Nice fairytale

Submitted by Peter Hall (Australia), Nov 20, 2011 at 19:43

A really nice bedtime story

However, there was no written Arabic at the time of Mohammed, the first Qu'ran must of been written in Syriac.

Therefore, and scholars agree, that the current version of the Qu'ran is written in a later Arabic script, and was assembled from various sources which is why some verses are beautifully written and make sense, while others are poor translations from the original Syriac, and are completely unintelligible.

BTW are you talking about the Tunisian version of 1967 or the Qu'ran or the Cairo version of 1923, or the revised Ryhaid version of 1993?

So which perfect version are you referring to?

Also, do you think that God is smart? Well why would he give instructions to the world using phrases and words that do not translate clearly to all languages?

The shortfalls of the Qu'ran clearly show it is a poorly plagiarised assembly of biblical stories retold to make a Arabic warlord bandit seem holy. It did not work!

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