This is an extraordinary admission, as it is a staple of Islamic apologetics to claim that the there are no mistakes in the Qur’anic text at all, as it has been perfectly preserved by Allah through the centuries. But Ahmad Hashem and Jarjis Gulizada are just two of the Islamic authorities who are beginning to concede that this is not actually the case. This could have explosive consequences, in both senses of the word, in the Islamic world.
“Articles In Saudi Press Call To Amend Thousands Of Scribal Errors In The Quran, Reexamine Islamic Texts In Light Of Modern Perceptions,” MEMRI, August 18, 2020:
Two unusual articles published this year on Saudi websites called to amend scribal errors in the Quran, and also to reexamine religious texts in light of modern perceptions, so as to make them more readable and adapt them to the present age. The articles are exceptional since Muslims regard the Quranic text as divine and therefore perfect. As a result, clear instances of scribal errors in the text have never been amended.[1]
An article published January 10, 2020 by Saudi journalist Ahmad Hashem on the “Saudi Opinions” website pointed out that the Quran as it is known today was written down after the Prophet’s lifetime, in the period of the third caliph ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan (ruled 644-656) using the ‘Uthmanic script, which is named after him. Since this writing system is a human invention, argues Hashem, there is no reason to sanctify it, as many Muslims do. In fact, he says, it is time to correct some 2,500 errors of spelling and grammar that were made by the scribes in that period and remain part of the Quranic text to this day. He presents numerous examples of such spelling mistakes, and calls to rewrite the words in their present-day standard form, so as to “make the text more readable for [present-day] Muslims and more linguistically correct.”
A second article was published on July 20, 2020 on the liberal Saudi website Elaph by Jarjis Gulizada, a writer and political analyst of Kurdish-Iraqi origin and the editor of the Iraqi magazine Baghdad. He notes that, during the coronavirus pandemic, for the first time in Islamic history, changes were made to the form of Islamic worship, when Muslims were permitted to maintain physical distance from one another during prayer, instead of praying in tight rows, as the Quran instructs. This, he says, shows that there is room for flexibility in Islam, and that the same flexibility can be applied to the Islamic texts, which should be reexamined and adapted to modern perceptions, so as to benefit the Muslims and mankind at large.
Mentioning Ahmad Hashem’s article, he too argues that it is irrational to treat the ‘Uthmani script of the Quran as sacred, and presents further examples of errors that appear in the Quran, in addition to those presented by Hashem. He calls to publish an amended version of the Quran using modern spelling, because, in its present form, “it is not suitable for the Islamic nation in the modern world, and especially for non-Arab Muslims,” and states that this task should be undertaken by Saudi Arabia, specifically by its king and crown prince.
It should be noted that Gulizada’s article was removed from the Elaph website following furious reactions on social media, from users who accused the Saudis, and in particular Elaph chief editor ‘Othman Al-‘Omeir, of insolence and of insulting the Quran.[2] For example, Kuwaiti academic Dr. Ahmad Al-Dhaidi tweeted: “The Elaph website, directed by Saudi journalist ‘Othman Al-‘Omeir, calls to rewrite the Quran in order to fix the great mistakes of the ‘Uthmani script! Has their contempt reached the point of harming Allah’s book?…”[3] The “Towards Freedom” Twitter account, known for criticizing the Saudi regime, stated: “The Elaph [online] paper, managed by [‘Othman Al-‘Omeir], a close friend of King Salman and an advisor to [Crown Prince Muhammad] bin Salman, demands to rewrite the Quran and reexamine the principles of the Islamic shari’a! The only thing left is to return the idols to the Kaaba.” [4]
The following are translated excerpts from Ahmad Hashem’s and Jarjis Gulizada’s articles.
Saudi Journalist: The Quranic Text As We Know It Contains Some 2,500 Mistakes Of Spelling And Grammar
In his January 10, 2020 article, titled “Amending The Quran,” Saudi journalist Ahmad Hashem wrote: “The Quran as we know it was written down during the period of the [third] caliph, ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan, using the ‘Uthmani script, which is named after him. Most Muslims believe that this version [of the Quran], which was written in the 37th year after the Hijra, when the compiling of the Quran was completed, and has been passed down from generation to generation to this very day, is sacred and must not be amended.
Ahmad Hashem (Source: Noumnews.comn)
“However, [the Quran] in its present form contains errors of spelling, syntax and grammar; it is estimated that there are about 2,500 such mistakes. They were made by the committee tasked with compiling the Quran, and include the addition or omission of letters in some words or the substitution of one letter for another. For example, in Surah 68, verse 6, [the word] بِأَيِّيكُمُ [“which of you”] appears, instead of بأيكم. In other words, an extra ي was added. In Surah 25, verse 4, [the word] جَآءُو [“they committed”] appears, instead of جَاءُوا or جاؤوا. In other words, the alif in the plural masculine suffix وا is missing. In Surah 28, verse 9, the word امرأت [“wife”] appears, instead of امرأة. In 54 instances, the name إبراهيم [Ibrahim] appears… as إبراهم , omitting the letter ي , and the word سماوات [“skies”] is written in this way only once, whereas in 189 other instances it appears [incorrectly] as سموت, without the letter ا… The word قرآن [“Quran”] appears 68 times without the letter ا… The word سنة [“year”] appears eight times with the letter ة [at the end] and five times with the letter ت .
