AND EXTREMISM
Reasons to Leave Religion (Islam)
A Translation from Arabic
By Shums Ladeen
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This is the final edition – 2024
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1. Clear & Plain .. Easy to Explain
2. A Ceiling with Height .. & A Moving Gaslight
3. The Scholars’ Structure .. on Basis with Fracture
4. Prayer, Fasting .. & Facts That Sting
5. Fetus Formation .. & Misinformation
6. Clear the Pollution .. See the Evolution
7. Checking Every Verse .. About the Universe
9. Conclusion .. it is a Delusion
PART II: MORE FLAWS .. & BROKEN LAWS
10. No One Can Imitate .. a Book in a Faulty State
11. Revised Edition .. & Dubious Condition
12. Inheritance .. & Intelligence
13. Legends of Prophets .. for Big Profits
PART III: ERUPTION OF CORRUPTION
14. The Old Tale .. Grew a Tail
15. Researchers Slam .. the Heresy of Islam
16. What Was the Motive? .. Gains Were Attractive
17. With the Carrot & Stick .. Training Was Drastic
PART IV: ATROCITY IS LOUD .. TRUTH IS NOT ALLOWED
18. Legalization of Discrimination
19. With Allah’s Will .. They Abuse & Kill
20. When the Cruel .. Seek to Rule
PART V: BELIEVE IT .. OR LEAVE IT
21. Values, Morality .. & Life’s Totality
22. Have Some Wine .. You’ll Be Fine
23. It Shall Stay .. the Fathers’ Way
24. Duty Calls .. to Tear Walls
Criticism.. is the friend of belief. Your friend is that who says what is right, not who says you are right. Rather, they are a pair that cannot be separated unless the balance of truth is disturbed.
Religion is based on belief; and belief is ideas. No idea should be immune from criticism and skepticism, with full respect for its believers and any noble values it may contain.
Despite the ban imposed by some governments, criticism of religions is useful, important, even necessary, in order to see the truth as truth so we follow it, and to see falseness as falseness so we avoid it, and for the sake of having the empowerment by rightness substitute the rightfulness by power.
Extremism.. is a relative attribute, with a disputable definition that cannot be settled, but I think that its worst form is what leads the holders of some belief to claim that their belief invalidates the other beliefs and that it must be imposed on an entire people, and pushes them to terrorism toward that who disagrees with them, and to harming that person or even killing him|her, whether formally through a government or personally through an extremist individual or group.
Knowing that we do not know.. admitting that we do not know all the answers is better for us than taking the wrong answers, delusionally or arrogantly. To see things as they truly are, it is necessary to strip the mind of inherited beliefs so that it gets freed from their influence. That who cannot leave them, at least, when searching or contemplating, he|she should put them in the “silent” mode.
After the spread of the Internet, and despite the semi-full blockade imposed by the Saudi government against websites critical of religion and politics, I had curiosity and tendency to liberty and exploration of the hidden; so I got into the habit of bypassing the blockade. After some time, I viewed information that was not previously available when governments fully controlled the media and education: What the critics of Islam have published on strong proofs for the humanness of the religion. And by pondering them, with the ability to understand classic Arabic.. I attained awareness of the extent of falsity, and realized the magnitude of the historical deceit. So I left religion on that basis.
Over the years.. I gathered the strongest proofs, paraphrased them, added to them, and finally documented them in this book, along with my own research and thoughts, to arm myself with it in defending my position. Praise and thanks to those who preceded me in discovering and publishing them (Christians and irreligionists), and because of them I knew many of them. These proofs implicate the three Abrahamic religions, as they have the same flaws. And there is no difference between us and the followers of any other religion; the children inherit the beliefs of parents through hundreds of years, and they are mere beliefs.. most of which are delusive, built on fraud and myth, and enticement and intimidation.
To the scholars of Quran I say: “If you do not know, then it is a calamity, and if you know, then the calamity is greater.”
Dear reader, the Quran says: “Will they not ponder the Quran? Or are there locks upon their hearts?”
47:24 I – This book helps you to do that, if you are among those who prefer truth over delusion; it is directed to anyone who believes in the Islamic belief, and anyone who is interested, in order to contribute to the materialization of humanity, freedom and dignity for all people, and the abatement of physical and mental terrorism; and it is a means of defense, not offense, as its main purpose is to record and explain the reasons that pushed me to leave the religion, and more reasons that would make others leave it or avoid it, and to prove that we left falsehood for the sake of becoming on the right path to truth.
Freedom of expression is one of the human rights,
and expression includes criticism of religion.
Arguments and proofs, their sources were mentioned.
I present, not impose them. Why do you sequester them?
If we muffled the truth, stayed silent,
illnesses would overwhelm and break us,
and evil would rise and cut a shipboard.
But the will has protected us.
PART I
REVOLVING & EVOLVING
On some scientific errors in the Quran
and proofs of its humanness
Religions bade us farewell,
and knowledges invited us
to a nature that created us.
Our fears did not deter us.
1. Clear & Plain .. Easy to Explain
The Quran was composed in Arabic in order to be understandable to the Arabs:
{We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand.} 43:3 I
(ibn-Kathir’s interpretation: In the language of the Arabs, articulate, clear, so that you may comprehend it and think it through.)
(Tabari: We got it down, an Arabic Quran, to the Arabs, because their language and speech are Arabic, so we got it down in their language so that they may understand it and comprehend it.) (Qurtubi: That is, you may understand its rulings and meanings. According to this statement, it is specific to the Arabs and not to the non-Arabs.)
The words in it.. are clear and explicit, not esoteric, symbolic, or figurative:
{.. We have sent it in clear verses. ..} 22:16 Q
(ibn-Kathir: i.e. perspicuous in their wording and meanings)
{.. sent down the Book to His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad) and has not made any crookedness in it, • unswerving. ..} 18:1-2 Q
(Tabari: straight [...] no crookedness in it, and no deviation from the truth) (ibn-Kathir: He did not make in it a warp, a deflection, or inclination, rather he made it balanced, straightforward)
{An Arabic Quran, wherein there is no crookedness, ..} 39:28 D
(Tabari: Unambiguous)
(ibn-Kathir: There is no distinction in it, nor is it a deviation, nor an ambiguity, but rather an explanation, clarity, and proof)
It is a comprehensive book for all life affairs:
{.. We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things ..} 16:89 I (ibn-Kathir: ibn-Mas’oud said “He made clear to us in this Quran every knowledge, and everything.”
[...] as it contains every beneficial knowledge, such as reports of what happened in the past, information about what is yet to come, what is lawful and unlawful, and what people need to know about their worldly affairs, their religion, their livelihood in this world, and their destiny in the Hereafter.)
This is confirmed by a saying attributed to Omar ibn-al-Khattab, (one of Muhammad’s closest companions, one of the ten who were given good news that they’ll go to Paradise, and one of four described as “the Rightly Guided Caliphs”,) regarding the thousands of books that were in Persia:
“Toss them in water, for if they contain guidance, Allah has guided us with more guidance than it, and if it is misguidance, Allah has protected us.” [1]
And regarding the thousands of books that were in the Library of Alexandria: “If there is in them what agrees with the Book of Allah, then the Book of Allah suffices us not to use them, and if there is in them what contradicts the Book of Allah, then no need for them.” [2]
In it are details of everything; it is not concise nor brief:
{.. A Scripture whose Verses were perfected, then elaborated, from One who is Wise and Informed.}
11:1 I
{Certainly, We have brought to them a Book (the Quran) which We have explained in detail with knowledge ..} 7:52 H
{.. We have explained all things in detail.} 17:12 I
{.. It is not a forged statement but a confirmation of Allah’s existing Books and a detailed explanation of everything ..} 12:111 H
It is described as being perfected, preserved from misrepresentation, and free from any error or falseness:
{.. A Scripture whose Verses were perfected, ..} 11:1 I
(Qurtubi: It has been made perfect, all of it, no flaw or falsity in it. And perfection is the prevention of a statement from corruption.)
{It is We Who have sent down the Thikr (i.e. the Quran) and surely, We will guard it.} 15:9 H
{.. And verily, it is an honourable respected book • falseness cannot come to it from before it or behind it, sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise.} 41:41-42 H
(Tabari: Honorable by Allah’s honoring of it, and protecting it from everyone who wants for it replacing, perversion, or alteration [...] A man of falseness cannot change it with his plotting, and replace any of its meanings, [...] nor attach anything that is not of it in it.) It is described as the words of “Allah” who knows everything and whose knowledge does not miss anything:
{Surely your god is Allah, the One besides whom there is no other god. He comprehends everything in knowledge.} 20:98 I
{.. that you may know that Allah knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and that Allah is the Knower of all things.} 5:97 S
{.. so that you know Allah is powerful over all things, and that Allah encompasses everything in knowledge.} 65:12 Q
{Allah– surely nothing is hidden from Him in the earth or in the heaven.} 3:5 S
{With Him are the keys of the unseen, none knows them but He. He knows that which is in the land and sea. No leaf falls except He knows it, and there is no grain in the darkness of the earth, fresh or withered, but is recorded in a clear Book.} 6:59 Q
{Say, “My Lord projects the truth. He is the Knower of the Unseen.”} 34:48 I (Tabari: It is the revelation, he brings it down from heaven, and projects it to his Prophet Muhammad
[...] Knower of what is absent from sights)
It urges us to contemplate its texts and to follow their clues:
{Do they not ponder the Quran? ..} 4:82 I
{Will they not ponder the Quran? Or are there locks upon their hearts?} 47:24 I As for the next text.. the defenders of religion exploit it against criticism and skepticism:
{It is He Who has sent down to you the Book. In it are Verses that are entirely clear, they are the foundations of the Book; and others not entirely clear. So as for those in whose hearts there is a deviation, they follow that which is not entirely clear thereof, seeking Al-Fitnah (polytheism, trials, etc.), and seeking its hidden meanings, but none knows its hidden meanings save Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: “We believe in it; the whole of it are from our Lord.”
