Some time ago someone signed me up for a message board entitled “The Straight Path of Islam.” It is often fascinating as a glimpse into the jihadist mindset, and to Muslim attitudes in general.
The post below was sent out to alert Muslims to false Qur’anic passages that are circulating; the sender says they are designed to ensnare and lead astray unwitting Muslims and prospective converts. What they are in fact are answers to the challenge issued in two verse of the Qur’an:
And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant, then produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your witnesses or helpers (If there are any) besides Allah, if your (doubts) are true.(2:23)
Or do they say, “He forged it”? say: “Bring then a Sura like unto it, and call (to your aid) anyone you can besides Allah, if it be ye speak the truth!” (10:38)
A Christian group answered this challenge by producing several pieces in Qur’anic Arabic that expound Christian doctrine. One of them is below. But note the heading on the message “ALERT: JEW PRODUCING FAKE QURAN”: once again, the Jews are blamed — despite the clear Christian content of the third verse. This is another manifestation of the widespread Muslim assumption that if there is a challenge to Islam, Jews must be behind it (and I, of course, must be a Jew as well), producing diabolically clever material that the faithful must be on guard against.
ALERT: JEW PRODUCING FAKE QURAN
Dears Assalamu Alaikum WB,
PLEASE READ AND ACT…..
BE CAREFUL there are certain anti-Islam groups are trying to produce a new Qur’an!! Please read this and send it to all friends. Some enemies of Islam have established an on-line Qur’an Surah with addition of some self-written SURAHS; examples can be seen below.
It’s very dangerous for the Muslim world, especially for the newly converted Muslims or the Muslims who don’t know FALSE and Bad material.
Kindly send this message to inform as many persons as you can.
They Developed Four SURAH’S with additions by them….
EXAMPLE of fake surah and translation:
SURAT AL-MUSLIMOON:
TRANSLATION:
(1) Alef Lam Saad Meem
(2) Say: O Muslims, You are far astray.
(3) Those who disbelieved in God and his Christ
shall have in the lifeafter the fire of hell
and a severe torture.
(4) Some faces that day will be subdued and darkened
seeking forgiveness from God
and God shall do whatever He wants.
(5) That day, the Most Merciful shall say:
O my servants I favored you with my guidance
revealed to you in the Torah and the Injeel.
(6) And you should have not disbelieved
what I have revealed to you
and go astray from a plain road.
(7) They said: We did not go astray ourselves
but he, who claimed he was one of the messengers (of God)
has mislead us.
(8) And as God says: O Muhammad, you allured my servants
and caused them to become disbelieves.
(9) He said: O my Lord, it is Satan who allured me and truly
he has always been the most corrupting to children of Adam.
(10) And God will forgive those
who have been allured by man and then repented
and he will compel that one who was Satan’s advocate to hell,
a hapless journey’s end.
(11) And if God rules something, He is most knowing of what He rules
and of what He had ruled and He is able to do all things.