“The ‘Uthmani script, in which the Quran is written, was formed by several of the Prophet’s Companions and several members of the following generation, and they deserve credit for the effort they made, according to their ability at the time. [However,] the legacy they left us can be developed and amended if there is a better and more convenient alternative, as was done [in later years] when diacritics and punctuation marks were added [to the Quranic text]. The time has come to amend the spelling errors and other errors it contains, and adapt it to the rules of the Arabic language and grammar – for the Quranic text is open to any amendment that will make Allah’s book easier for Muslims to read and linguistically more correct.”[5]
Kurdish-Iraqi Researcher: The Quran Should Be Amended; Islamic Texts Should Be Reexamined, Adapted To The Modern Age
Jarjis Gulizada, a writer and political analyst of Kurdish-Iraqi origin, wrote in a July 20, 2020 article titled “A Call for Rewriting the Quran”: “One of the most important changes made during the coronavirus [pandemic] on the religious Islamic level involved stopping people from praying in tight rows, as accepted in the Islamic shari’a. In order to protect people’s lives, worshipers were permitted to maintain a distance from one another, although this contravenes the [Islamic] texts. Furthermore, public prayers, and Friday and holiday prayers [at the mosque] were banned in order to protect the worshipers and prevent them from infecting one another with the virus. This is a clear violation of the religious texts, but it was permitted following in-depth study, in order to save lives.
Jarjis Gulizada (source: Elaph.com)
“The important point is that there was room for flexibility, and [therefore] a lenient religious ruling was issued and imposed on our present Islamic reality. For the first time in [Islamic] history since the days of the Righteous Caliphs [the first four caliphs who ruled after the Prophet], this flexibility allowed making essential changes to the mode of worship… with the sole purpose of saving lives. [The ruling was issued] based on the Quranic golden rule that ‘Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity’ [Quran 2:286], which forms the logical and rational basis for the changes that were made. Even if [such changes] are rare and were made only [now], in our modern reality, they constitute a first sign, a very encouraging one, that a reexamination of the Islamic texts and of Islamic ritual is taking place. [This was done] based on modern perceptions and objectives that benefit the Muslims in our modern world, and benefit [all of] mankind and the humanity that all religions strive to attain…
“Given that the coronavirus pandemic prompted such changes on the global, regional and local levels, in the domain of religion and faith and especially in the domain of Islamic ritual, I call on all the Islamic religious authorities to reexamine the Islamic legal doctrine [as well] in the spirit of this flexibility… based on a modern perception that serves all Muslims and benefits all of mankind.
“The first issue I urge [them] to undertake is a reexamination of the Quranic script, [namely] the ‘Uthmani script, which is not suitable for the Islamic nation in the modern world, and especially for non-Arab Muslims, due to the difficulty of pronouncing words that are misspelled… Although Sunnis regard the ‘Uthmani script of the Quran as sacred, the evidence [they present] for this is irrational, because there is no rational basis for attributing sanctity to something man-made such as a script. Moreover, the task of compiling the verses of the Quran and writing [each of] them down was not undertaken in the time of the Prophet but rather years after his death… in the period of [the first caliph] Abu Bakr [ruled 632-634]. The Quranic [canon] was written down in the period of [the third caliph] ‘Uthman bin ‘Affan [ruled 644-656]… and [later] copied and distributed throughout the Islamic [regions]. The ‘Uthmani script contains many inconsistencies and errors [involving] the mispronunciation and misspelling of words in the verses, [yet it] remains unchanged to this day… despite the considerable improvements that have been made to the writing, reading and pronunciation of Arabic over the 1,400 years that have passed since then.
“The errors of the ‘Uthmani script [were discussed] in an article titled ‘Amending the Quran’ by the Saudi writer Ahmed Hashem… who showed, based on the Quranic text, that the Prophet’s scribes made errors when they wrote down the Quranic verses… Further examples of discrepancies between the ‘Uthmani script and the [modern] standard script, involving the omission of letters, are the following: omission of the letter ا, for instance in writing الكتب [“the book”] instead of الكتاب…, [and] omission of the letter ن, [as in] نجي [“we will save”] instead of ننجي… The greatest error made in the ‘Uthmani script 1,441 years ago was writing the word Becca instead of Mecca in Surah 3, verse 86, [which says]: ‘Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Becca – blessed and a guidance for the worlds.’ Another error was made in verse 55 of Surah 22, which contains the phrase يوم عقيم [“useless day”] instead of يوم عظيم[“great day”]… due to a scribal error in which the letter ق was substituted for the letter ظ. For some 1,500 years no credible authority dared to call for correcting “Becca” to “Mecca” [in Quran 3:86].
