The translation of Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, which is quite common in the West, renders Qur’an 33:56 this way: “Lo! Allah and His angels shower blessings on the Prophet.”
The Critical Qur’an says: “Indeed, Allah and his angels pray for the prophet.”
That’s can’t be right! Allah is supposed to be the supreme God. To whom would he pray? Surely The Critical Qur’an has this wrong, no? No. Find out why: preorder The Critical Qur’an here.
gravenimage says
Does the Qur’an say that Allah prays for the prophet?
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Just another instance of how truly bizarre Islam is.
Here’s the Arberry translation, from 1955:
“God and His angels bless the Prophet. O believers, do you also bless him, and pray him peace”.
Why would Allah–who is supposedly supreme–have to pray for Muhammed?
john smith says
Agreed Gravenlmage, it’ absolutely ridiculous, doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
Walter Sieruk says
A claim by many Muslims is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Qur’an 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 Qur’an.
[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 Qur’an 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.
john smith says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
On the subject of in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran. . Some call this religious book, the Qur’an. All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Qur’an the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Qur’an the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Qur’an as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 4:47 5:33. 9:5,111,123.
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 Qur’an with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qur’an 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 Qur’an 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 Qur’an is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Qur’an, 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 Qur’an. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Qur’an is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.”
Furthermore, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qur’an 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 Qur’an is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Egor says
|David Wood and Mohammed Hijab had a debate and that tended to be the focus of the debate as far as Hijab was concerned. Being the moron that Hijab is, he did not even listen to what David Wood said and as a consequence, in his rebuttals, made an absolute arse of himself. This clearly shown here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_HW-aFlJs All the Abduls still came out and describe Hijab as the winner of the debate. Hijab has never been the same since the Yasir Qadhi incident last year.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Egor. What an idiot. Pious Muslims cannot debate rationally.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Boy! Talk about your cult of personality.
SAFI says
Contrary to popular Muslim belief, Allah was nothing more than Mohammed’s divine sock-puppet. He moves and speaks in accordance with the desires of his mortal creator and master. If Mohammed wants him to pray, he prays. Since the first moment he was created, the sole purpose in his inanimate life was to help his creator acquire better access to money and women. That purpose he served well.
Infidel says
That explains it in a nutshell. Also, I saw an Indian commentator Sanjay Dixit summarize the whole issue of muslim attitudes towards infidels as the ‘Rights of allah’. He listed:
– allah alone has the right to be worshiped
– allah has the right to have one (muslim or not) fear him
– allah has the right to have one (muslim or not) as his slave
Only after allah’s rights are satisfied that the question of any other rights arise, and human rights are somewhere at the bottom of that totem pole