as pre-Christian Rome, but according to some historians it was more prominent in those societies than any other civilization ever since. You can read Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh who wrote on the historical prominence of atheism.