And none receive admonition except men of understanding.} 3:7 H
They claim that the “unclear verses” here include what they call “suspicions”, which are the verses in which the critics find flaws. If this were true, then this verse would contradict the verses that describe the Quran as clear and perfect and urge contemplation of it. However, the early commentators (closest to the generation of the founders of Islam) knew what was meant by it:
“The unclear verses” are the split letters at the beginning of some surahs, such as “Alif Lam Meem”,
“Alif Lam Meem Raa”, because they are similar in pronunciation, and agree with the letters of the abjad calculation. It was narrated that a group of Jews, including Huyay ibn Akhtab, came to Muhammad, and Huyay said to him: We have been informed that “Alif Lam Meem” was revealed to you ... if that is true, then I know the duration of your nation's rule; it is 71 years; so was there any other revealed? He said: Yes, “Alif Lam Meem Sod.” He said: This is more; it is 161 years; was there anything else? He said: Yes, “Alif Lam Raa.” He said: This is more; it is 231 years; and you have confused us, so we do not know whether we should take the many of it or the few, and we are among those who do not believe in this.
So this verse came to say that what they wanted they will not get, and that only Allah knows it. “And
those firmly grounded in knowledge”: Those who study the knowledge of the Torah; and they are Abdullah ibn Salam and his companions of the believers of the People of the Torah. [3]
These descriptions with which the Quran characterizes itself.. entail that its texts shown in the following chapters of this book.. are clear, perfected and detailed Arabic texts; no way for anyone to elude them by claiming that the meaning is esoteric, symbolic or figurative, or that the Quran is concise or brief, or that it has a special language that only certain persons would understand, or that it is a purely religious book that has nothing to do with natural sciences and cosmic facts.
Note: The letter at the end of a verse refers to the translator. The names of the translators are listed in the references at the end of the book.
[1] History of ibn-Khaldoun v1 p631, al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran by Asfahani p32
[2] Ikhbaar al-Olamaa bi-Akhbaar al-Hukamaa by Qifty p266, History of Mukhtasar al-Duwal by ibn-al-Ibri – Edition 1899 p175
[3] Interpretations by Muqatil ibn Sulaiman, al-Farraa, al-Tabari, al-Baghawi 3:7
2. A Ceiling with Height .. & A Moving Gaslight
In the old times.. people looked around them, and saw the Earth extended and flat, and looked above them, and saw the sun, the moon, the stars and the clouds. And in the absence of science.. the belief dominated that the Earth is flat, fixed, extended underneath; and that what is above them is a sky, extended like a dome, facing it at the top, and that every morning, the sun rises from a place at the east edge of the Earth, goes upward and runs till it goes downward and disappears into a place at the west edge (like the following illustration):
[Image 1]
Such perceptions are still held by some people till this time, including modern scholars of Islam; because their source of knowledge is.. a book named the Quran. The following is a review of some of its content.. for the sake of knowing the truth, and to do the contemplation to which it invited.
Earth
{It is He who stretched out the Earth ..} 13:3 Q
{And the Earth, We spread out ..} 15:19 H
{Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? [...] And the Earth, how it is made a vast expanse?} 88:17-20 S
{And the Earth, We have stretched it forth beneath; an excellent Spreader are We.} 51:48 D
{Who has made the Earth for you a carpet ..} 2:22 D
{And Allah has made the Earth Unto you an expanse.} 71:19 D
{Have We not made the Earth an even expanse?} 78:6 S
Quran: Earth is extended, flat, spread over as an expanse, like a carpet.
These synonyms cooperate to confirm the perception of the authors of the Quran.. that the Earth is like a carpet and not like a ball.
Science: Earth is a planet among the planets, floating in space.
(Qurtubi: He extended the Earth in length and breadth [...] we spread it like a rug on water [...] It is to answer whoever claims it is like a sphere [...] What the Muslims and the People of the Book hold as true is that the Earth is stationary, still, and extended, and that its movement is by quakes that hit it.)
{Is not He Who has made the Earth as a fixed abode ..} 27:61 H
{And he cast mountains on the Earth, lest it shifts with you ..}16:15 I
Quran: Earth is fixed, does not shift nor deviate from its place.
Science: Earth is a planet that revolves around itself and around the sun.
(ibn-Kathir: stable and stationary, it does not convulse or move with its people nor shake with them)
Mountains
{And he cast mountains on the Earth, lest it shifts with you ..}16:15 I
{He placed therein (the Earth) firm mountains from above it ..} 41:10 H
{And the mountains, He established them firm} 79:32 D
{and the mountains as pegs} 78:7 Q
{.. the mountains, how they are installed} 88:19 I
Quran: Mountains were thrown into the Earth like pegs.. to stabilize it and to fix it.
Science: Mountains protruded from the ground, as a result of its plates moving, colliding, cracking and bending, or as a result of volcanic activity. [1]
(ibn-Kathir: When the Earth was created, it was shifting; the angels said: This thing would never hold anyone on its back. So next day the mountains were created. The angels did not know from what the mountains were created.)
(Qurtubi: fixed mountains; the Earth is anchored by them, i.e. becomes still; anchoring is stillness
[...] they were installed on the Earth, so that it would not depart; that is so because when the Earth was flattened, it tilted, so He moored it with mountains.)
In Arabic, the term “samaa” (plural: samawaat) means anywhere at the level of the clouds and above, and it includes the concepts of “sky”, “heaven” and “firmament”. It is probably the only term for these concepts in Arabic. (You can see this in transliterations.) It is the ceiling of any place; thus the ceiling of the house used to be called “sama’ah” or “samawah”. [2]
In the time of authoring the Quran.. planets in the language of Arabs meant stars. [3] They include all the objects we see in space. “Star” is originally a noun for every planet in the sky, and it is more particular for Pleiades (constellation of Taurus). [4] The Arabs did not have a notable difference between the two nouns; for example, the annotators said that the term “al-Khunnass” (in the Quran) refers to the five “stars” Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, [5] and these planets, along with the sun and the moon, were referred to as.. the seven roaming planets. [6] This is confirmed by the two verses of the Quran “We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns” 67:5 I – and “We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the planets, and as a protection” 37:6-7 Q – as the objects that we call planets now.. do not have light and it is not right to describe them as lanterns. So, the planets in the Quran are the stars.
And the phrase “as a protection” is proof that the intended meaning of planets includes the meteors, which are hurled on demons, and they were referred to as the stoning planets. [7]
{Muhammad said: The superiority of the learned man over the worshiper is like the superiority of the moon on the night when it is full over all the rest of the stars.} [8]
{Have they not observed the sky above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, ..?} 50:6 I Transliteration: “Afalam yandhuroo ila ‘s’samaa ..”
{It is a sending down from Him who has created the earth, and the high heavens.} 20:4 Q
{And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We beautified it for the beholders}15:16 H
{We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns, and made them missiles against the devils..}67:5I
{We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the planets, • a protection against every rebel satan} 37:6 Q
{.. has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light.} 25:61 H
Quran: The “sky” is a high, built entity we look at above us, in which there are stars, planets, the sun, and the moon.
Science: Earth is surrounded by those objects from all directions, not just from above it.
{.. He sent down rain upon you from heaven ..} 8:11 D
{.. He sends down water from the sky and with it He revives the Earth ..} 30:24 Q
Quran: The “sky” is also what water comes down from. So the “sky” includes the stars and the atmosphere.
Science: The stars are distant objects separated by space; while the atmosphere pertains to the planet, adhering to it. Thus, it is not right to consider the “sky” an entity that includes the stars and the atmosphere, distinct from Earth.
{Are ye secure that He who is in the heaven will not sink the Earth with you ..} 67:16 D
{It is He who is God in heaven, and God on Earth. ..} 43:84 I
{In the sky is your provision and that which you are promised.} 51:22 Q
{And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We beautified it for the beholders • And We have guarded it from every outcast Shaitan} 15:16-17 H
Quran: The “sky” is a separate entity from Earth.
Science: Earth is a planet that floats in the space named “sky“.
{Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? And at the sky, how it is raised?} 88:17-18 I
{And the heaven, He raised it high ..} 55:7 S
{Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that you see ..} 13:2 S
{And the elevated roof} 52:5 I
{.. the heaven, He constructed it. • He raised its masses, and proportioned it.} 79:27-28 I
{.. the heavens and the Earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them [...] And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet they turn away from its signs.} 21:30-32 H
{.. He withholds the heaven from falling on the Earth ..} 22:65 H
Quran: The “sky” (the entity in which there are stars, planets, the sun, and the moon).. the statement “Do they not look” means that we can look and see that it has been raised. So, it has been raised from something we can look at, which is the Earth. And it is a ceiling built for the Earth, withheld so that it does not fall on it.
(Al -Tabari: His saying “And the elevated roof “ means in this position: The sky. He called it a roof, because it is a sky (samaa) for the earth, like the sky (samaa) of the house, which is its roof. And like what I said, the people of interpretation said.)
(ibn-Kathir: His saying “we have made the heaven a roof” means, upon the Earth; and it is like a dome over it.)
{Who has made the Earth for you a carpet and the heaven a structure ..} 2:22 D
{.. the heaven, He constructed it.} 79:27 I
{And the heaven, We have built it with might, and verily We are powerful.} 51:47 D
{Have they not observed the sky above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, and it has no cracks?} 50:6 I
Quran: The “sky” (i.e. “the heaven”) is a built construction that does not have cracks.
So, it is a continuous structure.. and not space and dust.
(ibn-Kathir: a ceiling for the world [...] The construction is erecting the dome) (Tabari: According to some of the companions of the Prophet : the structure of the heaven on the Earth is like a dome, and it is a ceiling on the Earth [...] it has no fissures nor ruptures) (Qurtubi: the heaven to the Earth is like the ceiling to a house [...] it has no irregularity, differences nor ruptures.)
{.. If We will, We can make the Earth cave in beneath them, or make pieces of the sky fall down on them. ..} 34:9 I
{or, until you cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, ..} 17:92 Q
He said “in pieces”, he did not say “projectiles“.
{On that Day, the Event will come to pass • And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail} 69:15-16 I
{And when the heaven is cleft asunder} 77:9 H
{When the heaven is cleft asunder • And when the stars have fallen and scattered} 82:1-2 H
Quran: The “sky” which is a ceiling that has the stars in it, will be torn and opened.
Also, the stars will fall scattering on the Earth.
