JESUS AND MUHAMMAD
Chariot wheels found in the Red Sea
(Gulf of
Aqaba)
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Muslims should note
that nowhere in the Qur'an there
is even a
suggestion that the
Christian Biblical text
has been altered or corrupted. The word
"tahrif" is never used with
reference to the
Christian Gospels (Injil). The
Qur'an occasionally accuses the Jews of
altering their
Scripture (like in Surah 5:13); but it never levels
this accusation at Christians. It in no
way implies that the text of the
Gospel of Jesus (Injil)
has been corrupted.
In fact, the Qur'an attests to the
validity of the Christian Gospels,
Zabur (Psalms)
and
the Torah.
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Muhammad's tomb in Medina
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The
uninspired Qur'an
The Jewish and Christian Bibles were written by "inspired men of
God" who immediately committed God's Word to writing.
Islam doesn't even have
either an original or inspired Qur'an. The Muslim Qur'an was made up
supposedly from "memory" from those who supposedly
committed the words of Muhammad to memory, and from a few scraps found under a bed.
This was originally begun about 15-20 years after Muhammad died at his wife Ayish's home
in Medina, and he was lowered into a hole in the ground, where
he remains. The compilation was not finished until at
least 150 years after Muhammad's death. This "hearsay"
argument seriously brings the credibility of the Qur'an into
question. But, that's only the beginning. All the
errors, including simple mathematical and historical errors you
will see in the Qur'an below renders it impossible to be a
divine revelation.
Al
Bukhari, a Muslim scholar of the 9th-10th century, and the most
authoritative of the Muslim tradition compilers, writes that
whenever Muhammad fell into one of his unpredictable trances his
revelations were written on whatever was handy at the time. The
leg or thigh bones of dead animals were used, as well as palm
leaves, parchments, papers, skins, mats, stones, and bark. And
when there was nothing at hand the attempt was made by his
disciples to memorize it as closely as possible.
Zuhri
reports, 'We have heard that many Qur'an passages were revealed
but that those who had memorized them fell in the Yemama
fighting. Those passages had not been written down, and
following the deaths of those who knew them, were no longer
known; nor had Abu Bakr, nor `Umar nor `Uthman as yet collected
the texts of the Qur'an.
“During the battle of Yamama, 450 reciters of the Quran were
killed.”
(The True
Guidance, An Introduction To Quranic Studies, part 4 [Light of
Life - P.O. BOX 13, A-9503 Villach, Austria], p. 47- citing Ibn
Kathir’s Al-Bidaya wa al-Nibaya, chapter on Battle of Yamama).
Muhammad's child wife said this
after Muhammad died:
"The verse of the stoning and of
suckling an adult ten times were revealed, and they
were (written) on a paper and kept under my bed.
When the messenger of Allah expired and we were
preoccupied with his death, a goat entered and ate
away the paper."
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References: Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal. vol. 6. page
269; Sunan Ibn Majah, page 626; Ibn Qutbah, Tawil
Mukhtalafi 'l-Hadith (Cairo: Maktaba al-Kulliyat al-Azhariyya.
1966) page 310; As-Suyuti, ad-Durru 'l-Manthur, vol.
2. page 13
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As to the
Taurat (Torah), Jewish
scribes painstakingly copied it via a system of checking,
double checking and adding each letter on each line. Any attempt to
change something in the Torah would have resulted in immediate
discovery and condemnation. And copies of the Torah from around the world agree
exactly. Thousands of the Hebrew Old Testament
manuscript copies are still available for textual criticism, ranging
in age from the second century B.C. (Before Christ) to the eleventh
century A.D. (After Christ).
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The
Qur'an is not an authentic book or revelation.
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There are no Arabic
chronicles of Islam from the first century of Islam.
Many of the earliest documents
known about Islam refer to the followers of Muhammad as "hagarenes,"
and the "tribe of Ishmael," in other words as descendants of
Hagar, the servant girl that the Jewish patriarch Abraham used
to father his son Ishmael.
This same
quality of transmission we find regarding the Jewish and Christian
bible cannot be said of the Islamic Qur'an.
The Islamic Qur'an was mostly written down from 3rd and 4th hand accounts;
and from a few thoughts written on scrap papers, palm leaves and
stones --and compiled over
150 years after
Muhammad died in 632 A.D. In the Mishtatu ‘lMasabih, chapter
3, we are informed that by the command of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr,
the text of the Qur’an was “collected” by Zaid ibn Thabit “from palm
leaves and stones and from the breasts of those who had learned by
heart” the various revelations." Abu Bakr’s copy came into the
possession of Hafsah, one of Muhammad’s widows. Qustalani
states that after Hafsah’s death her copy was torn to pieces by
Mirwan, who was governor of Medina.
