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Directly from the Quran from Surah Maidah (Chapter of the Table Spread)

This was Allah addressing one of His most pious servants. He addresses them all, but as the verses go on it focuses on Prophet Isa PBUH. A messenger, who had a miraculous birth, was rescued miraculously, and Allah gave him the ability to perform miracles. Peace be upon him.

We are just regular humans, non messengers. Imagine the awe of our Creator that day when we will be held to account. Every one of us.

May it be easy for us, Ameen.

Truly pondering and absorbing verses like these completely rejuvenates faith.
 
one of my best friends who comes from a Christian household came across this passage as well, and said it made him think very deeply.

He says the way of the Prophet and worship of one God is the only way he realizes, and sends me videos from Omar Suleiman and the like himself.

May Allah guide him. He’s been researching Islam himself for the last 2-3 years but even more since the genocide took off. May Allah protect our brothers in Palestine and may the current events inspire even more people to flock to Islam, Ameen.
 
Brother @Suleiman, I am really glad that you are deeply devoted. May this devotion bring you peace of mind, clarity of thought and a joyous life for you and your family brother.

Also impressed to see interest from my brothers @sweep_shot and @Kianig89. Same wishes for you all from your brother in Bharat.
 
Brother @Suleiman, I am really glad that you are deeply devoted. May this devotion bring you peace of mind, clarity of thought and a joyous life for you and your family brother.

Also impressed to see interest from my brothers @sweep_shot and @Kianig89. Same wishes for you all from your brother in Bharat.
Thank you bro. All the best to you and everyone in Bharat as well, In Sha Allah we can come to common grounds like we used to for centuries and live together in peace.
 
It’s the Quran, it’s the word of God. If He says so, then it is.

If you don’t believe in God, welp, not much else to say.
I don't.

any omnipotent entity which stands by and idly watches some of the events is a thug and not worthy of even respect, let alone worship.
 
Do we still have the tablet? The original one?

One must respect the others religion.

"O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient". 2:153

He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever is given wisdom has certainly been given much good." 2:169

Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and kind advice, and only debate with them in the best manner." 16:125
 
One must respect the others religion.

"O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient". 2:153

He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever is given wisdom has certainly been given much good." 2:169

Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and kind advice, and only debate with them in the best manner." 16:125
I understand about respecting others religions and personal feelings.

I only asked the question because you said it is "Recorded in Preserved Tablet". If the tablet is preserved, then we should have it till today. A simple question.

I will convert to Islam or any religion if they just give me proof that it is divine and miraculous and no human can explain the miracle beyond doubt. It will be stupid on my part when the evidence points that God did it.
 
I understand about respecting others religions and personal feelings.

I only asked the question because you said it is "Recorded in Preserved Tablet". If the tablet is preserved, then we should have it till today. A simple question.

I will convert to Islam or any religion if they just give me proof that it is divine and miraculous and no human can explain the miracle beyond doubt. It will be stupid on my part when the evidence points that God did it.
The preserved tablet (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz) is not a physical tangible tablet for humans but it is a term for preservation among the higher group (i.e., angels), preserved and protected from anything being added or taken away, or any alteration or changes.

As far as evidence then there is plenty of evidence in the Qur'aan itself and Qur'aan is preserved by millions in their heart around the world. In fact, there is plenty of evidence inside you for God for you ponder upon.

There is zero evidence of absence of god in you and in the universe around you and plenty of avenues available for you to be engaged on the issue.
 
"We will show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that this ˹Quran˺ is the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is a Witness over all things?" 41:53

May Allah help us to follow 🙏
 
The preserved tablet (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz) is not a physical tangible tablet for humans but it is a term for preservation among the higher group (i.e., angels), preserved and protected from anything being added or taken away, or any alteration or changes.

As far as evidence then there is plenty of evidence in the Qur'aan itself and Qur'aan is preserved by millions in their heart around the world. In fact, there is plenty of evidence inside you for God for you ponder upon.

There is zero evidence of absence of god in you and in the universe around you and plenty of avenues available for you to be engaged on the issue.
So there is no evidence that Quran was preserved. Lets not even get into the evidence of God. Thanks.
 
"We will show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that this ˹Quran˺ is the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is a Witness over all things?" 41:53

May Allah help us to follow 🙏

Ameen.

Subhan Allah. Great verse.
 
So there is no evidence that Quran was preserved. Lets not even get into the evidence of God. Thanks.
Quran wasn't or isn't preserved from the time it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now? What is your evidence of this claim?
 
So there is no evidence that Quran was preserved. Lets not even get into the evidence of God. Thanks.
You are mixing up what is said in the ayat quoted and the preservation of the Quran.

They are two separate topics.
 
Quran wasn't or isn't preserved from the time it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now? What is your evidence of this claim?
You cannot verify something that does not have the first manuscript on leaves or tablets. It all depends on hope and faith.

This is no different to Hindus believing that Hanuman can fly in the air and leaped from KanyaKumari in the south all the way to Srilanka. Its all hope, faith and belief(blindly).
 
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in an orbit". 21:33


Earth revolves around the Sun, now known as heliocentrism, was a revolutionary concept in the 16th century. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, is credited with establishing this theory in his 1543 treatise, On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres. While other ancient astronomers, like Aristarchus of Samos, had also proposed heliocentrism, Copernicus's work provided a more detailed mathematical model of the solar system.

Indeed, one should think of it rationally rather than outright rejecting it.
 
You cannot verify something that does not have the first manuscript on leaves or tablets. It all depends on hope and faith.

This is no different to Hindus believing that Hanuman can fly in the air and leaped from KanyaKumari in the south all the way to Srilanka. Its all hope, faith and belief(blindly).
Lets get something straight, the world doesn't care whether you convert or not or whatever.

In terms of Qur'aan there is zero evidence of tempering or change from the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now and it is accepted fact even by the worst Islamophobes and it is recited by millions from memory around the world. There is no comparison between preservation of Qur'aan since its revelation until now with Hinduism or any other religion for that matter. The preservation of Qur'aan until now is a hard fact and easily proven but you seem to be claiming the opposite which even the worst Islamophobes don't claim so what is the evidence of your claim?

The issue here is that you are claiming something which is demonstrably false and not made by even those who would love to prove exactly what you are claiming.

I have studied Hinduism and it sounds like you have not so lets leave the issue of Hanuman aside.

From my experience, I find many people are simply dishonest and unethical and deliberately lie and even when proven wrong they simply move on and keep repeating it with impunity.

And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in an orbit". 21:33


Earth revolves around the Sun, now known as heliocentrism, was a revolutionary concept in the 16th century. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, is credited with establishing this theory in his 1543 treatise, On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres. While other ancient astronomers, like Aristarchus of Samos, had also proposed heliocentrism, Copernicus's work provided a more detailed mathematical model of the solar system.

Indeed, one should think of it rationally rather than outright rejecting it.

He is claiming something which even the worst of the Orientalists didn't claim :)
 
And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon, each floating in an orbit". 21:33


Earth revolves around the Sun, now known as heliocentrism, was a revolutionary concept in the 16th century. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, is credited with establishing this theory in his 1543 treatise, On The Revolutions Of The Heavenly Spheres. While other ancient astronomers, like Aristarchus of Samos, had also proposed heliocentrism, Copernicus's work provided a more detailed mathematical model of the solar system.

Indeed, one should think of it rationally rather than outright rejecting it.
Anyone who lives on earth knows that there is night and day and sun and moon have their orbits. Not too difficult to understand that part.
Many people who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago made the claim. I don’t see anything ground breaking or miraculous in what is claimed here.
 
You cannot verify something that does not have the first manuscript on leaves or tablets. It all depends on hope and faith.