(Tabari: “cleft asunder”: split, and when its stars have scattered from it, and fallen)
{.. has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light.} 25:61 H
{We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns, and made them missiles against the devils..}67:5I
{Except for him who snatches a fragment -he gets pursued by a piercing projectile} 37:10 I
{By the sky, and by the nightly comer • What could let you know what the nightly comer is • (It is) the piercing star} 86:1-3 Q
Quran: The stars are lanterns that decorate the “heaven” (the ceiling of the Earth), and projectiles hurled at demons. (No distinction between the enormous remote star and the small near meteor.)
Science: The stars are enormous objects, some of which are larger than the sun. As to the object that hits the Earth as if it were a projectile, it is nothing but a meteor.. an object the size of a rock or smaller. [9]
Look at the ignorance of that who thought the stars
were lamps and were to demons, missiles.
Earth and Heaven
{And We created not the heaven and the Earth and that which is in between in play.} 21:16 D
{He who created the heavens and the Earth and everything between them in six days ..} 25:59 I
{And they estimated not Allah with an estimation due Unto Him whereas the whole Earth shall be His handful on the Day of Judgment, and the heavens shall be rolled in His right hand. ..} 39:67 D
{.. Allah has created seven heavens in storeys} 71:15 D
{.. created seven heavens, and of the Earth the like of them; the decree continues to descend among them, ..} 65:12 S
{Then He rose over towards the heaven when it was smoke, and said to it and to the Earth: “Come both of you willingly or unwillingly.” They both said “We come, willingly.”} 41:11 H
{Verily! Allah grasps the heavens and the earth lest they move away from their places, and if they were to move away from their places, there is not one that could grasp them after Him. ..} 35:41 H
The Earth and the “heaven” or “heavens” are paired in plenty of texts.. in a way that they form a proportionate couple. This appears clearly with the phrase “the like of them”. The text
“decree continues to descend among them” indicates that the direction in them is vertical (descent), and this confirms the perception that the Earth is storeys like the “heavens”. That is, we are on the top floor of the earth, and underneath us are six other floors.
There is no escaping the size equality in this perception: The Earth is the size of the fist of the left hand , and the “heavens” are folded in the right hand. But what does the small planet Earth represent relative to the universe and its countless galaxies? No reason for the recurrence of this couple.. except the perception that they are facing each other.. a vast Earth extending at the bottom and a “heaven” extending facing it at the top.
{.. Paradise, the width whereof is as the width of heaven and Earth ..} 57:21 H
Quran: The width of the “heaven” and the width of the Earth are paired, which entails that they are proportionate, facing each other, extending horizontally.
Science: There is no such thing as a “heaven”, to have a width; as to space, it does not have a specific width.. because it expands.
The authors of the Quran did not suffice themselves by setting an example of the width of the
“heaven” alone, or the width of the Earth alone.. but rather, they put them together. But, what does the width of the planet Earth represent compared to space? Nothing to mention. Thus, such a statement would not have been released except by humans who imagined the Earth wide, extended at the bottom like the “heaven” is wide, extended at the top.
Sun
{.. Allah has created seven heavens in storeys • And has placed the moon therein for a light, and has made the sun a lamp.} 71:15-16 D
Quran: The sun is a mere lamp for the Earth.
Science: The sun is a central mass, a million times more enormous than the planet Earth which revolves around it with other planets. It constitutes more than 90% of the total masses of the solar system (the sun and its planets).
{.. to Allah prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the Earth, and the sun, and the moon ..} 22:18 H
Quran: The sun prostrates.
{Muhammad asked abu-Dhar at sunset, “Do you know where the sun goes?” abu-Dhar replied,
“Allah and His Messenger know better.” He said “It goes till it prostrates underneath the Throne, and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted. And it is about to prostrate but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be told ‘return whence you have come’, so it will rise from its sunset place. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah, ‘And the sun runs towards its destination.’ 36:38”} [10]
(This narrative is “sahih” (authentic), and no one would have had interest in forging it, as when the narratives were written, people believed the sun ran around the Earth.)
Muhammad spoke about hidden things such as the manner of the sun’s absence; so, was he guided by revelation from outside the planet? If he received revelation.. then he was supposed to not speak except with facts.
{And to Allah belong the east and the west ..} 2:115 H
Transliteration: “wa lillahi ‘l-mashriqu wa ‘l-maghrib”
“Mashriq” means the sunrise place, and “maghrib” means the sunset place.
{So I swear by the Lord of all points of sunrise and sunset in the east and the west that surely We are Able} 70:40 H
(Tabari: The sun rises from 360 rising places, rises every day from one)
{The Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter).} 55:17 H
(Tabari: the sunrise place in winter, and the sunset place in summer)
{.. Abraham said: ‘Allah brings up the sun from the east; ..’} 2:258 Q
Quran: Also, an infallible prophet who was “Allah’s” friend said that the sun comes from the
“mashriq”; and since his statement is recorded in the Quran (the truth to which comes no falsity), this statement is correct according to the Quran.
Science: Thereis no sunrise place nor sunset place in the universe to begin with. The correct names are “East and West”.
The concept of sunrise places and sunset places is in concordance with the perception of the people of that time that the ground is flat and fixed. Since the Quran is accurate in its words..
there is no doubt that the “mashriq” is the place of sunrise at the eastern edge of the Earth, and the “maghrib” is the place of sunset at the western edge.
From the story of the man with hornes “Dhul-Qarnain”:
{And they ask you about Dhul-Qarnain. Say: “I shall recite to you something of his story.” [...]
Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black muddy water. And he found near it a people. [...] Until, when he came to the rising place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had provided no shelter against the sun.} 18:83-90 H
The text does not speak about how the man saw things, it tells us about his journey. The man managed to reach “the setting place of the sun”.. which is a muddy spring, as the ancients imagined it. The text says, “he reached the setting place of the sun”, it does not say “reached the West”. This was the perception of people before the discovery of the fact that the Earth is a planet. And the text confirms this by saying that the man found the sun “setting in a spring”. It says “he found it”, not “he saw it”. He did not imagine it; he was standing at the spring and
“found near it a people”.
I used to believe that who thought that the sun runs,
and wish myself goodness and reward.
Moon
{.. Allah has created seven heavens in storeys • And has placed the moon therein for a light, ..}
71:15-16 D
Quran: The moon is a light in seven “heavens”.
Science: The moon is a light in the Earth only. It is a small object that pertains to the Earth, its light is a reflection of sunlight which illuminates places in the Earth only, not in the “heavens”.
Sun & Moon
{By the sun and its radiance • And the moon as it follows it • And the day as it reveals it • And the night as it conceals it} 91:1-4 I
Quran: The moon follows the sun.
Science: The moon does not follow the sun, not in space nor in time. It is an object that is subordinate to the planet Earth, always revolving around it, while we see the sun due to the planet Earth's revolution around itself. Sometimes we see both at the same time.
{He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term ..} 39:5 S
{And the sun runs towards its destination. Such is the design of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. •
And the moon: We have disposed it in phases, until it returns like the old twig. • The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit.} 36:38-40 I Quran: The sun runs like the moon runs, and it is not meant to catch up with it.
Science: The Earth is a planet that rotates around its axis, so the sunrise and sunset occur, and revolves around the sun, so the four seasons happen.
{When vision is dazzled • And the moon is eclipsed • And the sun and the moon are joined together
• On that Day, man will say, ‘Where is the escape?’} 75:7-10 I
Quran: The moon, the little object that hovers around the Earth, will be joined with the sun, the enormous central mass around which the planets revolve, including the Earth.
Science: This is not appropriate, not for the sun nor for the moon.
Eclipse
{When vision is dazzled • And the moon is eclipsed} 75:7-8 I
{We do not send signs except to frighten.} 17:59 Q
(ibn-Kathir: Allah’s Apostle said “The sun and the moon are two signs among the signs of Allah, and they do not eclipse because of the death of someone nor his life; but Allah sends them to frighten His devotees with them. ..”) [11]
Muhammad did not show people how the eclipses of the sun and the moon happen (as they are in the following illustrations); and he used these cosmic phenomena to intimidate them and to enslave them. This behavior would not fall out of two possibilities: Either it was ignorance of him, or it was deliberately keeping others ignorant.
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{And He it is Who has created the night and the day and the sun and the moon, each in an orbit floating.} 21:33 H
{The sun is not to overtake the moon, nor is the night to outpace the day. Each floats in an orbit.}
36:40 I
Quran: Night and day are two floating entities.
Science: Night and day are mere manifestations of the presence and absence of sunlight.
{By the sun and its radiance • And the moon as it follows it • And the day as it reveals it • And the night as it conceals it} 91:1-4 I
{.. He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly ..} 7:54
{And a sign Unto them is the night. We draw off the day therefrom, and lo! they are darkened.}
36:37 D
Quran: The day is an entity which reveals the sun, and the night is an entity which conceals it and covers the day, and the day is drawn off from the night.
Science: The day is a state on the half of the planet Earth which faces the sun, and the night is a state on the other half of it. They are manifestations resulting from the sun rays and the Earth's revolution, not entities that affect the sun or anything else.
{Allah turns the night and the day over and over; ..} 24:44 D
{.. He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term ..} 39:5 S
Quran: What turns over, covers, and overtakes is the night and the day, and what runs is the sun (as it seems to the ignorant viewer who perceives “heaven” as a dome).
Science: What turns over, covers, overtakes, and runs is the planet Earth.
(Tabari: He covers this with that, and that with this, as he said “He causes the night to enter into the day and the day to enter into the night.” 57:6 Q [...] He carries the night on the day [...] He brings the day and takes away the night, and brings the night and takes away the day.) (ibn-Kathir: i.e. He has subjugated them and He causes them to alternate without ceasing, each seeking the other rapidly, as he says “He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly”
7:54 H)
(Qurtubi: i.e. He casts this on this and this on this. This is according to the meaning of the word in the language, which is putting the thing, some of it on the other; it means: He throws some on some.)
{Muhammad said: Our Lord, the Blessed and the Exalted, descends every night to the lowest heaven, when the last third of the night is left, and says, who is supplicating Me so that I may answer him? ..} [12] (This narrative is authentic, and no one would have had interest in forging it.) The last third of the night comes on a city, then after a moment on a neighboring village or town, then the next one, and so on. Believers, including Muhammad's family and companions, scattered east and west. This means one of two things: Either that “Allah” visits the lowest heaven frequently, or.. that this authentic narrative is.. nonsense.
