600 AD, The Dark Ages, and the birth of Islam

I read in a book about Islam that a shepherd boy Mahomet saw a star between the arms of the crecent moon. This was around 600 AD. He took it to be a sign pointing him out for some divine purpose.

Also about this time a Roman chronicler writing in England wrote "The crops have failed for three years and there has been snow in August".  He went on to say that the children who had frolicked in the snow the previous summer were now starving.  The closhes put out to grow food had worked but the vandals came and smashed them and took the food.  The family starved.  He did not call out the Guard because the vandals were starving too.  Brother John built a greenhouse and grew a vine but the other brothers said "God will provide" and smashed it.  God did not provide and the brotherhood of monks starved.

This quotation as I remember it is from "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles" and was published as a penguin many years ago.

The "Dark Ages" started at about this time - a period when Civilisation broke down and Rome fell.

It is possible that Mahomet witnessed a celestial body crossing between the Moon and the Earth and that it hit the Earth. This cataclysmic event triggered the poor harvests and darkened the skies making it cool, causing the crops to fail, ending the Roman Empire, as well as shaking the earth.  Mahomet said the sky was darkened and the earth shook.  He was a witness to the fall of an asteriod.

Additionally: When the young Mahomet told of his experience the local Christians said "stones could not fall from the sky for there were no stones in the sky and that the heavens were perfect and his sighting could not have happened".  This caused the initial rift between Christianity and Islam.  The reason for the rift has now been resolved with the coming of modern knowledge and the discovery of stones in the sky that can, and do, fall.