“For all these reasons, and in order to present the correct form of the text, free of errors and obscurities, it is incumbent upon us – for scientific, rational, religious and linguistic reasons – to reexamine the ‘Uthmani script of the Quran and rewrite it in the correct manner, so as to amend all the language mistakes that appear in the Quran and remove from it all traces of error.
“This task should obviously be undertaken by Saudi Arabia, by its king and its crown prince, especially since both of them support plans and projects for modernizing the country from every aspect: economic, social, cultural, religious and in terms of tourism. I therefore think circumstances are ripe for accepting the idea of reprinting the Quran in modern script, without errors and obscurities that were caused by the misspelling of words over 1,400 years ago.
“In addition, Iraqi Kurdistan may support [the publication] of a special edition of the Quran for non-Arab Muslims, which will prevent them from mispronouncing [the text] due to lack of familiarity with the intricacies of the Arabic language. Perhaps the president [of Iraqi Kurdistan] will endorse this project in light of its spiritual, ideological and religious importance for the Islamic world. Such a book has [in fact] been prepared by your humble servant, and it is available [for publication], should [the president] be willing to endorse it and print it…
“Finally, I stress once again that the time has come to look into the Islamic, Christian and Jewish texts from a rational and logical perspective. It is time for the human mind to become the supreme judge and, freeing itself of mysticism and irrationality, amend the textual and ideological mistakes that exist in the religious texts due to human error and due to the undeveloped state of the writing [systems] one or two thousand years ago.
“The coronavirus pandemic has opened the gates wide to new changes in every domain, especially in religious ritual, which in the past were impossible. It is time for Islam to join the modern world, and the best rational evidence for this, provided by the religion [itself], is Surah 2, verse 44, which says: ‘As you read the Quran, will you not reason?’
“Allah knows the secrets of man’s heart.”[6]
[1] Calls to amend the Quranic text are not unprecedented, however. In April 2015, former Jordanian religious endowments minister Dr. ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz Al-Khayyat published an article on the Dar Al-Ifta website in which he reviewed the numerous scribal errors in the Quran and called to correct them. Aliftaa.jo, April 2, 2015.
[2] Mubasher.aljazeera.net, July 22, 2020; bbc.com/arabic, July 25, 2020.
[3] Twitter.com/DrAlthaidi, July 22, 2020.
[4] Twitter.com/hureyaksa, July 21, 2020.
[5] Saudiopinions.org, January 10, 2020.
[6] Elaphmorocco.com, July 20, 2020.
Michael Copeland says
Imams have been lying to their listeners for years.
This is not so much about the now-admitted scribal errors. This is the fact that they have concealed the accounts FROM THE MUSLIM SOURCES of whole sections that were lost, verses eaten by a sheep, and variant versions by some memorisers.
If your teachers have been lying about this, what else have they been lying about?
mortimer says
Allah did not preserve the Koran perfectly.
Scribes, copyists and interpreters of the text OVER-RULED ALLAH and introduced ERRORS into the text. They introduced vowel pointing, extra letters, extra words and extra marks for verses and chapters and cantillation.
Every fifth sentence of the Koran is UNINTELLIGIBLE in the original. Many of the sentences are incomplete, others grandiose, pompous and irrational. Dozens of words in the Koran are FOREIGN, MUMBO-JUMBO LOAN WORDS that CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD in any language.
The Koran appears to have been thrown together rapidly under a deadline and left largely unedited. Different versions of the Koran which were either embarrassing or which mentioned other dynasties, were burned or otherwise destroyed. The city of Cairo dumped divergent Korans in the Nile in 1925 to cover up the lack of a consensus on the correct reading.
Moreover, the Koran is morally repugnant and uncivilized. It teaches bigoted warfare against disbelievers and the capture, enslavement and rape of married women, among its other grievous crimes of bigotry and genocide.
The Koran is, in fact, so disgracefully unethical and disorganized and badly written, it is the height of illogic to believe the Koran is inspired in any of the 37 different Arabic versions that are in print.
Muslims do not know which (or if any) of the 37 Arabic versions are the one that Allah keeps on a golden tablet in paradise. Muslims tell themselves that the Koran is of divine origin, but all the evidence points to a very human process of covering up how stupid, repugnant and human the Koran is.
The Koran text has human fingerprints all over it. Forensic document analysis shows the Koran is of purely human origin.
Keith O says
Mortimer,
A fairly concise and accurate assessment of the document that should be in every house. Mainly in the 2 ply version.
And your right, the Koran, just like the various Bibles and other sacred texts around the world is the product of human intervention.
Or in this case human invention.
FYI says
@mortimer
Both the Bible and the koran are certainly written by human beings but there IS a Wisdom source behind the Bible that is missing in the koran.
Biblical prophecy comes from this Wisdom Source:It is called the Holy Spirit by Christians.
Matthew,Mark,Luke and John did not write the Gospels on their own:they had this Wisdom source to guide and instruct them.
All Biblical Prophets{OT and NT} had this Wisdom Source.
