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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. Abdul Mutalib

    If we read the Quran and the Bible enough and with no prej­u­dice and get to know the back­ground of both, we will see a lot of dif­fer­ences between them. In addi­tion we should also need to know how both have come into exis­tence in our world and the ways the ancient peo­ple pre­serve both for mod­ern peole like us.
    A lot of mis­un­der­stand­ings come from with­er prej­u­dice or igno­rance or both. I reserve my comment.

  2. DoctorMaybe

    In response to chaya

    1. there were many chris­tians, includ­ing Bahi­ra, who con­firmed Muhammad(saw)‘s prophethood:as record­ed in the sira. addi­tion­al­ly, there were many jews who had pre­fig­ured the appear­ance of a prophet that would destroy the idol­aters- lead­ing the ansars to embrace Islam-Alhamdolillah.

    2. accord­ing to the catholic ency­clo­pe­dia, the hijaz was untouched by chris­t­ian teachings

    3. all Wans­bor­ough, whose approach to Islam was copied by crone and cook, did was guess. sur­pris­ing­ly, patri­cia crone con­ced­ed that Islam­ic lit­er­a­ture has some mer­it, how­ev­er small it might be. In her own words, We shall nev­er be able to do with­out the lit­er­ary sources, of course, and
    the chances are that most of what the tra­di­tion tells us about the prophet’s
    life is more or less cor­rect in some sense or other”

  3. islamispeace

    I agree with Ter­ence. Per­haps cahaya should dwelve more on why the Bible describes prophets sleep­ing with their daugh­ters and com­mit­ting adul­tery, and less on his­tor­i­cal myths.

  4. Abu Youshaa

    Oh ! no porno?!! How will we inter­grate into society ?

  5. Faruh Rehan

    Adding to the points, I think the most cru­cial point is that the Quran impos­es lots of law, can’t do this, do that, no alco­hol, no sex out­side mar­riage, no gam­bling (big busi­ness!!!), can’t wear skimpy fash­ion”, no pork, no same-sex mar­riage, on and on. For the xtian, the law is not there any­more, so hur­raay, we can do all that. How could Quran impos­es such laws when all they want is to get away with it ? No sin, noth­ing, just believe in Jesus (for­get what He says, just believe in Him only) and you will be saved. Don’t for­get to wear your cross. It is more pow­er­ful than the Lord. You can wear it between your cleav­age or draw it on your but­tocks or pubic areas. The dev­il won’t be scared when you men­tion the Lord’s name, but show the cross and the Dev­il will turn green, as if he saw anoth­er Devil.

  6. Truth

    Guys, give me a break. Do not con­demn oth­er reli­gion. Both Chris­t­ian and Islam come from the same root, so why fight amongst us ? If the Chris­tians believe in Jesus, so be it. If the Mus­lims believe in Islam teach­ing, so be it. If you are talk­ing about num­bers of peo­ples con­vert into Islam, then how about num­bers of Mus­lims con­vert into Islam by their free will ? The choic­es if up to the indi­vid­u­als. C’mon, believe in what you believe in and STOP com­par­ing and con­demn­ing oth­er reli­gions. I’m a Chris­t­ian and I believe in Jesus. That’s mat­ter for me. I believe in Jesus because He’s the Way, the Truth and the Life. I know for Mus­lims Jesus is just a Prophet. So what ?

  7. Truth

    Hahahaha…Read and under­stand the WHOLE bible than u will under­stand. I won’t explain cos I know no mat­ter how I explain, u guys will keep on attack­ing Chris­t­ian. My advice, if u real­ly wants to know about Bible and Chris­t­ian, go to the right per­son. There’s no point debat­ing on it like this.

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