It is important that we take a close look at the Quran, the inviolable, immutable charter of Islam, since it enjoys such a sanctified standing. Muslims believe that the Quran is written by Allah himself. Allah handed down the book, piece by piece and chapter by chapter, to the Archangel Gabriel. Gabriel, in turn, whispered these words to Muhammad himself over the course of some 23 years.
Muhammad could neither read nor write. Therefore, he had to find people who could write down what he called his revelations from Allah. There were several of these katibs (scribes) who wrote down the surahs (chapters) which eventually made up the Quran.
There are several problems with the Quran. A few will be listed here.
- The Quran was not compiled in book form during the life of Muhammad. It remained for the third Caliph, Uthman, to gather the several portions of the Quran that were circulating, organize the contents into one book, and have the rest burned. How could a book taken as the perfect, word-for-word message from Allah, be edited and selectively organized by a fallible man? Which surahs did Uthman not like? Which ones did he modify? Which ones did he discard, and which ones are his own additions? These are terribly troubling questions that Muslims either fail to address or rationalize away.
- Muhammad frequently received his revelations when no one was around to write them down and, per force, had to recall them later and dictate them to someone who could write them down. Did Muhammad have a photographic memory? Did Allah endow him with that faculty so that he could have perfect recall? We don’t know the answer to this question. What we do know, however, from the text of the present Quran points to another direction.
- Muhammad, while he was dictating his revelations, would frequently allow his scribe to change words and sentences. The account of one of his long-term scribes, Abdullah Ben Saad, is instructive here. The scribe found it very strange that Muhammad allowed him to make and suggest changes, since Muhammad claimed he was dictating the exact words of Allah and saying them as they were revealed to him. The scribe started to wonder how it was possible that he could make these changes if indeed Muhammad’s claim was true that they were dictates of Allah. This scribe lost his faith and escaped to Mecca. Later, when Muhammad headed the 10,000-man army and subdued Mecca, had that scribe killed for having committed the sin of apostasy.
- The Quran is confusing, full of contradictions and outright errors of fact. It is difficult to fathom that a belief system with such grandiose claims can be based on a document such as the Quran. Islam’s proponents rationalize these problems with the Quran by claiming that religion is a business of the heart: it is inherently mysterious and not subject to ordinary logic. I find this reasoning unacceptable. The best instrument we have so as to distinguish the truth from falsehood is the mind and its faculty of reason. Accepting things that are contrary to reason is a betrayal of our humanity.
- Allah is so angry in the Quran. It seems to me that Allah is angry at himself. Much of the smallish book, the Quran, that he authored over 23 years is devoted to expressions of displeasure, anger, threats and violence. Didn’t Allah create people, animals and everything else? Didn’t he instill in us and in everything else his own design? Then why all these venomous expressions in the Quran? Why not devote the book to saying that which would make us better, if that is possible, since Muslims claim that his work is perfect?
There are hundreds of assertions by Allah in the Quran that throw me for a loop. I have mentioned a few of them. Here is another one. He says in the Quran: en ankar-ul-aswaat le sote-ul-hamir — the most despicable of all voices are the voices of donkeys (31:19).
Now, that’s really telling us. Why give the donkey a voice and then condemn it in his own holy book as the most despicable? I thought he was the creator of everyone and everything, and that, again, he is ahsan-ul-khaleghin –the most perfect creator (Quran 98:7).
Okay fine, those are his ways. But why tell us that? In what way does my knowing that the donkeys’ voices are the most despicable make me a good Muslim?
Am I being rude by asking Allah why he would devote precious space of this book to all the cursing, name-calling, and hatred?
I don’t get this book of Allah. Is it that I am one of those non-Muslims that he calls brainless? If I am brainless, then is it not his fault, since he made me that way?
I guess you must be a fully unquestioning Muslim to understand all of this. I know I will never make the grade.
Well, maybe it won’t be such a bad deal if I don’t get to go to the Muslims’ heaven. If their heaven is anything like their societies on earth, then hell can’t be much worse.
Elisha says
The quran is supposed to be “perfectly preserved” – which it isn’t – but somehow Satanallah couldn’t manage to keep safe one copy of the “uncorrupted Bible” muslims claim exists. Not to mention Satanallah is responsible, apparently, for starting Christianity, which muslims believe to be false.
muslims, PLEASE explain!
Walter Sieruk says
On the subject of the Qu ‘ran two very important things need to be made clear. Which are made known by the the two following expose’ reveal about this religious book.
First, a claim by many Muslims is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answered.
First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.
Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] long-windedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.
[Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]
Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration. Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
Second, since the very foundation of and for Islam is the Quran ,this leads to very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Even though the above essay was posted before, it should now be added that the last statement of the above that “the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.” To put this in a Biblical way. As in from the Bible, it may be truly explained that the Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” Ephesians 14:12.. [N.I.V.]