The oldest Qur'an dates from around
790 A.D. (after Jesus), and it is in the British Library. That's 158
years after Muhammad’s death. See corrupted Qur'an
here .
Muslims often claim that the manuscript of the Qur'an housed in
the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
is one of the oldest sources. Muslims say it dates
from around 650 A.D. There is an insurmountable problem with
this. This document is written in Kufic (also known as
al-Khatt al-Kufi) script. Coins in the British Museum
show that the first coins using the
Kufic script date from the mid to end of the 8th century
(750-800 A.D.).
The only script used during and after
Muhammad's days was the Jazm script.
These earliest copies of the Qur'an are
written without vowels and diacritical dots that modern Arabic
uses to make it clear what letter is intended. In the eighth and
ninth centuries, more than a century after the death of
Muhammad, Islamic commentators added diacritical marks to clear
up the ambiguities of the text.
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Sorry suicide bombers. There will be
no sexual favors (virgins) for you --where you are
going
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For example, the famous
passage about the virgins is based on the word hur,
which is an adjective in the feminine plural meaning
simply "white." Islamic tradition insists the term
hur stands for "houri," which means virgin, but Mr.
Luxenberg who teaches at the Saarland University in
Germany insists that this is a forced misreading of
the text. In both ancient Aramaic and in at least
one respected dictionary of early Arabic, hur means
"white raisin."
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Reward
the Qur'an promises
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White raisins
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The Qur'an is not an
authentic book or revelation. Much of the
Qur'an was copied from early Christian texts.
Mr. Luxenberg has traced the passages in the Qur'an
dealing with "paradise" to a Christian text called
Hymns of Paradise by a fourth-century author. Mr.
Luxenberg said the word paradise was derived from
the Aramaic word for garden and all the descriptions
of paradise described it as a garden of flowing
waters, abundant fruits and white raisins, a prized
delicacy in the ancient Near East. In this context,
white raisins, mentioned often as hur, Mr. Luxenberg
said, makes more sense than a reward of sexual
favors.
"I think the broader implications of some of the
revisionist scholarship is to say that the Koran is
not an authentic book, that it was fabricated 150
years later," says Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of
religious studies at Duke University, as well as a
Muslim cleric whose liberal theological leanings
earned him the animosity of fundamentalists in South
Africa, which he left after his house was
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The
Samarkand (aka: Othman Koran) manuscript in the Soviet Library in
Tashkent, Uzbekistan also uses the Kufic
script, indicating late 8th century. Many believe it is
the oldest in existence. Only
About one-third of the original survives.
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the Koran is kept is in an area of old Tashkent
known as Hast-Imam, well off the beaten track for
most visitors to this city.
It lies down a series of dusty lanes, near the grave
of a 10th century scholar, Kaffel-Shashi.
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This Samarkand codice manuscript is
considerably incomplete. It only begins in the middle of verse 7
of Suratul-Baqarah (the second Surah) and from there on numerous
pages are missing. The next oldest Muslim manuscripts are also
from the 8th-century. One is
written in al-ma'il script and the other in
Kufic.
Neither of these correspond precisely to today's Qur'an.
Also, in 1972, construction workers who were
restoring the Great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen found a cache of
manuscripts scraps that differ and
contradict today's Qur'an so badly,
that Muslims try to hide this.
These Yemeni Qur'an manuscripts date back to
the 7th and 8th centures, and are actually the oldest found, and
they are in Hijazi. Hijazi (Makkan
or Madinan) script, is the script in which the earliest masahif
of the Qur'an were written. These
manuscripts calls to question whether the present Qur'an was
delivered to Muslims in pristine form. Your guess is as good as
mine as to who in addition to Muhammad made up the Qur'an.
Other
than a few incorrect references to the patriarchs and Moses, the
Qur’an is primarily centered on the period of time Muhammad
himself lived in, including Muhammad's many
military attacks on innocent caravans and Arabian villages.
This seems to be hardly compatible with a holy revelation of
God. Considering
the complete absence of external and internal evidence that should
effectively verify the revelatory character of the Qur'an, we find it very hard, if not impossible, to accept the
Qur'an as a Message sent by God. This is particularly so, because
the Qur'an contradicts earlier revelation, the evidence for the
origin of which is given
in Qur'an/Koran Suras below.