Shade
{Have you not considered your Lord, how He extends the shade? And if He had pleased He would certainly have made it stationary; then We have made the sun an indication of it • Then We take it to Ourselves, taking little by little} 25:45-46 S
(ibn-Kathir: The shade [according to most interpreters] is the period from the beginning of dawn until sunrise. “Stationary” means permanent, never disappearing.)
This Quranic text.. if it proves anything, proves that its author was ignorant of the fact that the
Earth is a planet, and that this phenomenon is nothing but an effect of its rotation around its axis and of partial blockage of sunlight.
Winds
{And it is He Who sends the winds ..} 7:57 H
{And of His signs is that He sends the winds ..} 30:46 I
{Allah is He who sends the winds. They stir up clouds. ..} 30:48 I
Quran: Winds move because Allah sends them from one place to another.
Science: Winds move because atmospheric pressure varies from one place to another, so air goes from high pressure to low pressure, like any fluid. A deviation occurs in this movement due to the rotation of the Earth. The pressure disparity is caused by the disparity of the sun heat between the equator and the poles, between land and sea, and between valleys and heights. [13]
Hail
The Quranic verse which mentions the phenomenon of hail, has been deliberately mistranslated by most of the Muslim translators. Here is a word-for-word translation by Dr Shaikh, et.al.:
{.. And He sends down from (the) sky, [from] mountains within it [of] (is) hail and He strikes with it whom He wills ..} 24:43
And here is the truest translation I found, which is by Maududi:
{.. and He sends down hail out of the high up mountains in the heaven; then He smites with it whom He wills ..} [14]
Quran: Hail falls from mountains in the “heaven”.
Science: Hail falls from clouds.
The Quran is accurate in its wording, and it does not say “from clouds like mountains” as the dishonest translators want people to believe.
(Tabari: He causes hail to fall from mountains in heaven ..)
(Qurtubi: Allah created in heaven, mountains of hail, so he causes hail to fall from them ..) (ibn-Kathir: It means that in heaven there are mountains of hail, from which Allah causes hail to fall ..)
As elucidated by the ancient interpretations, this was a perception common in people to explain this phenomenon; and the authors of the Quran were among them.
A simulated view with real dimensions of the sun and some planets, on 29-6-2021, as shown by NASA’s eyes on the solar system, available on NASA’s website:
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How the four seasons happen as a result of the earth’s rotation around the sun with its axis inclined:
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The flatness of the Earth, its fixedness, building the “heaven” as a ceiling for it, and the running of the sun.. were the perceptions of the people of that time.
If Muhammad were a messenger to whom an archangel named Gabriel used to come.. he would have known from him that the Earth is a planet, as this is of the great matters. And after he established himself as the greatest teacher, teaching people everything big and small..
he should have taught his companions that the Earth is a planet, and the manner of night, day, summer, winter, and eclipse. They believed him as to the resurrection, and they would have believed him in anything if he had presented it to them with illustrations. Did not he come to get them out of darkness into light? If he could do that, he would have accomplished the miracle and the marvel; but he agreed with them, shared their misperceptions, affirmed them with these texts, and left them in the darkness of ignorance. No justification for this except that he himself was sitting around in that darkness.
O you who disparages, curses and blames,
you think attacking will benefit you?
Ask and search, do not settle for what’s known,
for the light of day does not show you the stars.
Note: “Sahih” means authentic.
[^][1] Wikipedia Arabic – Mountain formation
[^][2] Lisaan al-Arab Dictionary – Sama
[^][3] Lisaan al-Arab Dictionary, al-Qamoos al-Muheet Dictionary, Mu’jam al-Ra’ed Dictionary – Kawkab
[^][4] Lisaan al-Arab Dictionary, Mukhtar al-Sihah, Mu’jam al-Ra’ed Dictionary, Mu’jam al-Ghaniy Dictionary – Najm, Tafsir of ibn-Kathir 6:76
[^][5] al-Qamoos al-Muheet Dictionary – Khanass, Tafsirs of Tabari, Qurtubi, and Baghawi 81:15
[^][6] Tafsir of ibn-Kathir 6:76, Tafsir of Qurtubi 15:16
[^][7] Tafsirs of Qurtubi and ibn-Atiyah 37:8
[^][8] Sahih of Tirmidhi 2682, Sahih of abu-Dawud 3641, Sahih of ibn-Hibban 88, Sahih of ibn-Majah 183, Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 21715
[^][9] Wikipedia Arabic – Meteoroid
[^][10] Sahih of Bukhari 3199, 7424, Sahih of Muslim 159
[^][11] Sahih of Bukhari 1044, Sahih of Muslim 901
[^][12] Sahih of Bukhari 1145، 7494، Sahih of Muslim 758، Sahih of Tirmidhi 3498، Sahih of abu-Dawud 1315، Sahih of ibn-Hibban 920،
Musnad of Ahmad ibn-Hanbal 16745
[^][13] Wikipedia Arabic – Wind
[^][14] Verse 24:43 at IslamAwakened.com
[^][Image 1] From the book “Leaders of Israel” by George L. Robinson
[^][Image 2] From commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geometry_of_a_Total_Solar_Eclipse.svg
[^][Image 3] From commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geometry_of_a_Lunar_Eclipse.svg
[^][Image 4] From NASA’s Website – Solar System
[^][Image 5] Created by Shums Ladeen, using image of Earth from Calimero
3. The Scholars’ Structure .. on Basis with Fracture
After the founding of Islam, persons of its followers were distinguished as scholars or “people of knowledge”. This discrimination led them to belittle others and describe them as “commoners” and
“ignorant”. They were encouraged to do so by the lack of educational means for people. Would any person of the educated generations assent to be classified in the commoners and the ignorant?
Some of the muftis dare to prohibit that which is permissible, and in their fatwas they excessively use the phrase “this is not desirable.” Since the time I was in school, I have dissented to this; as unfortunately, compulsory courses in religion were taught to us, occupying the largest part of our school-time, and we learned the types of rulings (obligatory, prohibited, commendable, scorned, etc.), and there was not a type called “desirable”. This is one of the details that contributed to my awareness of the human influence on religion, which they claim to be sincere to “Allah” alone by obeying his commands and avoiding his forbiddances, until I comprehended that religion in its origin and foundation is man-made.
The following are statements of some of the modern senior scholars of Islam who have had the wrong perception described in the previous chapter.
Scholar Abdulaziz ibn-Baz
Head of Scholarly Research and Fatwa Administrations, Grand Mufti Of Saudi Arabia, Until 1999
In his book “Transmitted and sensory evidence for the running of the sun and the stillness of the earth and the possibility of ascension to the planets”, he stated: The views of the predecessors are in consensus (the likes of ibn-Taimiya, ibn-Kathir and ibn-al-Qaiyim,) that the earth is fixed [...] The statement that the sun is fixed and the earth spins is a heinous and evil thing to say [...] many of the teachers of astronomy went on to claim the sun fixedness and earth’s rotation, and this is heresy, going astray and denial of the Quran, Hadith and statements of the predecessors. And in this great matter, gathered transmitted evidence, instinct and eyewitness, so how could someone like this not be infidel [...] Anyone who disbelieved Allah or the holy book or the messenger is an astray misleading infidel; shall be asked to repent or else get killed as an infidel apostate, and his property goes to the monetary house of Muslims, as stated by people of knowledge.
Standing Committee for Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas
(Abdulaziz al-al-Shaikh, Saleh al-Fawzan, Abdullah ibn-Ghudayan, Abdulrazzaq Afifi, Abdulaziz ibn-Baz)
Question: I am a teacher of geography in a school in Riyadh, and as a subject came to me that has to do with the rotation of earth around itself and around the sun. I have read a book of yours, there is a conflict between what you stated and the textbook, so please advise me.
Answer: If a teacher of geography presented to students the theory of geographers on the sun’s stillness and the earth’s rotation, he must show that this theory is contradictory with Quranic verses and prophetic traditions, and we must take what the Quran and Hadith indicate, rejecting what opposes that; it is not bad to display the theory of geographers for knowing and responding to it, like all other contrary doctrines, not for the ratification and adoption.
Knowledgable Scholar Yahya Ali al-Hajuri
In his book “The Shining Dawn” (Released in 2000) – p196: He who believes that the earth rotates and moves must seek evidence for this view of the Quran and Hadith. Otherwise, he is a holder of a corrupt belief who does not depend on the evidence of Allah and His Messenger. And how can the holder of this statement get evidence? Impossible; it is only doubts ..
Scholar Muhammad ibn-Uthaymeen
In his fatwa compilation – Volume 1 (Released in 1993) – Deism – 24: We uphold what’s apparent
of Quran and Hadith that the sun rotates on the earth, by which happens the succession of day and night, until a conclusive evidence arises to become an argument for us, to dismiss what’s apparent of Quran and Hadith – and how can it be – the believer must uphold what’s apparent of Quran and Hadith in these and other matters [...] because Quran is the word of Allah, who is the creator of the whole universe, and the knowing of all its objects and conditions, and movement and stillness, and his word is the truest and the clearest, and He sent down the book as an account of all things, and said that he shows his slaves, lest they get deceived. As for the Sunnah, it is the word of the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds, and He is the most knowing among the creatures of the rules of his Lord and his actions, and he would not speak of such things without inspiration from Allah, because it can not be received without the revelation.
Scholar Abdulkarim al-Humaid – “Guidance of The Bewildered In The Issue of Rotation” – A large book devoted to denying the rotation of the Earth (Released in 2nd half of 20th century) Scholar Humoud al-Tuwaijiri – Book “The Severe Bolts Upon The New Astronomers” (Released in 1968)
Scholar Muhammad al-Imam – Book “The Refutation of The Universal Theories” (Released in 2008)
These scholars and others.. built their beliefs on a book called the Quran; no evidence on the correctness of its content, nor that it is from a knower of the hidden things. Thus.. their description should be changed from “people of knowledge” to people of ignorance.
How much time has been wasted by reading nonsense that wasted inkwells.
How many souls were annoyed by hearing the foolish things that filled the pulpits.
4. Prayer, Fasting .. & Facts That Sting
Since it is of the nature of life to procreate, and to scatter across the earth.. human beings scattered throughout history, over lands near and far from their origin.