The Bible shows the PRESENCE of this Wisdom Source.
The koran shows the ABSENCE of this Wisdom Source.
islamic scholars don’t see that;an ex muslim who is now a Christian should know this Wisdom Source{=the Holy Spirit}
It was the Wisdom given to the Apostles{and to the world}at the time of Jesus Christ.
It is the Wisdom behind the Bible{OT and NT}
But note in koran 5:116,in allah’s ludicrous misunderstanding of the Trinity{which he thinks is allah,jesus{the muslim one},and MARY}that there is no room for the Holy Spirit.
It is not the case that any of the Prophets in the OT/NT decided on their own initiative to write down some well-meaning words for posterity.
They had a Wisdom to do it{2 Peter 1 v 20-21}
Christian Street preachers know this Wisdom.
This Wisdom Source behind the Bible is not found in islam!
Ismail Ali says
Then this human that invented the Qur’an must be a superhuman at that . ..What a miracle human being?
gravenimage says
How does creating a dull, repetitive, poorly reasoned book full of errors make one “a miracle human being”? Of course, Ismail Ali does not say.
gravenimage says
My favorite is Aisha narrating the incident of part of the Qur’an being eaten by a goat. Can’t make this stuff up…
Michael Copeland says
And the eaten verses were those of stoning and of breast-feeding adults.
Isn’t that just remarkable.
gravenimage says
So true, Michael.
FYI says
Some muslims figure it out and will leave islam.It isn’t easy as islam has a Death penalty for Apostasy{Sahih Bukhari 4:52:260}
But not all of those who say they are ex-muslims have left islam!
Bearing false witness to promote islam is after all, koranically sanctioned{koran 3:28}
It is interesting how being critical of islamic Jihadism is somehow seen as anti muslim in some quarters coming from folk who claim to be ex-muslim and they have the privilege of being so because they live in the west.And the best way to silence it is to accuse those who fight against it of ‘bigotry’.
Not all ex-muslims are really ex-muslims.Just so folk know…
Student of History says
“Not all those who say they have left islam have left islam!”
Truer words were hardly ever written about the islam-ideology. NGO¨s teach its followers to say to Borders and Customs authorities – and asylum granting decision makers – that they have “left islam and converted to Christianity – which is why they are persecuted and seek asylum.” (Borderless, Lauren Southern’s film)
I shared a duplex with “well integrated” followers of the islam-ideology for nearly 20 years in the UK. What happened inside their four walls was terrifying – not only to my young son, but also his mother and on occasion myself. The death threats made were I “ever to discuss what I overheard” were serious. On more than one occasion this was proven quite effectively.
As the numbers of their like-minded followers increased, the 2nd generation became ever more rabid in following their “faith.”
1st generation? Glad to be away from where & what their children and grandchildren were busily recreating in the UK to a certain point.
Third generation? Let’s just say I am glad I moved FAR away before I get to find out.
The lady of the house – if you can call one such that – in a moment of honesty in trying to “convert me” admitted they were granted asylum as persecuted Christians many years ago. Her husband enforced the lies, the sharia and taught his children well…
. . . according to their ideology.
GreekEmpress says
Student of History,
Glad you survived the ordeal.
That family is an excellent example of taquiya.
gravenimage says
Scary stuff.
Ismail Ali says
Coconut head ,what errors in spelling and syntax are you talking about ? You claim to be jihad watch ,or satanic error finder.. If really ,you don’t have anything to write about ,.. Carry your own version of Bible and be preaching to your blind followers .because if you spend the whole of your life ,in finding and funding enemies of Islam ,you will die frustrated .
gravenimage says
Ismail Ali could of course read the article–but, really, this appears to be too taxing for him.
And this last is, of course, a threat. Pious Muslims ultimately have nothing else…
Eva says
The only thing to do with the koran, and islam as a whole, is to wipe it from the face of the earth, to destroy it utterly.
Beverly says
Ditto
mortimer says
Historical and textual criticism of the Koran is destroying the Koran’s credibility among life-long Muslims. They have been told packs of lies and now the same scholars are admitting THAT THEY LIED TO ORDINARY MUSLIMS.
The ordinary Muslims will figure this out in the coming months and years. The exodus from Islam will be like nothing ever seen.
Ray Jarman says
+1 Mortimer,
If Islam is to remain relevant, a reformation is required because sooner or later non-Islamic nations will have to conclude that enough is enough. Abraham Lincoln stated, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Sooner or later people around the world are going to wake up from their slumber and offer Muslims a deal they will be unable to refuse.
RichardL says
as usual, I agree with you mortimer. Establishing mob madness takes ages, and then it implodes very quickly. It only takes a few people to ask Why?
Muhammad says
Is it because you can’t come with something better??
gravenimage says
This is a common Islamic trope, found in the Qur’an itself:
“And if you all are in doubt about what I have revealed to My servant, bring a single chapter like it, and call your witnesses besides God if you are truthful. But if you do not do this, and you can never do this, then fear the Fire which has been prepared for the disbelievers and which shall have men and stones for fuel”
–Quran 2:23-24
“Or do they say that he has invented it? Say (to them), ‘Bring ten invented chapters like it, and call (for help) on whomever you can besides God, if you are truthful.”