This is no different to Hindus believing that Hanuman can fly in the air and leaped from KanyaKumari in the south all the way to Srilanka. Its all hope, faith and belief(blindly).
Lol atleast make a simple google read before such claims.
 
No one’s here to sell you the Qur’an. If you don’t believe in it, keep scrolling, this thread wasn’t made for you. And if you showed up just to preach atheism, maybe ask yourself why someone else’s faith bothers you so much. Sounds like you’re the one who’s unsure.
 
Anyone who lives on earth knows that there is night and day and sun and moon have their orbits. Not too difficult to understand that part.
Many people who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago made the claim. I don’t see anything ground breaking or miraculous in what is claimed here.
@Kianig89 didn't just talk about the transition of night and day, he discussed heliocentrism and if it is so obvious why did mankind believe in a Geocentric model until roughly 1543! Genius?
 
No one’s here to sell you the Qur’an. If you don’t believe in it, keep scrolling, this thread wasn’t made for you. And if you showed up just to preach atheism, maybe ask yourself why someone else’s faith bothers you so much. Sounds like you’re the one who’s unsure.

Who knows, maybe one of these days when they open a thread about Islam and see a verse or a chapter, Allah will turn their hearts in that moment.

So I don’t lose hope either, but ultimately our job is to convey the message, whether they believe or not, that’s on them. A lot of their arguments have been beaten to death for years and years on this forum and for centuries outside of that.

There’s brothers far more knowledgeable than me regarding Islam. But least I can do is point toward Tawheed, and warn regarding the afterlife, no matter how it is received by the other party.

Thanks for your post though brother.
 
“My Lord! Reveal Yourself to me so I may see You. “You cannot see Me! But look at the mountain. If it remains firm in its place, only then will you see Me.” When his Lord appeared to the mountain, He levelled it to dust and Moses collapsed unconscious. When he recovered, he cried, “Glory be to You! I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers.” 7:143.

@Champ_Pal , Just read it with open mind
 
“My Lord! Reveal Yourself to me so I may see You. “You cannot see Me! But look at the mountain. If it remains firm in its place, only then will you see Me.” When his Lord appeared to the mountain, He levelled it to dust and Moses collapsed unconscious. When he recovered, he cried, “Glory be to You! I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers.” 7:143.

@Champ_Pal , Just read it with open mind
I read it 3 times. Sincerely. Still did not understand what is being said there.

What has mountain remaining firm in its place got to do with Moses asking to see his lord? :confused:
Why will God appear to a mountain? May be you are knowledgeable and explain to me.👍
 
I read it 3 times. Sincerely. Still did not understand what is being said there.

What has mountain remaining firm in its place got to do with Moses asking to see his lord? :confused:
Why will God appear to a mountain? May be you are knowledgeable and explain to me.👍

mountain shaking describes the majesty and magnificence of Allah, that even his glimpse will not let the mountain remain firm. @LordJames can add to or correct it.


Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection),

2. What is the striking (Hour)?

3. And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?

4. It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about,

5. And the mountains will be like carded wool, 101/ 1:5
 
mountain shaking describes the majesty and magnificence of Allah, that even his glimpse will not let the mountain remain firm. @LordJames can add to or correct it.


Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection),

2. What is the striking (Hour)?

3. And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?

4. It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about,

5. And the mountains will be like carded wool, 101/ 1:5
Ok seriously not impressed.

Any religious book has things like this. You cannot behold the awesomeness of God bla bla bla..
what is this hour where humans will be like moths scattered? Is it some genocidal incident? 🤷‍♂️
 
Show me the full Quran from the time of Prophet and we can discuss. 👍
There's none.

prophet didn't write it down, nor consolidated. It wasn't deemed necessary. By him.

The immediate "muslims" did it over 20 years. Apparently multiple versions exist. Officially 10 in total. Could be higher since destruction was ordered for the remaining.

 
I don't.

any omnipotent entity which stands by and idly watches some of the events is a thug and not worthy of even respect, let alone worship.
After outing yourself for willing to experiment on humans who have no connection to any crime, just out of your psychopathic tendencies, please keep your opinion on God, and anything else to yourself.

And get some help. If not prayer, then medication.
 
After outing yourself for willing to experiment on humans who have no connection to any crime, just out of your psychopathic tendencies, please keep your opinion on God, and anything else to yourself.

And get some help. If not prayer, then medication.
Guess I touched a raw nerve.

Face it. you are stuck.

you subscribe to an idea of omniscient, omnipotent, merciful god for which we see no evidence.

You belong to a nation which claims to follow teachings of that merciful god yet uses terrorism as a state policy.
 
Ok seriously not impressed.

Any religious book has things like this. You cannot behold the awesomeness of God bla bla bla..
what is this hour where humans will be like moths scattered? Is it some genocidal incident? 🤷‍♂️
you are trying to makes sense of religious goobly gop? good luck.
 
Ok seriously not impressed.

Any religious book has things like this. You cannot behold the awesomeness of God bla bla bla..
what is this hour where humans will be like moths scattered? Is it some genocidal incident? 🤷‍♂️

The existence of Allah is instinctive, tangible and revelatory , in your joys and sorrow whom do you look at there is some other force /factor making things happen.

There are signs in the heavens and the earth for those who believe. 45:3

AND ON EARTH there are signs [of God’s existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty. 51:20

There are signs in the heavens and the earth for those who believe

“And it is He who spread the Earth and made in its firm mountains and rivers, and of all fruits, he has made in it two kinds; He makes the night cover the day; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.” 13:3
 
There's none.

prophet didn't write it down, nor consolidated. It wasn't deemed necessary. By him.

The immediate "muslims" did it over 20 years. Apparently multiple versions exist. Officially 10 in total. Could be higher since destruction was ordered for the remaining.


There is only 1 Quran. Get your facts straight. :inti

There can be different styles of recitations but it doesn't mean there are different versions. It is the same Quran.
 
The existence of Allah is instinctive, tangible and revelatory , in your joys and sorrow whom do you look at there is some other force /factor making things happen.
Insticts can be wrong and deceiving. God is not tangible. Can never be measured. Revelatory claim is vague. I have said things happen in life by chance. But we can effect the chances of good things to happen to us by working towards them.
There are signs in the heavens and the earth for those who believe. 45:3
If you have to find evidence based on beleif, then it is really not evidence. Absolute truth does not require faith and belief. Whether someone is an atheist or a believer, if that person touches a live wire, he will get electrocuted.
AND ON EARTH there are signs [of God’s existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty. 51:20
No evidence. All vague claims. What we see on Earth and Sky have a proper scientific explanation.
There are signs in the heavens and the earth for those who believe
Your belief in a higher being does not effect the physical things we see. A mountain or a lion or an ocean are same whether you believe in Allah or not.
“And it is He who spread the Earth and made in its firm mountains and rivers, and of all fruits, he has made in it two kinds; He makes the night cover the day; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.” 13:3

Mountains are not some kind of nails on Earth. They rise from the depths of the earth's mantle when tectonic plates collide.
Rivers are not created by magic. They arise from the melting snow at the top of the mountains, Ground water emerging to the surface, rainfall collecting in low lying areas etc.
Night and day are not made. It is not some page of a book that someone manually turns to say this page is day and the next page is night. All caused by Earths rotation on its own axis. Be honest. None of the above mentioned ones are miraculous which can only be explained by a supernatural power doing it. 🙄
 
There is only 1 Quran. Get your facts straight. :inti

There can be different styles of recitations but it doesn't mean there are different versions. It is the same Quran.
To have that claim, you need to show the holy Quran from the time of the Prophet. Then we can compare and come to a conclusion. Even if it is unaltered, how does it become a miracle?
Brahmins claim Vedas are unchanged in the last 3000 years. Do you think they are divine revelation too?
 
