Answers to the so called difficulties in the Holy
Qur'an
Many people have tried hard to find mistakes in the Holy Qur'an, one
famous site that contains a so called list of contradictions, descrepancies,
mistakes etc.. can be found
at:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/index.html This
site will answer that list, and prove the Holy Qur'an is a perfect book,
and prove its Divine Origins. Keep in mind the Holy Qur'an is the only holy
book not in conflict with Modern Science, infact modern scientists have looked
to the Qur'an to help along their discoveries. Too bad we can't say the same
for the bible.
If you have any other "Mistakes" you would like for us to respond to or would
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(1) "Angels have 2, 3, or 4 pairs of wings [35:1].
But Gabriel had 600 wings. [Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 54, Number 455]"
(2) "Wine: Good or bad? (*) Strong drink and ... are
only an infamy of Satan's handiwork. [5:90, also 2:219]. Yet on the other
hand in Paradise are rivers of wine [47:15, also 83:22,25]. How does Satan's
handiwork get into Paradise?"
(3) "Does Allah forgive shirk? (*) This is the worst
sin and Allah can't really decide if he will ever forgive it or not. No [4:48,
116], Yes [4:153, 25:68-71]. And Abraham committed this sin of polytheism
as he takes moon, sun, stars to be his Lord [6:76-78] and still Muslims believe
that all prophets are without any sin."
(4) "Three contradictions in 2:97 and 16:101-103 (*)
Who brings the revelation from Allah to Muhammad? The ANGEL Gabriel [297],
or the Holy Spirit [16:102]? The new revelation confirms the old [2:97] or
substitutes it [16:101]? The Qur'an is PURE Arabic [16:103] but there are
numerous foreign, non-Arabic words in it."
(5) "God alone or also men? Clear or
incomprehensible? (*) The Qur'an is "clear Arabic speech." [16:103] Yet 'NONE
knows its interpretation, save only Allah.' [3:7]. Actually, "men of
understanding do grasp it." [3:7]"
(6) "Are angels protectors? (*) "NO protector besides
Allah" [2:107, 29:22]. But in Sura 41:31 the angels themselves say: "We are
your protectors in this life and the Hereafter." And also in other suras
is their role described as guarding [13:11, 50:17-18] and protecting
[82:10]."
(7) "The 'pleasure' of Allah? (*) Is God's action
of punishment or mercy and guidance or misguidance arbitrary?"
(8) "Pharaoh's repentance in the face of death? (*)
According to Sura 10:90-92, Pharaoh repented "in the sight of death" and
was saved. But Sura 4:18 says that such a thing can't happen."
(9) "numerical discrepancies: According to Sura 56:7
there will be THREE distinct groups of people at the Last Judgement, but
90:18-19, 99:6-8, etc. mention only TWO groups."
(10) " 'An old woman' and God's character (*) About
the story of Lot: "So we delivered him and his family, - all exept an old
woman who lingered behind." [Sura 26:170-171] And again: "But we saved him
and his family, exept his wife: she was of those who lagged behind. [Sura
7:83]. Either this is a contradiction or if indeed Lot's wife is derogatorily
called "an old woman" then this does not show much respect for her as a wife
of a prophet. "
(11) "Is everything devoutly obedient to Allah? (*)
That is the claim in 30:26, but dozens of verses speak of the proud disobedience
of Satan [7:11, 15:28-31, 17:61, 20:116, 38:71-74, 18:50] as well of many
different human beings who reject His commands and His revelations."
(12) "Was Noah driven out? "Before them *the people
of Noah* rejected (their messenger): They rejected Our servant and said,
'Here is One possessed!' And he was driven out." [Sura 54:9] Now, if he is
driven out [expelled from their country] how come they can scoff at him while
he is buiding the ark since we read "Forthwith he (starts) constructing the
Ark: Every time that the Chiefs of *his people* passed by him, they threw
ridicule on him." [Sura 11:38] He cannot be both: Driven out and near enough
that they can regularly pass by."
