What is really the Qur'an?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 6, 2011 at 07:01

Hi Jaladhi

>Hi DNM, Thanks for your input. The point is no body can remember those verses in Quran and call them exact words of allah.

You are very correct and case in point is the rasm (the basic layer of the Quranic text with no short or long vowels and it also lacks double consonants and the letter hamza) and the example here is the rasm MLK in Surat al-Fatiha in the Cairo Qur'an it is read as Maaliki or the owner of and in the Tunisian Qur'an it is read as Maliki or the king of and very different words and it is either one or the other which that Muhammad either heard it as maaliki or maliki and it cannot be both and this means that the Qur'an is an edited book and it did not drop from the sky in the way we have it now in the standard 1923-1924 Cairo Qur'an

If you check the word ilaf in Surat Qureish: No one has a clue what this word really means and do you know what this means? It means

1. That the Quranic material pre-dates Muhammad (and we know that for a fact as in the case of the Quranic ahl al-ayka layka where such text could be 600-700 years old) and by the time the ulama examined such material no one had a clue what this material really means

2. or the Quranic material was no more than circulating pericopes and logias and when they collected and examined and canonized by the masorites in the 3rd century of islam no one had a clue what such word ilaf really means

And do you know what this means? It means we are able to detach Muhammad from the Qur'an and islam from al-Hijaz!

>Those are the words of the writers compiling the text!!!

You are correct and for Quanic corruption see Q53:32 and this aya is clearly an interpolation and I'm not even the one who is saying that it is the Muslims that say that (see Ali Dashti)

You see books do not drop from the sky and the Qur'an is a book written by ignorant human beings and no more

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