Odon Lafontaine is back with Jay Smith for the last part of his study of the coins and inscriptions from the 7th century and early 8th century.

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Odon Lafontaine's website: https://thegreatsecretofislam.com (with the pdf file of the presentation)

We start with coins and inscriptions from Abd al Malik's time. They prove how he pretended to be the one who was to establish God's kingdom on earth, and was the first to do so by creating the first caliphate. He so got rid of the previous expectations that Jesus was to come back physically to Jerusalem to establish his kingdom of justice.

As the building of the Dome of the Rock and its inscriptions prove it, Abd al Malik pictured himself as an equivalent to the Messiah Jesus, whose return was then transferred to another end of times, and another location: the minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Abd al Malik capital city.

Abd al Malik's Umayyad successors then ruled like him, as "God's Caliphs" (khalifat allah: God's lieutenants on earth), according to the new empire model he founded. But when the Abbassids took power over them, they could not justify their new power with the same claims as the one they just defeated. They hence claimed a direct divine intervention. So they needed a divine revelation, and so they needed a prophet, a holy book, a holy place, and a new holy narrative. They so created islam, and became "God's apostle Caliphs" (khalifat rasul allah: successors of Muhammad).

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