Question:
Based on his writings, St Bede the Venerable appears to be a Muslim, or had known everything about the religion of Islam. His definition or description of God is no different than what we read in the meanings/translations of Esmaul Husna.
Considering that he had lived between the years of 672 to 735 in England, is that reasonable or even remotely possible, since he lived only a few decades after Prophet Hazreti Muhammed s.a.v. Habiibullah, Nebiiyullah? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede
St Bede the Venerable – Bede (pronounced “Bead” / /ˈbiːd/; Old English: Bǣda or Bēda; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow (see Wearmouth-Jarrow), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.
Answer:
Allah knows best. Such an impression does apply to some of the early Christians such as the Fathers of the Desert, as well as later mystics such as Meister Eckhart and Theresa of Avila. For example after Francis of Assisi came back from his long captivity in Tunis he wrote his famous poem ‘brother sun and sister moon’ in which he addresses death as just another servant of Allah and created by Him, a view he took from Sunni Islam in rejection of the Augustinian view. So their writings contain many flashes of pure monotheism but they lacked the revealed knowledge by which they could transcend once and for the man-made trinitarian doctrines that contradict it.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
