It is either the Christians believe in Quran as the word of God and then accept Islam or believe in Qur'an as the word of a liar and impersonator who deliberately lied against God. However the author of Qur’an declare that the most wicked act that a person can commit is to deliberately lie against God; "Who can be more wicked than one who forges a lie against God or says: It has been revealed to me; while nothing has been revealed to him, and he who says: I can reveal the like of what God has revealed? And if you could but see when the wrong-doers are in the agonies of death, while the angels are stretching forth their hands (saying); deliver your souls! This day you shall be recompensed with torment of degradation because of what you used to utter against God other than the truth. And you used to reject His signs with arrogance. And truly you have come unto Us alone as We created you the first time. You have left behind you all that which We had bestowed on you. We see not with you your intercessors whom you claimed to be partners with God. Now all relations between you and them have been cut off, and all that you used to claim has vanished from you (Qur’an 6:93-94)". Do you think that any deliberate liar against God can still have the confidence to say that the greatest wickedness one can commit is to forge a lie against God and yet have another confidence in describing the state of conditions in which such deliberate liars will find themselves at the point of death and after leaving this world? Can a deliberate liar (who lied against God to acquire some worldly gains) ever think and say that the same worldly gains he was aiming at will soon be left behind him and that what he used to claim will soon be vanished from him - “You have left behind you all that which We had bestowed on you… and all that you used to claim has vanished from you”. Even if we assume that he knew about this truth in his mind, could he have that confidence to write it again in his book? By writing such things, would he not be killing the spirit pushing him to carry out his mission?
In fact, the author of Qur’an speak in the name of God with full confidence and a very high authority in a manner which is beyond the imagination and reasoning of any human being . See what I meant by this statement in these verses: "And remember the Day We shall cause the mountains to pass away, and you will see the earth as a leveled plain, and We shall gather them all together so as to leave not one of them behind. And they will be set before your Lord in rows; now indeed, you have come to Us as We created you in the first time. Nay, but you thought We had appointed no meeting for you (with Us). And the book (of record) will be placed, and you will see the criminals fearful of that which is recorded therein. They will say: “woe to us! What sort of book is this that leaves neither a small thing nor a big thing, but has recorded it with numbers!”.And they will find all that they did, placed before them, and your Lord treats no one with injustice. (Qur’an 18:47-51). We said: O fire be you coolness and safety for Abraham. And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers. And We rescued him and his nephew (Lot) and directed them to the land which We have blessed for the nations. And We bestowed on him Isaac and, as an additional gift, Jacob. Each one of them We made righteous. And We made them leaders, guiding people by Our command, and We inspired in them the doing of good deeds, to establish regular prayers, and to practice regular charity and they constantly worship Us. And to Lot, We gave wisdom and knowledge, and We saved him from the town who practiced filthy deeds. Verily they were a people given to evil, a rebellious people. And We admitted him into Our mercy: for he was one of the righteous. And Noah, when he cried afore time, We listened to his invocation and We saved him and his family from great distress, We helped him against the people who denied Our signs. Verily, they were a people given to evil. So We drowned them all. And remember David and Solomon, when they gave judgment in the case of the field in which the sheep of certain people had pastured at night: We did witness their judgment. We made Solomon to understand the case, and to each of them We gave wisdom and knowledge. And We subjected the mountains and the birds to glorify Our praises along with David, And it was We Who were the doers of all these things(Qur’an 21:69-79). We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of judgment, so that no soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there is (a deed good or bad ) no more than the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it to account: and sufficient are We to take account (Qur’an 21:47). And remember the Day when We shall roll the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books, even as We began the first creation, so shall We produce a new one: a promise We have undertaken: truly shall We fulfill it (Qur’an 21:104) . And they say: Why has not an angel sent down to him? Had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been judged at once, and no respite would be granted to them. And had We made him an angel, We would certainly have sent him as a man, and We would certainly have caused them confusion in a matter which they have already covered with confusion. (Qur’an 6:8-9). And they swear their strongest oath by God, that if there came to them a sign, by it they would believe. Say: Signs are only in the power of God: but what will make you realize that even if that sign came, they will not believe. And We too shall turn their hearts and their eyes away (from guidance), as they refused to believe in this (message) in the first instance: And We shall leave them in their trespasses to wander blindly. And even if We had sent down unto them angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together all things before their very eyes, they would not have believed, unless it is in God’s plan, but most of them behave ignorantly (Qur’an 6:109-111). Is it possible for an impersonator and deliberate liar against God to be the author of all these noble verses especially when we call to mind that the first set of people the Qur’an was admonishing were idol-worshippers living in ancient Makah? Has God ever sent a liar to guide people who were in error to the right path? All these verses of Qur'an are too marvelous to originate from corrupt mind of a liar who deliberately lied against God.