–Quran 11:13
“Say: ‘If all mankind and the jinn would come together to produce the like of this Quran, they could not produce its like even though they exerted all and their strength in aiding one another.”
–Quran 17:88
What these idiots really mean is that no one has tried to pass off a text touting raping captives, beating women, taking booty and slaves, and mass slaughtering unbelievers as a “holy book” before or since. Nothing to brag about…
Ismail Ali says
Well-done Muhammad.
gravenimage says
Note that Ismail Ali is applauding Muhammad’s illiterate post–which rather proves the point of this article…
FYI says
“And if thou muhammed art in doubt concerning that which WE reveal unto thee,then question those who read the scripture that was before thee”
Koran 10:94
So,follow allah’s advice given to muhammed in koran 10:94.
allah confirms the Bible {koran 3:3}.There is NO EVIDENCE of any corruption in the Bible.
Unless you can prove there is, you must accept allah’s confirmation of the Bible{Torah+Gospel}[koran 3:3,koran 5:46-47]as True.
The ‘scripture that was before thee’?=The Bible
What is in the Bible?
The ‘Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets’:the 2 chief laws(#1 Deut6:4-9,#2 Lev 19:18}+10 commandment system The Exodus 20 Decalogue ,the Golden Rule.
What is MISSING from the koran?
What is missing from the koran,contradicted or denied in the koran are the very things revealed in the Bible!!
Like the 2 chief commandments and the Golden Rule{WHERE ARE THEY in islam?} and the importance of OBEYING the Exodus 20 Decalogue laws,not violating them as ‘allah’ teaches.
allah’s greatest commandment is”Belief in allah and JIHAD is his cause”{muslim 1:149}
How did allah MISS Chief Law #1 Deut 6:4-9?
If allah[‘the BEST of deceivers’ koran 3:54} is teaching you the OPPOSITE or gives permission to violate the laws given to Moses {which he does in the koran},then clearly allah is NOT the God of Moses.
allah is an ARAB god who pretends to be the Biblical YHWH.
allah is the diabolus simius Dei:or if you like,muhammed’s sock puppet.
Seriously,how hard is it understand this?
It is obviously the koran that is in ERROR.
Ismail Ali says
You have been sponsoring terrorism and using the America army to fight Islam ,all in the name of defending democracy and human rights,.. But to no avail,it has been lost upon lost . the Islam has come to stay ..it is a matter of time ,all your satanic societies will be overrun by the religion of peace .
Ecosse1314 says
ROP??? That counts islam out then.
FYI says
muslims just don’t get IRONY.
“all your satanic societies will be overrun by the religion of peace”
And in order to overrun our societies the ROP has to use …violence,terror and political subversion thus undermining the best efforts of the dawah tricksters to convince us islam is THE religion of peace.
It’s like a tough Biker gang calling itself ‘the cuddly innocents’:nobody is buying it!
If you leave islam there is a DEATH PENALTY for apostasy.
If you do not convert to islam you can in theory be murdered.
“Hey pa,look.It’s the members of the Religion of Peace.They are rioting again..”
gravenimage says
Note that Ismail Ali affirms that Islam is targeting democracy and human rights.
An not his hilarious claim that Islam violently overrunning the free West makes it a “religion of peace”…
His claim that Islam has succeeded in this savage destruction is mistaken, though–most of us do not plan on rolling over for this savagery.
FYI says
allah’s criterion of koranic perfection:
“Will they not ponder on the quran?If it had been from other than allah they would have therein much incongruity”
koran 4:82
On the one hand,if no errors or incongruities are found in the koran,then that implies it is indeed perfect and allah’s word.
On the other hand,the presence of ANY errors or incongruities{even one} implies the koran is imperfect and cannot come from allah{Who is perfect and whose words must be perfect}but must come from ‘other than allah’
Yet when one reads the koran ,egregious errors appear.
As Yasir Qadhi might say ‘What is going on yahee?”
When you do a deep dive into the koran{..ker Splash!..}things get very awkward.
allah has MARY in his misunderstanding of the Trinity{koran 5:116} insists he gave the Gospel to Jesus{the muslim}{koran 5:46},tells us {wrongly} that the Jews believe ‘Ezra is the son of allah'{koran 9:30}and the key patriarchal figure of Judaism Abraham ‘was not a Jew'{koran 3:67}
allah also seems to have completely MISSED the Golden Rule{=the Meaning of the Law of Moses etc see Matthew 7 v 12},the 2 chief commandments Law #1 Deut 6:4-9,Law #2 19:17-18 which are defined as “the WHOLE of the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets”Matthew 22:37-40}and he gives permission to violate the Exodus 20 Decalogue Laws{k2:191 freedom to kill infidels,koran 48:20 freedom to steal from infidels etc.Read the koran!}which defeats the purpose of the Torah and the Law being given to Moses by YHWH in the first place!
