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Is it possible that Qur’an was inspired by Satan? This is the most illogical and weakest of all the possible alternatives. In fact, a single verse from the Qur’an is enough to destroy this baseless assertion. Qur’an 16:98 declares as follows: When you want to recite the Qur’an, seek God’s protection from Satan the accursed one. How could Satan gives a command that before reading his book you must first of all seek refuge and protection with God against him? Does this make any sense to you? Moreover, how could Satan exposed the idol worshippers in Makah to the idea of believing in one God and all Biblical prophets including Jesus Christ (pbuh) as found in many verses of the Qur’an? For example, we read in the Qur’an as follows: And that was Our proof which We gave to Abraham against his people. We raise whom We will in degrees. Certainly your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing. And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob, each of them We guided. And before him We guided Noah, and among his progeny David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the good doers. And Zachariah, and John and Jesus and Elias, all in the ranks of the righteous. And Ishmael and Elisha, and Jonah and Lot; each one of them We preferred above the nations. And also some of their fathers, and their progeny and their brethren ,We chose them, and We guided them to a straight path. This is the guidance of God with which He guides whomsoever He wills of His servants. But if they had joined in worship others with God, all their deeds would have been of no benefit to them. They are whom We gave the book, and authority and prophet hood…They are those whom God had guided. So follow their guidance(Qur’an 6:84-90) Do you think God of truth and wisdom would allow Satan or any deliberate liar to impersonate Him and then also allow such impersonator to praise all the Biblical prophets in the way the author of Qur’an has done? If God Almighty could allow the Satan or any other deliberate liar to impersonate Him in this way and also allow such word of impersonator to be protected from destruction since 1400 years ago till today, then on what basis could any rational person distinguish such fake words from true word of God? God may allow anybody to write or speak about Him as you may also allow your friend to write or speak about you. But if you as a truthful man would never allow your friend- talk less of your enemy- to impersonate you in order to deceive some innocent people, then why do you think the God of truth would allow Satan or any deliberate liar to impersonate Him especially when God declare as follows; For my sake, even for my sake, I will do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another (Isaiah 48:11). This is exactly the reason why God would never allow such impersonator to survive for a year as in case of Hananiah, the false prophet (Jeremiah 28:1-17) talk less of allowing such a so-called liar to survive for 23 years and his so- called fake words to survive since 1400 years ago till today. |
This God is the creator who created mankind with their ability
to read and write. Therefore, it is not against reason that God must have
communicated with different set of people in many of the heavenly books He
has revealed in the past through His holy prophets. The last book in these
series of revelation was Holy Qur’an. But how are we completely sure that
Quran was truly revealed by God? This is a logical question that demands
logical answer. We can get to the root of answer to this logical question
by analyzing, one after the other, the different views hold by the non
Muslims concerning the origin of the book. Some people believe that the
book was fabricated by Muhammad (pbuh). Some people assert that he was
taught by one or more secret human teacher(s). Again, some people believe
that he was crazy. Yet some people went to an extent of saying that the
book was inspired by Satan. These are the four possible alternatives that
people can evoke to explain the origin of the Qur’an if they insist that
the book was not revealed by Almighty God. In fact, all alternatives has
been exhausted. Now, let us analyze these possible alternatives one by one.
Is it possible that Qur’an was deliberately fabricated by Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh)? It is a well known fact that he can neither read nor write. Qur’an
29:48 says; “Neither did you (O Muhammad) read any book before this Qur’an,
nor did you write any book with your right hand. In that case, indeed, the
followers of falsehood might have doubted.” If he could read and write, how
could he have called himself illiterate in the Quran especially in the
presence of his people who knew him very much? Would you lie to your people
about the matter you know they are well acquainted with? Now given that he
was truly an illiterate, then how could he have fabricated many verses and
plagiarized the Bible and then come up with such an eloquent book like Holy
Qur’an? Before he could come out with any fabricated or plagiarized verses
of the Bible or chapter and recite it to the hearing of his companion
directly from memory, he must have written down the verses, memorized them
and rehearsed the recitation many times in private. Yet all these
activities would be very difficult, if not impossible, for an illiterate
person. We have never heard it in history that an illiterate person
authored a book. Again, there are some occasions that Qur’an rebukes the
prophet on certain issues. Once, the prophet was deeply engaged in trying
to explain Islam to one pagan leader. He was hopeful that he would accept
Islam. But, suddenly, the prophet was interrupted by a blind man who wanted
to learn the Qur’an from him. The prophet did not like that interruption
and this was seen on his face. He turned away from this blind man and
continued his act of preaching to this pagan leader. After a little moment,
the prophet received the revelation of some verses which admonished and
corrected him for this action of neglecting the blind man. These verses are
as follows: He (the prophet) frowned and turned away. Because there came to
him the blind man. And what would make you know that he (the pagan leader)
would purify himself or become reminded so that the reminder should profit
him? As for him ( the pagan leader) who consider himself self sufficient,
to him you give attention. And no blame is on you if he(pagan leader) would
not purify himself. But as for he (the blind man) who came to you striving
(for knowledge) while he fears Allah, from him you turned away (Qur’an
80:1-10). If the Qur’an was fabricated by the prophet Muhammad (pbuh), such
a reproachful speech against him would not be found in the Qur’an.
Furthermore, there was a certain instance when the prophet was rushing in
his attempt to grasp the revelation. He was in haste and he did not allow
the Angel Gabriel to finish before he would start his own recitation.
Therefore, God commanded him as follows; Move not your tongue concerning
the Qur’an to make haste therewith. It is for Us (God) to gather the Qur’an
in your chest and to give you the ability to recite it. Therefore when We
have recited it to you, follow its recitation. Then it is for Us (God) to
make the Qur’an clear to you (Qur’an 75:16-19). In another place, God says; And
be not in haste with the Quran before its revelation is completed to you (O
Muhammad pbuh) and say: My Lord increase me in knowledge (Qur’an 20:114). If
the Holy Qur’an was fabricated by the prophet, all these kind of verses-
commanding him not be in haste but to listen carefully and also giving him
confidence over the ability to recite the Qur’an- would not be found on the
pages of the Qur’an. Moreover, there is one thing peculiar to a liar who
deliberately lied against God for gaining a particular worldly benefit.