There's none.

prophet didn't write it down, nor consolidated. It wasn't deemed necessary. By him.

The immediate "muslims" did it over 20 years. Apparently multiple versions exist. Officially 10 in total. Could be higher since destruction was ordered for the remaining.

The haunts of Academic inadequacy from "11 years of Madrasah education" continue. I don't know if your teachers go around in public showing their faces or are in permanent hiding due to the embarrassment

The hyperlink even says "recitations" which means Dictionary defines as "the act or an instance of reading or repeating aloud especially publicly"

When dumbed down to match your Intellectual inadequacy it simply means:
  1. POTAYTO
  2. POTAATO
is two different ways of referring to

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The Wikipedia article which you are quoting even says this:

The ten recitations or ten readings are ten Qira'ats and recitations of the Quran approved by scholars in their research to determine the frequent recitations.

Islam lives rent free in this "11 year Madrasah students'" head :facepalm:
 
Lets get something straight, the world doesn't care whether you convert or not or whatever.

In terms of Qur'aan there is zero evidence of tempering or change from the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now and it is accepted fact even by the worst Islamophobes and it is recited by millions from memory around the world. There is no comparison between preservation of Qur'aan since its revelation until now with Hinduism or any other religion for that matter. The preservation of Qur'aan until now is a hard fact and easily proven but you seem to be claiming the opposite which even the worst Islamophobes don't claim so what is the evidence of your claim?

This is not entirely true but please let me know if you are interested in a serious facts and logic based discussion.
 
The haunts of Academic inadequacy from "11 years of Madrasah education" continue. I don't know if your teachers go around in public showing their faces or are in permanent hiding due to the embarrassment

The hyperlink even says "recitations" which means Dictionary defines as "the act or an instance of reading or repeating aloud especially publicly"

When dumbed down to match your Intellectual inadequacy it simply means:
  1. POTAYTO
  2. POTAATO
is two different ways of referring to

images


The Wikipedia article which you are quoting even says this:

The ten recitations or ten readings are ten Qira'ats and recitations of the Quran approved by scholars in their research to determine the frequent recitations.

Islam lives rent free in this "11 year Madrasah students'" head :facepalm:
Pretty clear he’s just playing a role, pretending to be someone he’s not. He’s quick to copy paste from random sites without even grasping the meaning of the Surah or Ayah he’s quoting. It’s not about understanding, it’s about discrediting Islam under the guise of debate. That’s been his only consistent contribution here.

And funny enough, his arguments always seem to echo the same worn out lines coming straight from across Pakistan’s eastern border. Consistency isn’t the problem, it’s the script he’s reading from.
 
This is not entirely true but please let me know if you are interested in a serious facts and logic based discussion.
Gotta love the logic, preaching human slaughter over personal beliefs while casually shopping at a store that sells beef. Facts and morality clearly sold separately. Lol.
 
This is not entirely true but please let me know if you are interested in a serious facts and logic based discussion.
Sure, hoping that we can have a conversation where both sides are reading and replying to specifics. Please provide evidence of a tampered Qur'aan from the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now.
 
Gotta love the logic, preaching human slaughter over personal beliefs while casually shopping at a store that sells beef. Facts and morality clearly sold separately. Lol.

ahh the shamless punk who toils day and night to fund Israel while spewing bile at Israel is lecturing on morality ... lol

How is that homework I assigned you yesterday coming about? Got stuck again I see ?
 
ahh the shamless punk who toils day and night to fund Israel while spewing bile at Israel is lecturing on morality ... lol

How is that homework I assigned you yesterday coming about? Got stuck again I see ?
You’re out here calling for others to commit violence over your beliefs, while casually shopping at a grocery store that sells beef, then turn around and ask for a “logical discussion.” The irony isn’t just rich, it’s imported, tax free, and hand delivered.

You’ve already labeled every Muslim in India as animals, so discussing the Qur’an with someone like you isn’t just pointless, it’s a deliberate waste of time.

But don’t worry, I won’t derail this thread. I’ll catch you next time you’re out here pretending to be the ambassador of logic. So, let's not make it about yourself, you carry on with your 'logic' if slaughtering humans.

And the moment you dragged Israel into this as a comparison for someone you support to justify violence? That’s when it became clear, you’ve already run out of arguments.

Funny thing is that, bhai Farhan also make the similar argument when he has nothing to counter with.

Anyways, enjoy your time here, I am out of this thread :)
 
Sure, hoping that we can have a conversation where both sides are reading and replying to specifics. Please provide evidence of a tampered Qur'aan from the time of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) until now.

Please go thru this link which looks at the topic from multiple aspects. Its a very lengthy video so I have linked just one particular timestamp for now.

 
Please go thru this link which looks at the topic from multiple aspects. Its a very lengthy video so I have linked just one particular timestamp for now.

Its playing the whole video and not the time piece, can you give me a time stamp please?
 
You’re out here calling for others to commit violence over your beliefs, while casually shopping at a grocery store that sells beef, then turn around and ask for a “logical discussion.” The irony isn’t just rich, it’s imported, tax free, and hand delivered.

You’ve already labeled every Muslim in India as animals, so discussing the Qur’an with someone like you isn’t just pointless, it’s a deliberate waste of time.

But don’t worry, I won’t derail this thread. I’ll catch you next time you’re out here pretending to be the ambassador of logic. So, let's not make it about yourself, you carry on with your 'logic' if slaughtering humans.

And the moment you dragged Israel into this as a comparison for someone you support to justify violence? That’s when it became clear, you’ve already run out of arguments.

Funny thing is that, bhai Farhan also make the similar argument when he has nothing to counter with.

Anyways, enjoy your time here, I am out of this thread :)

Post this on the Hindutva thread and I will properly nail your butt ( again). This is Just to prevent deletions by mods and prevent the evidence of the nailing being destroyed on grounds of " off topic"
 
Post this on the Hindutva thread and I will properly nail your butt ( again). This is Just to prevent deletions by mods and prevent the evidence of the nailing being destroyed on grounds of " off topic"
You want to debate whether slaughtering humans over your beliefs, while casually shopping for beef, and calling every Muslim in India an animal isn’t a psychological disorder? Nah, you're not making a point, you're writing your own diagnosis.
 
I don't.

any omnipotent entity which stands by and idly watches some of the events is a thug and not worthy of even respect, let alone worship.
Lex Luther:
“If God is good then he is not powerful, if he is all powerful then he is not good”
 
My bad ... skip to 45 minute mark.
I have read and heard this before.

First Argument

In the first few minutes while setting the scene he says:
  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD
  2. The manuscript was written down at the time of Uthman in 652 AD (114 Chapters) and 5 copies were sent to 5 cities which became standardized until today
  3. But there were many other manuscripts which showed up containing 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters respectively and basically different to the 114 Chapters which are in the manuscript which we find today (which Uthman complied in 652)
So the issues he is pointing to are:
  • Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD and the standard manuscript was compiled in 652 (20 years later)
  • The number of Chapters of other manuscripts differed from the standard manuscripts which we have today i.e. 114 (today) vs 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters (etc)
Therefore his conclusion is that the Qur'aan is changed and altered based on the evidence which he is showing in the presentation.

Please critique and let me know if I have captured his first argument faithfully.

Thanks
 
I have read and heard this before.

First Argument

In the first few minutes while setting the scene he says:
  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD
  2. The manuscript was written down at the time of Uthman in 652 AD (114 Chapters) and 5 copies were sent to 5 cities which became standardized until today
  3. But there were many other manuscripts which showed up containing 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters respectively and basically different to the 114 Chapters which are in the manuscript which we find today (which Uthman complied in 652)
So the issues he is pointing to are:
  • Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD and the standard manuscript was compiled in 652 (20 years later)
  • The number of Chapters of other manuscripts differed from the standard manuscripts which we have today i.e. 114 (today) vs 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters (etc)
Therefore his conclusion is that the Qur'aan is changed and altered based on the evidence which he is showing in the presentation.