Ask a Muslim, by whom, and when were the Christian and Jewish
Scriptures corrupted? You will get a blank stare.
Muslims only know is that this lie has been "drilled" into them
since childhood.
Even
though their own prophet completely attested to the genuineness
and authenticity of the Old and New Testaments, Islam makes the
claim that they have been corrupted. Why? Because the
Qur'an erroneously contradicts them both. And Islamic
clerics know it. In Muslim cleric minds this also relieves
them of Muhammad's statements such like:
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Muslims who have received the Qur'an have no solid
grounds of faith, and that the foundation of the
Muslim faith is insecure and insufficient and the
Muslim religion is futile, unless they observe and
follow the Taurat (Torah) and the Gospel (Injil).
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Many
Muslims Imams and Mullahs falsely
point to Surah 2:140 to
try and prove that Jews and Christians had corrupted
their Scriptures.
Referring to the Jews, this Surah
says; "...who is more unjust than
those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah?...?"
Yet, nowhere does this
Surah state that the Jews and
Christians corrupted their scriptures.
Muslim clerics need to point to something because they know that
the Jewish Torah and Christian Gospels badly contradict the
Islamic Qur'an. The fact that Muhammad and Allah told
Muslims to believe in the Torah and Christian Gospels is a very
bad dilemma for these professionals who wish to continue making
a good living in Islam.
Suras
6:34, 6:115, 10:64
and 50:28,29 clearly says to Muslims,
"No change can there be in the words of Allah"
and that Allah cannot alter (or abrogate) his words."
So the Torah and Christian Gospels are
correct, because Allah did verify this fact -- this clearly
makes the Muslim Qur'an false; because it contradicts Allah.
As you can see from these
verses below in the Qur'an (Koran), the
Gospel of Jesus and the Jewish Torah are the divine Word of Allah, and
Muhammad commanded the reading of the
Holy Injil
(Gospel of Jesus) and the Torah (Taurat) as part of Islam.
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As a Good Muslim - Have you read the Gospel of Jesus?
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The
Gospel of Jesus and Old Testament
(Torah): "Guidance and Light"
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- Surah 2:87
- And most certainly We gave Musa the Book
and We sent apostles after him one after another; and We
gave Isa, the son of Marium, clear arguments and
strengthened him with the holy spirit,
- Surah 3:48
- And He (Isa/Jesus)
will teach him the Book and the wisdom and the
Tavrat (Torah) and the Injeel
(Christian Gospel).
- Surah 3:50 -
And a verifier of that which is
before me of the Taurat (Torah)
and that I may allow you part of that which has
been forbidden t you, and I have come to you with a sign
from your Lord therefore be careful of (your duty to)
Allah and obey me.
- Surah 5:44
- "Surely
We revealed the Taurat
(Torah/Bible
Old Testament) in which was guidance and light",
with it the prophets who submitted themselves....
- Surah 5:46
- And We sent after them in their footsteps Isa,
son of Marium, verifying what was before him of the
Taurat
(Jewish Torah)
and We gave him the Injeel
(Christian
Gospels)
in which was
guidance and light, and verifying what was before it
of Taurat and a guidance and an admonition for those who
guard (against evil).
- Surah 5.68 -
Say: O followers of the Book! you
follow no good till you keep up the Taurat and the
Injeel and that which is revealed to you from your Lord;
- Surah
6.154: Again, We gave the Book
(Torah) to Musa to complete
(Our blessings) on him who would do good (to others),
and making plain all things and a guidance and a mercy,
so that they should believe in the meeting of their
Lord.
- Surah
6.155: And this (Torah)
is a Book We have revealed, blessed; therefore
follow it and guard (against evil) that mercy may be
shown to you.
- Surah 29:46
"And dispute ye not with
the People of the Book, but say, "We believe in the
revelation which has come down to us and in that which
came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one;
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Surah 32:23 -
And certainly We gave the
Book to Musa, so be not in doubt concerning the
receiving of it, and We made it a guide for the children
of Israel.
- Surah 43:63 - When Jesus
came with Clear Signs, he said: "Now have I come to you
with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of
the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah
and obey me.
- Surah 46:12 we are told....
"And
before it the Book of Musa (Moses) (Torah) was a
guide and a mercy: and this is a Book verifying (it) in the Arabic
language that it may warn those who are unjust and as good news
for the doers of good......"
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