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. The author of Quran clearly makes
reference to this very concept we are discussing which shows that the
author was well familiar with this concept. 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 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(
i:e a false prophet) to whom the evil of his work is made fair- seeming and
beautified, and like those that follow their own lusts (Qur’an 47:14). Another
reference for such concept is found in Quran 35:8 where God Almighty says:
Is he ( i.e a false prophet), 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)? Finally, every rational thinker will agree with me that a
deliberate liar against God must have little or no faith in the existence
of God. A person who is not mad but seriously resolved within his mind to
deliberately lie against God in order to achieve some worldly gains must be
totally or partially convinced that God does not exist. But contrary to the
expectation of the Non-Muslims, the author of Holy Qur’an argue strongly in
many verses for the existence of one true God in a very logical and
convincing manner by making a lot of references to natural signs in the
universe which truly point to the existence of God. Examples of such verses
are as follows: Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those
who believe. And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that animals
are scattered through the earth, are Signs for people who have faith with
certainty. And in the alternation of Night and Day, and the fact that God
sends down Sustenance (i:e rain) from the sky, and revives therewith the
earth after its death, and in the turning about of the Winds are Signs for
those that are wise. Such are the Signs of God which We recite to you( O
Muhammad-pbuh) in truth. Then in what exposition will they believe after
rejecting God and His Signs?(Qur’an 45:3-6). And among His signs is this
that He created you from dust and behold you are human beings scattered far
and wide. And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from
among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between
you affection and mercy. Verily in that are indeed Signs for those who
think deeply. And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the
earth, and the variations in your languages and your colors: verily in that
are indeed Signs for men of sound knowledge. And among His Signs is the
sleep that you take by night and by day, and your seeking of His bounty:
verily in that are Signs for those who hearken. And among His Signs is that
He shows you the lightning, by way of fear and hope, and He send down water
from the sky, and therewith revives the earth after its death. Verily, in
that are indeed Signs for those who are wise (Qur’an 30:20-24). Have they
not looked at the heaven above them, how We have made it and beautify it,
and there no flaws in it. And the earth We spread it out, and We set
thereon mountains and We have made to grow therein every kind of beautiful
plants. To be an insight and reminder to every servant who turns frequently
to God (Qur’an 50:6- . In fact, time and space would not permit me to
quote more verses. Please read those verses again. You will agree with me
that the author of Qur’an who explained the signs for the existence of God
in such a logical and convincing manner can never be the same person who
would deliberately and boldly lie against the same God. The natural signs
that the author put forward for the existence of God must have prevented
him from deliberately and boldly impersonating such God. Even if the author
was seriously in doubt about the existence of God, then he would never have
that confidence and audacity to put his life and soul in danger as the
following verse underlined below would implied if we assumed that the
author was impersonating God; Verily, they were about to tempt you away
from that which We(God) have revealed to you (O Muhammad -pbuh),to
fabricate something other than it against Us(God), then they would
certainly have taken you an intimate friend! And had We (God) not made you
stand firm, you would nearly have inclined to them a little .In that case
We (God) would have made you taste a double portion of punishment in this
life and double portion of punishment after death. And then you would have
found none to help you against Us (God)(Qur’an 17:73-75). Before any one,
who is not mad, can be boldly and deliberately put his life and soul in
danger by challenging and impersonating God in this way, he must have been
completely and totally sure in his mind that God does not exist. Yet
anyone, who is not an omniscient, cannot be completely and totally sure
that God does not exist: let alone the author of Holy Qur’an who argue
strongly for the existence of God in a very logical and convincing manner
by calling our attention to many natural signs in the universe which
actually point to God’s existence. Now, is it possible for the same author
to be totally and completely sure that God does not exist to the extent of
having that confidence and audacity to ask God Almighty to punish him twice
both in this worldly life and in the life after death? Certainly not! No
matter how little it may be, the author must exercise some kind of doubts
in his belief that God does not exist. Even if the author was bold enough
to ask God to punish him twice in this world, the author can never have
that audacity to ask God to punish him again in the life after death. In
fact, this point alone, if properly understood; prove two things at the
same time. It proves that God must exist and that Qur’an must be God’s
word; this is the only way we can resolve the apparent contradiction
inherent in a concept of an author who argue logically and convincingly for
the existence of one true God but at the same time deliberately and
fearlessly impersonate the same God to the extent of asking God to punish
him twice both in this world and in the hereafter. All these points cited
above are enough to prove that the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) can never be the
author of Holy Qur’an or a deliberate liar against God.
Again, is it possible for the prophet to have a secret human teacher who
assisted him to fabricate the Holy Qur’an since he could neither read nor
write? But how can that teacher be kept in secret for good 23 years and
remain hidden from his immediate family and companions who believed in him
as true prophet of God? Besides, all the points raise above to disprove the
plausibility of the first alternative can also be leveled against this
second alternative because both presumed that the author of Holy Qur’an was
an impersonator and deliberate liar against God.
Furthermore, is it possible that prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was crazy to the
extent that such craziness made him to be a pathological liar against God?