(13) "Will all Muslims go to Hell? According to Sura
19:71 every Muslim will go to Hell (for at least some time), while another
passage states that those who die in Jihad will go to Paradise
immediately."
(14) "Moses and the Injil? (*) Jesus is born more
than 1,000 years after Moses, but in 7:157 Allah speaks to Moses about what
is written in the Injil [the book given to Jesus]."
(15) "More problems with the story of Lot (*) "And
his people gave NO answer but this: They said, "Drive them out of your city:
these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!" [Sura 7:82 & 27:56].
Yet: "But his people gave NO answer but this: They said: "Bring us the Wrath
of Allah if thou tellest the truth." [Sura 29:29]. Obviously these answers
are different."
(16) "The infinite loop problem (*) Sura 26:192,195,196:
"It (the Qur'an) is indeed a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds, ...
in clear Arabic speech and indeed IT (the Qur'an) is in the writings of the
earlier (prophets)." Now, the 'earlier writing' are the Torah and the Injil
for example, written in Hebrew and Greek. HOW can an ARABIC Qur'an be contained
in a books of other languages? Furthermore, if would have to contain this
very passage of the Qur'an sinc the Qur'an is properly contained in them.
Hence these earlier writings have to be contained in yet other earlier writings
and we are in an infinite loop, which is absurd."
(17) "When Commanded Pharaoh the Killing of the Sons?
When Moses was a Prophet and spoke God's truth to Pharaoh [40:23-25] or when
he was still an infant [20:38-39]?"
(18) "How do we receive the record on Judgment Day?
(*) On Judgement day the lost people are given the Record (of their bad deeds):
Behind their back [84:10], or in their left hand [69:25]."
(19) "Will there be inquiry in Paradise? (*) "neither
will they question one another" [23:101] but nevertheless they will be "engaging
in mutual inquiry" [52:25], "and they will ... question one another"
[37:27]."
(20) "And it just doesn't add up: (**) Sura 4:11-12
and 4:176 state the Qur'anic inheritance law. When a man dies, and is leaving
behind three daughters, his two parents and his wife, they will receive the
respective shares of 2/3 for the 3 daughters together, 1/3 for the parents
together [both according to verse 4:11] and 1/8 for the wife [4:12] which
adds up to more than the available estate. A second example: A man leaves
only his mother, his wife and two sisters, then they receive 1/3 [mother,
4:11], 1/4 [wife, 4:12] and 2/3 [the two sisters, 4:176], which again adds
up to 15/12 of the available property."
(21) "Did Abraham smash the idols? The accounts of
Abraham, Suras 19:41-49, 6:74-83 differ quite a bit from Sura 21:51-59. While
in Sura 21 Abraham confronts his people strongly, and even destroys the idols,
in Sura 19 Abraham shuts up after his father threatens him to stone him for
speaking out against the idols. And he seems not only to become silent, but
even to leave the area ("turning away from them all")."
(22) "Guiding to truth? "Say: 'God - He guides to
the truth; and which is worthier to be followed ...?" [Sura 10:35] But how
much is left over of this worthiness when we also read: "Allah leads astray
whom he pleases, and he guides whom He pleases, ..." [Sura 14:4]. And how
do we know in which of Allah's categories of pleasure we fall? How sure can
a Muslim be that he is one of those guided right and not one of those led
astray?"
(23) "numerical discrepancies: How many gardens are
there in paradise? ONE [as stated in 39:73, 41:30, 57:21, 79:41] or MANY
[18:31, 22:23, 35:33, 78:32]?"
(24) "Can slander of chaste women be forgiven? (*)
Yes [24:5], No [24:23]"
(25) "What about Noah's son? According to Sura 21:76,
Noah and all his family is saved from the flood. But Sura 11:42-43 reports
that Noah's son drowns."
(26) "Heavens or Earth? Which was created first?
