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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. Marriyah

    In response to the the writ­ing above by Azmy on the divin­i­ty of the Qur’an, I guess you are already aware that these are delib­er­ate mis­in­ter­pre­taions and high­ly insult­ing to Chris­t­ian peo­ple. Even though I am aware that this site is in response to those who have been anti- mus­lim (and they are not all chris­t­ian please note) but I dont believe doing exact­ly what they are doing to you is the right way to go about it.
    The above only proves that the Qur’ans divin­i­ty is based and can only be proved by lies. (your words Azmy not mine)please ammend your mistakes.(try read­ing the bible this time)

    And to Shery, Isla­mi peace and s.k you rejoiced to soon for the facts you blind­ly accept­ed are clear­ly fake. Sor­ry for your dissapointment

  2. Terence

    Arnold,

    God MUST make sense to the rea­son­ing mind. The rea­son­ing mind also under­stands that it itself is lim­it­ed, but yet it itself serve a very impor­tant func­tion.. to recog­nise God and that its lim­i­ta­tion is a sign to the infinite­ness of God.

    Isa­iah 1:18 Come now, let us rea­son togeth­er,” says the LORD
    jere­mi­ah 17:9 The heart is deceit­ful above all things, and it is exceed­ing­ly cor­rupt : who can know it ?
    jere­mi­ah 17:10 I, Jeho­vah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man accord­ing to his ways, accord­ing to the fruit of his doings.

  3. PaakMaw

    Folks, you might as well give up on this blog. The ver­bous HeiGou will flood this blog with his base­less claims and accu­sa­tions to dis­tract and insti­gate you again. Like what he has done to oth­er blogs in this site. Con­grat­u­la­tions, HeiGou. You under­stand how the stu­pid­i­ty of Mus­lims work… because they dont know how to ignore you.

  4. Arnold

    I do not defend it, I mere­ly tell peo­ple why they are wrong for think­ing it’s impos­si­ble or illog­i­cal. Mus­lims think God should always make sense to the rea­son­ing mind, and that’s why they think the Quran is supe­ri­or to the Bible. But I think God is beyond our sen­si­bil­i­ties, and if it appears that God makes so much sense, chances are, you’re not read­ing about God but instead read­ing about a human inven­tion. Human inven­tions usu­al­ly make sense to the human, rea­son­ing mind. God often does not.

  5. HeiGou

    Doc­tor­Maybe said on 23 Novem­ber 2006::“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.”

    Actu­al­ly the Mus­lim tra­di­tion claims there were many Chris­tians who con­firmed Muhammed prophet­hood, but it is clear, with­out too much read­ing between the lines, this was not the case. Khadi­ja’s cousin declined to con­vert to Islam. In fact of the four hanif I know of, none of them died as Mus­lims, but as Chris­tians. The Jews may have had a belief about the com­ing of the Mes­si­ah, but they clear­ly did not believe he was Muhammed — as can be seen by their resis­tance to con­ver­sion and even­tu­al exile or death.

    Doc­tor­Maybe said on 23 Novem­ber 2006::“2. accord­ing to the catholic ency­clo­pe­dia, the hijaz was untouched by chris­t­ian teachings”

    I don’t think that is exact­ly what the Catholic Ency­clo­pe­dia says but if it does, it must be wrong because the aHa­dith make it clear that Muhammed’s wife’s cousin was trans­lat­ing the Bible into Ara­bic and there were oth­er Chris­tians about — in Yemen for instance. Unless you think the Quran is wrong ?

    Doc­tor­Maybe said on 23 Novem­ber 2006::“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””

    Wans­bor­ough does more than guess. He applies mod­ern lit­er­ary and tex­tu­al crit­i­cism to the Mus­lim tra­di­tion. That approach is not going to go away. The key words in Crone’s pas­sage there is in some sense or oth­er”. That leave a lot of room for her to inter­pret Mus­lim his­to­ry as her work shows.

  6. DoctorMaybe

    Arnorld, how can you say that you are not a chris­t­ian, con­sid­er­ing that you defend­ed the trin­i­ty and divin­i­ty of christ in some oth­er thread ?

  7. Arnold

    Hezham, this is a real­ly stu­pid argu­ment. The Quran has absur­di­ties as well. And the Hadiths are prob­a­bly the most far fetched peice of of lit­er­a­ture amongst all reli­gion. Moses keeps on cor­rect­ing Gods com­mand for fre­quen­cy of pray­ing dur­ing Muham­mad’s jour­ney ? That is an unbe­liev­able, laugh­able sto­ry that’s as ridicu­lous as any­thing in the bible. But here is the stu­pid part that you did. You used flaws in Chris­tian­i­ty to make the Quran look divine. But I’m not a Chris­t­ian and I think that both the bible and the quran are quite absurd lit­tle fairy tales. So point­ing out errors in the bible means noth­ing to me. So, since you gave no rea­son to think the quran is divine and only gave rea­sons why the bible is not divine, you have done absolute­ly zero, zilch. That’s like find­ing out there is a hole in your boat and try­ing to fill the hole by polk­ing a hole in some­one else’s boat. That does­n’t fix the hole in your boat, dummy.

  8. faith

    Faruh Rehan : if you do not under­stand Chris­tian­i­ty, don’t come up with that non­sense about Chris­tians’ being law­less because their faith is based on just believe’. The idea of Chris­t­ian faith’s belief’ in God means that you will believe in God’s plans and God’s ver­sion of right and good. Specif­i­cal­ly speakin the New Tes­ta­ment (the one that Chris­tians use in order to jus­ti­fy’ why when Jesus came Moses Laws were now deemed out­dat­ed), demands Chris­tians to walk a Christ-led life. The key word is ques­tion­ing what would Jesus do?’. With that doc­trine in mind, then we will be led to live a sin­less life…

    oh why am i both­er­ing even explain­ing to you.

    In a nut­shell, if your knowl­edge of Chris­tian­i­ty is con­fined to a peanut-case, then keep it in the case.

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