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Why The Quran Does Not Mention The Vedas?
As salaam u alaukum,
In Surah Al-A la, aayat number 17-19 , its written (17) hereafter is better and more enduring. (18) This, indeed, was in the ancient scrolls, (19) the scrolls of Abraham and Moses.
Hereafter, heaven and hell as a concept is also mentioned in scrolls older than Abraham and Moses, like Vedas. So why Qur’an has never mentioned it. Its one of the oldest scriptures available and some of the stories (great flood, story of Noah) is also mentioned in Vedas.
Jazak’Allah
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Why The Quran Does Not Mention The Vedas?
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Quran primarily addresses a particular people in a particular time. In addition to empirical evidence and appeal to reason, it uses those historical facts as a basis of its argument that its primary addressees were already familiar with.
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But Qur’an also brings forward many claims which were unknown at that time for the readers to ponder. For ex : the verses on Cosmos, creation and evolution, the process which the womb goes through during birth of a child and many verses from various fields.
The question in discussion also falls in the same bracket.
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It is not correct to assume that people at that time were ignorant about such concepts. It is true that scientific discoveries in those fields were made much later, but people had such ideas for a very long time. For example, the ideas about evolution of species can be traced back to at least ca. 495-35 BCE. For details please see:
Species Permanence and Change In Antiquity | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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So if Qur’an was stating the already available knowledge (though access of Arabs to such studies could be debatable), the query remains unanswered as to why a prominent text which is home to third largest community in the world today sees no mention.
Both the information (evolution and earlier text from India) were available at that time
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As stated earlier, Quran argues from those historical facts that its primary addressees were already familiar with. Just because they were familiar with certain philosophical concepts such as evolution does not imply that they knew anything about the Vedas. Besides, we do not know the authenticity of the Vedas as a scripture.
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Many Islamic scholars have affirmed the authenticity citing similar stories (the great flood at Noah a.s times, the first man – Adam which is a sanskrit word and Hawwa etc) and concepts (heaven and hell) which we read in Qur’an. Agreed, there might have been distortions like in Old and New Testaments, but it shouldn’t be discarded completely. It doesn’t seems a proper discourse.
I’m just trying to understand honestly as to why just two scriptures are mentioned exclusively because behind each and every verse there’s absolutely a sound logic as to why its placed there and the choice of wordings.
Jazak’Allah for your replies sir.
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Those historical events are not particularly Vedic or Quranic, but instead a legacy of the whole humankind. Similar concepts can be found in other religions and cultures as well, for example the Chinese, the African, and the Australian Aboriginal cultures.
I have already shared the reasoning behind Quran not mentioning the Vedas.
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