Before that craziness would be manifest to the extent of causing him to
impersonate God and boldly lying against Him, it must have been detected
and reported by his immediate family, and there would be no way to believe
him as true prophet of God. Even if we assume that his immediate family
managed to hide the secret from the public, there is no way for such
craziness to escape the notice of the companions of the prophet who always
stayed with him and believed in him as a true prophet of God to the extent
of dying as a martyr in the battle field. Besides, how can a crazy author
come up with such a clear and meaningful book like Qur’an? |
Atheists are fond of mocking and laughing at the ordinary people for the
belief they exercise in the existence of God. They proclaim that there is
no any sufficient and concluding evidence for believing in any supernatural
creator. They also assert that the major reason why many people believe in
God is fear and the gaps that exist in our scientific knowledge. But before
citing any evidence at all for the existence of God, there is one thing I
wanted to point out. There is no any rational person living on earth except
that he or she must believe in something that supersedes his or her
knowledge. This is totally unavoidable. It is only an ignorant atheist
would say "I don't believe in anything" pertaining to the existence of
living and non living things found in our universe. There is no way; you
must believe in something. Especially, you must have a particular frame of
mind on how ‘you’ as a rational person and all other living things
surrounding you came into existence. We can see that all living things
including human being reproduce and give birth to their younger ones. We
have never come across a situation whereby a dog would give birth to a goat
or vice versa. Every living species reproduces after their own kinds. This
process of reproducing one another could not have been in existence for
eternity. In other word, there must be a particular time when the first
generation of every living species came to appear on the earth. If the
number of past generations of each living species is infinite; without
having a beginning, then there is no way we can have the present
generations being exist on earth because the "past" must have come to an
end before the "present" can be in existence. Therefore, there are actual
and specific times when the first generations of every living species
appeared on the earth. But, given that the first generations of every
living species gave birth to subsequent generations, where did the first
generations for each living species come from? There are only four options
for the answer to this question. The first option is when we assume that
the first generations for each living species on earth just pop into
existence spontaneously from nothing. The second option is when we assume
that the first generation of each living species suddenly evolved from
completely different preexisting species. The third option is when we
assume that the first generation of each living species gradually evolved
from preexisting species at a rate too slow to be perceived by our senses.
This third option is known as Darwinian evolution. The last option is when
we assume that the first generations of each living species on earth were
specially created by one supernatural being in the time past. It is obvious
that the first option can never be the answer because we have never
observed any plant or animal popping into existence spontaneously from
nothing. Again, we have never observed an event where one living species
suddenly give birth to a completely different species. Therefore, after
eliminating the first two options, we are left with the third and the last
option. Consequently, any serious and devoted atheist who disbelieve in
supernatural creation must compulsorily believe in Darwinian evolution.
However, if this gradual evolution of one species into another is true,
there must be a first living species at the beginning, probably the first
living cell, before the entire evolutionary process can be started. But
what could have been the origin of such mysterious living cell that would
later give rise to all other living species on earth including human being
as believed by the atheists and the evolutionists. It is either this
mysterious living cell suddenly popped into existence with all its parts
known as cell organelles in their complete form in the midst of non living
entities or this mysterious living cell evolved gradually from these non
living entities. But the first alternative looks magical and it has never
been observed or reported. Yet the second alternative is impossible due to
natural law of entropy which tends to cause the decay and disintegration of
complex substances into more simpler substances. When a living cell become
dead, it would undergo decay and quickly disintegrate into lifeless
particles. Hence, the natural law which causes the irreversible decay and
disintegration of the dead cells into lifeless particles can never be the
same law that would gradually build the first functional and
self-replicating living cell from such lifeless particles in the first
instance. In other word, a partially evolved cell cannot just wait to
become a complete living cell in a gradual manner. This is because a
partially evolved cell is dead already since one part of a living cell
cannot just live and survive without the other parts being put in place.
Therefore, the natural law which causes the decay and disintegration of the
normal dead cell into lifeless particles must also have caused similar
decay and disintegration of the partially evolved cell into lifeless
particles since there is no any difference between the two: both are dead
cells. Therefore, the first mysterious living cell required to start the
entire process of evolution could not have gradually and naturally emerged
from nonliving things. In fact, according to Wikipedia: "no one has yet
synthesized a proto cell using basic components which would have the
necessary properties of life". Now, if an intelligent and conscious human
being cannot even create a functional living cell in the most well equipped
laboratory, then how could non-intelligent and unconscious nature have
created such a mysterious cell in the most badly equipped laboratory 3.5
billion years ago? See how the theory of Darwinian evolution, the only
backbone for atheism, collapse right from its foundation! Even if
scientists were able to create a living cell in the distant future in the
laboratory, this will only support the thesis that intelligence and
consciousness is required for the creation of life. It would never support
the theory of unguided Darwinian evolution. Again, see how the hope of the
atheists would continue to be shattered even till end of time! But instead
of busy with the thinking over the emergence of the first mysterious cell
that would even start the evolutionary process and then make the entire
theory to be worthy of consideration, our evolutionary biologists now set
this foundational problem aside and call it a mystery . They now move on to
proclaim how this mysterious cell change gradually, gradually and gradually
for billions of years to become great and wonderful human being who would
later become professors, philosophers, scientists and mathematicians. They
are completely ignorant on how this mysterious living cell would evolve
from non-living things. They are completely ignorant on how this mysterious
cell would later transform itself into first functional male and female.
Yet they are completely sure that human being consisting of male and female
evolved ultimately from this mysterious cell. See the beautiful mansion our
evolutionary scientists erected on a very weak foundation. Since offspring
always resemble their parents, there must be some kind of specific
information (known as DNA) guiding the development of a fertilized egg to
form an offspring of a particular species. This is the reason why offspring
of one species is quite different from the offspring of another species.