It is known to the Muslim that Islam has 5 pillars.. if one of them broke.. its structure would collapse and crash.
Prayer
The main pillar is the compulsory prayer; void and not accepted unless done 5 times a day within specific time intervals; relying exclusively on the sun. This is in consensus of the Muslims, and by a blatant text:
{.. verily the prayer is prescribed unto the believers at definite times.} 4:103 D
These times are determined by the direction of the sun: dawn – noon – afternoon – dusk – night.
This is a usual schedule for the Muslims.
Now let’s make a virtual journey (Israa) from the Sacred Mosque to the Aqsa Mosque. We note that these times are slightly different in terms of duration between each prayer and the next; this is due to the inclination of the axis of the Earth around which it rotates, relative to the plane of the sun.
We continue the journey north through Europe.. so we find that the difference (in the duration between each prayer and the next) increases as we head north.
Finally, we reach the discovery, missed by the Muslims over the centuries (of which the first were the founders of Islam): The countries in the far north of the globe, which are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Russia, Canada and the United States.. parts of them are located within the Arctic Circle. These parts include towns populated by millions of people. There, the sun remains near the horizon, for several weeks or months above it, and for the same duration below it; so the sun’s daily directions from sunrise to sunset do not happen in an identifiable way in each day. [1]
So it is impossible to determine the prayer times (dawn – noon – afternoon – dusk – night).
So, the five prayers are not applicable. If one of those humans wanted to embrace Islam.. he|she wo not be able to establish the second one of its pillars.
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Fasting
The next pillar is the compulsory fasting during the day, the days of a certain month every lunar year; void and not accepted unless completed from dawn to sunset.
{Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed. Guidance for humanity, and clear portents of guidance, and the Criterion. Whoever of you witnesses the month, shall fast it. But whoever is sick, or on a journey, then a number of other days. [...] and eat and drink until the white streak of dawn can be distinguished from the black streak. Then complete the fast until nightfall. ..} 2:185-187 I
Regardless of the harm of Islamic fasting caused by dehydration due to not drinking fluids, we are still in the destination of the Israa journey.. the lands of the far north of Europe.
The citizen in them is not “sick, or on a journey”; if he wanted to embrace Islam.. he wo not be able to establish the third one of its pillars. During the weeks when the sun is below the horizon.. he wo not fast the lunar month, as no daylight in it; and during the weeks when the sun’s above the horizon.. he must fast the lunar month continuously, as no night in it.. committing to the text of the Quran, where there’s no choice; and if he did, he would perish in thirst.
Is Islam good for every time and place? It has not been mentioned in its texts that the timings of prayer and fasting do not include the north of Europe, and that if someone there embraced it, he|she must migrate south. Reality is that the Muslims migrate to the north; and this great flaw has not been enough for them to realize that this religion is human, Middle Eastern, and not valid for every time and place. No justification for these two problems which break two of its pillars.. except the ignorance of its founders.
[1] • Burn, Chris. – The Polar Night, The Aurora Research Institute
• Want to Know What is the Midnight Sun Phenomenon?
[Image 1] Cropped from Polar-circle.svg by MikeRun, under the CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
5. Fetus Formation .. & Misinformation
The authors of the Quran said:
{Let man consider what he was created from • He was created from gushing liquid • Issuing from between the backbone and the breastbones} 86:5-7 I
The statement of the author of the sura is about a “gushing liquid” (the semen),and he said “issuing from” and did not say “it’s origin is from”. So, the intended meaning is the source from which this liquid comes out when it gushes.
Semen has nothing to do with what’s between the back and the chest. It is formed in genital glands, all of which is in the middle of the pelvis (in the bottom of the abdomen). [1]
Some Islamists, to turn this mistake into a miracle, alleged that the intended meaning is the origination of the genital glands in the fetus; but even this has nothing to do with what’s between the back and the chest. It arises from the peritoneum, the cloacal membrane which constitutes the abdominal cavity lining. [2]
The emergence of permanent members is preceded by a group of structures, which are purely fetal, and they completely disappear, except the ducts, before the end of the embryonic life. The genitals develop from the intermediate mesoderm, [3] which is of the germ layers, produced by several members, including the heart, genitals, bones, and muscles. [4]
Thus, this origin (in the fetus) produces various members and then disappears, and it is not right to talk about it in this context and claim that it is the intended meaning.
And they said:
{And when your Lord brought forth from the children of Adam, from their backs, their descendants, ..} 7:172 S
Here, they confirmed their belief that the offspring of a man are in his back. And as we can see, science has shown that this belief is in a valley and the truth is in another valley; as in addition to the above error, a second error is here; since what a man has is a sperm, representing half of the chromosomes, on the basis of which the fetus (offspring) forms, and the second half is represented by the egg in a woman; and this means that the offspring do not form except after the fertilization between the two halves, and that the offspring do not exist before that.
And they said:
{We created the human from an essence of clay • Then We made him, a drop, in a secure receptacle (the womb). • Then We created of the drop, a clot (of congealed blood) and We created the clot into bite-size tissue, then We created the bite-size tissue into bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it another creation. ..} 23:13-14 Q
According to this text, using the word “then”, there is a sequence in the process of embryo formation:
drop -> clot -> lump -> bones -> flesh
The word “clot” in the Quran means a piece of clotted blood; Arab commentators were unanimous on this. If it was intended to mean “a clinging thing”, Muhammad would not come short of clarifying that uncommon meaning, and he would not let people get the prevailing sense.
(ibn-Kathir: .. a red clot. Ikrimah said: It is blood.)
(Tabari: we made the drop that we put in a safe lodging, a clot, a piece of blood.) (Qurtubi: It is coagulated blood. Clots are tender blood.)
In the age of science, it has been shown that the first embryonic stage has nothing to do with blood.
This primitive description is not appropriate to come from an expert omniscient.. compared to what has been discovered, such as the start of formation with a sperm and an egg, the size of which is
smaller than the tip of a needle, as well as cell division, differentiation and development. If the Quran were divinely inspired, it would have mentioned for example, that we were created from the weight of a particle. What prevented reporting this unknown matter at the time except ignorance?
The authors did not bring forth anything other than what was documented at that time in the writings of the Greeks, about miscarriages of which came out something like a clot, and others of which came out what looked like a lump (chewed piece of meat), and guessing the rest of the stages as bones getting clothed with flesh. And they missed the most important step, fertilization; they only mentioned the male drop and did not mention the female egg.
Embryology shows that the so-called lump – if it’s permissible to label it so – does not turn into bones.. but rather, to the whole body of the embryo.
{Muhammad said: “The human is put together in the womb of the mother in forty days as a drop, and then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period, and then a piece of flesh for a similar period. ..} [5]
This narrative is “sahih” (authentic), and no one would have interest in forging it. It explains the text of the Quran.. that a man’s drop does not become a clot till after 5 weeks. Science has shown that at the time, the embryo is of the size and shape that it is not right to describe it as a clot. Muhammad continues: The clot does not turn into a lump till Week 11; and the time of bones and flesh comes only after 17 weeks (4 months); and science has shown that they form before Week 10. This proves that the words are from an ignorant person.. not an inspired revelation.
Embryology shows us that the flesh and bones form gradually and simultaneously, and that there is no chance for the claim that the flesh follows the bones.
The bone does not form directly, but rather, a cartilaginous structure forms in the embryo.. then ossifies with calcium. The timing differs if we consider the cartilage as bone:
• If we consider the cartilage as bone.. its formation is simultaneous with the flesh in Week 5. But it is not right to call the cartilage bone while not ossified yet, as it is known that the Quran is precise in words; and not every cartilage becomes bone “it may remain cartilage, disappear, become a ligament, or ossify to become bones.”
• If the intended meaning of “bone” is the structure after ossification with calcium.. it is preceded by the flesh in Week 5, and ossification does not start till Week 9.
Many reference books in the science of embryology show that the muscles and cartilage form simultaneously, and that ossification begins later. Some of their pages may be read as follows: Embryogenesis timeline showing simultaneous histogenesis and that flesh formation begins before the bone
Embryology at a Glance – Samuel Webster & Rhiannon de Wreede, 2016 – p.10
“It is important to realize that all organ systems develop simultaneously during the embryonic period (between weeks 3-8)”
Embryology – Ronald W. Dudek & James D. Fix, 2005 – p.22 l.12
“During the second month (between weeks 5-8), a primitive nervous system also makes newly formed muscles contract.”
Life-Span Human Development – Carol K. Sigelman & Elizabeth A. Rider – p.98 c.2 l.13
“Ossification begins in the eighth week”
Langman’s essential medical embryology – Thomas W. Sadler, Jan Langman – p.33 l.8
“The first step of the differentiation of the structural muscles occurs in the fifth week.” – p.128 par.4
l.2
“There are blocks of muscle in the fifth week.” – p.137 pic.8-7
“The first Baltkon cartilage begins in the fifth week.” – p.100 par.2 l.3
“Ossification begins in the third month (ninth week).” – p.110 par.2 l.5
Basic Concepts in Embryology – Lauren J. Sweeney
“The cartilage may remain as cartilage, disappear, the persistant part of perichondrium forms ligament, or the cartilage may ossify to form bone.”
[Therefore it is not valid to call it bone.]
A Manual of Histology, General Anatomy, Embryology & Genetics – B. Marjit – p.4.6 l.10
Note: Sahih means authentic.
