Very Strange! Oscar Wild Mentioned Prophet Mohammed!!

hello all,

this is my first thread, acuattly i've joined your forum because while i was reading online one of Oscar Wilde's stories; "The Fisherman and his Soul" on this website

http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/2318/

the author;Oscar Wilde mentioned the Name of prophet Mohammed PBUH!! isn't that strange!! so i thought i need to share this with someone

here is the part that i'm talking about


"'********* I answered that I was a Prince in my own land, and that I had
escaped from the Tartars, who had sought to make me their slave.
The chief smiled, and showed me five heads fixed upon long reeds of
bamboo.

'Then he asked me who was the prophet of God, and I answered him
Mohammed.

'When he heard the name of the false prophet, he bowed and took me
by the hand, and placed me by his side. A negro brought me some
mare's milk in a wooden dish, and a piece of lamb's flesh roasted."


what do you think??

Sorry, I couldn't understand why it should be strange. "Strange" because of Wilde's beliefs?

I don't understand why it is 'very strange' either :confused:

Muna, maybe you could explain your thoughts behind this :)

Mohamed is equally known in the world as Jezus, so I cant see the problem or why its weird to.

Well, this was the soul that had gone off to travel. Judging by what it was saying, it had traveled into lands where the people where Muslim, rather than Christian like the fisherman. The chief was testing this stranger that had approached them, and the soul knew he had to pretend to be Muslim in order to travel with them. He mentions afterward that he named "the false prophet" which Mohammed is to Christians.
In short, the soul was being crafty :D