(2:62) (1) The list of religious traditions as given in 2:62 above is expanded in the following passage: "Those who believe (in the Qur'an) those who follow the Jewish (scriptures) and the Sabians Christians
Magians and Polytheists Allah will judge between them on the Day of Judgment: for God is witness of all things" (22:17).
He was critical of Hellenic Persian mysticism, of the Buddhist concept of annihilation, of pantheism, of the influence of Greek thought on Muslim Philosophy and of the
Magian culture that influenced Muslim theology.
The priestcraft of the East and West, of the
Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
Let Peter Paul Rubens wake from the dead, let him rise out of his cerements, and bring into this presence all the army of his fat women; the
magian power or prophet-virtue gifting that slight rod of Moses, could, at one waft, release and re-mingle a sea spell-parted, whelming the heavy host with the down-rush of overthrown sea-ramparts.
The Israiliyyat (a reference to Judaic teachings) "remain to this day an inexhaustible source of the irrational in Arab religious thought, especially among the general public and in popular religious culture of Arab-Muslim societies." In addition, certain
Magian and Manichaean beliefs, as well as Sabian doctrines and Greek philosophical ideas, have entered Arab-Muslim culture.
"Every child is born endowed with the fitrah, then his parents make him Jew or Christian or
Magian".
The faith of the Spring he called
Magian as opposed to the Faustian faith of Winter or the Apollonian faith of Summer and Fall.
Van Bladel argues that Ibrahim's ghazal on how various religions view the beloved suggests that Sabians like Ibrahim still considered the planets to be an important part of the Sabian religion, analogous to Jewish law,
Magian dualism, Christian trinitarianism, and the Muslim's promised paradise.
They made unlawful to people that which I had made lawful for them, and they commanded them to associate in worship with Me, that for which I had sent down no authority." The Prophet (peace be upon him) also said: "Every child is born upon the fitrah (pure human nature) but his parents make him a Jew or a Christian or a
Magian. It is like the way an animal gives birth to a natural offspring.
(8) It is also documented that the religions recognized as having permission to live under Muslim rule were Christian, Jewish,
Magian, Samaritan, and Sabian.
347-54 on eschatology) certainly demonstrate that it would have been easy for Muslim heresiographers to superficially classify Khurramiyya as being of
Magian origins, especially as both were dualists in stark contrast to the three large monotheist communities.