Therefore, if one species actually evolve into another species as proclaim
by the evolutionists, then a drastic change must have taken place in the
DNA of the preceding species. But what factor or mechanism can bring about
a change in the information carried by the DNA? Since the atheists and
evolutionists have ruled out the possible existence of any external
intelligence outside the natural world, the only feasible mechanism they
can lay their hands on is genetic mutation- a random error generated during
DNA replication. According to the evolutionists, when these random errors
accumulated enough, then new genetic information can be created from the
old ones. In this way, new species with new DNA can be evolved from the
preexisting species. Therefore, the entire story of human evolution as
believed by the evolutionists can be summarized as follows; human being,
the most intelligent creature on the earth, appeared on the scene as a
result of random errors (genetic mutations) accumulated gradually over
billions of years in the DNA of one mysterious cell. All these wonderful
and amazing features - 1.the ability to see 2.the ability to hear 3.the
ability to know about yourself and other things 4.the ability to talk and
communicate with languages 5.the ability to think logically and formulate a
rational argument 6.the ability to move controllably and voluntarily 7.the
ability to experience emotional feelings like love, happiness and sorrow,
8.the ability to learn, teach and search for knowledge 9.the ability to
make scientific research and use this scientific discovery to design and
construct extra ordinary technologies like robots, space rocket and
computer 10.the ability to establish civilization like education, marriage,
religion, sports, politics and entertainments- possessed by human being
just evolved as a result of accumulated random errors generated during DNA
replication. See what the evolutionists and the atheists must believe and
accepted wholeheartedly. They must believed that; nature is blind, yet as a
result of this random error, a creature that can see evolved from the same
very nature; nature is deaf, yet as a result of this random error, a
creature that can hear evolved from the same very nature; nature is dumb,
yet due to this random error, a creature that can talk and speak different
languages evolved from the same very nature; nature is not a knowledgeable
entity, yet as a result of this random error, a creature that can know and
search for knowledge evolved from the same very nature; nature is not
intelligent, yet due to this random error, an intelligent creature evolved
from the same very nature; nature is not self-aware, yet as a result of
this random error, a creature with full self-awareness evolved from the
same very nature; nature cannot think, yet as a result of this random
error, a creature that can think logically and formulate a rational
argument evolved from the same very nature; nature cannot propound any
theory, yet due to this random error, a creature that can propound a theory
like theory of evolution evolved from the same very nature. See what the
atheists must embrace without any iota of doubt- A chain of amazing and
wonderful features which are nowhere be found in any part of the nature
were later evolved from the same very nature as a result of accumulated
random errors - an illogical and contradictory belief. Yet the same people
will be blaming and laughing at the religious people for believing in God.
Which one is more reasonable and logical: to believe that those amazing and
wonderful features possessed by human being were deliberately created by
God or to believe that these features just evolved due to random errors
accumulated over billions of years in the DNA of one hypothetical
mysterious cell- a cell that unintelligent and unconscious nature was able
to create 3.5 billion years ago but which the same nature is unable to
create now even with the assistance of the most intelligent, knowledgeable
and fully conscious scientists. The most important fact overlook by
evolutionary biologists is that the natural law of entropy which causes the
decay and disintegration of the complex dead cell into simple lifeless
particles must also have caused similar decay and disintegration of the
partially evolved cell into lifeless particles since there is no any
difference between the two: both are dead cells. Therefore, the first
mysterious living cell required to start the entire process of evolution
could not have gradually and naturally emerged from nonliving things. This
is how the theory of evolution collapses right from its foundation. At this
juncture, it must have been clear to any serious seeker of truth that the
only reasonable option left to account for our existence on earth and all
other living things is supernatural creation. The only candidate capable of
performing this miracle of supernatural creation is God. Therefore, God
must exist |
What is written in Surah 6:115 is "NONE CAN CHANGE HIS WORD (La
mubaddilalikalimatihi)" not "NOTHING SHALL ABROGATE HIS WORD". Please don't
ever think that Quran is like Bible whose the original language is not
within the reach of the general Christians. As Muslims we possessed the
Quran written in its original language. Nobody is free to translate
anything according to his taste. Therefore, there is no any contradiction
between Surah 6:115 and Surah 2:106. The former is talking about the
protection of Quran from corruption in the hands of the false scribe and
the latter is talking about substituting some divine temporary commands
revealed for specific situations and purposes with newer ones. This is
known as abrogation in Islamic law. The laws governing the mankind changes
according to the needs of the society but the concept of oneness of God
remain the same. This concept of abrogating one specific law for another is
not only found in the Quran. It is also present in the Bible. Some few
examples are as follows: Abraham married his half sister (Genesis
20:11-12). Later, such kind of marriage was abrogated and the one who
practices it is cursed( Deuteronomy 27:22). Again, People were allowed to
practice divorce and divorcee was allowed to marry another person
(Deuteronomy 24:1-2). But this ruling was later abrogated by Matthew 19:9.
Similarly,in Leviticus 20:21, a man cannot marry his brother' s wife.But
this ruling was later abrogated by Deuteronomy 25:5 which permits the
brother of the deceased husband to marry his widow. Furthermore, pork meat
is clearly forbidden as unclean in Leviticus 11:7-8 but according to the
New testament writers, Jesus abrogated this verse when he said:"Don't you
see that NOTHING that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean?
For it does not go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his
body" In saying this, Jesus declared all foods and meats clean. Finally,
Jesus and his disciples were not allowed to preach to the Gentiles (
Matthew 15:24, Matthew 10:5-6) but according to the NT writers, these
verses were later abrogated by Matthew 28:19, where disciples were
commanded to preach to all the nations. Now if Christians insist and
proclaim that Quran could not have been the word of God because it contains
some abrogated verses, then can they level similar allegation to their own
Bible since it also contains some abrogated verses? To proclaim that Quran
is not word of God create more problems than it solves. The reason is that
unlike Bible, Qur'an speaks in the name of God. That is, the divine
formular "BISMILLAHI AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHIM" translated as "IN THE NAME OF GOD,
THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE MOST MERCIFUL" is inserted at the beginning of its
chapters. Yet Deuteronomy 18:20 declare as follows; "But the prophet which
shall presume to speak a word IN MY NAME which I have not commanded him to
speak or that shall speak in the NAME of other gods, even THAT PROPHET
SHALL DIE" See how God still remember to put " In the name of other gods"
in case we have some people who Will insist that "Allah" is not a
corresponding name for "God" in Arabic language. Obviously, this verse
established that any false prophet who speak falsely in the name of God
would meet his untimely death. But since it is a well-known fact that
Muhammad(pbuh) spent additional 23 years after his claim as a prophet of
God, majority of the Christian scholars now insist that the phrase " THAT
PROPHET SHALL DIE" at the end of the verse cited above means "spiritual
death" and not "untimely physical death". However, to prove that Christian
scholars were wrong in their subjective interpretation, God Almighty allow
the practical implication of this very verse to be realized in the life of
Hananiah, the false prophet. Hananiah was a false prophet who prophesied
fasely in the name of God during the time of prophet Jeremiah; "Then the
prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, listen Hananiah! The LORD
HAS NOT SENT YOU, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies.
Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I am about to remove you from the
face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have
preached rebellion against the LORD. IN THE SEVENTH MONTH OF THAT SAME
YEAR, HANANIAH THE PROPHET DIED (Jeremiah 28:15-17). You can see that
Hananiah the false prophet met his untimely physical death just as God
foretold in Deuteronomy 18:20. The most amazing fact is that the same acid
test was put forward by God in the Qur'an to establish the true prophethood
of Muhammad (pbuh). In the Quran, God says: " This is a revelation sent
down from the Lord of the worlds. And if he( Muhammad pbuh) had forged a
false saying in OUR NAME, WE SURELY should have seized him by his right
hand. And then CERTAINLY should have CUT OFF his life artery (Surah
69:43-44). But despite all these challenging verses and many battles he
fought with the idol worshippers in Mecca which would have been a very
great opportunity for God to CUT OFF his life artery using the sword in the
hand of his enemy, yet prophet Muhammad's life was still spared by God for
good 23 years. But Hananiah the false prophet was not even allowed to live
for a year before God removed him from the face of the earth. After all
these analyses, to proclaim that Quran is not the word of God is NOT ONLY A
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE MAJESTY OF GOD BUT ALSO AN INSULT TO THE PRECIOUS
INTELLIGENCE OF MAN!!! |
Christians believe that EVERY WORD of the Bible is divine word of God:
yet Paul wrote extensively and gave judgments on the issue of marriage and
divorce without being inspired by God- " But to the rest, I PAUL, NOT THE
LORD, say :If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is
willing to live with him, let him not divorce her...... Now concerning
virgins, I HAVE NO COMMANDMENT FROM THE LORD, yet I give judgment as one
whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy.(1st Corinthians7:12-25) You
see here how Paul is saying that he is using his best personal
judgement,and that what is saying is not directly from God. Why would God
“inspire” Paul to say that his words were NOT from God? Have you now seen
that Bible is a mixture of word of God and word of men? It is not stated in
any verse that EVERY WORD of the Bible is word of God. In fact, the author
of the book of Luke wrote as follows : “IT SEEMED GOOD TO ME also, having
had perfect understanding of all things from the beginning, to write to you
an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus (Luke 1:3)”. We can see that
Luke wrote his Gospel not to general humanity but to one specific
influential person he addressed as "most excellent Theophilus" and also not
because he was inspired by God but because he perceived it as a good idea
to write such an account due to his thought of having a sound knowledge on
the matter. The only verse often used by Christians to prove that every
word of the Bible is word of God is word of Paul in 2nd Timothy 3:16 which
says “All scripture is given by inspiration of God”. But how can we believe
that the term “All scripture” used by Paul refers to the entire Bible
especially when the author of this very verse confessed that he wrote some
things which were not actually inspired by God? Besides, at the time this
verse was written by Paul, most of the New Testament books were yet to be
penned down talk less of putting them together; therefore there is no any
reason to believe that Paul has the other books of New Testament in mind
when he was writing; “All scripture is given by inspiration of God”. However,
the most important fact is that how are we even completely sure that this
very verse itself (2nd Timothy3:16) written by Paul was truly inspired by
God? Although this very verse may serve as evidential support for divine
origin of other verses in the New Testament, but it also require its own
external evidential support for its own divine origin, and there is
absolutely no way we can determine this because the same principle also
applies to any other verses in the Bible which may serve as external
evidential support for 2nd Timothy 3:16. The only way out from this
“principle of external evidential support” is when there are verses
containing direct verbal evidence from God that would unite all the books
in the Bible together as Bible ( i:e the word “Bible” must be found inside
the Bible) and then also declare that the entire Bible has indeed
originated from God. In other word, there is need for a verse like “ The
entire Bible was inspired by Me, the creator of the Heavens and the Earth” or
“something similar in meaning” to be written inside the Bible before we can
be completely sure that it has actually been inspired or authored by God.
Unliked 2nd Timothy 3:16 cited above, such a verse in which God would speak
directly to us in FIRST PERSON (using “I” or “Me” or “We” or Us ) does not
require any external evidential support for its divine origin since it is
self-supported and self-independent because the God of truth and morality
would never allow a deliberate liar to continue to speak in His name or to
impersonate Him for a long period of time (Deuteronomy 18:20, Jeremiah
28:1-17,Psalm 101:7). Without having such a “verse described above” being
written inside the Bible, there is no way we can be 100% sure that the entire
Bible was inspired by God. Amazingly, Qur’an contains many of such verses.
For example, Quran made mention of itself seventy times e.g. Quran 20:2-3
says “We (God) have not sent down Quran to you to cause you distress. But
only as a reminder to those fear God.”. Quran also declare its divine
origin using direct verbal evidence from God: “This is a revelation from
the Lord of the universe. And if he (Muhammad pbuh) had fabricated against
Us (God) some of the sayings, We (God) would certainly have seized him by
the right hand. Then We (God) would certainly have cut off his life
artery(Quran 69:43-46). Despite all these verses being present in the
Quran, prophet Muhammad’s life was still spared by God for good twenty
three years after his claim as being the mouthpiece for God ; Yet Hananiah
the false prophet, in the book of Jeremiah 28: 1-17, who spoke falsely in
the name of God , was not even allowed to live for a year before God
removed him from the face of the Earth. This is an acid test for anyone who
wants to verify whether Muhammad (pbuh) was a true prophet of God or not. |
Christians believe that divine forgiveness and remission of sins can
ONLY be obtained by shedding of blood (Hebrews 9:22): yet in 2nd Chronicles
7:14, God Almighty says “If My people, who are called by My name will
humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will FORGIVE THEIR SINS and will
heal their land.”. Again in Isaiah 55:7, God Almighty declares; let the
wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thought. Let them turn
to the LORD; He will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will FREELY
PARDON. Furthermore, in Ezekiel 33: 10-16, God says; “Son of man, say to
the Israelites; This is what you are saying: our offenses and sins weigh us
down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live? Say to
them: As surely as I live declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure
in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and
live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?
