Dyears Civilization or Barbary, Cheikh Anta Diop already observed the similarities which persisted between the Islamic tradition and that of the valley of the Nile which had preceded it by several millennia. He writes: "The hell of the Egyptian religion represented in the tomb of Seti Ier, father of Ramses II (XIXe dynasty, 1300 av. JC.) A monstrous serpent forms with its curls a hideous bridge suspended in the void, above hell, whose jailers fan the flames. The dead man, facing the mouth of the snake, is supported only by his previous actions on earth to cross this bridge and reach paradise. If good wins, he is saved. In the opposite case, it is precipitated in the flames of hell that devour it. Is good the siratal moustakhima of Islam, 1700 years before the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, and one grasps the undeniable historical link that exists between the ancestral Egyptian religion and the revealed religions. The court of Osiris (Aras of Islam), the day of the Last Judgment '. (Civilization or Barbary, P.417).
THEAras of Islam, the place of the last judgment, has the meaning of foyer, fire. Theophrastus Bouju, controversialist of 17e century and secretary of the Count of Soissons, published in the year 1604 a work presented as the Method of convincing by Holy Scripture, all schismatics and heretics. Evoking the notions of altar and holocaust, the author notes on page 626: “(…) To this we respond with Monsieur d'Eureux that we should not conclude from this that in the time of Minutius Foelix the Christians had no altars; but that they had no altars as the heathen understood the word, Search : that is to say as it means fire altar: for this was what the Latins usually understood by Search, namely, sacred hearth, place and seat intended for the fire of sacrifices, on the occasion of which also some, as remark Varon and Isidore, derived it from ab ardendo; and to that even alludes to the Latin proverb that says proaris and focis, opposing them to each other, like sacred homes and domestic homes ”(Method of convincing through Sacred Scripture… p.626).