And there is no concept of people being made in the spiritual image of God{Genesis 1:27}
‘allah’ has no concept of people being made in the spiritual image of YHWH{God},missed the whole of the law{defined as being the 2 chief commandments Matthew 22 v 40}}and the meaning of the law{defined as being=the Golden rule Matthew 7 v 12}
The koran has a Religious Apartheid system that says all non muslims are the ‘WORST of created beings’ koran 98:6 whereas muslims are ‘the BEST community’ koran 3:110′
islam has a Doctrine of Hate:al walaa wal baraa.Such a Doctrine violates the 2 chief commandments of the Biblical {YHWH GOD}and Genesis 1:27
This is the basis for islam’s supremacist ideology:allah does not regard non-muslims as equal to muslims or women as equal to men{koran 2:282}
It is not just what is written in the koran:it is also what is missing from it.
The koran does NOT conform to the law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets.
Note that the inconguities and errors in the koran,when you apply allah’s criterion of koran 4:82 ,shows the koran must come from ‘other than allah’ which means it is …BOGUS.
‘What is going on?’the islamic scholars wonder..as in the ‘perfect’ koran it is ‘found therein much incongruity’ which by allah’s own criterion of perfection koran 4:82,shows it to be a false scripture.
Beverly says
I read where Allah supposedly created man six different ways. I would think a divine creater would have a concept of how he did this. I’ve also asked different Muslims on blog sites if Allah created everything to perfection why did he create a slew of people that needed to be killed. Same with FGM. Who allows for man to change what Allah has created? It’s a book of bullshit and lies and filled with a lot more than just grammatical errors.
FYI says
Apparently allah has TWO RIGHT HANDS[koran 49:1} and ONE LEG{koran 68:42}.This is in the original Arabic ,not in the English and i’m going by Christian Prince on You Tube.
{Things mysteriously disappear in translation from the Arabic which suits islamic scholars because then they play that ‘oh you don’t know Arabic’ trick,a trick which won’t work with the internet and Arabic speaking atheists/Christians/ex-muslims}
You see?allah cannot even get his own anatomy right*.
allah is ludicrously antiJewish:the Jews are to be ‘despised and hated’ koran 2:65.That doesn’t sound like YHWH of the Bible does it?
If allah is all knowing how come he fails to understand Christian Theology,mistaking it for a polytheism and insisting MARY is in it.
What kind of god doesn’t understand basic theology?
*If allah has only ONE leg then he cannot do the hokey cokey can he?
‘You put your right leg in,you put your right leg out…..oh…oh wait..this ..this ..isn’t going to work”
Mischief Maker in the Land says
He is well qualified when it comes to sex-slaves – “what your right hands possess”.
gravenimage says
It’s so easy to impress illiterates.
mortimer says
Agree with Bev: ‘a book of bullshit’. Prof Harold Frankfurt said a bullshitter is not concerned whether what he says is true or false, because his only concern is his agenda. The bullshitter is bigger enemy to the truth than an outright liar. (q.v. ‘On Bullshit’ précis by Harold Frankfurt.)
The author of the Koran used ideas and plagiarisms in the same way that a collage artist uses photos and found objects. They are placed in his collage in the context of his choosing. They are distorted from their original meanings to produce an emotional effect. The Koran uses gnostic, Zoroastrian, pagan, Jewish and Christian references ripped out their context and then re-contextualized within Islamic theology.
The Koran is an example of what Dr. Frankfurt refers to.
roberta says
That is an impressive amount of errors for a book so small.
Since the koran is also repetitive (kill the kaffir, kill the kaffir blah, blah, blah) the same errors had to be made over and over.
Still this will come to nothing, the idea of muslim supremacy is too attractive
Jaladhi says
Poor allah didn’t have a spell checker or he wouldn’t make those mistakes! allah is perfect!1 Hmm,.. ha, ha, …
FYI says
“Above it are nineteen”
koran 74:30
What is allah talking about?What is ‘it’ and what comes after ‘Nineteen’?
Nineteen WHAT?
What is ‘it’ is Unknown and what comes after ‘nineteen’ is Unknown.
It’s like a ridiculously obscure Cryptic crossword clue.
Nobody knows what allah is referring to.
NOBODY KNOWS
“Lo!This koran is a conclusive word”
koran 86:13
No it isn’t allah.
Ecosse1314 says
I would suggest…koranic versions
Vladimir says
Muslims say that there is an sacred alphanumeric ”Koranic Code” which is based on the number 19 built within the Koran (so that there are no real mistakes in it), and it’s interesting that there were 19 muslim hijackers on…9-11, there are those numbers again.
shoehorn says
was thinking that, too; Muhammad Atta & co. now the guards of hell?
Sylvia Drummond says
And there we all were, thinking that Allah was leaning out of the heavens dictating his thoughts to Mo who was busily scribbling it all down. You know the sort of thing, kill anyone who does’nt agree with you, beat up any women who don’t want to have sex with you and generally consider yourself superior to everyone else, but now it seems it was all put together years after paedo Mo left this earth. Well well.