[1] Wikipedia Arabic – Semen
[2] Wikipedia – Development of the gonads
[3] Wikipedia Arabic – Development of the reproductive system
[4] Wikipedia Arabic – Mesoderm
[5] Sahih of Bukhari 7454, Sahih of Muslim 2643
6. Clear the Pollution .. See the Evolution
Clay
{Assuredly We have created man in goodliest mould,} 95:4 D
{He created you from a single soul, then from it He created its spouse. And He sent down to you eight pairs of the cattle.} 39:6 Q
{O Children of Adam! Let not Satan deceive you, as he got your parents out of Paradise ..} 7:27 H
{The likeness of Jesus in Allah’s sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him,
“Be,” and he was.} 3:59 I
{.. He created you from dust, and then behold you are human beings scattered} 30:20 H
{He it is Who has created you from clay ..} 6:2 H
{.. We created them from sticky clay.} 37:11 I
{And recall what time We said unto the angels: prostrate yourselves before Adam. So they prostrated themselves, but Iblis did not; he said: Shall I prostrate myself before one whom you have created of clay?} 17:61 D
{And assuredly We created man of an extract of clay.} 23:12 D
{He created man from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.} 55:14 H
{We created the human being from clay, from molded mud. • And the jinn We created before, from piercing fire. • Your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating a human being from clay, from molded mud.” • “When I have formed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down prostrating before him.”} 15:26-29 I
{Your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating a human being from clay. • When I have formed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, fall prostrate before him. [...] Except for Satan. He was too proud, and one of the faithless • He said, ‘O Satan, what prevented you from prostrating before what I created with My Own hands? Are you too proud, or were you one of the exalted?’ • He said, ‘I am better than he; You created me from fire, and You created him from clay.’} 38:71-75 I According to the Quran, the human being was created in the best mold; Allah formed him with his own hands from sounding clay like the clay of pottery. And that clay was of dust; i.e. of the substances of the dust itself, not of a substance that mixed with it. But the fact is that the main substance in dust is silica, while the main substance in living beings is carbon.
And its statement “then from it He created its spouse” means that the male (Adam) was created first, and then the female (Eve) came after him.
Evolution
Pursuant to the advice {.. in your own selves, will you not then see?} 51:21 H – we looked and saw the truth; and it is that the human beings are of mammals. Science has proven that they share one origin with all living things, which is a single-celled organism (that originated somewhere, at some moment, when suitable conditions and elements co-occurred,) and that they are the product of evolution and natural selection, in both of which the male and the female are equal, over several eras and billions of years, from earlier less-developed living beings, as follows:
Simple cell (single-celled organisms, bacteria, two billion years ago)
-> Complex cell (eukaryotes)
-> Worms
-> Chordates
-> Marine vertebrates
-> Fish
-> Tetrapod (fish whose fin turned into legs for the purpose of catching insects from land)
-> Amphibians (vertebrates with four limbs & lungs)
-> First reptiles
-> Mammal-like reptiles
-> Monotremes (small mammals, with tail, insect eating, egg laying)
-> Theria (small mammals, birth giving)
-> Supra-primates (clawed, common progenitor with rodents)
-> Primates (with fingers that hold branches, living in trees, eating fruits and plants)
-> Catarrhines (little monkeys)
-> Proconsul (little apes, without tail, hang on trees)
-> Danuvius (great apes, hang on trees and walk on two legs)
-> Hominin (semi-human, walked exclusively on two legs, used stone tools, added to food flesh from the remains of others’ prey)
-> Homo (humans, made more sophisticated tools, the ability to speak formed, 2,000,000 year ago till 300,000 years ago)
-> Homo sapiens (modern humans, 300,000 years ago)
Image 1 illustrates the stages of evolution in the branch chain of humans:
[Image 1]
The following illustration is called the tree of life, and it shows the types of organisms, and that each organism has a chain branched from an ancestor common with other organisms:
[Image 2]
This fact has been proven by scientific evidence in the fields of anthropology, paleontology, developmental biology, morphology, anatomy, genetics and DNA; and new discoveries, studies and evidence emerge and confirm it from time to time. [1] Biologists unanimously agree that evolution is among the most reliably confirmed facts in science. [2]
Natural selection is the survival and reproduction of the organisms that adapt to the environment, and the perishing and extinction of those unable to do so. (They have no Lord that has mercy on them.)
The process of evolution is random.. hit-and-miss. Countless kinds of organisms arise, most fail and become extinct, and a few succeed, and thus, remain. Like the fertilization of the egg.. millions of sperms in a seminal fluid, one sperm hits the egg and fertilizes it, so the fetus forms of it, and the remaining millions go as waste. (If the organisms had a wise maker.. would all this waste and perishing happen?)
Mutations occur in genes randomly, and the environment determines the likelihood of reproductive success. Evolution is an inevitable result of imperfectly copying, self-replicating organisms reproducing over billions of years under the selective pressure of the environment. The outcome of evolution is not perfectly designed organisms, but rather, organisms adapted to their current environment. Natural selection is not about progress toward a final goal or purpose. Evolution does not seek to produce more advanced, intelligent, or sophisticated life forms. For example, fleas (wingless parasites) are descended from a winged, ancestral scorpion fly, and snakes are lizards that no longer require limbs; although pythons still grow tiny structures that are the remains of their ancestor’s hind legs.
Organisms are merely the outcome of variations that succeed or fail, dependent upon the environmental conditions at the time. [3]
In addition to the above, there are clues in the human body indicating its evolution from a previous organism, such as:
• The body hair: Too sparse to be useful, painful if pulled, and it is the remnant of the dense hair that was on the bodies of our ancestors.
• The nails: Too weak to be useful, they grow long, so we cut them off, and they’re the human version of the claws of our ancestors.
• The tail bone: It is the remnant of the tail that hanged from our ancestors’ backs.
• Blood leakage from the body of the woman in the monthly period is not appropriate of a creator who loves purity and cleansing.
• The common problem of deformation of teeth by crowding and overlap, due to being disproportionate to the size of the jaws, and having to orthodontically correct them and surgically extract the wisdom teeth. This is not a result of a violation of religion; it is proof that the organisms are not created by a creator “who perfected everything He created” 32:7 I
Quran & Evolution
In the Quran, when “Allah” said to the angels {.. I am creating a human being from clay. • When I have formed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, fall prostrate before him.} 38:71-72 I In Arabic.. saying “I am doing” this or that, is about the future (meaning “I will do” this or that.) It is not logical at all that he issues this command and tells them: “I will create a human of clay (meaning, I will begin the project of the evolution of a human for a duration of two billion Earth-years from a cell in a medium of clay, and then bacteria, worms, vertebrates, fish, reptiles.. uptil semi-humans..) and when I have formed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, fall prostrate before him.” What would be logical is to issue his high command in the appropriate time.. so he would tell them: “I have created a human (meaning, I have completed the evolution of a human, and here he is at the semi-human phase..) and when I have formed him, and breathed into him of My
spirit, fall prostrate before him.” Telling them “fall prostrate before him” before all those phases and before two billion years of the prostration day.. this is illogical and proof of the ignorance of the authors of the Quran.
The description in the texts of the Quran (above).. includes speed of implementation, and contradicts the slow evolution which took more than 3 billion years. The Quran completely lacks any text that mentions the phases of evolution, even by a hint (like the text of the fetal development, refuted in chapter 5;) while on the other hand, many texts about the human specifically (exclusive of the rest of the organisms) and that “Allah” created him “of clay”, and that he created him with his own two hands of clay like the clay of pottery. And in it also is that the types of animals and plants were actually created, separately, or brought down, and were not branched from common ancestor:
{.. [He] put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the cloud, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.} 31:10 H
{Allah has created every moving creature from water. ..} 24:45 H
{Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?} 88:17 S
{And the livestock – He created them for you. ..} 16:5 I
{.. And He sent down to you eight pairs of the cattle. ..} 39:6 Q
Speech
{And He taught Adam the names, all of them; ..} 2:31 D
{And relate to them the true story of Adam’s two sons: [...] He Said, “I will kill you.” He Said,
“Allah accepts only from the righteous.”} 5:27 I
According to the Quran, Adam learned the names and speaking, and he taught that to his sons and daughters, so they had dialogues.
It is supposed, then, that their language becomes the language of the children of Adam (humans), a single language passed down through the generations.
The reality is multiple languages. And to try to explain it.. the creative mind of religious men came up with a myth, [4] and it was put into the book of Genesis, the falseness of which has been proven (in chapters 7 & 24). The tail says: {1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ... 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.} Genesis 11:1-9
As to the scientific account, it is that the different languages are proof that the humans.. in the beginning, did not speak a language of words, but rather had a language of sounds and signs, and later they gradually developed the skill of speaking as an advanced stage of evolution over 100,000
years ago; so the language of words started with simple words, and based on it, with their multiplication, separation, and scattering, each clan developed its own language in its own way.
Accordingly, different cultures arose. [5]
Whoever has sought knowledge and persisted in it,
his elation has increased by it, he has not become depressed.
He has learned that an animal was an ancestor of his;
so he humbled himself, he was not arrogant nor did he refuse.
[1] Wikipedia – Timeline of human evolution
[2] Wikipedia Arabic – Evolution
[3] Wikipedia – Introduction to evolution
[4] Tafsirs of Tabari, Qurtubi, and Baghawi 2:102، 16:26, The Complete History by ibn-al-Atheer v1 p103
[5] Wikipedia - Origin of speech
[Image 1] Compiled from Wikipedia – Timeline of human evolution
7. Checking Every Verse .. About the Universe
Dilemma of Creation
{He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, then settled on the Throne. ..} 25:59 I
{.. created the earth in two Days [...] He placed therein firm mountains from above it, and He blessed it, and measured therein its sustenances in four Days equal, for all those who ask. • Then He rose over towards the heaven when it was smoke, and said to it and to the earth: “Come both of you willingly or unwillingly.” They both said “We come, willingly.” • Then He completed their creation seven heavens in two Days and He made in each heaven its affair. ..} 41:9-12 H
According to the Quran, the creation of the earth took 2 days, and what’s in it of mountains and livelihoods took 4 days; as to the “heavens”, they took only 2 days, as the stars are mere “lamps” (as mentioned in chapter 2) and no need for more than 2 days!
Is the total 6 days or 8 days? And why would the creation of the earth take longer than the
“heavens”.. which contain stars and planets within solar systems within uncountable galaxies? Must be that the authors imagined equivalence and convergence in size between the earth and the
“heaven”. They thought that “Allah” began the creation from the earth.. then went to the “heaven”
while it was “a smoke” “and leveled them seven heavens”. But Earth is a tiny planet in one of the solar systems within one of the galaxies, not a base that “Allah” built and then departed to the
“heaven”.
The previous text says that “Allah” created the earth first, “then He rose over towards the heaven when it was smoke”, and it is confirmed by the following text:
{He created for you all that is in the earth, then, He willed to the heaven, and leveled them seven heavens. ..} 2:29 Q
The meaning of “all that is in the earth” is understood by the text:
{.. [He] put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the cloud, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.} 31:10 H
We find that it includes animals and plants. Thus, he “created for you all that is in the earth”
including animals and plants, “then He willed to the heaven and leveled them.” And another text says:
{.. the heaven, He constructed it. • He raised its masses, and proportioned it. • And He dimmed its night, and brought out its daylight. • And the earth after that, He spread. • And from it, He produced its water and its pasture.} 79:27-31 I
So he constructed the “heaven” “and proportioned it”, then the earth, “produced its water and its pasture”.
