Take, for example, the description of the Seven Heavens in the
Qur'an. "Say: Who is the Lord of the seven heavens and the Lord
of the might dominions?" 23:86 "Do you not see how Allah has
created the seven heavens, one above the other? And made the
moon A light in their midst, and made the sun As a (Glorious)
Lamp?" 7:15 -16 "So He ordained them seven heavens in two
periods, and revealed in every heaven its affair; and We adorned
the lower heaven with brilliant stars…" 41: 12 The seven heavens
were common belief of many ancient religions, so it is surely
not surprising that many have concluded that Mohammad copied
this idea. We find it, for example, in Hindu mythology ( In
Classical Hindu Mythology - a reader in the Sanskrit puranas by
Cornelia Dimmitt, Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen Temple
University Press (p24) we read: "Upwards from the Earth extend
seven heavens, layered spheres of space.") and in Judaism (In
Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel, Volume 1 By Angelo S.
Rappoport the third chapter is ent