Please critique and let me know if I have captured his first argument faithfully.

Thanks

Yes but as you watch the Video he address the main topic from different angles ... please watch the Whole thing if you can and you can then point to the holes in his claims.
 
You want to debate whether slaughtering humans over your beliefs, while casually shopping for beef, and calling every Muslim in India an animal isn’t a psychological disorder? Nah, you're not making a point, you're writing your own diagnosis.

Post in the appropriate thread.
 
Yes but as you watch the Video he address the main topic from different angles ... please watch the Whole thing if you can and you can then point to the holes in his claims.
I am but do you agree that the accurately and without Bias summarized his first argument?
  1. Please point out any transcription errors which I may have made
  2. Also confirm that you standby these arguments
Thanks
 
I have read and heard this before.

First Argument

In the first few minutes while setting the scene he says:
  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD
  2. The manuscript was written down at the time of Uthman in 652 AD (114 Chapters) and 5 copies were sent to 5 cities which became standardized until today
  3. But there were many other manuscripts which showed up containing 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters respectively and basically different to the 114 Chapters which are in the manuscript which we find today (which Uthman complied in 652)
So the issues he is pointing to are:
  • Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD and the standard manuscript was compiled in 652 (20 years later)
  • The number of Chapters of other manuscripts differed from the standard manuscripts which we have today i.e. 114 (today) vs 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters (etc)
Therefore his conclusion is that the Qur'aan is changed and altered based on the evidence which he is showing in the presentation.

Please critique and let me know if I have captured his first argument faithfully.

Thanks
To add:

Even during the time of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. The Quran had already begun to be written down. Remember, Umar Ibn Khattab RA’s sister was reading from copies of chapter Surah Taha in the Quran when he went to her house before he became Muslim.

And this is early on in the prophethood as well. Meccan period. Around 20+ years before the Khilafah of Uthman RA? Correct me if I’m wrong.

Copies of the Quran existed before, Uthman RA only arranged the order and published copies.

The fully compiled organized collection of the book was already complete by Abu Bakr RA’s time.

Uthman RA essentially just made copies to distribute through the Ummah once the memorized Qaris started to become martyrs more often.

And during the compilation period for each verse to be written all companions of the Prophet PBUH were used as witnesses before copies were made, minimum of 2 witnesses per verse and at times more. All these companions were alive during the Prophet PBUH’s time and first hand account of receiving the verses from him.
 
To add:

Even during the time of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. The Quran had already begun to be written down. Remember, Umar Ibn Khattab RA’s sister was reading from copies of chapter Surah Taha in the Quran when he went to her house before he became Muslim.

And this is early on in the prophethood as well.

Copies of the Quran existed before, Uthman RA only arranged the order and published copies.

The fully compiled organized collection of the book was already complete by Abu Bakr RA’s time.

Uthman RA essentially just made copies to distribute through the Ummah once the memorized Qaris started to become martyrs more often.

And during the compilation period for each verse to be written all companions of the Prophet PBUH were used as witnesses before copies were made, minimum of 2 witnesses per verse and at times more. All these companions were alive during the Prophet PBUH’s time and first hand account of receiving the verses from him.
Please allow him time to check how I have transcribed the argument and not made any errors and that he stands by these arguments and affirms them to be accurate.
 
This thread has been derailed completely by Hindutvas and atheists. :inti

Original topic: A conversation between Allah (SWT) and Isa/Jesus (PBUH).
No hate to brother @uppercut, he genuinely wants to discuss questions and concerns he has.

It’s just interesting that he posted a video from a Christian man on the Quran and the passage in the OP is addressing the Christians directly. Subhan Allah… interesting how it all works.
 
This thread has been derailed completely by Hindutvas and atheists. :inti

Original topic: A conversation between Allah (SWT) and Isa/Jesus (PBUH).
When dealing with Hindutvas & Islamophobes you will notice a few consistent traits:
  1. They try to flood the zone in a strategy which Steve Bannon describes as The Muzzle Velocity PR Strategy. This is deliberate to prevent them from being pinned down
  2. They know the answers to these queries but simply turn a blind eye and repeat it elsewhere without any shame
  3. They never set out their belief and open it to scrutiny. In fact, you can see it on many forums when they claim to be "Atheists" or "not sure" or say "Its not important what I believe in..."
This is deliberate to flood the zone. You will see how difficult they make it to pin the issue down to a argument and then discuss it. In the same argument about authenticity of Qur'aan, pretty soon certain narrations will be added etc

Unfortunately many Muslims who are not aware of their strategy fall right into and enable the topic to be derailed.

I am not directing this to @uppercut as I don't even know what he believes in and have no experience with him
 
I am but do you agree that the accurately and without Bias summarized his first argument?
  1. Please point out any transcription errors which I may have made
  2. Also confirm that you standby these arguments
Thanks

You actually dont have to go thru the pain of converting to text what he says .... youtube can do that for you ( and by timestamp ). So if you want to address anything that he says that you do not agree with just copy paste the text from the youtube transcript and quote it in your response. But I appreciate you wanting to be accurate in this discussion. I will check back later . Thanks​


Here is how to get the text from his video:



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You actually dont have to go thru the pain of converting to text what he says .... youtube can do that for you ( and by timestamp ). So if you want to address anything that he says that you do not agree with just copy paste the text from the youtube transcript and quote it in your response. But I appreciate you wanting to be accurate in this discussion. I will check back later . Thanks​


Here is how to get the text from his video:



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It doesn't matter how the transcript is generated whether it is by listening, analysis and transcription or auto-generation by YouTube.

I have taken the time listened, analyzed and summarized the argument which he is making and then presented it to you, here.
  1. Please point out any transcription errors which I may have made in the summation
  2. Also confirm that you standby these arguments
I can also give you link to a YouTube which answers it but I am giving you the respect by taking my time and showing it that I have listened and tried to capture the essence of his argument.

Since the argument is coming from your side it is essential that you agree with the summation OR amend it so we can then continue the discussion which is as per your request.

Btw this is the initial argument in the video, by now I have heard it and we can open it up further (later) but the lets discuss the opening.

Thanks
 
This thread has been derailed completely by Hindutvas and atheists. :inti

Original topic: A conversation between Allah (SWT) and Isa/Jesus (PBUH).
I am too lazy to go through all the responses, but can you tell me when Jesus spoke to Allah? After his death on the cross or before that? Who is there to report what Jesus said?
 
It doesn't matter how the transcript is generated whether it is by listening, analysis and transcription or auto-generation by YouTube.

I have taken the time listened, analyzed and summarized the argument which he is making and then presented it to you, here.
  1. Please point out any transcription errors which I may have made in the summation
  2. Also confirm that you standby these arguments
I can also give you link to a YouTube which answers it but I am giving you the respect by taking my time and showing it that I have listened and tried to capture the essence of his argument.

Since the argument is coming from your side it is essential that you agree with the summation OR amend it so we can then continue the discussion which is as per your request.

Btw this is the initial argument in the video, by now I have heard it and we can open it up further (later) but the lets discuss the opening.

Thanks

i appreciate your courtesy ... but your sumnary in post#56 ( copied below) is not complete( if you mean that the whole premise of proving the point about Quran being unaltered revolves around what you summarized in post#56 )

because it leaves out a few things ... refer to the standard islamic narrative which involves the man, the book the place if one of them is disproved the whole narrative falls apart and how every thing that we know about Muhammad and the Quran is from sources that existed many years after his passing. The speaker also explains how He is going to prove his point is thru 4 parts : the sources, muhammad, quran, mecca.