End PC says
The persecuted Ali Dashti pointed out such. The Qur’an is hardly written in pure Arabic. “It contains both non-Arabic words and phrases (Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Akkadian, Ethiopian, and Persian) – at least 107 – as well as words that are given abnormal meanings. Adjectives and verbs are inflected without observance of the concords of gender and number. Illogically and ungrammatically applied pronouns which sometimes have no referent abound. And predicates exist which in rhymed passages are often remote from the subjects (Ali Dashti, 23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Muhammad, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985, p.48).
The Koran therefore contradicts its own claim to be written perfectly & perfectly preserved.
mortimer says
The articles by Ahmad Hashem and Jarjis Gulizada could be interpreted as ‘blasphemous’ if the religious authorities wished, but my guess is that ALL the leading religious textual authorities AGREE with the articles.
It is impossible to spend 30 years studying Islam (or even 10 years) and not see the BIG, GAPING HOLES in the traditional, triumphalist narrative about Islam.
There are indeed BIG, GAPING HOLES IN THE NARRATIVE which claims ALLAH PERFECTLY PRESERVED THE KORAN. He obviously did not ‘preserve’ it.
Human intervention over a period of 1300 years is the only consistent thing about the Koranic text.
Now Muslims see the problem and want to COVER OVER the HOLES IN THE NARRATIVE so that today’s generation of Muslims does not see them!
The Koran is now seen to be of human origin and obviously so.
Simply put, Islam’s human origin cannot be hidden any longer.
Mauricio says
May God bless Ahmad Hashem and Jarjis Gulizada
mortimer says
Mohammed could not approve or endorse a text that he never saw or read.
The 37 Arabic Koranic texts available today were not established by Mohammed nor read nor verified by him.
The last recension of the Koran occurred around 705. Mohammed was long dead … some say … as much as 80 years dead …. when the Koran of Caliph Abd al Malik and Hajjaj appeared and was presented to be read in the mosques.
Other accounts say the Koran was still being written decades after that when Mohammed would have been dead from well over 100 years.
There is no way to say which of the 37 Arabic Korans (or any of them) is the original. There was no ‘original’ text. The text is purely conjecture by the mullahs which they present disingenuously as ‘fact’.
Walter Sieruk says
Since this Jihadwatch article exposes that the Qur ‘an contains errors in spelling and syntax and about 2,500 other mistakes it’s therefore important to take into account that in spite of all this there is a claim by made 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]
Second , the following should be taken into consideration.
Of course the Muslim who reads the Qur ‘an 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 Qu ‘ran 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 Qur ‘an 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 Qur ‘an objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
gravenimage says
+1
RichardL says
Gerd Puin’s Sanaa project will come out and blow this whole rubbish out of the water. Maybe the Saudis are preparing the ground so that they can save their most important text somehow. No telling what the outcome will be.
Tony Naim says
All the religious ideology fabricated in the seventh century was proposed to serve a deeply tribal Arab culture. First and foremost, its colonial imperialist expansion out of the Arabian peninsula. An ideology that does not fit the changes of modernity anymore. So Whatever comes out of any proposed change or reform, it will come to serve one sole purpose: a deeply tribal Arab culture.
Keys says
But over a billions Muslims can not be wrong ! Allah, the greatest of deceivers, would not allow his followers to be duped.
/sarc
How can Muslims continue to force their beliefs on others when their god is a deceiver ? They must assume Allah is not deceiving them.
Right, Rod ?
gravenimage says
True, Tony and Keys.
Michael Copeland says
“offers no answers to the questions of modern life”
Hamed Abdel-Samad, Germany
son of imam
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2010/09/22/is-islam-about-to-collapse-egyptian-scholar-says-yes/
tim gallagher says
I hope the discovery of errors,etc, helps to destroy Islam, but, to my mind, it is the foul, evil content of islam that means it is a load of disgusting, inhuman rubbish which decent people everywhere would have to throw into history’s rubbish bin. The beliefs that people who don’t happen to believe in islam should be killed by Muslims, the idea that 8 year old girls can be married off, the honour killings over absolute trivialities, and so on, this evil garbage that Islam thinks is fine and dandy is what makes me an enemy of this vile religious and totalitarian ideology, and it should make every half way civilised person in the world an enemy of Islam. It would be a far better world if this cruel ideology was gone, something that should have happened ages ago. Any ideology with such evil, barbaric content should be gone from the world.
gravenimage says
Absolutely, Tim.
gravenimage says
The Qur’an ‘contains errors of spelling, syntax and grammar; it is estimated there are about 2,500 such mistakes’
…………………
Yep.
Of course, its barbaric savagery is of yet greater concern.
tim gallagher says
We see it the same way, gravenimage. It is the content of this disgusting ideology that matters. Islam should be eliminated from humankind just as Nazism should be eliminated. Not sure which politician said it, but I’m pretty sure someone did say, “It’s the economy, stupid”. Maybe it was one of the Bushes. But, with islam, regardless of spelling or syntax, its the vile content makes me hate it. “It’s the content of Islam, stupid”. Its content is all I need to know about it to make me an enemy of it.
gravenimage says
Yes, Tim–I posted my first comment here before reading yours. You are quite right.
