Therefore, after he had thought on all these, at the age of forty he
presented himself as a Prophet sent by God, saying he was seeing Angel
Gabriel, who told him the wills of God in order to preach them to the world.
Some of these he put and wrote in the Koran.
In his country, Chentza, lying near the Red Sea, people were in a
semi-wild condition. Christians there were not. By his preaching he didn’t
manage to gather more than a few faithful followers. But when he urged Arabs
to holy war, allegedly to spread the Koran, his patriots obeyed and followed
him with fanaticism and thus the new religion was spread, yet, as we’ll see,
this was accomplished less by Arabs and more by other peoples of the East,
more clever, as Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, and others.
The greatest part of the Koran was written after Mohammed died, who
didn’t know how to write or read. Koran was written by others, more
literate, and maybe not Arabs. ...
Mohammed and the others, who completed Koran, were building upon the
Christian religion and their admiration for Christianity is not hidden. Yet
their holy book is full of undigested and crude elements of the Old and the
New Testament, which is why Koran was accepted more easily than the Gospel
by those barbaric peoples. ...
Koran praises the Church of Christ, “where unceasingly the name of God is
honored”, and this Church is the
Orthodox Church, the One, Holy, Catholic
and Apostolic, which is why Mohammed gave to his religion the name “Islam”,
that means “Orthodoxy” in Arabic.
