A Very Concerned Reader: Reading Q10:16 and 610 or is it 612 0r maybe 613 AD? And the Topos of 40 in the Qur'an

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 2, 2021 at 12:58

So in Qur'an 10:16 check this word in Mr. Khattab's translation and compare it with the Cairo Quran and the word is: ادركم

Notice the rasm in edited in the Cairo Qur'an as well as in Tafsir al-Tabari as: ادراكم by adding an alif between the letters Ra and Kaf

Now, check Mr. Khattab's Arabic verse: ادر -اكم. This is the same Rasm as in Saheeh International as well as Yusuf Ali's Arabic text which makes me suspect that Mr. Khattab is using this elusive Indian copy of the Qur'an and not a copy of the Cairo Qur'an and more evidence that not a single word has been changed in the Qur'an is a big fat lie

Here is the Cairo Qur'an and al-Tabari's Tafsir

https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/tabary/sura10-aya16.html

Here is Mr Khattab's Arabic text of the verse

https://quran.com/10:16?font=v1&translations=20%2C131

Notice that every Qur'an should have a page where the editors inform the reader about which Qur'an is being translated eg: Hafs from 'Asem. I cannot find such page in Mr. Khattab's translation and he earned a PhD degree in Quranic Studies? Mashallah!!

However, here is what is interesting about this verse and that is

فَقَدْ لَبِثْتُ فِيكُمْ عُمُرًا

Or: For I have stayed (read this as lived) among you for a 'Umr

Notice that I left the word 'Umr untranslated because the literal meaning is "life"! But what is life or even life time? As usual the Qur'an does not tell us much and neither is Mr. Khattab

Now, if we check the footnote provided by the Saheeh International Translation "The prophet lived among his people for 40 years." So my question would be: Where does it say in the Qur'an that Muhammad lived among his people for 40 years? It is not in the Qur'an!

So where does this number 40 comes from? It is the late antique Topos of 40 (just google it) made by kuffar and Islamized by al-Mufasereen! What a disaster!

Why is this important? because this is how the Islamic tradition reconstructed the lifetime of Muhammad and the credit here goes to Henri Lammens

And this is how al-Mufasereen calculated the life of Muhammad and it was done backwords:

1. He died in 632 AD

2. He lived in Medina for 10 years so this brings us to 622 AD or the "Year of the Arab Kings" as per Syriac and Greek literary sources.

3. al-Mufasereen were fond of symmetry or if Muhammad lived for 10 years in Medina so he must have lived for 10 may be 11 or 12 or 13 years in Mecca and this brings us to 610 AD. And al-Mufasereen found this verse and the word 'Umr as being 40 then he must have been 40 years old in 610 AD!! And if you subtract 40 from 610 you get 570 et voila Muhammad was born in the year 570 AD. Then al-Mufasereen had to go back and find a Sura in the Qur'an and they found it in Surat al-Feel or Q105

It is all made up and fraud.

So what does this have to do with Mr. Khattab? This is a very important verse if true because the verse is supposed to be saying that Muhammad started to receive revelations from his god in the year 610 AD. Mr. Khattab is silent. I wonder why!

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