This is why I said if you intend to be really accurate then the best bet is to copy paste from the transcript. ( I am not saying you are deliberately omitting stuff... its just that there is overwhelming amount of material in that video and it is hard to accurately summarize )


I have read and heard this before.

First Argument

In the first few minutes while setting the scene he says:
  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD
  2. The manuscript was written down at the time of Uthman in 652 AD (114 Chapters) and 5 copies were sent to 5 cities which became standardized until today
  3. But there were many other manuscripts which showed up containing 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters respectively and basically different to the 114 Chapters which are in the manuscript which we find today (which Uthman complied in 652)
So the issues he is pointing to are:
  • Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD and the standard manuscript was compiled in 652 (20 years later)
  • The number of Chapters of other manuscripts differed from the standard manuscripts which we have today i.e. 114 (today) vs 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters (etc)
Therefore his conclusion is that the Qur'aan is changed and altered based on the evidence which he is showing in the presentation.

Please critique and let me know if I have captured his first argument faithfully.

Thanks
 
i appreciate your courtesy ... but your sumnary in post#56 ( copied below) is not complete( if you mean that the whole premise of proving the point about Quran being unaltered revolves around what you summarized in post#56 )

because it leaves out a few things ... refer to the standard islamic narrative which involves the man, the book the place if one of them is disproved the whole narrative falls apart and how every thing that we know about Muhammad and the Quran is from sources that existed many years after his passing. The speaker also explains how He is going to prove his point is thru 4 parts : the sources, muhammad, quran, mecca.

This is why I said if you intend to be really accurate then the best bet is to copy paste from the transcript. ( I am not saying you are deliberately omitting stuff... its just that there is overwhelming amount of material in that video and it is hard to accurately summarize )
I said to start with the first argument.

Let me do it your way, get the transcript from YouTube, paste it to get your approval and I will still address it in a sequential manner.

I feel that we need to get an agreement before we discuss.
 
I said to start with the first argument.

Let me do it your way, get the transcript from YouTube, paste it to get your approval and I will still address it in a sequential manner.

I feel that we need to get an agreement before we discuss.

The better and simpler way is to go thru the video and note down the timestamps which you do not agree with and prove his points wrong. its not like the video will be taken down and wont have a means to cross check what he said.

Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with that guy
 
Dear @uppercut ,

  1. You have requested to have a serious facts and logic based discussion. I have merely broken down the first argument for your convenience so you can review and agree that it is just the first argument, nowhere have I said that it is all that he is saying.
  2. I have produced two excerpts, please pick the one of your choice and articulate your point so we can begin the discussion as requested
  3. Please agree to your argument so the "serious fact based discussion can then begin"

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you want to go to the toilet you can do but you'll miss everything so let's go ahead what do the Muslims Claim about the Quran number one it's uncreated it's

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right there in the Quran itself in chapter 85 verse 22. therefore it has not never it has never been had any

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chance that any human could have any control over it it was sent down to Muhammad between 6 10 and 632 that's

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what they claim it was completed by uthman in 652 that's probably this book in this my hand right here is from Usman

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they say and then number four the Quran is unchanged in the last 1400 years not one word not one letter has changed have

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you heard Muslims say this every Muslim says those four things just memorize those four words uncreated sent

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down completed unchanged that's all you need to know I'll come back to it I'm going to shut

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down those four but I'm going to show you something even better about those four hold on so what do Christians Claim

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about the Bible is the Bible uncreated no of course it's created we know who wrote it we even know the authors we put

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their names on most of the books the Bible is not sent down he was inspired by God but not sent down uh through an

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angel the Bible was complete so yes we would say that that was the case the

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thing is we don't have any of the original manuscripts so we don't know what the complete is hasn't been changed yeah parts of it has we know where

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they've been changed we know even what we even put we're very transparent we put in right where the verses that have

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been added or or there have been scribal errors have been taken away so we know that we're very clear about that and we're only talking about 40 verses out

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of over 6 000 verses so tonight I'm not going to shut down uncrated or sent down because I'm not

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there I'm going to shut down complete and unchanged those two that's what I want to look at so what I want to look for is

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one Quran manuscript from the seventh century that's complete 114 series that is unchanged and this is what I've asked

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Muslims all over the world I've debated over a hundred debates that I've done with Muslims and this is what

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I always ask show me one manuscript of your Quran from the seventh century that's unchanged just like the Quran I

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have in my hand here where do we go to find out about the Quran we have to go to sahih buhari

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remember I told him that he died in 870 so we he's the one that tells us how the Quran is put together now this is what

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he says he says Muhammad died in 632 it had not been written down it finally got written

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down in his final form uh at the time of uthman in 652 the third caliph he then set five copies to five different cities

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Mecca Medina Basra kufa and Damascus and those been became the Canon the

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canonized Quran for the whole world uh in 652. the problem is almost immediately another Quran supplants the

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one in Damascus by written by uba IBN kab it had 116 surahs that's two more than on the Quran today another was

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written in Baghdad written by IBN Masood it had 110 surahs that's that's a four less than what is in the Quran today

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another wrist by IBN Musa 114 stores it had so many differences according to according to Arthur Jeffer who's done

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the work on this if you just look at those manuscripts and you compare with the Quran today they're about 15 000

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differences you've got a problem so how could there have been one Quran there were at least five qurans and

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seventh from the seventh century from Mecca Medina Ambassador Damascus we cannot find one of them

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now one of those qurans exists today folks when we talk about 1400 years ago as Christians we have the city

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anarchists the Galax and dryness we have the vaticanus these are from the third and fourth century

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that's two to three hundred years before the Quran why can we reproduce our entire Bible we have 365 manuscripts of

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the New Testament before the 7th Century why can't they come up with one Quran from the 7th Century that's my question

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they are the ones that claim it not me where are these five manuscripts look at

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those cities they've always been controlled by Islam for the last 1400 years so how could they have lost it

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rather inept wouldn't you say so

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before we get into the manuscripts I want to look at the girat these are the readings this is probably done the most devastating material

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that's just come out in the last few years these are the original manuscripts now I say original means these are the

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earliest manuscripts you notice when you read them you can all read the Arabic you notice you can't why can't you read that

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because in order to be an reader Arabic you need to have dots and vowels right there are no dots and vowels on that you

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need that white because those manuscripts the Samarkand and the Sana or those ones had 16 letters but you

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can't read it today unless you have vows to help you out or dots today there are 28 letters so obviously another 12

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letters were added why because of the dots now there are six letters that don't require doth like the aleph the

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lamb the MIM the new and the wow the other 22 all require dots what am I talking about well take a look at one

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smiley face month smiley face is usually the root of most letters in Arabic if you put one

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daughter but you have a nut two dots above you have a top three dots above you have a thought one dot below you have a bar two dots below to have a yeah

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five dots were added in the eighth century not in the seventh century

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now I can read it but that didn't exist in the 7th Century none of those manuscripts you just saw

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hold on it what about dialectical differences you need to have three vowels to have dialectical differences

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so you need to be have a dhamma which is the u sound you need to have a casa which is the e sound and you need to

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have a fata which is the ah sound those were only added in the late 8th century and early 9th century so you've got a

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problem here because suddenly you have Abdul Malik who comes to power and he wants to create a Quran because he's now

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introducing a prophet a prophet has to have a book so what do you do you have to borrow right left and center but the

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problem is you're borrowing in Arabic and you don't have any Arabic that has Dawson vowels so you decide to write

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your Quran with your dots in it and you call Huffs you decide to write your well you're supposed to be a male but listen pretend you're male today and you call

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it wash and you decide to write your crunching you put your thoughts and vowels wherever you want to you live in kufa you live in Cairo you live in

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Damascus and you put your own dots wherever you want to and you put your dots where you want to suddenly we have four different qurans right in four

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different cities well that starts to proliferate until the 10th Century there were 700

