Prophet Zoroaster And Similarity With Islam
There are two points that are note worthy in this regard: 1 ). The restriction of prophethood to only Abraham/Ibrahim (AS) and His progeny doesn’t mean that no prophet came in other nations right after Ibrahim (AS) was selected for this rank of Imamat. Rather, prophets did come parallel to the prophets sent in the progeny of Ibrahim (sws) for a reasonable amount of time until the nation of Bani-Israel was prepared to fully dispose off their responsibility of Shahdah-Alan-Nas . And after that, there was a gradual decline in the first phase while transitioning into the second phase of the divine scheme of Prophethood. For comments of Ghamdi Sahab , Please refer to the video below from 1:25:16 to 1:26:25 __ 2 ). The date of Zoroaster is not known with certainty. There are two distinct viewpoints in this regard with recent views more inclined towards Zoroaster being lived somewhere around the second millennium BC. This could very well fall within the transition period as described in Point 1 above . Please find attached the Book written by Mary Boyce titled “ A History Of Zoroastrianism ” 1975 Edition. In Chapter Seven, the author has presented her arguments placing the date of Zoroaster somewhere around 1100 BC to 1400 BC or even before that. Since Prophet Muhammad (SWS) treated Magians of Persia like people of the book and there is a hint to this fact available in Quran as well (i.e. Quran 22:17 ), so Ghamidi Sahaba is also of view that they must have been follower of a Prophet whose teachings were distorted and corrupted by the people with time. ( Please see for details : Discussion 50339 ). _____ https://youtu.be/bLJp76ywjWA?t=5116