A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of MohammedThe idea of a future existence, the product of a gradual develop ment - The idea of a future life among the Egyptians - the Jews - the Aryans-the Zoroastrians - The Jewish belief in a personal Messiah - The geal origin of this belief - The character of the Christian traditions - The strongly developed idea of an imme diate Kingdom of Heaven in the mind of Jesus and the early disciples - Paradise and Hell, according to the traditional words of J csus - The millenarian dream - How it has died away - The Islamic conception of a future existence - The parabolic character of many verses of the Koran - Progressive development, a necessity of human nature - The Koranic conception of present and future happiness - Notes. P. 263 to 287.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.