Therefore, son of man say to your people,… if someone one who is wicked
REPENTS, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation… And
if I say to the wicked person, you will surely die, but they then turn from
their sins and do what is just and right…follow the decree that gives life,
and do no evil--that person will surely live: they will not die. NONE OF
THE SINS that person has committed will be remembered against them. They
have done what is just and right; they will surely live”. You can see that
God did not ask the wicked sinners to shed any blood before their sins can
be forgiven in all these verses. What He actually wants from them is sincere
repentance from their sinful ways. You may be confused with this question;
if forgiveness of sins can still be obtained through prayer and repentance
without the need to shed any blood as stated clearly in these Biblical
verses, then why did God command the people of the old Testament to be
shedding animal blood for atonement of sins in the first instance?
Basically, the shedding of animal blood for sacrifice does not involve the
condemnation of any innocent and righteous soul because shedding of animal
blood for the purpose of eating their meat or using their skin has already
been made lawful for human being. Therefore, there is nothing wrong if God
decided again to incorporate the shedding of animal blood into the scheme
of sin atonement; moral aspect of divine law is not violated in any way. But
shedding of Jesus blood for sacrifice and putting him under the curse of
God on the cross of Calvary (Galatians 3:13) involve physical and spiritual
condemnation of innocent and righteous soul. This physical and spiritual
condemnation of an innocent and righteous soul is a very great violation of
moral aspect of divine law. |
Christians believe that it is only the sacrificial blood of Jesus that
can take away our sins i:e it is impossible for the blood of bulls and
goats to take away sins(Hebrews 10:4): yet Leviticus 16:21-30 says " the
GOAT will carry on itself all the sins of Israelites to a remote place and
the man shall release the goat in the wilderness...Then before the LORD,
you will be clean from all your sins". But Christian scholars usually
proclaim that animal sacrifices could only “cover” sins; they could not
take them away; but when Jesus shed his own blood, then the sins were taken
away. But there is no any indication whatsoever in the verse quoted above
that the sins of Israelites were only covered and not completely taken
away. God says : “Then before the LORD, you will be CLEAN FROM ALL YOUR
SINS”. To insist and proclaim that there is a difference between “take away
of sins” and “clean from all sins” is only an attempt to resolve an obvious
and irreconcilable contradiction between Hebrews 10:4 and Leviticus
16:21-30. The only way to resolve this contradiction is when the term “take
away of sins” in Hebrews 10:4 implies complete removal of humanity sinful
nature; and NOT achieving divine forgiveness for already committed sins.
However, complete removal of humanity sinful nature by blood of Jesus is
impossible as nobody can be completely free from committing minor sins; “If
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us ( 1 John 1: ”. Besides, if removal of humanity sinful nature is
compulsorily required for salvation and the ONLY WAY to achieve this is by
shedding of Jesus’ blood on the cross, then how did old Testament saints
like Abraham, Moses, Ezekiel, Joshua, Jeremiah etc and their sincere
followers managed to have eternal life? The blood of Jesus can never remove
their sinful nature because these people have already lived and died before
the alleged crucifixion. Again, their already committed sins have been
forgiven through animal sacrifices in the book of Leviticus when God
Almighty declare as follows; THEN BEFORE THE LORD, YOU WILL BE CLEAN FROM
ALL YOUR SINS (Leviticus 16:30). There is no any indication in this very
verse that their sins is only temporarily erased and then would permanently
taken away by blood of Jesus. Therefore, if some set of people among the
children of Adam, who live and die before Jesus arrival, can attain
salvation, righteousness and reconciliation back to God, then is there need
again for just and merciful God to condemn an innocent soul on the cross
before another set of people among the children of the same Adam can attain
similar triumph? |
Christians believe that omnipotent God of love and mercy must curse and condemn His only beloved and innocent son on the cross of Calvary before they can secure eternal life: yet condemnation of righteous and innocent person is strictly forbidden in the Bible ( Matthew 12:7,proverb17:15,exodus23:7,psalm34:22). The doctrine of an only beloved and innocent son who was under the curse (Galatians 3:13) and condemnation of His own merciful Father is self-contradictory and repugnant to human mind. Before the advent of Christianity, nobody would believe that such a doctrine can even exist. It is totally foreign to our logical reasoning for God of love, mercy and justice to curse and condemn an innocent person, let alone His beloved and innocent Messiah, for any reason whatsoever. This is the reason why the message of atonement through Christ crucifixion was a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the gentiles during the lifetime of Jesus’ apostles (1st Corinthians 1:23). But Paul, being very cunning, quickly fabricated some verses to solve this problem of logical contradiction inherent in this very doctrine. One of these verses is as follows: “For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength (1 Corinthians 1:25)”. He also wrote: “The natural man does not receive the things of the spirit, for they are foolishness to him; he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned (1st Corinthians 2:14)” This is the reason why many Christians see no logical problem again with the idea of “an innocent and beloved son who was under the curse and condemnation of his own merciful Father”. But why would God of reason and rationality(Isaiah 1:18 KJV ) ask a natural man to believe in a true spiritual doctrine that is completely foolish to his logical reasoning especially when that reasoning is the ONLY instrument at his disposal to recognize that true spirituality in the midst of many fake spiritualities ? If there is only one spirituality in the entire world of human being, then Paul may be right in his claim. But there are many spiritualities like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism etc. Since each of these spiritualities is claiming to be on the right path, it is now left for any natural man to use the only instrument (his logical reasoning) bestowed upon him from God to recognize the true spirituality in the midst of many fake spiritualities. This is the reason why God must design a true spirituality in such a way that all of its fundamental doctrine does not contradict the logical reasoning He bestowed upon any natural man.How could true spirituality designed by God and human logical reasoning originated from the same God be in conflict with each other? Have you now agreed that Paul is wrong by asserting that true spirituality from God is like foolishness to any natural man? To see further that Paul is wrong in his claim; suppose you are invited by a friend to accept a faith that is very rich in spirituality. But among the fundamental doctrine you must embrace without question is that you have to believe that God can sometimes commit an act of lying if a greater purpose calls for it (May He be Exalted). 1. Would you just accept such faith because of its spiritual richness or reject it because of its foolishness to your logical reasoning? 2. Would you not ask about the actual connection that exist between that “greater purpose" and "the act of lying" that must be committed by God before the purpose can be achieved? 