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I carefully read the quoran and the only conclusion I could come up with is that the qouran was written by a lunatic under satanic influence.

How can a christian accept a quoran that instruct muslims to kill Christians for not falling for mohamed's lies(islam).

Pls in what way does the verses of Qur'an quoted above resemble the word of a lunatic under the satanic influence? Can Satan misled a person to guide the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in one God and all biblical prophets including Moses and Jesus Christ. Can Satan misled a person to guide the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in Jesus miraculous birth(Qur'an 21:91)? Can Satan misled a person to guide the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in all the miracles performed by Jesus during his earthly ministry (Qur'an 5:110)? Can Satan misled a person to guide the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in Jesus ascension to heaven(Qur'an 4:158)? Sorry your heart has been completely locked up from understanding the verses of the Qur'an quoted above!

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Is it possible for an impersonator and deliberate liar against God to be the author of all these noble verses especially when we call to mind that the first set of people the Qur’an was admonishing were idol-worshippers living in ancient Makah? Has God ever sent a liar to guide people who were in error to the right path? All these verses of Qur'an are too marvelous to originate from corrupt mind of a liar who deliberately lied against God.

Are you trying to tell the world that nobody uses the name of God to lie?
Are you saying that there can be no BRILLIANT LIARS?
Are you saying that liars only have CORRUPT minds?
Are you saying that men do not lie against God?

There is one thing peculiar to a liar who deliberately lied against God for gaining some worldly benefits. This kind of a liar is totally different from a common liar who only lied to save himself from one kind of difficult situation or another. Such a deliberate liar against God is usually in a certain state of mind without him realizing it. He was being greatly deceived by his own mind. Within his mind, he saw good reasons and justification for embarking on such an act of deliberately lying against God. In other word, the evil of his action is made to be good and fair-seeming in his own eyes without him realizing it. If he truly realized that he has actually been deceived by his own mind, he would not have embarked on such an action. But such a deliberate liar commits his act of lying because there is no way for him to realize that he has been deceived by his own mind. Although he knew in his mind that what he was doing is wrong, yet he embark on doing such thing because the evil of his action was somehow made to be fair and okay in his own eyes. The author of Qur’an clearly makes reference to this very concept we are discussing which shows that the author was well familiar with this concept. In fact, the author explained this concept in a very concise and logical manner by comparing a rightly guided prophet who is on clear evidence from God with such a person whose evil of his action is made to be good and fair in his own eyes. In this way, the author of Qur’an has actually liberated himself from the possibility of being among such deliberate liars whose their bad deeds are made to be fair seeming and good in their own eyes. Therefore, the author of Qur’an could not be one of the deliberate liars against God. If he were to be one of them, there is no way he can realize and know about this concept; because nobody would actually know and fully realized that he was being deceived and then still allow the deception to be continued . Such references in the Quran are as follows: Is he (i:e a true prophet) who is on a clear proof from his Lord, like him to whom the evil of his work is made to be good and fair- seeming, and like those that follow their own lusts? (Qur’an 47:14). Is he to whom the evil of his deeds made fair-seeming, so that he looks upon it as good ( equal to the one who is rightly guided)?(Qur’an 35:. Is he who was dead spiritually then We gave him life of faith and set for him a light of guidance through which he walks among the people, be like him who is in the darkness of disbelief from which he can never come out? Thus it is made fair seeming to the unbelievers that which they used to do (Qur’an 6:122). See how the author is revealing the true and the real picture of an evil doer (like a deliberate liar against God) whose bad deeds were made to be fair and good in his own eyes! See again how the author compares such an evil doer with a rightly guided person who is on clear evidence from God! Can evil doer (like deliberate liar against God) reveal his true and real picture and then compare himself with a true prophet who received true guidance from God?

