Holy legends - Walid Fikri

The earth is carried on the back of a bull, and the sun revolves around it with a wheel pulled by angels every day, and the henn and ben and jinn inhabited the earth before the creation of humans by centuries.. the city of Iram of the Pillars still exists in Yemen, and Harut and Marut are still in Babylon teaching people magic, and the phoenix is a real creature and not impossible as we were told.. Al-Khidr is still alive, and Dhu al-Qarnayn is Alexander the Great, and Namerod flew into space to kill the Lord of the heavens and then returned, and Prophet Solomon stole his kingdom from a jinn for forty days and then reclaimed it.. do not be surprised, dear reader, for some of the most famous books of Islamic heritage contain this speech, and more, and some ancient storytellers of religious tales used to tell it to people, and they believed it and circulated it.. some described it as falsehoods, others said “fabricated lies,” and some called it “Isra’iliyyat.” In any case, the existence of such stories indicates that Muslims have their legends just as the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, the people of Iraq and the ancient Levant, and others.. about those sacred legends, about the legends of the ancients that infiltrated Muslim heritage; we speak.