3. Would you not ask why All-knowing and Omnipotent God decided to give preference for such irrational way of lying to achieve a greater purpose over many rational ways He can design and create from His infinite knowledge and His unlimited power to achieve that greater purpose? 4. Would you just accept that the way of such a lying God is higher and complex than your own way of doing things? Now, ponder over these four questions cited above and then tell me the difference between this imaginary faith which proclaim that God can sometimes commit an act of lying to achieve a particular greater purpose and the Christian faith which also proclaim that God can sometimes curse and condemn an innocent and righteous soul in order to achieve a particular greater purpose- like solving the problem of sin with humanity. The four questions asked above are also applicable to this Christian doctrine because the two faiths involve creating negative and bad impression about God in the minds of the people. It is now clear that even if there are some spiritual benefits in the inner rooms of a true faith, there is still need for the logical reasoning to take us to the main door of those inner rooms at first encounter. But as we have pointed above, the doctrine of ‘a merciful, omnipotent and All- knowing God who cursed and condemned his only beloved and innocent son on the cross of Calvary for a certain greater purpose’ is totally foreign and contradictory to our logical reasoning; yet this is one of the fundamental doctrine you must embrace wholeheartedly for you to become a serious and devoted Christian. Therefore, there is need for God to send another prophet to remove this negative and bad picture of God from the minds of the general humanity. This is one of the many reasons why Holy Quran was revealed to prophet Muhammad (pbuh). In the Holy Quran, God removed this bad impression from the minds of the people by declaring that, in a miraculous way, Jesus escaped death on the cross (Quran 4:157-158). This is exactly in line with the prayer of Jesus to God in the garden of Gethsemane when he asked for the cup of suffering and death to be taken away from him in three consecutive times as stated clearly in Matthew 26:36-44. |
Christians believe that “the great light from heaven” that appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus after Jesus has ascended to heaven (Acts 22:6- was true Jesus Christ :yet Jesus said “if anyone says here isChrist or there, DO NOT BELIEVE IT (Matthew 24:23)”. Jesus also told the original apostles; “I saw Satan falling like LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN (Luke10:18)”. If true Jesus Christ would later appear to Paul in form of “a great light falling from heaven”, he would have foretold this event to the original apostles before he ascended to heaven; instead of telling them not to believe in any one that came in the name of Christ and also informing them that he saw Satan falling from heaven in form of a great light. Despite the fact that circumcision is an everlasting covenant of God for the Israelites (Genesis 17:9-14) and Jesus himself was also circumcised (Luke 2:21); yet Paul went ahead to write as follows: “Indeed, I Paul say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to EVERY MAN who become circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. You have become estranged (i.e. cut off ) from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace(Galatians 5:2-4)”. The term “EVERY MAN” used by Paul in the verse quoted above is indisputable evidence that he condemned the act of circumcision for both Jews and Gentiles. If this is not the case, then the Jewish believers in the Jerusalem would not bound themselves with oath that they will never eat nor drink until they kill Paul(Acts 23:12-14). In fact, this single fact alone that Paul condemn the act of circumcision, an EVERLASTING covenant of God, is enough to prove that “the great light from heaven” that appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus was a false Christ as already foretold by Jesus Christ during his earthly ministry. Paul was also caught lying red handed; he was accused of teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to forsake circumcision and the law of Moses (Acts 21:18-31). But instead of proving the accusation to be true or false when the King Agrippa asked him about that accusation, Paul now claimed that he was being accused for the hope of the promise made by God i.e. the resurrection of the dead (Acts 26:1- and for the fact that he advised people to repent and turn to God (Acts26:19-21). There is nothing like ‘circumcision and the law of Moses’ in the answers presented by Paul to the King. In fact, Paul himself admitted to be a liar when he said: “For if the truth of God has increased through MY LIE to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?(Romans 3:7)”. Yet the same Paul wrote almost half of the books found in the New Testament. See the foundation upon which the edifice of Christianity was erected! |
Christians believe that Jesus died for our sins: yet Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:20-22, Jeremiah 31:30,2nd Chronicles 25:4, 2nd Kings 14:6 and Exodus 32:30-33 established that the person that commits sin is the one who will die. Even logically, this very doctrine cannot be true because telling the believers that they will no longer be held responsible for all their sins since one innocent man has already been held responsible on their behalf seems to imply that they are now free to commit sins in as much as they believe in this substitutionary atonement sacrifice. Whereas telling the believers that, unless they repent sincerely by turning from their sinful ways, they themselves will be held responsible for their sins would make them think twice before committing any sin. Of course the latter is more logical and reasonable than the former. Besides, we are told in the gospel that Jesus forgave sin while he was still alive. When he forgave sin, he didn’t say it would be forgiven some time in the future after his death and resurrection. He said “your sins are forgiven.” sounds like present-tense to me. So if he could forgive sin without dying, why did he have to die at all? |
Christians believe that Jesus was sent to the entire world: yet Jesus
said " I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel
(Matthew 15:24). Even when Jesus was sending out his disciples for
evangelical mission, he warned them categorically to avoid preaching to the
Gentiles, that is, the Non-Israelites (Matthew 10:5-6). If this command of
not preaching to the Gentiles was later cancelled by Jesus toward the end
of his mission as proclaim by the Christians, then why did Peter say to
Cornelius and his household that it is still unlawful for any Jewish man to
visit or keep company with a Gentile(Acts 10:28), many years after Jesus
departure? Was peter not aware of the cancellation? In fact, if it was
already in the divine plan that the command of not preaching to the
Gentiles would later be cancelled, then the statement of Jesus directed to
the disciples and the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:24 should have been: “IT
IS NOT YET TIME FOR THE GENTILES” or something similar in meaning rather
than ; “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” |
Christians believe that Jesus is God in human form according to the
doctrine of holy Trinity: yet when Jesus was praying to the Father, he said
“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and
Jesus Christ whom you have sent (John 17:3). Therefore, if the Father is
the only true God according to Jesus Christ, then how could Jesus be God or
part of Triune God? In fact, the word "ONLY" used by Jesus in this very
verse has put an end to any further argument on this issue of Jesus
divinity. Similarly in John 20:17, Jesus was reported to have said “I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, and to MY GOD and your God”. If
Jesus is God according to the Christians, then can God have another God?