And according to these texts, the sequencing is like this:
creation of earth -> creation of animals and plants -> proportioning of “Heaven” -> production of water and pasture.
This means that “Allah” left the animals 2 days, then produced for them water and pasture. So why would he create them first, and leave them become hungry and thirsty while he was growing plants and working on the heavens, and then water and pasture? It is worthier to produce water and pasture first and then create the animals.
The age of the universe in the Abrahamic religions does not exceed a few thousand years:
{He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, ..} 25:59 I The Quran recognizes the rightness of the Bible except whathas been altered: {We sent to you
[Muhammad] the Scripture with the truth, confirming the Scriptures that came before it, ..} 5:48 [1]
Alteration is unlikely in texts that narrate the story of the universe:
{God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness ‘night’. And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day. [...] Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day. So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. [...] This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.} Bible - Book of Genesis 1:5-31,2:1-8
The statement “God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness ‘night’. And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.” is proof that the six days are Earth-days, with the same length of our days. The statement “there were no people” is proof that Adam was the first human on earth.
The Quran says:
{He created for you all that is in the earth, then, He willed to the heaven, and leveled them seven heavens. ..} 2:29 Q
Because he created it “for you”, i.e. for humans, it is not wise to leave that creation for millions of years in vain. He must have created Adam after creating what’s in the Earth immediately.
Narration in the Bible is continuous, and does not hint to something that allows putting a long time between creating the Earth and creating Adam.
Therefore, the age of the universe in the Abrahamic religions is equivalent to that of the humans; and according to the biblical narrative, it is approximately 6000 years. [2]
But the scientific evidence has proven that the age of the universe is billions of years, and that the organisms, including humans, formed by a slow evolution from a single-celled organism and extended to hundreds of millions of years.
Laws of the Universe
The laws of the universe.. include conservation of energy and conservation of matter (that energy and matter can neither be created nor destroyed,) [3] and balance of forces (that all forces between two objects exist in equal magnitude and opposite direction,) [4] attraction and repulsion, expansion and contraction, melting and freezing. And the theory of determinism.. is that all events are completely determined by previously existing causes. [5]
These laws and theories and many others, do they support the hypothesis of the existence of a maker for the universe or do they oppose it?
I am agnostic, and I lay here the perspectives of the theists and the atheists.
One who believes that there is a maker.. believes that this is a precise system and a reasoned organized design, and concludes that it must have a maker (who is the first cause).
As to the perspective of that who does not believe that there is a maker.. things look different:
First: If we take the opinion of the believers, we would also wonder how this manufacturer came to existence? Is he sempiternal, nothing was before him? This is illogical, and it contradicts determinism and others. As everything is an effect of a cause, what is the cause of which the manufacturer came as an effect? And we have to assume that with his excellent attributes and great abilities and his hearing, sight and senses by which he contains the universe in knowledge, and hands with which he creates and shapes and portrays.. he must have been made by a maker greater than him!
If the second assumption is not justified, neither is the first. Instead of assuming an external maker..
who is the first, nothing was before him.. it is worthier to assume that the universe is the manufacturer; it formed itself, and it is expanding and evolving and increasing in intelligence and complexity over time. I.e., it is sempiternal and eternal. (And they have not valued the universe the way it ought to be valued.)
The similarity between the structure of the living being (and the non-living also) and the structure of the universe, as if it is a miniature version of it.. is an indication that the universe evolves itself through beings, and that the being is not a creature created by a creator, but rather, it is part of a planet, and the planet is part of the universe, the little emerges from the big as a branch emerges from a tree, and from the branch emerges a leaf or a flower or a fruit.
Second: Believers say that every event has an initiator, and that science has proven that the universe is an event (with the Big Bang), so who initiated it? But not necessarily every event has a rational initiator. The Big Bang Theory is not proof that there is a Maker. It is a theory that was established under the auspices of the Vatican, and many people have assumed based on it that the universe had a beginning. This does not entail that some being created it. Even if we accept that the universe has a creator, we do not know what its attributes are, whether it is a god that wants to be worshiped and worthy of it, and whether it still exists or not. There is a second point of view that says that this theory is wrong, and that it was built on the false perception that galaxies moving away from our galaxy is evidence of expansion resulting from an explosion; while the truth is that the cause of the movement of galaxies is that they -like others- revolve in their own orbits. Based on this, the hypothesis that the universe is eternal (backward and forward) is valid and reasonable.
If the universe has a creator who set its laws.. then this creator would be.. supernatural, superior to nature, able to violate its laws. But we have never seen or heard about any real supernatural event.
The laws of the universe indicate that it has no lord who creates what’s in it. If this was really so, this lord would have interfered with the happenings of the universe, and would have induced something new from time to time, and would have had a distinctive effect in its aspects.
What kind of lord is this who made a universe that is empty, cold, and dark, and left it like this over billions of years.. barren masses that burn and cool off and uselessly float in space?
Why all this waste in raw materials? Why did not we see or hear about something created from nothing? Did this maker die without completing his project?
Third: Apparently, there is no administrative or engineering organization; no apartments nor villas in the universe, nor what is simpler, so that it would indicate consciousness, planning, and an act of a reasoning actor. The formation of the universe has a long time range, and when it originated it was not organized. It’s become organized partly during billions of years, and randomness is still prevalent in it. It is nothing but attractions and centrifugings and scattered blocks that burn and fade away. There is not enough logical justification to believe that this is an act of a reasoning actor.
Organisms with their complex details, including the human which established administrative and engineering organization, were not created by someone, but are rather the product of a very slow evolution over billions of years.
If the universe had a reasoning maker.. we would have found organization and construction and details surpassing what the human has achieved in the past centuries. With this comparison, if there is anyone who deserves to be deified, it is the human.. at least in this planet.
Fourth: The alleged Creator is described as the most gracious, most merciful, and that he “has inscribed for Himself mercy.” 6:12 I - This contradicts the belief that he created the child who is born while suffering from a painful disease or physical or mental disability, and created predators (in land, sea and air) that attack other animals (including human beings) and kill them and kill their young, and that he accepts the Eucharist (sacrifice, slaughter) as a good work, mandatory or desirable, and that he will torture people with fire eternal torment.
Based on the above.. we can assume that the continuation of the universe in causality and permanent internal laws.. indicates that it is autonomous in its existence and organization, without any external effect.
Whenever science becomes able to explain more of the structure and the phenomena of the universe.. reduced further is the scope of the premise that it has a creator.
I swear by the star when it falls,
that the people follow the desire;
like the desert with its extremes, and
I will say it on-air.
[1] Translation by Abdel Haleem
[2] What is the age of the universe? – gotquestions.org
[3] Wikipedia Arabic – Conservation of energy
[4] Wikipedia Arabic – Newton’s laws of motion
[5] • Merriam-Webster Dictionary – Determinism
• Encyclopedia Britannica – Determinism
Flight
{Have they not seen the birds that are subjected in the air of the heaven? Nothing holds them except Allah. ..} 16:79 Q
{Have they not seen the birds above them, spreading their wings, and folding them? None holds them except the Compassionate. ..} 67:19 I
Quran: Birds in the air.. are kept from falling by nothing but “Allah”.
Science: Birds, airplanes, helicopters, and drones.. are held in air by the air itself, and the flying mechanism. [1]
Microorganisms
There is no text in the Quran mentions microorganisms.. neither by declaration nor by intimation.
Muhammad mentioned the diseases transmitted because of them, by saying:
{“No contagiousness.” A Bedouin said “O Allah’s Apostle! Have you seen the camels in the sands looking like deers, then a mangy camel comes to them, then they become mangy?” Muhammad said
“So who infected the first one?”} [2]
He firmly denied the existence of contagiousness; and he did not know how the first sick one gets sick.
Bacteria, fungi, germs, and viruses are beings that have great existence and influence. Some cause harmful diseases that millions of people have suffered, and deadly diseases that have killed millions of people; and some of them are essential to life, life would not exist without theirs existence (in the soil and in the digestive system).
So why were they not mentioned in the Quran? If they were mentioned in it.. it would be the
“miracle” for real.
Your Mind Is in Your Chest
There is no text in the Quran nor in the narratives of Muhammad that says the heart pumps the blood.
{.. They have hearts with which they do not understand. ..} 7:179 I
{.. those who say with their mouth: ‘We believe’ yet their hearts did not believe ..} 5:41 Q
{.. They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. ..} 48:11 H
{The hypocrites are afraid lest a chapter be sent down against them telling them what is in their hearts. ..} 9:64 Q
{Say: “Whether you hide what is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knows it ..} 3:29 H
{.. so that Allah might try what was in your chests and that He will examine what is in your hearts’
And Allah knows the innermost of the chests.} 3:154 Q
{No, rather they are clear verses in the chests of those who have been given knowledge.} 29:49 Q
{Have they not traveled through the land, and have they hearts wherewith to understand and ears wherewith to hear? Verily, it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the hearts which are in the breasts that grow blind.} 22:46 H
Quran: The heart of a man which is in his chest.. with it he understands, believes, reasons and memorizes knowledge, and it might become blind.
Science: The heart is the pump of the blood. As to understanding, belief, mind, and memory, they are in the brain.
Night Prayers
{Rise to pray in the night except a little, • Half of it, or lessen it a little, • Or add to it, and recite the Quran as it ought to be recited.} 73:2-4 S
{Or, is he who is obedient that prostrates himself and stands during parts of the night, being afraid of the Everlasting Life but hoping for the Mercy of the Lord ..} 39:9 Q
{who pass the night prostrating and standing to their Lord.} 25:64 Q
{Verily, the pious will be in the midst of Gardens and Springs [...] They used to sleep but little by night • And in the hours before dawn, they were asking for forgiveness} 51:15-18 H
{Their sides forsake their beds, to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend out of what We have bestowed on them. • No person knows what is kept hidden for them of joy as a reward for what they used to do.} 32:16-17 H
Staying up at night violates the nature of human beings in that the light of the day awakens them and helps them to be active, and the darkness of the night calms them and helps them sleep; and it violates their health in what has been scientifically proven, that one’s health requires sleeping for 7
hours a day, and that their reduction even an hour is harmful, [3] and that the benefit of sleeping at night is multiple times as the benefit at other times; and the 7 hours are not enough outside it except in the night. [4]
The purpose of this for the founders of the religion was to train men on raiding at night, as chapter 17 shows.