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History of Mohammed and the Qur'an


Tragic Childhood

Mohammed’s early life in the Arabian Peninsula is a story of tragedy and struggle. He was born around AD 570. His father, Abd-Allah, died before he was born. Allah was a part of his father’s name because that was the name of the primary deity of his clan. Amina, Mohammed’s mother, followed an old Arab custom of giving the infant to a Bedouin woman to be nursed for a significant period of time. When he was six years old, his mother died. To be an orphan in sixth century Mecca was a sad situation. Abu-Talib, the head of the impoverished Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe and Mohammed’s uncle, was given charge of the boy. He grew up in the midst of violent conflicts between individuals and tribes.

Marriage Marred by Death

One of the ways a person in Mohammed’s position could gain wealth and power would be to marry well. A forty-year-old businesswoman named Khadijah decided to marry the twenty-five-year-old Mohammed if he proved himself responsible by acting as her agent on a caravan to Syria. She had been married twice before. Until her death, Khadijah was Mohammed’s only wife. They raised four daughters but their two sons died in infancy. In spite of his influential wife, Mohammed struggled to gain respect from the merchants in Mecca who excluded him from their inner circle. It is possible that this is one factor that led him to seek spiritual help.

Religious Quest

Mohammed found the Arabian religious life more troubling than helpful. The Christians of the Roman and Byzantine empires dominated much of the world and had gained converts in Arabia. Even Khadijah’s cousin, Waraqah, had become a Christian. There were also wealthy Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula, yet the main religion of the country and the faith of Mohammed’s tribe was idol worship.

Mecca was the center of this polytheistic religion of which Mohammed belonged. These pagans prayed by facing Mecca. They traveled to Mecca for annual pilgrimages. There they would enter an arena (Masjid) where they circled around an ancient stone building 45 feet high, 33 feet wide, and 50 feet long, called the Kaaba, which was filled with idols. A black stone could be seen from the outside of the Kaaba like a cornerstone. The stone or meteorite was kissed in veneration. About one mile away from the Kaaba, at the Wadi Mina, the pilgrims threw rocks at a pillar that represented the devil. They believed in a lunar month of fasting and giving alms to the poor.

When Mohammed seized control of Mecca, he destroyed all the idols inside the Kaaba, except the revered black stone. However, he preserved each of these pagan practices and today they remain a significant part of the Islamic monotheistic rituals. This certainly made conversion to Islam easier for the people of Mohammed’s day. Many of today’s Muslims, though, have trouble following these rituals while still keeping pace with a highly technological society. The vast majority of Muslims also live far from Saudi Arabia where they must go for their pilgrimage, which becomes a great financial burden to them.

The Qur'an

Mohammed’s distressing situation culminated in reported spiritual experiences. For reasons of his own, Mohammed began to meditate in wilderness caves. He claimed that it was during one of these times that he was visited by a spiritual being which commanded him to recite a few sentences. Later, Mohammed believed he was being demon possessed and tried to kill himself but then again claimed to be rescued by another spiritual appearance, which assured him of his prophethood.