Raja says
Thank you, Walter and Elisha, for your postings.Hope they educate many more like me.
Elisha says
You are welcome Raja but all glory to God. The most important thing you can have is a heart for the truth, as it is written:
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But THE NATURAL MAN DOES NOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. – 1 Corinthians 2:13-14
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
“God RESISTS THE PROUD,
But gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:6
And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. – Jeremiah 29:13
The Lord is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth. – Psalm 145:18
The Bible cannot be read like a textbook. One must have an open and willing heart to receive God’s teachings and wisdom. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ gives us light:
They asked one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” … Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. – Luke 24:32,45
God bless.
wm1 says
Amen.
However the Quran’s real problem is its source.
Allah is really Satan. He identifies himself as such in the Quran.
And the angel, Gabriel, is not the same as in the Bible-his entire testimony and revelation contradicts that of the real Gabriel who announced the birth of Christ.
So the Gabriel of Islam is really a demon. That makes Muslims devil worshipers.
gravenimage says
Yes–even third-rate poets regularly produce things far more beautiful than the ugly Qur’an.
Richard says
Walter: You make a devastating point in that Mohammed or his writer were allowed to change what purported to be the Words of God. You will recall the last words in the Bible, which are a terrible curse on anyone who dared to change a single dot. If Mohammed actually believed what he wrote, he certainly would have felt the same way. There is yet another possibility about the origin of the Qu-ran: – that much of it is indeed supernatural and that its author is Satan or one of the fallen angels. Satan loved to ape God, so that would be in line with his works: Perhaps is masterpiece.
jule says
They call them Jinns. some are just mischevious and some are bad, some extremely bad. They are real and people in US call them ‘entities’ having to do with electrical activity. (they are not all schizos that have them but an entity/jinn will make someone that way. They can torture on the inside) Actually, its better not to even think about them.
CogitoErgoSum says
So Muhammad could not read or write? Okay, it’s possible he could not at the time of his first “revelation” but these messages from Allah were spread across a period of 23 years. Why, in all that time, did he not learn to read and write? Couldn’t one of his scribes have taught him? Did he have some sort of learning disability? Was he just too lazy to learn? Everything about Muhammad has the smell of dead fish.
Raja says
CogitoErgoSum,
What do you expect from the gene pool of “ass of a man” (Gen 16:12)?
Islam is one of the greatest fraud on mankind to steal the liberties of mankind and to enslave for the devil.
Islam does not qualify to be called a religion and BTW the term religion itself means different things to different people. Islamic proselytes claim Islam to be a path (in other languages) which is another lie to a thousand lies of Islamists. The fact that criticism is never tolerated in Islam ONLY proves that it is an evil ideology, far from being a “religion.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and if Muhammad had a scribe writing things down why didn’t he have the scribe write down ALL the verses and put them in a book to be held in a safe place (free from hungry sheep) ……. something like the Ark of the Covenant. Instead, when Muhammad died and the other people who had memorized verses from the Quran began dying off, the Muslims had to hunt for scraps of verses that had been written down by chance in order to put together a book. Who knows if all the verses were found or if some of the ones that were found were not actually fake. Islam is a stupid religion created for stupid people. At least Christianity has the excuse that the early Christians thought the end of the world would be coming soon so writing things down was not necessary. I don’t see anything in Islam that would lead people to believe the world would be ending soon after the death of Muhammad, so that excuse does not work for the Quran.
gravenimage says
Not all Arabs are like Muhammed–certainly, Arab Christians are not.
Buck Tucker says
2 big mistakes, the quran says switches Ismael and Isaac up and calls the wife of moses’ brother aron the mother of Jesus, one was mary and the other mariam. Super basic mistakes, can only be explained by Muslims claiming the Christians and Jews changed their books after Muhamed.
gravenimage says
There are other mistakes, as well, such as claiming that the Virgin Mary is part of the Trinity.
Really, the Qur’an is just a mess.
barbara fletcher says
the God of heaven and earth is Jehovah(in English) He alone gave the scriptures to trusted men, some Kings, some prophets, some disciples of Jesus(in English) the prophecies from Genesis to Revelation have nearly all been fulfilled by Jesus coming down from heaven and dying for all of mankind, Satan and the demons have clouded the minds of the unbelievers so that the good news about the Christ might not shine through. He is a master of deception using the false religions of man to deceive us for many years into using the cross, Jesus died upon a tree or upright stake, the god Tamuz is where the cross comes from, Xmas is a pagan festival to the sun god, Easter is another pagan festival to the fertility Goddess, it goes on to tell us that the Kingdom government is heavenly, ruled by Jesus with no evil allowed. At Armageddon, this Jesus will rid this earth of all murderers, liars, cheats, greed, immoral people such as homosexuals and women who change the natural use of themselves, All of false religion will be gone, no more war or food shortages, no sickness or death to mar the new life promised by our creator for those who want to live in peace, and a promise that we can welcome back our dead loved ones, never to get or die again. Muzzies prophet has long gone back to the dust, as only one man has gone back to heaven, the one who descended, Jesus to give his life blood back to Jehovah as a ransom for all if we only believe and have the faith, It will not be long now, just wait and see. It will be an awesome thing to fall into the hands of the LIVING God, not some dead prophet from a cave.