(*) First earth and then heaven [2:29], heaven and after that earth
[79:27-30]."
(27) "Who is the father of Jesus?"
(28) "When/how are the fates determined? "The night
of power is better than a thousand months. The angels and spirit descend
therein, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees." [97:3,4] "Lo!
We revealed it on a blessed night." [44:3] To Muslims, the "Night of Power"
is a blessed night on which fates are settled and on which everything relating
to life, death, etc., which occurs throughout the year is decreed. It is
said to be the night on which Allah's decrees for the year are brought down
to the earthly plane. In other words, matters of creation are decreed a year
at a time. Contradicting this, Sura 57:22 says, "No affliction befalls in
the earth or in your selves, but it is in a Book before we create it." This
means it is written in the Preserved Tablet, being totally fixed in Allah's
knowledge before anyone was created. All of the above is contradicted by
"And every man's fate We have fastened to his own neck." This says that man
alone is responsible for what he does and what happens to him. [17:13]"
(29) " Was Pharaoh Drowned or Saved when chasing
Moses and the Israelites? Saved [10:93], drowned [28:40, 17:103, 43:55]"
(30) "Can angels disobey? (*) No angel is arrogant,
they all obey Allah [16:49-50], but: 'And behold, we said to the ANGELS:
'Bow down to Adam'. And THEY bowed down, EXCEPT Iblis. He refused and was
haughty.' [2:34]"
(31) "There are conflicting views on who takes the
souls at death: THE Angel of Death [32:11], THE angels (plural) [47:27] but
also "It is Allah that takes the souls (of men) at death." [39:42]"
(32) "Further numerical discrepancies (*) Does Allah's
day equal to 1,000 human years (Sura 22:47, 32:5) or 50,000 human years (Sura
70:4)?"
(33) "Calling together or ripping apart? (*) In the
process of creation heaven and earth were first apart and are called to come
together [4:11], while 21:31 states that they were originally one piece and
then ripped apart."
(34) "What was man created from? (*) A blood clot
[96:1-2], water [21:30, 24:45, 25:54], "sounding" (i.e. burned) clay [15:26],
dust [3:59, 30:20, 35:11], nothing [19:67] and this is then denied in 52:35,
earth [11:61], a drop of thickened fluid [16:4, 75:37]"
(35) "Will Christians enter Paradise or go to Hell?
(*) Sura 5:69 says 'Yes', Sura 5:72 (just 3 verses later) says 'No'."
(36) "The event of worship of the golden calf: (*)
The Israelites repented about worshipping the golden calf BEFORE Moses returned
from the mountain [7:149], yet they refused to repent but rather continued
to worship the calf it until Moses came back [20:91]. Does Aaron share in
their guilt? No [20:85-90], yes [20:92, 7:151]"
(37) "How many angels were talking to Mary? (*) When
the Qur'an speaks about the announciation of the birth of Jesus to the virgin
Mary, Sura 3:42,45 speaks about (several) angels while it is only one in
Sura 19:17-21."
(38) "What is the punishment for adultery? Flogging
with a 100 stripes (men and women) [24:2], "confine them to houses until
death do claim them (lifelong house arrest - for the women) [4:15]. For men:
"If they repent and amend, leave them alone" [4:16]. 24:2 contradicts both
the procedure for women and men in Sura 4. And why is the punishment for
women and men equal in Sura 24 but different in Sura 4?"
(39) "Abrogation? "The words of the Lord are perfect
in truth and justice; there is NONE who can change His words." [Sura 6:115]
Also see 6:34 and 10:65. But then Allah (Muhammad?) sees the need to exchange
some of them for "better ones" [Sura 2:106, 16:101]. And it is not for ignorant
people to question Allah because of such practices!"
(40) "Six or eight days of creation? (*) Sura 7:54,
10:3, 11:7, and 25:59 clearly state that God created "the heavens and the
earth" in six days. But in 41:9-12 the detailed description of the creation
procedure adds up to eight days."
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