The Character of Thunder
{The thunder praises His glory, and so do the angels, in awe of Him. ..} 13:13 I Thunder is a mighty angel; when he praises.. we hear his resounding voice.
In the Quran, the general word and the specific word may be mentioned together and joined by
“and”. Examples:
{Whoever is hostile to Allah and His angels and His messengers and Gabriel and Michael – Allah is hostile to the faithless.} 2:98 I
Gabriel and Michael are of angels, yet the twain are joined with them by “and”.
{And the livestock – He created them for you. In them are warmth and benefits for you, and of them you eat.} 16:5 I
Warmth is of benefits, yet it is joined with them by “and”.
(Tabari-2:19: Thunder is an angel that rebukes the clouds with his voice [...] an angel authorized of the clouds, drives them like the shepherd drives camels, he praises, whenever a cloud opposes another he shouts out on it, and if his anger intensifies, the fire flies from his mouth, which is the lightnings that you have seen [...] Thunder: The name of an angel, and this voice of his is his praise,
and if his rebuke on the clouds intensifies, they get agitated and rub and lightnings come out of them
[...] an angel that caws at the rain like the shepherd caws at his sheep [...] Ali ibn-abi-Talib said: Thunder is the angel, and the lightning is his beating of the clouds with an iron whip.)
{The Jews came to the Prophet and said: ‘O abu-al-Qassem, we ask you about things, if you answer us on them we’ll follow you [...] then tell us about the thunder, what is it?’ He said: ‘An angel among the angels, who is responsible for the clouds. He has a whip of fire with which he drives the clouds; and the sound heard from him is his roaring at the clouds when he drives them on, until they go where he ordered them.} [5]
Quranic Miracles
What is promoted as “Quranic miracles”.. is nothing but wishful thinking and unsuccessful attempts to fabricate and to reconcile the Quran with science, and the responses to them are available in the sources of criticism of religions; and as to what’s true of them, the credit goes to the ancient source from which it was stolen. And if any of them remains without enough response, it can be considered a puzzle awaiting a solution. On the other hand, errors appear clearly, proving that its author is not omniscient nor infallible. Examples:
{.. the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them [...] And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet they turn away from its signs.} 21:30-32 H
The claim that the text “were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them” is miraculous, and that it means the Big Bang, is a false claim; as the Earth did not form until after the Bang, and the Quran says that the “heaven” is a construction and a roof that has been raised, not explode nor expand.
(ibn-Kathir: the heaven and the earth were bonded, and when He lifted the sky and exposed the earth out of it. This was parting them.)
(Tabari: They were joined, He lifted the sky and put down the earth.)
{And the heaven We constructed it with strength, and indeed, We (are) surely (its) Expanders.}
51:47
Although this is a word-for-word translation (by Dr. Shaikh, et.al.,) it is wrong, as most of the other translations. And even in Arabic, the promoters of the so called “Quranic miracles” take advantage of the fact that two similar words have different meanings.
Transliteration: wa ‘ssama’a banaynaaha bi’aydin wa innaa la moosi’oon
“Moosi’oon” is plural. “Moosi” is singular, and it means “powerful” or “wealthy”. A similar word,
“muwassi” means expander. There’s another verse that contains the word “moosi”, and it clearly means: “powerful”:
{.. and make provision for them [your divorced women], the wealthy according to his means and the straitened in circumstances according to his means, ..} 2:236 S
Transliteration: wa matti’oohunna ala ‘l-moosi qadaruhu wa ala ‘l-muqtiri qadaruhu Therefore, here is the truest translation:
{And the heaven, We have built it with might, and verily We are powerful.} 51:47 D
Yes, there's a miracle in religion.
It has made us incapable of achievement.
Educate yourself and listen to jazz.
Listen, whether it is forbidden or permissible.
Jinn is the plural of Jann, which means hidden. I do not deny the existence of hidden reasoning beings, the form of which is of high frequency energy, so we do not feel them; as there are clues indicating this, such as black magic. And it might be a fact that they escape from the sound of the Quran, but for a reason which is the opposite of what is believed: That they pretend to do so, because they want people to go astray toward this religion, (by believing that this is a miracle,) and not because the Quran affects them.
Every Knowing One
“He comprehends everything in knowledge”? “the Knower of all things”? “Knower of the Unseen”?
[6]
These texts in themselves indicate the lying of their author, even if he is a god; as how can he be so sure that what he comprehends is everything in existence? Perhaps in existence there are other things. No one can describe himself with this hypothetical trait as a true fact, even if he is the greatest god.
Thereby he contradicts his own saying “above every knowing one is a knower” 12:76 D – as he has not excluded himself from this rule.
Also the statement “He is the First and the Last” 57:3 D – no one, whoever they might be, can know if something preceded him or not, or if something will succeed him or not.
Corona & Soap
In the year 2020, the pandemic of Corona (covid-19) came.. and has exposed the failure of religions and their disability and impracticability for the people of this time.. and the religious have abided by the instruction of scientists, and have received vaccine and medication, and abandoned the temples that spread diseases, and the months of the pandemic have passed.. supplication does not avail them, nor do their deaf gods benefit them; they and the others are all in it the same way. This is despite the fact that they follow Muhammad, who denied the existence of contagion.
Among the indications of the fakeness of these religions is their founders’ inability to know the simplest of things, including soap, the thing which people, Muslims and others, unanimously agree that it is the companion of water which should always be present for hygiene and purity. (This is one of the most important instructions for the prevention of the epidemic.)
The archaeological evidence has shown that soap was present with the Babylonians in 2200 BCE, and the Egyptians of the Egyptians 1500 BCE, and Romans 58 BCE. [7] Although it is an old discovery, Muhammad did not reach enough knowledge and perception to cognize it, and he only knew the use of sand. Yes, reader; if you’re a Muslim, you obey someone who alleged receiving the revelation of “the Knower”, and he made purity an essential thing in his teachings, but he was ignorant of this effective simple material for hygiene and purity. One of the first commands of this alleged “Knower” was.. “purify your clothes” 74:4 I; but “the Knower” did not know about soap, otherwise he would not have fallen short in educating his messenger and his worshipers whom he wanted to purify thoroughly.
Obsolescence
Many Quranic texts are obsolete; as in addition to the abrogated ones, (canceled by alternative texts, as chapter 11 lists,) the manuscript has many texts specific to the time of Muhammad, and not suitable for other times. This indicates that it is a book specific to the time when it was written, and is not general for other times. Examples:
• Discouragement of the companions of Muhammad against asking about bad things, so that these things do not get mentioned in the Quran:
{O ye who believe! ask not about things which if disclosed to you, may annoy you; and if ye ask about them while the Quran is being revealed, they may be disclosed to you.} 5:101 D
• A rule concerning the private dialogues with Muhammad, and the cancellation of this rule:
{O you who believe! When you converse privately with the Messenger, offer something in charity before your conversation. [...] Are you reluctant to offer charity before your conversation? If you do not do so, and Allah pardons you, then perform the prayer, and give alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. ..}58:12-13 I
• Special instructions for Muhammad’s harem:
{O wives of the Prophet, you are not like other women. If you fear (Allah), do not be too complaisant in your speech, lest he in whose heart there is a sickness may desire; but speak honorable words} 33:32 Q
• Permission to enjoy women for Muhammad in several ways (an absurdity, not befitting someone described as the Lord of the worlds and his clarifying book and the most honorable of the messengers):
{O Prophet, surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war,
[...] and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her–
specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you; [...] You may put off whom you please of them, and you may take to you whom you please, and whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally; no blame attaches to you; ..}
33:50-51 S
• Personal skirmishes between Muhammad and his harem, as he exploited the Quran to counter a rebellion by two of them, and threaten them of divorcing them and marrying better ones:
{The Prophet told something in confidence to one of his wives. But when she disclosed it, and God made it known to him; he communicated part of it, and he avoided another part. Then, when he informed her of it, she said, ‘Who informed you of this?’ He said, ‘The All-Knowing, the All-Informed, informed me.’ If you repent to God, then your hearts have listened. But if you band together against him, then God is his Ally, as is Gabriel, and the righteous believers. In addition, the angels will assist him Perhaps, if he divorces you, his Lord will give him in exchange wives better than you: submissive, believing, obedient, penitent, devout, fasting -previously married, or virgins.}
66:3-5 I
Intimidation with Nature
Among the tools of influence held by the men of religion are.. the natural phenomena and disasters (which have occurred throughout the life of the planet and before the existence of humans for millions of years) and exploit them to frighten and intimidate people, by making them believe that they are wrath and punishment from the god inflicted upon them because of their disobedience.
Examples:
• Wind (Storm)
{Do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven will not loose against you a squall of pebbles then you shall know how was My warning.} 67:17 Q
{Verily, We sent against them a furious wind of harsh voice on a day of evil omen and continuous calamity. • Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms. • Then, how was My Torment and My Warnings?} 54:19-21 H
{And when they saw it as a sudden cloud heading for their valley they said “This is a cloud that will
bring us rain.” Rather, it is that which you have sought to hasten, a wind in which there is a painful punishment. • It will destroy everything by the command of its Lord. And when morning came there was nothing to be seen except their dwellings. As such We recompense sinful people.} 46:24-25 Q
• Earthquake & Cave-in
{So the earthquake seized them and they lay (dead), prostrate in their homes.} 7:91 H
{When the earth is shaken with its quake.} 99:1 I
{When the earth shall be shaken with a (severe) shaking} 56:4 S
{Are you confident that He will not cause a track of land to cave in beneath you ..} 17:68 I
{Are ye secure that He who is in the heaven will not sink the earth with you and then it should quake?} 67:16 D
{Feel then they secure who have plotted vices that Allah will not sink them into the earth or that the torment may come upon them whence they perceive not?} 16:45 D
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