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, I just googled that comment “It’s the economy, stupid”. It said that it was James Carville, who was working for Bill Clinton, who first said it in 1992. Anyway, the the content of Islam, regardless of spelling errors of errors of syntax, is what makes me loath the barbaric, evil religious ideology. I am certainly with you in hating it, as you often say, and almost everyone who comments here at Jihad Watch would agree with your sentiments about islam. By the way, if you do read this, as I consider you to be a smart and reliable witness, how bad would you say things are in the USA with all these riots, the BLM Marxist mobs, etc? I figure that it would not be something that would be affecting all that many of the average people. Is this unrest, violence, etc, a big worry? I suppose the unrest will go on in the lead up to the Presidential election, aimed at making Trump look bad, a tactical move by the supporters of the Democrats.
eduardo odraude says
A brilliant and amusing video on this subject by David Wood, Ph.D. and the late Nabeel Qureshi, M.D.:
gravenimage says
I miss Nabeel.
Kepha says
The name Ahmad Hashem suggests he’s from Muhammad’s own clan.
Yet, I have a question: Before the Qur’an, was there all that much written in Arabic, or a standardization of Arabic, against which the Qur’an ‘s spelling and grammar should be judged? I was under the impression that when the Qur’an was written, Arabic literature was still in its formative stages. Many of us who have studied some English literature are aware that two renaissance-era Anglophone authors may follow differing spelling conventions; that it was Dr. Johnson (although I’m not sure) who got us to write “island” rather than “iland”, taking it as a Romance cognate whose pronunciation had shifted rather than cognate to a Germanic word such as the Dutch “eylandt”, Hence, in fairness, could it not be the case that the Arabic language was in flux (to say nothing that Muhammad’s own idiolect, due to his contacts with Jews and Christians, may have b een under some Aramaic influence–nod to Christoph Luxenburg)?
This is by no means an apologia for Islam. I by no means take the Qur’an as God-breathed scripture. But, as I look at my own, I can see the convoluted Greek sentences in which Paul sometimes writes, and the rough, second language-learner’s interlanguage (not quite pidgin) in which John wrote Revelation. I do not see the Holy Spirit making a mistake; rather, the Holy Spirit moved tow chosen men and simultaneously opened to things they might not otherwise have considered and kept them from letting their imaginations run riot. For Christians, while the Holy Spirit is at work in the writing of Scripture, and thus keeps it from error in what it intends to teach, he nonetheless also uses mento speak to their times and later ones. Against this, I am not sure how Islam understands the interplay of Jibril and ‘prophet”.
I’ve also read Tang poetry, Chinese Classics, Plato, Aristotle, and parts of the Old Testament in their original languages. I’m aware that for the Tang poets and the Athenian philosophers, canons of language usage had pretty well been set for them; but for the Chinese sages of the Chun-Qiu Period, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets, their languages might well have been in more formative stages. Could the same be the case for Arabic in the 7th century A.D.?
I will futher add that I do not expect an emerging Qur’anic “higher criticism” to determine much–a lot of the “assured results of scientific criticism” of the Old Testament ended being nothing more than a group of German Hegelians trying to shoehorn writers of a very different time and place into their own tentative paradigms and misleading lots of others in the process; while much New Testmanet critical scholarship has been nothing more than people looking down the wellshaft of two millennia to see their own faces reflected in the bottom. While the textual “lower criticism” may give us a clearer picture of the text itself, I’m not sure it will yield many surprises.
gravenimage says
Kepha, the Qur’an claims to be flawless, created in heaven and sent down to earth. This does not make sense with a Qur’an that is clearly full of errors.
Kepha says
How are the “errors” understood? Errors of theology? Or, any error whatsoever? I reserve judgment on the errors of Arabic Grammas for reasons given in my original post–even if I think that the Qur’an is full of theological error.
Eli says
The Bible is detailed, verified history, supported by archeology, throughout the Middle East. There isn’t any comparison between the Bible and Koran, which was written 600 years after Jesus was on earth.
Firoz says
After reading comments here, I must say majority of the comments are due to the commentors having no clue as to what is the holy Quran and the last sermon of the holy prophet who said follow Quran and the life style of his family.
It is evident here that the suuds have no idea as to what they are saying and evident they are astray.
May God help you all.
gravenimage says
Note that Firoz here doesn’t bother to say what posters here have supposedly gotten wrong–but this should not surprise. After all, pious Muslims reject reason and don’t believe that they have to back up their claims with actual facts.
Then, what is he demanding when he talks about following the model of the “holy prophet”? He means robbery, kidnapping, enslavement, and rape of Infidels. He means pedophilia and forced marriage. And ultimately, he means slaughtering all unbelievers who will not submit to the savagery of Islam. *Ugh*.