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different qurans did you hear me 700 different qurans

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according to this man who did his doctoral thesis he's now him of uh the Islamic department at

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Harvard University he guests and estimates because they're not there today now you've got a problem

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I've got all these qurans none of them are agreeing you've got a difficulty so even with jahid man in the 10th century

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was given the responsibility to choose seven but before we do that notice if Dots are in different places with

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different vowels just with three different one of those little smiley faces you get 19 different words

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there's the difficulty so here's what he did he was given the responsibility to choose seven and these

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are the first seven he chose Nafi from Medina from Mecca

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even Amir from Damascus

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notice not notice that three of them are from kufa one to Damascus uh the other

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one is is from basil and the other two are from Arabia look at the dates

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what do you notice about the dates of every one of those look at the death dates every one of them either died between

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736 and 805. that means 8th and 9th century did any of these men know Muhammad

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that they even live in the same Century as Muhammad so how could they have come from Muhammad these are the seven that every Muslim

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will swear came from Muhammad but no one's daughter to look at their dates I am the one that put the dates up there

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you've got to put the dates together folks and this is where you're going to shut down every Muslim they have no idea

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of these dates those are the first seven but this book is not there this is Huff's this is the official book

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for the whole world today memorized by 93 of all

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muslimsam you see Awesome's name up there number five he is a disciple of awesome so in 1194

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two disciples were chosen from every one of the seven to make 14 right and that

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was chosen by al-shatabi in 1194. now you have 7 plus 14 how many you have twenty one am I correct I hope my Math's

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right that still isn't good enough in the 15th century in 429 another main name

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al-jazadi chose another nine to acclimate with another 21. so now you

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have 30 different qurans no two are alike

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but you've been told there's only one Quran right and the one that was chosen by Saudi

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Arabia was the Huffs that you see there guess how many differences there are between Huffs and the other 29.

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93 thousand ninety three thousand this is the first time you're hearing this right I hope

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your people are watching you Muslims are watching you're listening to this this is going to shut down your Quran for you

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who is the one that found this my colleague she's only five foot two she's from Turkey in London she and I

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were on the ladder for three years there at Speaker's Corner every Sunday she was the one that found these by accident because she went to Morocco she went to

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Yemen she went to Jordan and she went into a bookstore and says show me a Quran and they said well Which con are

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you talking about I said what do you mean which Quran they said well we have Kowloon here we have Huffs over here we have water over

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here we have kisai over here we have IBN katir she said well give them all to me so she brought him back to London showed me them and I looked at them and I said

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oh man I started laughing I thought these were all destroyed in 1924 they were in Cairo and thrown into the Nile evidently not there they are she has

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found Now 26 of them she brought 26 of them down the Speaker's Corner we held them up in 2060. we filmed it went all

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over the Internet this shut down the Quran in 2016. see the man that's there on the right The Tall Man with the beard

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his name is Muhammad hijab one of the most popular men on the internet he has a following about anywhere from half a

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million to a million followers he was there filming us when he was doing that he realized there was a problem he

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quickly went outside the crowd and he yelled at all the people come to me do not look at what they're showing you do not listen to what they're saying I will

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explain everything to you obviously he explained it pretty well why because four years later he was shown these

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material I'm not going to go into all of these you can go into every one of them but you can see the Huff's on the left the washer on the right in every case

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it's completely different words just by changing the vows by changing the docs you not only get different words you get

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different meanings you don't even get different meanings you get different doctrines you get different theologies and you get different practices it shuts

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down the Quran from being preserved obviously these are all done by man there's a problem there and so he came

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to this man who's the leading Authority there on the right yasarkari there in Houston and he said I have a problem I'm going to put my hand out here and I'm

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gonna this is a blank piece of paper which Quran are you going to write on it which is the one that's Eternal which is the one that was revealed to Muhammad

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tell me which one of it remember he was the one that told all the Muslims he was going to explain it to them says we do not talk about this in public

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this is the most difficult problem for Muslim Scholars for the last Thousand Years

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he said we have a respect for the Quran we there are certain questions we don't ask so Muhammad said was that the problem

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you had when you were at Yale University getting your doctorate on this in 1995 is that where you had a crisis of faith is no no not crisis of Faith crisis of

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knowledge notice the difference he said in the West

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the scholars have come Leaps and Bounds in the last hundred years and they're looking at you pointing to Mohammed

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hijab in the east they're looking at you like the emperor with no clothes why because your

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standard narrative has holes in it what narrative standard Islamic

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narrative s-i-n has holes in it well we know sin has

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holes in it but can you see what happened this was only a 28 long

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this is really a question that was happening it was an interview for 28 minutes he didn't know we were all watching this

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he said I never have talked about this for 25 years I will never do a lecture on this

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so Muhammad had John put his hand out a second time he said you've got to tell me which is the one that's Eternal because the Quran says in chapter 85 22

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1-22 that this book is eternal the Quran says in chapter 10 verse 15 in chapter 18 verse 27 that no man can change one

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word or even one letter it says in the Quran chapter 15 verse 9 that Allah protects his word which is the one

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after 28 minutes finally had to give in and he finally had to admit they're all

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the Quran all 30 of them you take a little bit of kaloon you take a little bit of watch you take a little bit of

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Huffs and you just mix them out and that's the crown we have today I started clapping I was watching this live I said

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yasukai you have no idea you've just now admitted that there are 93 000 differences I'm going to show you these

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two right here these are two of them right here there's the Huff's here's the watch you can buy these on the internet

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this is the one that is memorized by 93 of the world's population this is memorized by three percent of the

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world's population this is from Egypt this one is from kufa in Iraq there are 5 000 different words between these two

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books I'm holding them right here this shuts down the Quran

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within two weeks if you looked at their sights there were hundreds of Muslims they said we're leaving Islam because of what you

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have said and our blood is going to be on your shoulders they had a shut down those comments

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within two months they had to take that video off of both their sites but I've got it

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David wood has it how Tosh has it and every June 8th of every year we bring up

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that interview once over again and show the whole world you cannot say that this comes from God you cannot even say it

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comes from Muhammad you can't even say it comes from Usman this has been changed and manipulated

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from the last 1400 years now let's get to the manuscripts because

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the manuscripts we do have now we have 8 500 Greek manuscripts 10 000 Latin

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vulgates another 9011 different languages that's roughly 24 000 to 25 000 manuscripts of the New

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Testament alone am I correct just say yes how many manuscripts do they have that are early

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six you want to see them there they are the top copy from Turkey the summer Khan

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from Uzbekistan in London the petropolitanus I'm sorry I'm going the wrong way from France

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there in Cairo and the son of manuscript the most exciting there in Yemen I'm not going to unpack every one of them these

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are the ones we're debating I did a debate on these four six manuscripts in 2014 with the world's leading scholar Dr

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shabir Ali he could not answer one question because he never looked at these manuscripts

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I have three of them the facilities of three of them in my office we're looking at them folks you notice

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what we have found no two of these manuscripts are from the seventh century they're from the 8th 9th and 10th

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Century no two are alike and they don't agree with the Quran we have today the best one the Top Copy which is about

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99 has 2270 manuscript variants when you look at the Sanam manuscript it

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has two different layers of letters and there are 63 verses in the lower layer it has 70 variants just within those 63

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verses can you see there's a problem here I'm not going to get into these ones here these are the carbon datings

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but when you look at the carbon datings of the earliest management of the sauna manuscript they the datings of the carbon dates of this manuscript they are

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date from 390 to 550 they all predate the Quran they predate Islam and they

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pray date Muhammad proving that carbon dating don't use so they came up with this book here called the Birmingham folios the Birmingham manionship

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remember this in 2015 it was all over the internet when you look at the Birmingham manuscript it's only two pieces of paper