According to Muslim history, Mohammed continued to receive messages. He recited them to his followers who wrote them on any objects available such as rocks or bones. These messages came as Mohammed had episodes in which he would seem to have seizures. In the midst of these spells, Mohammed spoke as if Allah were speaking instead of him. He claimed that his spiritual guide, whom he later identified as the angel Gabriel, funneled messages through his poetic revelations. The Qur'an makes it clear that most Christians and Jews of that time believed this behavior to be either insanity or demonic. At first the sayings were short, but later in his life they became quite lengthy.

Decade of Rejection

The Qur'an has a certain poetic quality which Muslims believe is miraculously beautiful. Even so, the vast majority of Mohammed’s contemporaries did not believe Mohammed’s verses to be extraordinary since the Arabian Peninsula was famous for its many poets and mystic seers. This fact is attested to in the Qur'an itself.

Aside from the writing style, the content of the message was offensive to the idol worshipers of Mecca. Mohammed was reciting verses that announced that Allah was the one and only deity. His message condemned idol worship, upon which the Meccan economy relied.

As a result, Mohammed gained a very small following in the first ten years of his self-proclaimed prophethood. Even his tribe turned against him which was unheard of in an age when clan loyalty was the foundation of the culture.

When Mohammed sought to transfer his movement to a town called At-Taif the leaders ended the negotiations with such strong opposition that they encouraged the residents of the community to throw stones at Mohammed as he retreated.

Holy War

The Meccans were plotting to take Mohammed’s life so relocation to a different place was essential. Negotiations with the town of Medina went much better than those at At-Taif. Medina was a prosperous agricultural center that struggled with tribal friction. Some in Medina hoped that the presence of the Muslims would bring a spiritual sense of peace and Mohammed was invited to come as an arbitrator of disputes. Just before the Meccans tried to execute their plan to kill Mohammed, he and his small group of believers fled to Medina where his community of followers began to grow in influence and power. The first day of this move was July 1, AD 622. Muslims cite this date as the first day of the Islamic calendar.

Shortly after the migration, the Islamic religion turned to violence as a means of dealing with their enemies. Mohammed proclaimed verses that allowed Muslims to fight for Islam. They began by targeting the Meccans. The Muslims raided caravans in the name of Allah, which eventually led to formal battles between them and the armed forces of Mecca. The fighting expanded to include those who supported Mecca. The Muslims began to acquire riches in the way of spoils of war.

The Muslims were experiencing success. The fact that they were now a military force unified their ranks and increased their membership. The Muslim’s influence over the tribes of Medina grew as their enemies began to fear them.

For example, there were three Jewish tribes in Medina. All three rejected Mohammed as a genuine prophet in the tradition of the Biblical prophets. This must have been a great disappointment to Mohammed as the Qur'an claims to be an extension of the Bible. There is no evidence that they took military action against the Muslims, but Mohammed attacked them one at a time. The first two, Banu Qaynuqah and Nadir, were forced into exile. The Islamic forces confiscated their homes, lands and rich orchards. The last remaining Jewish tribe in Medina was the Banu Qurayzah. Mohammed’s forces surrounded the Banu Qurayzah. The siege was a success. Upon surrendering all of their weapons they received a sentence which was severe even for those times. The Muslims executed all the Jewish men, somewhere between 600 and 900, and their women and children became the slaves of their Muslim conquerors or were sold. Mohammed was in charge of distributing their riches. Mohammed also took one of their widows, Rayhana, whose husband had just been executed, to be his concubine.

The soldiers of Mecca met the Muslim forces in battles at Badr and Uhud. At the Battle of Uhud in AD 625, Mohammed himself was wounded in the head so severely that a mistaken cry went out that he was dead. The battle was a draw, but for the Muslims to have faced the Meccans and survived was, in a sense, some kind of victory.

Eventually, Muslim forces became strong enough that Mecca agreed to a peace treaty with Mohammed called the treaty of “Al-Hudaybiyah” in March AD 628. It was to have insured peace for ten years. The mistake the Meccans made in the treaty was to allow Mohammed the freedom to attack neighboring tribes who were not protected by the truce. Mohammed also allowed raids to continue on Meccan caravans by groups whom he claimed were not members of his forces. They were allegedly operating beyond Mohammed’s control.