Also Luke 6:12 recorded that Jesus went out to the mountain side to pray,
and continued all night in PRAYER TO GOD. If Jesus is God, who was he
praying to? Was he praying to himself or was God praying to God? Similarly,
in John 14:28, Jesus said: “ My Father is GREATER THAN I”. If Jesus is God,
why is he having someone greater than him? Can anybody be greater than God?
Furthermore, in John 14:1, Jesus said “let not your heart be troubled: you
believe in God, believe also in me”. See how Jesus clearly distinguished
himself from God using the word ‘ALSO’. Again in Mark 10:18, Jesus said to
one man who called him good teacher as follows: “why do you call me good?
NO ONE IS GOOD BUT ONE, THAT IS GOD”. If Jesus is God, why did he reject
and submit that all goodness belongs to God? Finally in Matthew 24:36, Jesus
said; “But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven,
nor the son, but ONLY THE FATHER”. If Jesus is God, why did he confess his
ignorance about the Day of Judgment and then submit that the knowledge of
that day belongs only to God? If Jesus is God, can God be ignorant of
anything? But sadly enough, no matter how strong the Biblical evidence you
may put forward for the Christians to disprove the deity of Jesus Christ
and hence the doctrine of Trinity, they always end up the arguments by
saying; “you don’t have the holy spirit”. But, according to what Christians
believe, was it not the same holy spirit that inspired the authors of the
Bible to write all the verses cited above? |
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quote more verses. Please read those verses again. You will agree with me
that the author of Qur’an who explained the signs for the existence of God
in such a logical and convincing manner can never be the same person who
would deliberately and boldly lie against the same God. The natural signs
that the author put forward for the existence of God must have prevented
him from deliberately and boldly impersonating such God. Even if the author
was seriously in doubt about the existence of God, then he would never have
that confidence and audacity to put his life and soul in danger as the
following verse underlined below would implied if we assumed that the
author was impersonating God; Verily, they were about to tempt you away
from that which We(God) have revealed to you (O Muhammad -pbuh),to
fabricate something other than it against Us(God), then they would
certainly have taken you an intimate friend! And had We (God) not made you
stand firm, you would nearly have inclined to them a little .In that case
We (God) would have made you taste a double portion of punishment in this
life and double portion of punishment after death. And then you would have
found none to help you against Us (God)(Qur’an 17:73-75). Before any one,
who is not mad, can be boldly and deliberately put his life and soul in
danger by challenging and impersonating God in this way, he must have been
completely and totally sure in his mind that God does not exist. Yet
anyone, who is not an omniscient, cannot be completely and totally sure
that God does not exist: let alone the author of Holy Qur’an who argue
strongly for the existence of God in a very logical and convincing manner
by calling our attention to many natural signs in the universe which
actually point to God’s existence. Now, is it possible for the same author
to be totally and completely sure that God does not exist to the extent of
having that confidence and audacity to ask God Almighty to punish him twice
both in this worldly life and in the life after death? Certainly not! No
matter how little it may be, the author must exercise some kind of doubts
in his belief that God does not exist. Even if the author was bold enough
to ask God to punish him twice in this world, the author can never have
that audacity to ask God to punish him again in the life after death. In
fact, this point alone, if properly understood; prove two things at the
same time. It proves that God must exist and that Qur’an must be God’s
word; this is the only way we can resolve the apparent contradiction
inherent in a concept of an author who argue logically and convincingly for
the existence of one true God but at the same time deliberately and
fearlessly impersonate the same God to the extent of asking God to punish
him twice both in this world and in the hereafter. All these points cited
above are enough to prove that the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) can never be the
author of Holy Qur’an or a deliberate liar against God.
Again, is it possible for the prophet to have a secret human teacher who
assisted him to fabricate the Holy Qur’an since he could neither read nor
write? But how can that teacher be kept in secret for good 23 years and
remain hidden from his immediate family and companions who believed in him
as true prophet of God? Besides, all the points raise above to disprove the
plausibility of the first alternative can also be leveled against this
second alternative because both presumed that the author of Holy Qur’an was
an impersonator and deliberate liar against God.
Furthermore, is it possible that prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was crazy to the
extent that such craziness made him to be a pathological liar against God?
Before that craziness would be manifest to the extent of causing him to
impersonate God and boldly lying against Him, it must have been detected
and reported by his immediate family, and there would be no way to believe
him as true prophet of God. Even if we assume that his immediate family
managed to hide the secret from the public, there is no way for such
craziness to escape the notice of the companions of the prophet who always
stayed with him and believed in him as a true prophet of God to the extent
of dying as a martyr in the battle field. Besides, how can a crazy author
come up with such a clear and meaningful book like Qur’an?