My experience with Islam

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Ra didn't say muhammad was legit. He said he introduced a "more intelligible" conception of the Law of One. Remember the Law of One can also be understood through negative polarity which certainly seems to be the path of Mohammud who was a warlord.

Last time I checked, negative warlords don't introduce more intelligible conceptions of Law of One.

Actually, they can. The introduced understanding does not need to be balanced or positive.

How much of what happened during Mohammad's life in regard to raids, wars, plunder, slavery etc can be evaluated within the realities of that time (since these were normal social practice by then, done by all parties in that geography, and with other cultures all around the known world with differing practices) is a question and debate in itself. So it is hard to say whether the teachings and practices he introduced in regard to these are negative because they were negative, or, they are negative because the norms of the time were negative. This includes also social norms and practices introduced to islam during its creation by Mohammad himself.

After Mohammad it becomes more complicated. It is a considerable duration after his death that Quran is compiled. Quran was in pieces and bits during Mohammad's time, written here and there, memorized by this or that person, and by the Caliph's efforts that these were brought together and compiled into a book. It becomes even more complicated when, after a longer time all copies but a certain one are destroyed by a caliph, what remained declared unchanged word of god.

Some scholars outside islamic countries think that Quran was compiled to reflect the social practices and traditions of local tribes, combined with numerous elements taken from semitic cultures, judaism and christianity (Ibrahimite religious continuity), but this kind of argument meets harsh reaction by islamic cultures - especially the ones in middle east.

However, as it pertains to what Ra says, there is indeed truth to the simplest creed of Mohammad's teaching:

There is one creator, and everything is one in that creator. There is spirit, body and mind. Entire existence is manifestation of that creator, that we together constitute.

Anything from there and on, are particular to islam.