The Treaty was broken only two years after it was ratified. There are differing reasons for how the truce was ended, but the outcome is history. Mohammed claimed that the Al-Hudaybiyah Peace Treaty had been broken by the Meccans. His Islamic forces invaded and conquered Mecca in January AD 630.

Following Mohammed’s death, the Islamic military victories in northern Africa, Europe and the Middle East certainly added to the spread of the religion as did international trade with Asian countries. The Muslim’s use of violence against their enemies, as a part of their religious duty called “jihad” or “holy war,” is still widely practiced around the world into the new millennium for self-defense and to enhance Islamic power and influence. The question Muslims face is how and when jihad should be practiced.

Mohammed’s Success

Mohammed had tremendous wealth and power at the age of sixty. His rise to prominence in Medina and the Muslim’s eventual victory over Mecca brought Mohammed into complete control over an expanding domain. He was revered as the voice of Allah. He controlled the fate and property of those who opposed Islam. Many Jewish and Christian communities were allowed some freedom of worship as long as they paid taxes to Mohammed, submitted to Islamic tyranny and stopped sharing their faith in order to evangelize others.

The respect given to him was so great that even to this day his opinions on rules for conduct, dress, daily habits and even beard style are held as examples to follow around the world. Mohammed’s opinions and the history of his rise to power are recorded in writings called the “hadith”. The Hadith is not one volume but rather a large number of texts compiled several hundred years after the time of Mohammed. The most respected of these is the collection called “Sahih Al-Bukhari.” It details the rules Mohammed gave for daily life, boasts of Mohammed’s exploits and offers the faithful Muslim a guide for daily life.

For one who had to prove himself worthy to marry a wealthy widow, Mohammed now had numerous female relationships. Following the death of Khadijah, Mohammed had approximately sixteen wives plus slave girls who were captured in battle. Upon his death Mohammed had nine wives still living and two slave girls. Two of his more controversial marriages were to Ayisha and Zainab. Ayisha was wed to Mohammed when she was only six years old with the marriage being consummated when she was still playing with toys at the age of nine. At the time, Mohammed was fifty-three years old. Zainab was his adopted son’s ex-wife. Muslim history seems clear that Zainab was divorced because Mohammed desired his son’s bride.

Criticisms of Mohammed’s behavior were often countered by Mohammed’s proclamations of Qur'an verses. In this way, it was as if Allah defended Mohammed’s conduct. Verses were also spoken by Mohammed to instruct his wives and the general public on how they must behave towards him. Muslims believe these commands and all of the verses spoken by Mohammed were collected in the text of the Qur'an.

The Qur'an Becomes a Book

Shortly after Mohammed’s death, his verses remained written on stones, bones, leather, and hidden in the memories of his followers. Years passed and most of those, who claimed to remember all of the Qur'an by heart, were killed in battle. Some of the items on which verses were written were damaged or lost. So with great urgency experts shared what they remembered and gathered the verses recorded by others to produce the first Qur'ans. They were copied and distributed throughout the Islamic communities.

Muslims today are committed to the idea that there was one original Qur'an which was compiled without any mistakes, omissions or additions. Yet, Islamic history shows that perhaps four to seven different versions of the Qur'an emerged. One of Mohammed’s successors, Caliph Uthman, was shocked by this fact. He assigned a committee of three people to construct a standardized version of the Qur'an. Then Muslim leaders tried to burn all other versions of the Qur'an (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 6, p. 479).