Walter Sieruk says
For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Qu ‘ran. Others call it, the Koran a person needs to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Koran. Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4. Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Qu ‘ran, As some also call it the Qur’an. The Koran is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “Though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preaches any other gospel unto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [K.J.V.] Therefore, the Qu ‘ran is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.
jule says
Its also interesting to hear about the part his first wife played in counseling him for his fear of being attacked or possessed by something. She had friends who knew a lot about the Gnostics or other Christian sects living in the area and the Jewish & Christian scriptures and how they explained things. She used this & her friends to help him not to commit suicide but to be a ‘prophet’ instead
all she needed was for some people to ‘Believe’ him. Later on, people who would not Believe were killed.
Francis Lankester PhD says
Have a look at Ayman Ahsan Islahi, Michel Cuypers, Raymond Farrin and Andy Bannister for interesting work on the Quran’s structure.
Darryl Kerney says
The quran and hadith tell us that allah decides who believes and who doesn’t, then he proceeds to condemn the unbelievers and tells muhammad to fight them.
allah the instigator !
would a loving god purposely withhold belief from some so that believers would have enemies to fight and kill, and also call jihad warfare against those unbelievers the ultimate pleasure of serving him and one of the highest deeds possible for muslims ?
That does not sound peaceful at all, it actually sounds a lot like allah ensures that there will not be peace, because he promises not to deny the muhijideen the pleasure of fighting and killing on his behalf those who disbelieve, because he makes them disbelieve.
gravenimage says
The Quran is in a Shambles
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Yes, it is–and in both senses of the term. It is both an incoherent mess, and a bloody abattoir.
Indiana Tom says
Eh, I sort of like David Warner’s a Simple Koran which brings out the true illumination found therein.
https://www.politicalislam.com/product/a-simple-koran/
Frank Anderson says
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Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Amil imani is now a wholescale wild spewing naked lies. Even the orientalists and mithraist christian evangelist liars never claimed that Allah wrote the Quran and sent it down to Prophet Muhammad through Angel Gabriel. This is too childish, yet the man claims to be a scholar despite his too low IQ. May be he is still worshiping fire.
Look at how he claims that the Quran was compiled and edited by caliph uthman who selected what suited him and burnt the rest. Even someone with elementary knowledge on Islamic history knows that the Quran was recorded on the spot at the time of the revelation and all the scribes memorised it after verification and confirmation by the holy Prophet Muhammad. It was what was recorded on some objects like woods, stones, skins and bones(at that time there was no paper in Arabia) that was collected and compiled during the time of caliph Abubakar and kept under the custody of Asma the wife of the Holy Prophet who also memorised the entire Quran. During the reign of Uthman the paper was available and the original manuscript written on objects like woods, stones, skins and bones, was copied or transferred into paper in the form of textbook under the committee headed by the same Zaid bn thabit who was one of the scribes who recorded and memorised the entire Quran ,and nothing was added or omitted from the original manuscripts written on the object which could decay or becomes illegible that may cause confusion. It was those decayable or possibly become illegible that were burnt, not other versions of the Quran as alleged by the orientalists and mithraist christian evangelist liars.
Ignorant Amil could not know all these, he just started bubbly due to lack of knowledge on the subject. A fool!!
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Amil imani is now a wholescale wild spewing naked lies. Even the orientalists and mithraist christian evangelist liars never claimed that Allah wrote the Quran and sent it down to Prophet Muhammad through Angel Gabriel. This is too childish
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What is Ibrahim claiming is wrong here? Is he saying that the Qur’an does not come from Allah? Is he saying that the “Angel Gabriel” did not demand that the “Prophet” Muhammad “recite”? If he denies either of these things, he will have to watch out for his pious coreligionists.
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Look at how he claims that the Quran was compiled and edited by caliph uthman who selected what suited him and burnt the rest. Even someone with elementary knowledge on Islamic history knows that the Quran was recorded on the spot at the time of the revelation and all the scribes memorised it after verification and confirmation by the holy Prophet Muhammad.
