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The Qur’an Can­not Be A Text of Divine Origin

Hesham Azmy

The Bible | Bismika Allahuma Team | November 26, 2006
The Qur’an Can­not Be A Text of Divine Origin

The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies tend to make the gen­er­al con­clu­sion that the Qur’an can­not be a text of divine ori­gin because of the unac­cept­able mean­ings includ­ed in it. Per­haps they are cor­rect in this con­clu­sion and we may be inclined to agree with them due to the fol­low­ing rea­sons, which are :

    1. The Qur’an does not say a prophet slept with his daugh­ters.Gen­e­sis 19:30 – 38

    2. The Qur’an does not say a prophet slept with his neigh­bour’s wife and plot­ted to kill him2 Samuel 11:1 – 27

    3. The Qur’an does not say a prophet wor­shipped the Gold­en Calf.Exo­dus 32:1 – 6

    4. The Qur’an does not say a prophet changed his reli­gion, wor­shipped idols and built for them tem­ples.1 Kings 11:1 – 13

    5. The Qur’an does not say a prophet told lies and that God deceived and destroyed anoth­er prophet.1 Kings 13:1 – 30

    6. The Qur’an does not say David, Solomon and Jesus were orig­i­nal­ly bas­tards from the seed of Pharez, son of Judah.Gen­e­sis 38:12:30

    7. The Qur’an does not say the first­born of the Great Prophet who was the first­born of God slept with his step­moth­er.Gen­e­sis 35:22 and 49:3 – 4

    8. The Qur’an does not say the sec­ond son of the same Great Prophet (first­born of God) slept with his daugh­ter-in-law.Gen­e­sis 38:12:30

    9. The Qur’an does not con­tain lurid details and explic­it pornog­ra­phy involv­ing men of Assyr­ia and whores from Egypt.Ezekiel 23

    10. The Qur’an does not say John the Bap­tist, who was the great­est Israelite Prophet ever accord­ing to Jesus — though the least in the king­dom of God was greater than him ! — failed to rec­og­nize his sec­ond lord on earth, although this lord fol­lowed him and got bap­tized by him. At least not until he saw the third god descend­ing on this sec­ond god as a pigeon.Matthew 3:13 – 17, Mark 1:9 – 11 and Luke 3:21 – 22

    11. The Qur’an does not say the apos­tle of this god, Judas Iscar­i­ot, who per­formed many mir­a­cles in his name and was among the dis­ci­ples who were greater than Moses and oth­er Israelite Prophets accord­ing to Jesus, deliv­ered his god to the hands of his ene­mies for 30 pieces.Matthew 26:14 – 16, 27:3 – 9, Mark 14:10 – 11, Luke 22:3 – 6 and John 18:1 – 5

    12. The Qur’an does not say Caiaphas, the high priest — who was a prophet accord­ing to John the Bap­tist — reject­ed, insult­ed and made a ver­dict to kill his god.Matthew 26:57:68, Mark 14:53 – 65, Luke 22:54 – 71 and John 18:12 – 24

For all the above rea­sons, we con­clude that the Qur’an, unlike the Bible, can­not be a text of divine origin. The Qur'an Cannot Be A Text of Divine Origin 1


52 comments on “The Qur’an Can­not Be A Text of Divine Origin

  1. Terence

    Gol­ly, I am sur­prised that cahaya” is still refer­ing to such gra­tu­itous and excru­ti­at­ing­ly pre­sump­tu­ous ori­en­tal­is­tic folklore.
    1. Have you not even read or checked or refut­ed the claims against the Bible ?
    2. Well, let’s do #1 first.

  2. cahaya

    How does what is said in anoth­er book prove that the Quran is divine?!

    The Quran can­not be divine : Look at the bizarre amal­gam in regard to the sto­ry of Jesus.

    1. We are told that Jesus is only a prophet of Allah (I did already told you that the rera­sons giv­en by Allah as in Jesus breath­ing air and eat­ing food are irra­tional rea­sons to con­clude that he was just a man and not a God but again sim­ple and pro­found Aris­totelian log­ic was beyond your Allah).

    2. We are also told that Jesus was able to cre­ate life by breat­ing life into clay birds this indeed makes him a God.

    3. We are also told that Jesus was lift­ed by Allah which would mean that he did not die and a being that does not die is a God.

    4. Allah declares that the Trin­i­ty is Allah, Jesus and Mary which is not real­ly the real Chris­t­ian Trinity.

    So where did Muham­mad get all this strange and con­tra­dic­to­ry infor­ma­tion from ?

    Well, we know that all of these ideas about the nature of the Christ were already being debat­ed by Chris­tians in the Mid­dle East in the late antique peri­od includ­ing Arias of Alexan­dria, Nesto­ri­ans, Jaco­bites, Melkites, Gnos­tics etc…

    Now the ques­tion now would be how did Muham­mad the poor the­olo­gian trans­mit such infor­ma­tion in the Qur’an ?

    1. May be dur­ing his trav­el to Syr­ia he did dis­cuss and lis­ten to what Chris­tians in the Mid­dle East were say­ing about the mat­ter. I very much doubt that this is what real­ly hap­pened, because after the Arab inva­sion of the Mid­dle East the extant Syr­i­ac, Cop­tic and Greek sources are _​silent_​about any­thing to do with Muham­mad vis­it­ing Syr­ia. The peo­ple of the Mid­dle East had no clue who those invaders were. Those Arab invaders called them­selves not Mus­lims and not Arabs but : al-Muha­jiru­un go fig­ure!. As for the sto­ry of Bohi­ra (see the Sira) I sus­pect that this was made up and should not be regard­ed as real history.

    2. The sec­ond pos­si­bil­i­ty is that may be Muham­mad learned about such infor­ma­tion from Chris­tians liv­ing in th HIjaz. How­ev­er, the Chris­t­ian and Jew­ish sources are silent about any such com­mu­ni­ties in either Mec­ca or Medina.

    3. Last : I sus­pect and I agree with Wans­brough that the ori­gin of Islam is from Mesopotamia and not Ara­bia and that the Arab poli­ty that invad­ed the Mid­dle East in the ear­ly 630’s had no defined reli­gion as of yet and Islam was already being formed from the sec­tar­i­an debates among Chis­tians and Jews and the end result was Islam. The Arab poli­ty select­ed Islam as the reli­gion of the emerg­ing Arab state. I do belive that this is indeed what hap­pened. But this detach­es Islam from Ara­bia and Mua­ham­mad from the Qur’an. This fits very nice­ly with the extant evi­dence that we have.

    (Extract­ed from the debate between Sohail and Dhim­mi no more at http://​www​.danielpipes​.org/​c​o​m​m​e​n​t​s​/​64738)

  3. Terence

    Aditya, I’m con­fused. Arent Singhs Sikhs ? Kind­ly shed some light, bro.

  4. Aditya Singh

    Hehe­he.…. nice way to defend your religion.
    Your brought up good points. Lets see what the chris­tians say.
    I am a hin­du BTW.

  5. islamispeace

    Very inter­est­ing, indeed. What were we Mus­lims think­ing ? The Quran has no sto­ries of incest, adul­tery and mur­der, but the Bible does. How could we have been so naïve ? It is so obvious !

  6. omar

    You just made a sum­ma­ry of what been said before:-D

  7. shery

    The only thing i can say is LOL

  8. SK

    a smart refu­ta­tion, bro. let us see what they’re going to say about this. divine” indeed.

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