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front and back it's only 33 verses and guess what it's all about the seven sleepers of

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Ephesus chapter 18. that has nothing to do with Islam it's about the proto-evangelion of James that has

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nothing to do with Islam and it's about the story of Moses that all predates Islam all of these are in Arabic and

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they are nothing to do with Islam so what's going on hold on I want to interviews this guy here Dr

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Dan brubacher he was in our conference this last weekend you should have come this man has just shut the Quran down

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because of this book right here you need to buy this book

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basically what he has done is he's taken the Muslims afterward and he says if there's no changes in the last 1400 years let's see if I can find changes

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and he's looked he's the only one that's looked at all the manuscripts and he has found insertions there you can see some

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there he has found erasers there you can see erasers there he has found erasers over written you can see them there in

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the red he has found overriding without erasers he has found selective coverings there are so many coverings in the

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middle one there there are eight different coverings what every case when you see insertions when you have overriding when you have any one of

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these reference these differences what happens in every case it brings it down to a standardization of the huffstex

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means that this is censorship that's been going on for for not 1400 years it's been going on since the 1300s for

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700 years they've been changing these manuscripts to make them so they all are alike selective coverings overwritten

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and tapings we went down to Speaker's Corner I go down to one hour I'm in London there's Hutton Tosh the five foot two lady that

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destroyed the Quran they're on my left there and we decide to introduce this book there at Speaker's Corner while

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we're there one of the leading Scholars on the right there Mansour Ahmad from Bangladesh got up there and tried to shut us down and he was making the claim

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that you can trace the Quran back all the way to the 7th Century so I turned him and I say okay you can do that show

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me what manuscript you're talking about it's not the petropolitan you can't use the

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husseini and don't use the mighty manuscripts and certainly don't use the sauna manuscript because all of these are 8th 9th and 10th Century which is

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the manuscript that goes back to the 7th century he finally had to admit that there were 63 There was six I was 96 of the Quran

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that they could find within the first century that means between 6 22 and 721

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or 719. notice the 63 that he's talking about these are the fragments that he

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has found notice we looked at every one of these fragments none of them those ones I'm putting up there there's no one

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has come to any conclusion on those 20 the next nine are all after the sixth

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seventh nineteen so they shouldn't have used those to a nine and the next 34 no

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one's done any working which means he has basically what the Muslims have done they've just created

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manuscripts or fragments most of these are just one or two verses they've tried to come up with 63 to come up with 96 of

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the crime and they're all none of them can be used from the first century of Islam oh I love it makes my job so easy

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thus none of them are really valid since all of them are either later or tentally dated or have no supporting evidence so

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where did the Quran that we have in our hand where did it come from this book right here

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it was chosen in 1924 by one scholar named why because they were having some

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problem amongst the uni the high schools kids there in the City of Cairo they're having 30 different answers for all the

1:04:28

questions they went to Muhammad said choose one and he chose this one

1:04:33

what did they do with the other 29 threw them into the Nile like I said earlier thinking that would get rid of them

1:04:39

they didn't count on hatun Tosh five foot two lady to decide to find them in 2013.

1:04:45

nonetheless that was so successful of choosing one crown that by 1936 it was then chosen as the Quran for the entire

1:04:52

country of Egypt by 1985 the Saudi Arabian government saw how successful that model was so they chose it for the

1:04:58

whole world in 1985 how many people are older or were living in 1985. just raise your hands that means every one of you

1:05:05

who's raising your hands is now older than the Quran oh boy that must make you feel old

1:05:12

but now we're coming to the best this is the last thing and this is lovely see you'd like to know where the Quran

1:05:19

really comes from right I'd like to know where the Quran really comes from because if you're having to put together

1:05:24

a book because a man had has been chosen who writes the book you don't have anything at hand what are you going to

1:05:30

do you're going to borrow are you not so this is exactly what happened in the eighth in the ninth in the 10th century

1:05:37

but what did they borrow let me introduce this man here Dr Gunther Luling who was a German scholar

1:05:43

he did his Doctorate in 1970 and he's Nook at the Quran he noticed that there was some beautiful poetry in the Quran

1:05:49

he said I've seen that before so he took those five dots off and he took the three vowels out and replaced them with

1:05:55

Syriac and abiti and dots or Syriac nabatin Syriac or

1:06:01

Syriac documents put the Syriac dots back in and put the vowels back in and

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guess what he found that these beautiful poetry were Christian hymns

1:06:12

written by Christians about Jesus Christ

1:06:19

this was found in 1970 as a result of that he was such an embarrassment for the Academia there in

1:06:26

Germany that he though he received in his doctoral the examine Opus which is the highest grade you could get in

1:06:32

Germany which means that you should be given a professorship in any University of your choice he was thrown out of Academia and he went Into Obscurity for

1:06:38

30 years lived on welfare with his wife I met him in

1:06:45

1998 I saw I said could I see your doctorate I took her back to England and I got it from Germany Germany and put it

1:06:51

into English now remember when he writes one sentence is 400 words long that's how the academics do it in

1:06:58

Germany we had been bringing it down so people could manage it we got it written in English it could not it would not

1:07:03

they would not publish it there in Germany so that he had to get it published in India but because of that there you can see it right there the

1:07:09

challenge to Islam for reformation don't read that you shouldn't read the the strong small print he then was able then

1:07:15

was resurrected because it was all over the English-speaking world and he died a happy man in 2014. now Dr Christoph

1:07:22

Luxembourg decided to go one step further he's also a German but that's not his real name because he will be

1:07:27

killed for what he has found he decided to do what Gunther little league did but he decided to look at the dark passages

1:07:32

25 of the Quran no one understands not even the scholars understand it a

1:07:38

quarter of the Quran even the scholars don't understand did you know that can you understand the whole Bible

1:07:44

certainly you can when Jack kid gets up here does he open the Bible please say yes does he read it please say yes does

1:07:50

he unpack it for you and does he apply to your lives why because you can understand every word of it

1:07:56

and you can understand it in English right thank God for our Bible but see you can't do that with the Quran

1:08:04

you can't do that with the Quran you can't understand these 25. so what are you going to do well he decided to

1:08:10

do what Gunther Luling did and he took and went to every one of those passages and he went through seven layers I won't

1:08:18

go unpack each one of them he went through seven layers taking off the vows taking off the dots looking at the lexicons looking and seeing if you can

1:08:24

find any Arabic words you couldn't find any there so he went to Syria put the dots back in put the vowels in hey went to the lexicons in Syria and guess where

1:08:30

you could find he could reproduce all the 25 percent all the dark passages he was able to

1:08:35

reproduce but what did he find once he took the Arab Quran and put it to its Aramaic Roots all the dark

1:08:42

passages were Christian lectionaries Christian homilies and Christian hymns every lectionary homily him was about

1:08:49

Jesus Christ

1:08:55

it had nothing to do with what they found but who they found folks there are four textual Evolutions

1:09:02

I'm not going to go with them tonight but can you see what we're doing I want to ask the same question of the

1:09:07

Quran and come to the same conclusion remember I said the very beginning the Muslims have four things that they demand of the

1:09:13

Quran it must be eternal it must be sent down it must be complete

1:09:20

and unchanged I think we shut that down tonight have we not

1:09:25

and we would not say the same thing about our word of God the Bible but hold on a minute is the Bible the

1:09:31

only word of God we have don't we have someone who's also called the word of God the logos

1:09:37

Jesus Christ let's apply those four to him is Jesus Christ eternal

1:09:43

number one was Jesus Christ sent down number two is Jesus complete number

1:09:49

three is Jesus unchanged absolutely everything the Muslims need

1:09:56

we've got thus the four criteria Muslims are

1:10:03

looking for in their Quran as their primary revelation we already have in Jesus Christ Our