The most respected Hadith records that even Uthman’s standardized copy had to be corrected. One of the committee members, Zaid, related how they realized that a verse was missing. They searched and found it with a man named Khuzaima-bin-Thabit al Ansari. Tradition says that the passage which was added to the standardized version is found in chapter thirty-three, verse twenty-three of the modern Qur'an (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 6, p. 479). Even with the addition of that passage, there are less reliable Islamic traditions which report that verses were left out of the Uthman standardized Qur'an. It was reported that Mohammed recited verses for the Qur'an that commanded stoning of adulterers (Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasulullah, p. 684). This teaching is not found in the Qur'an today.

The possibility of missing verses, which command stoning of adulterers, is supported by Islamic practice. From the very foundation of Islam, adulterers have always been stoned, yet Uthman’s standardized Qur'an demands that adulterers be whipped with one hundred lashes (24:2).

The vast majority of Muslims are strongly offended by scholars who suggest that the Qur'an was edited, changed or was in any way different from the original pronouncements of Allah through Mohammed. They believe that the burned Qur'ans had only minor differences and that the standard copy, blessed by Caliph Uthman, was made by devout followers of Mohammed who had memorized the verses with unerring perfection. They would reject the traditions that imply any deficiencies in the Qur'an as unreliable Islamic history. They revere the Qur'an as the perfect word of Allah and resist critical scholarly inquiry into imperfections in the text.

Attributes of the Qur'an

The physical characteristics of the Qur'an are interesting. It is a book that is somewhat shorter than the Christian New Testament. Its chapters were not arranged in the sequence that they were spoken, but by size with most of the largest chapters first and the shortest last. For this reason, it has no chronology of events or ideas. The Koran, published by Penguin Classics, attempts to correct this by rearranging the chapters according to when they might have been recited by Mohammed.

Following the train of thought within a chapter is a challenge. The subject within a chapter and even a verse may change to different topics with no transition. This is why a topical study, like the one in this book, is so important.

When Mohammed spoke the verses, he did not use the first person singular as in “I say that you must believe.” He spoke as if he were relaying a message from Allah, transmitted by an angel, who was supposed to have spoken in the first person plural: “We created the world and we command the people to believe in you (Mohammed) as a prophet,” for example. Muslims do not believe that the use of “we” for Allah is a contradiction of the oneness of Allah.

Mohammed spoke Arabic which is the language of the Qur'an. Even Muslims who do not understand the language are instructed to memorize the Qur'an in Arabic. They do this because they believe that the Qur'an stops being the true Qur'an when it is translated into another language losing the true meaning in the process.

Teachings of the Qur'an

A few themes repeat themselves often in the Qur'an. The foremost are the commands to believe in Allah’s oneness as opposed to idolatry and Mohammed’s validity as a prophet equal to Biblical prophets. In support of these beliefs, the Qur'an repeats the wonders of creation, the foolishness of idol worship, the terrors of Judgment Day and the alleged confirmation from the Bible.

The word “alleged” is used in reference to the Qur'an’s link with the Bible for a good reason. When the Jews and Christians of the time heard the Qur'an’s references to the Bible, they recognized two problems. They found many strange tales being portrayed as Biblical stories. One example is King Solomon communicating with ants and birds. This was one reason Mohammed lacked the support he expected from the other monotheistic faiths. The second was that the theology of the Qur'an contradicted the Bible. The Qur'an claimed to agree with the Gospel of Jesus Christ while denying the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and salvation through the cross and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

To persuade readers to believe and obey the teachings of the Qur'an, several incentives are reiterated in the text. Earthly rewards are extended such as victory in battle and the spoils of war which come from fighting for the cause of Islam. After death, there are promises of sensual pleasures in the Gardens of Paradise contrasted with the many horrors of hell.

There are five basic pillars of Islam which Muslims highlight as being taught by the Qur'an and their sacred history books called the Hadith. They include the confession that Allah is one and Mohammed is a prophet (Kalima), prayer facing Mecca five times each day (Salat), alms giving (Zakat), a month of fasting during the daylight hours practiced annually (Ramadan), and a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a Muslim’s life (Hajj).

source: http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Fisher/Topical/ch01.htm