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The '''Haran Gawaitha''' | The '''Haran Gawaitha''', or ''Inner Haran'', is a Mandaean text written during the 7<sup>th</sup> to 9<sup>th</sup> century which purports to tell the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Iraq as Nasoreans from Jerusalem.<ref>Karen L. King - [http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Gnosticism-Karen-L-King/dp/0674017625 What is Gnosticism?] - Harvard University Press, 2005, P. 140, ISBN 9780674017627</ref> It contains some of the earliest non-Muslim references to Prophet [[Muhammad]]. | ||
==Text from the Haran Gawaitha== | ==Text from the Haran Gawaitha== | ||
In the following excerpt, Muhammad is referred to as "the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab" | In the following excerpt, Muhammad is referred to as "the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab," "the most degraded of false prophets," "the Seal of prophets of the Lie," who "converted people to himself by the sword." | ||
{{Quote||I will tell you, (O ye ) priests who live in the Arab age, (of that which occurred) before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, went out and prophesied as a prophet in the world so that they performed circumcision like Jews and changed sayings - for he is the most degraded of false prophets. Mars accompanieth him because he is the Seal of prophets of the Lie, (although) the Messiah will appear after him at the end of the age! I will inform you, Nasoraeans, that before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, emerged and was called prophet in the world and Mars descended with him, he drew the sword and converted people to himself by the sword. About eighty-six years before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, Adonai sent S'urbis'- Ruha who is his spouse, to the city of T'ib, called locally the City of As'ganda because of all that was done (during) his rule in Baghdad. (For) As'ganda (dwelt?) in T'ib; it was his native place; and it was called "the city of S'ganda" (also) because in it there were Nasoraeans and ris'amia (ethnarchs)". And there was one ris'ama called Qiqil. | {{Quote||I will tell you, (O ye ) priests who live in the Arab age, (of that which occurred) before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, went out and prophesied as a prophet in the world so that they performed circumcision like Jews and changed sayings - for he is the most degraded of false prophets. Mars accompanieth him because he is the Seal of prophets of the Lie, (although) the Messiah will appear after him at the end of the age! I will inform you, Nasoraeans, that before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, emerged and was called prophet in the world and Mars descended with him, he drew the sword and converted people to himself by the sword. About eighty-six years before the Son-of-Slaughter, the Arab, Adonai sent S'urbis'- Ruha who is his spouse, to the city of T'ib, called locally the City of As'ganda because of all that was done (during) his rule in Baghdad. (For) As'ganda (dwelt?) in T'ib; it was his native place; and it was called "the city of S'ganda" (also) because in it there were Nasoraeans and ris'amia (ethnarchs)". And there was one ris'ama called Qiqil. | ||