1:10:09

primary Revelation folks we need to bring them home to a much greater and a better Revelation and what's his name

1:10:16

what's his name oh I love her what a name

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let's pray our heavenly father as we've gone and

1:10:27

we've unpacked these three areas we've looked at the book The Man in the place we've also looked at the sources Lord

1:10:32

when we look at these and we realize just how hopeless and impractical practical Islam is when we look and see

1:10:39

that this is not a man who lived in the 7th Century oh there were many people called Muhammad the praise one of course

1:10:45

possibly even you were called that when you were here but Lord when we look and see who he is and what that what has become of him and

1:10:52

what David put to it's not a man I want to follow when we look at the Quran and we see that there was no crime in the seventh

1:10:57

century there was not even a city called Mecca Lord everything they're dependent on on those three things we've now just

1:11:03

using seventh century we have shut down Lord they still want to know you

1:11:10

they still want to believe in God and they still want to be brought home Lord we're the only ones that can do

1:11:17

that Lord I want to bring them back to a better God a bigger God a better book a bigger book a better Jesus a bigger

1:11:22

Jesus I want to bring him back to you because we're the only ones that have the antidote though we can shut it down that's not in the reason I don't want to

1:11:29

shut down their man God and book I want to bring him back to our man Garden book Lord that's something we've got to do

1:11:35

the atheists can't do this the humanists can't do this because all they give them is nihilism in response

1:11:41

I love these Muslims they're my favorite people I've worked with them for 40 years I wouldn't be wasting my time if I

1:11:48

didn't love them I want them to know you and the only way I can do that is to bring them back to you

1:11:55

what a God you are a God who enters time in space what a God you are a God who gave us his Revelation what a God you

1:12:01

are because you came and died for us and rose again and that's the god they need to know Lord help every one of us who's

1:12:06

here and those who are watching let's bring them home let's bring them home

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Christ name we pray amen


My Summation of the First Argument:

First Argument

In the first few minutes while setting the scene he says:

  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD
  2. The manuscript was written down at the time of Uthman in 652 AD (114 Chapters) and 5 copies were sent to 5 cities which became standardized until today
  3. But there were many other manuscripts which showed up containing 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters respectively and basically different to the 114 Chapters which are in the manuscript which we find today (which Uthman complied in 652)
So the issues he is pointing to are:

  • Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) passed away in 632 AD and the standard manuscript was compiled in 652 (20 years later)
  • The number of Chapters of other manuscripts differed from the standard manuscripts which we have today i.e. 114 (today) vs 116, 110, 114 and 114 chapters (etc)
Therefore his conclusion is that the Qur'aan is changed and altered based on the evidence which he is showing in the presentation.

Please critique and let me know if I have captured his first argument faithfully.

Thanks

I have heard his points, made notes and ready to discuss. I am trying to ascertain your knowledge of the subject and what research you have done. Trying to see the commitment from your side.

This is your request for discussion so what is your research and how prepared are you to asses my arguments vs his?

The better and simpler way is to go thru the video and note down the timestamps which you do not agree with and prove his points wrong. its not like the video will be taken down and wont have a means to cross check what he said.
 
Dear @uppercut ,

  1. You have requested to have a serious facts and logic based discussion. I have merely broken down the first argument for your convenience so you can review and agree that it is just the first argument, nowhere have I said that it is all that he is saying.
  2. I have produced two excerpts, please pick the one of your choice and articulate your point so we can begin the discussion as requested
  3. Please agree to your argument so the "serious fact based discussion can then begin"

YouTube Generated Transcript




My Summation of the First Argument:



I have heard his points, made notes and ready to discuss.
I am trying to ascertain your knowledge of the subject and what research you have done. Trying to see the commitment from your side.

This is your request for discussion so what is your research and how prepared are you to asses my arguments vs his?


I will go with the actual transcript which is essentially the full video... however I do not see the tomestamps that you do not agree with in that video.
 
I will go with the actual transcript which is essentially the full video... however I do not see the tomestamps that you do not agree with in that video.
Go ahead and paste the transcript your way and lets take it from there . I am trying to get to a point which can then be discussed
 
Go ahead and paste the transcript your way and lets take it from there . I am trying to get to a point which can then be discussed

you already did that in post#71 ( Iam not disputing the accuracy of that)... what I meant is please list the timestamps that you do not agree with and your explanation/evidence to backup your claim. Is that a Fair ask?
 
you already did that in post#71 ( Iam not disputing the accuracy of that)... what I meant is please list the timestamps that you do not agree with and your explanation/evidence to backup your claim. Is that a Fair ask?
Let me do it your way.

My next post will list YouTube minute of Jay Smith's claim and all I would like you to do is double check and verify the accuracy of Jay Smith's claim and we can then discuss the first point.

I can easily post a video of Jay Smith's claims which have been refuted but I am respecting your time and commitment and will actually do the homework (his claim) and then I what think is the response.

  1. I do all the work on presenting his claims, your verify
  2. I do all the work in refuting claims, you counter
We will do it in a methodical manner that all (besides you) will be able to verify but its important for me for you to agree before we begin.

You just need to sit back and check :)

In a meeting with a client so let me go back to my notes and post in between
 
Jay Smith Claim 1:

I am going to shutdown Muslim claims of Quraan being complete and unchanged, his exact words and timestamps are as follows:

46:52 there I'm going to shut down complete and unchanged those two that's what I want to look at so what I want to look for is Prophet Muhammad died in 632 AD

46:58

one Quran manuscript from the seventh century that's complete 114 series that is unchanged and this is what I've asked

47:04

Muslims all over the world I've debated over a hundred debates that I've done with Muslims and this is what

47:10

I always ask show me one manuscript of your Quran from the seventh century that's unchanged just like the Quran I

47:15

have in my hand here where do we go to find out about the Quran we have to go to sahih buhari

Then he says where do we go to find this out, we go to see Saheeh Bukhari and Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Muhammad) died in 632 but Quran was written down in 652 (third caliph) and he says that Imam Bukhari who compiled Saheeh Bukhari died in 870 which is roughly 200 years after Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Muhammad) and here are the timestamps​

47:15

have in my hand here where do we go to find out about the Quran we have to go to sahih buhari

47:21

remember I told him that he died in 870 so we he's the one that tells us how the Quran is put together now this is what

47:26

he says he says Muhammad died in 632 it had not been written down it finally got written

47:32

down in his final form uh at the time of uthman in 652 the third caliph he then set five copies to five different cities

47:38

Mecca Medina Basra kufa and Damascus and those been became the Canon the
Please confirm that there are no errors with the summation and you agree with Jay Smith’s claims and we will go from there.

Remember that this is just the beginning.

His timeline:

  1. Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) died in 632 AH
  2. Caliph Uthman died in 652 AH
  3. Imam Bukhari died in 870 AH

My Claim 1:

He is not presenting any "independent facts" for his claim but arguing on the basis of Saheeh Al-Bukhari which is a Muslim source :facepalm:

So in order to counter, I would also rely on Islamic sources (where necessary) because if the Islamic sources are good for him then they should be good for me too :)
 
Let me do it your way.

My next post will list YouTube minute of Jay Smith's claim and all I would like you to do is double check and verify the accuracy of Jay Smith's claim and we can then discuss the first point.

everything that he presented has some form of evidence/reasoning which is mentioned in the video itself.

I get it that you don't agree with many points in that video... so all I am asking is that you list them out by timestamps and we can discuss each one of your objections.
 
Pronunciation Background: Cumin Seed
  1. Many Indians call it Jeera
  2. Pakistanees call it Zeera

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If you are not of Indian/Pakistani background, visit your nearest Indian/Pakistani grocery store and ask. If you know this or understand it, 60% of Jay Smith claims stand refuted as I will show later.

We will discuss later when the time comes about this.
 
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