Dan Brown’s blockbuster “INFERNO” and the PROPHET MUHAMMAD’s “Night Journey”

Some, if not many of you, will read, if not watch, the movie that will almost certainly follow the publication of Dan Brown’s latest book; “Inferno.”

Dan Brown’s latest fiction novel, already hailed as his greatest work of fiction, is based on Dante Alighieri's 14th-century divine comedy. However, there is a catch: it was meant to ridicule Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.). 

Dante’s pretentious journey to heaven (Paradiso), hell (Inferno), and purgatory is a copycat of the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey (Miraj) to heaven and hell. It was written at a time when Islamic Spain was the learning center of Europe. Dante plagiarized and expanded the prophet’s account of what he saw in heaven and hell, turning it into a joke, hence the divine comedy that had become known in Europe.

I don’t know if Dan Brown ever mentions Islam or the prophet of Islam in the book, and how he is portrayed will remain to be seen until we read it.

THE PROPHET’S NIGHT JOURNEY IS ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT TIME TRAVEL IS NO FICTION. If time travel is not possible, Jesus’ second coming will remain a myth that will never happen. 

NLK

‘Inferno’: Dan’s Brown’s Best Book Yet - The Daily Beast:

‘Inferno’: Dan’s Brown’s Best Book Yet

May 14, 2013 12:00 PM EDT

If you loved The Da Vinci Code—admit it, you did—you’ll want to pick up Dan Brown’s latest, Inferno. The author talks to Malcolm Jones about Dante, gravity boots, and more.

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The hectic plot involves lots of people chasing Langdon and a hot female physician (whose 200-plus IQ nicely compliments Langdon’s photographic memory) all over Florence and then Venice before everyone winds up in Istanbul after many double crosses, triple crosses, and maybe even quadruple crosses (I lost count). Langdon suspects that a mad scientist may be unleashing a new plague upon the world to control its exploding population before civilization succumbs. Fortunately for Langdon, the hubristic scientist is also a Dante fan, and he’s left lots of clues that only an art professor and symbol expert like Langdon is equipped to understand.

Characters really do say things like, “We’re running out of time!” Langdon literally strokes his chin at one point while he’s thinking. But if it isn’t Proust, you can’t say it’s ever dull. Brown may not be a great prose stylist, but he knows how to push our paranoia buttons, and he knows how to make a plot clip along. Inferno pegs the odometer needle into the red at the outset and stays there for nearly 500 pages.

FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/inferno-dan-s-brown-s-best-book-yet.html

Dante's Inferno

From WikiIslam, the online resource on Islam

Dante's Inferno ("Inferno" being Italian for "Hell") refers to the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14^th-century epic poem "Divine Comedy." It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Dante draws on Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.^[1] Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse."^[2]

Dante Alighieri is also known as "the Supreme Poet" and the "Father of the Italian language." His Divine Comedy is considered the greatest literary work ever composed in the Italian language^[3] and a masterpiece of world literature.^[4]

Inferno: Canto XXVIII

Dante encounters Prophet Muhammad and his cousin and son-in-law Ali (the fourth Rightly-Guided Caliph of Islam) in the eighth circle of Hell. This circle punishes the fraudulent – those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil.

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