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Just because Muslims claim this does not mean it is history. Recall, Muslims also claim that Jews consider Ezra to be the son of god, that Christians worship the Virgin Mary and that they sun sets in a muddy puddle. Muslims are wrong about a lot of obvious things.
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During the reign of Uthman the paper was available and the original manuscript written on objects like woods, stones, skins and bones, was copied or transferred into paper…
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That would have been a neat trick, since paper did not reach any part of the Muslim world until Baghdad in 793 A.D.
And, of course there are Qur’ans which are incomplete or which vary from the modern version.
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Ignorant Amil could not know all these, he just started bubbly due to lack of knowledge on the subject. A fool!!
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“Started bubbly”? Ibrahim itace muhammed has such a way with words…sarc/off
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ignorant liar Gravenimage, do you mean Islamic history is not reliable to you, you rely on the accounts inspired to you by the Satan god (Holy Spirit) through Abu jahl (the father of ignorance) and Co?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
ignorant liar Gravenimage, it is wrong to translate “iqra”in the context to mean ‘recite’ that Angel Gabriel presented written text to Prophet Muhammad and asked him recite it.
gravenimage says
Notice that Ibrahim itace muhammed is unable to refute a single point I made. No surprise there.
blitz2b says
@graven … This is typical of Muslim apologetics… when cornered, resort to adhomen slurs and character assassinations.
Ibrahim Mohammed Itace only comes here for a rise. He’s not had a single convincing argument.
gravenimage says
True, blitz2b.
Rarely says
Ibrahim.
It’s too ridiculous for any thinking person to take seriously. That’s why it’s necessary for muslim leaders to keep the flock ignorant.
jule says
And have people who will not Believe killed or used as slaves.
Sam says
Ibrahim itace Muhammad, memorization does not suggest truth, it simply means to hold it in [ the] mind and repeat\ regurgitate an idea. I suggest that Muslim scholars and lay people(like you) henceforth busy themselves with source criticism, language criticism , historical criticism perhaps then it will nullify Western\Christians of their erroneous understanding\regard of the Qur’an. Presently, not one Muslim scholar has the guts or the acumen to criticize the Qur’ans’ blemishes, omissions or blunders. One wonder why you hold on to this worldview when you have the capacity to question Christian (bible) but not Islam?
Sam says
Dacon9’s font suggests he is talking down on Christians. One wonders what he is doing on this blog? If he is supposed to juxtapose the Qur’an and the Bible as a parallel work ten he has failed miserably. Closer in inspection of his diatribe suggests, even with his underlying assumptions that the incongruence of the Bible is fully embedded in his nihilistic framework. In this case, he should have argued in that manner, but I think he has a different agenda and he has achieve it- to draw attention away from the content of the article in question. It would not be surprising that he is a Muslim himself because he has not demonstrated any form insight or contributed anything valuable. While this block is not to hate Muslims but to hate their religion is something Dacon9 has not internalized. Muslims are humans, too. For this reason, Dacon9 you fail to understand the preamble of the Bible. You have centered on the violence and forget to notice that violence was never solely directed at Israel’s external enemies, Israel suffered at he hands of God because of the insubordination and total lack of empathy, not so Islam. Islam as the article shows is manipulative not the Word of God but a word about God schemed through his “prophet.” As for you Dacon9 don’t spit venom; I suspect there many non-Christians here on this blog but not as vehemently and apathetic as you … Perhaps you should read the following book on the raison d’tre for violence in the Bible-I hold my breath though!- Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God? Paperback – October 31, 2011
by Alden L. Thompson (Author)
Chand says
Amil says:
” He says in the Quran: en ankar-ul-aswaat le sote-ul-hamir — the most despicable of all voices are the voices of donkeys (31:19).”
Now donkey brays can surely be irritating. But here ‘donkey’ can also mean dumb ass humans or fools. No one finds the talk of fools pleasing.
So then the next question is
“Why give the donkey a voice and then condemn it in his own holy book as the most despicable? I thought he was the creator of everyone and everything, and that, again, he is ahsan-ul-khaleghin –the most perfect creator (Quran 98:7).”
Even God can make mistakes or ugly things. At least He is honest about his not-too-perfect creations.
Sam says
Chand, it comes from the same god\prophet who despises dogs. Chand were you ever in the company of Muslims who freak out because dogs are close by? I have been. They are not scared because of the bite but because dogs are accursed animals. I wonder why god never condemned cats? Is it because cats could get into the mosque it does not matter how barricaded- cats can slip through any crevice…
jule says
It sounds like you are reading from the Qur’an/Hadiths to try to make people hate Jews for you/with you. Not gonna happen.
jule says
You did not same as I did not kill Lincoln or Dr. King, or Kennedy.