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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. Truth

    This is my per­son­al opin­ion. For Mus­lims, they are proud if they can fin­ish read­ing the Koran (“khatam”) sev­er­als times. The ques­tion is, are they real­ly under­stand the con­tents and the teach­ings ? for me as a Chris­t­ian, it’s very hard for me even to COMPLETE and UNDERSTAND one chap­ter. because you can’t under­stand the bible with­out the guid­ance of Holy Spir­it and you have to pray for it. for me that’s why i believe the Holy Bible is Holy and divine text. come on, if you can fin­ish it so eas­i­ly, than it’s no more than comics book and school textbooks.

  2. Truth

    Why we judge sins of the past when in front of our eyes, it still hap­pen ? Do we hv the right and pow­er to judge oth­ers reli­gion ? Those who are sin­less cast the first stone. I assume that all Mus­lims who only know to attack oth­er reli­gion (to defend their faith??? i don’t think so..) are sin­less and you guys NEVER lie, NEVER drunk, NEVER think about sex, is it ? WOW…impressive. then you are at the same lev­el as God, sin­less and HOLY..Dream on!!!

  3. Marriyah

    Ding dong please read Cahaya’s point i feel it may make more sense to you, the fact of the mat­ter is that the sto­ry of Lot did occur but he is not a Prophet and nei­ther were his daugh­ters (pre­vi­ous­ly i did think that Lot was a Prophet to you which is why i called him a Prophet out of respect but i have since been cor­rect­ed) so the sto­ry is untrue as it is titled a above as a prophet sleep­ing with his daughters.
    Sor­ry if i did­nt make myself clear enough. and yes he was made drunk and they did sleep with him I dont c whats com­pli­cat­ed. The act of sleep­ing with some­one when they have been made drunk is dif­fer­ent to sleep­ing with some­one will­ing­ly is it not.

  4. Dingdong

    Mar­riyah

    Can you please lis­ten to yourself ?

    1. Lot was made drunk and then his daugh­ters had sex with him
    2. there­fore the belief that a prophet slept with his daugh­ters is in fact wrong

    What???

  5. Marriyah

    sor­ry can i just add in rela­tion to the sto­ry about Lot i did­nt make this clear b4 but it was­nt Lot who slept with his daugh­ters will­ing­ly, Lot was made drunk and then his daugh­ters had sex with him this is a good rea­son why you should­nt drink to exc­cess. so real­ly it was his Daugh­ters who weren’t Pro­hets in any way as Pro­het­dom is not passed down through blood. there­fore the belief that a prophet slept with his daugh­ters is in fact wrong.

  6. cahaya

    First of all, let me just point out that the Bible is a his­tor­i­cal account of God’s deal­ing with his peo­ple … the good, the bad and the ugly.

    For islamis­peace and Ter­rence, don’t just read what is pre­sent­ed here about the bible. The bible has noth­ing to hide about the sins of God’s peo­ple. Read those ref­er­ences in con­text and see for your­self if the accounts are as lurid as claimed here. If there are lurid” details, read also what hap­pened to those peo­ple inv­oled in those lurid acts.

    Anoth­er thing, when Mus­lims say prophets” of the bible, don’t you blind­ly agree on their def­i­n­i­tion of a prophet. Lot was nev­er a prophet, and nei­ther was Caiaphas the high priest.

    I still main­tain that the Koran is not divine. If the Koran is indeed the final rev­e­la­tion from God, and is sup­posed to make clear all the pre­vi­ous books of God, how is it that the Koran can­not get the sto­ries that are also found in the Bible right ? And how can Muham­mad sim­ply declare that Jesus was nev­er cru­ci­fied when that event is a mat­ter of his­tor­i­cal fact ?

  7. Marriyah

    Thank-you Isla­mi peace for your reply and i hope i can suc­cess­ful­ly answer your ques­tions. First­ly Yes you are quite right these two sto­ries do take place in the bible, and i dont dis­pute that my issue is with select­ing these pas­sages and not telling the full sto­ry… first­ly the sto­ry about Lot you have recit­ed cor­rect­ly but this is not a pos­i­tive event and in fact when God floods the world does he not do it due to such sin that is going on.
    The sto­ry of Bathshe­ba and David is a case of intend­ed mis­in­ter­pre­taion first­ly yes the sto­ry is true but if you read on to the next sec­tion (in my bible just under it) God sends the Prophet Nathan to pun­ish David for his sin and the pun­ish­ment lies in the death of his son (2samuel 12 16 – 23. Anoth­er is shown when we are all sup­posed to be idol wor­ship­pers, first­ly these jews were the same ones freed from Egypt who were mis­guid­ed in their reli­gion and need­ed some­thing i which to focus so aaron took all the gold and melt­ed it and mould­ed it into the shape of a Bull/​Calf they styart­ed wor­ship­ping it and offer­ing it gifts, whilst this was going on Moses was on the moun­tain col­lect­ing the ten com­mand­ments, when God saw what his peo­ple were doing he was angery and (exo­dus 13) want­ed to destroy them Moses plead­ed for their lives and returned to his peo­ple witrh the ten com­mand­ments which taught them how to wor­ship unlike their pagan Egypt­ian keep­ers (which was all they knew)
    Im not try­ing to dis­pute whether or not these events took place im angery that the full sto­ry has been cut in order to paint a neg­a­tive pic­ture of Chris­tian­i­ty when your try­ing to prove the divin­i­ty of the Qur’an why cant you just focus on the Qur’an or tell the truth the whole truth the com­plete story.
    Therr are many neg­a­tive sides of reli­gion fopr exam­ple sites like Ali Sinas which says that your Prophet mar­ried a 6 – 9 year old child, raped a jew­ish woman named Safiya and spoke the words of satan in his hours of doubt is this true… or is it a fab­ri­ca­tion, I dont know but I dont write in to web sites where i dont know the truth and yet give my praise for anoth­ers lies against any reli­gion, and Im glad that you have done some research but oth­ers who just con­grat­u­late what they want to hear makes me angery.
    Thats my only issue with this page by Azmy.
    Thanks again for your reply…
    Can i ask ques­tion that no one has been able to answer for me im not being fun­ny im ask­ing a gen­er­al ques­tion but where does the Qur’an speak of peace. because on most of the web pages that i have been on even the mus­lim ones they dont say when they do its about peace to your mus­lim bros and sis and not to oth­ers so please reply with answer, im gen­uin­ly want­i­ng to know.

  8. islamispeace

    Mar­riyah,

    Kind­ly show how the facts we blind­ly accept­ed are clear­ly fake.” You say they are fake, but you don’t say why. Sor­ry, but this will not count as an intel­li­gent response. Are you say­ing that the Bible does not say that a prophet slept with his daugh­ters ? The sto­ry is well-known. Lot’s daugh­ters get him drunk and then have sex with him. Is this not what the Bible says ? Does not the Bible describe how David slept with Bathshe­ba, and then sent her hus­band out to war so that he may be killed and thus leave Bathshe­ba for David ? Are you say­ing that the Bible does not say these things ? Kind­ly reply.

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