Thanks - But to Continue - See Next in Search For Kitab Mubeen

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Nov 12, 2021 at 15:17

Kitab Mubeen - Redeux: You inquired: [You did not answer my question: Why there was a disconnect between Mecca and Medina of 610 AD-632 AD and Mesopotamia/Iran of late second and early 3rd century of Islam? Why would Muhammad and his followers must have understood what the Qur'an says in Surat Yusuf:1 that the Qur'an is a a Kitab Mubeen and al-Tabari and Ahl al-Tafsir had no idea what this verse really means? Any guesses? The answer to this question could unlock your question so stay tuned.] The following is not a guess as much as it is speculative.
There is a reason this was not immediately approached: As you have already addressed some time back, there are complications in the mixed histories of the competing religious influences of empires that merged and separated and the complications of the Byzantine 'prehistory,' the predications of which helped the introduction of the Muhammed narratives initially, but later potentially became the premise that religious rebels latched onto in order to bring a derogatory cause and case to refute the teachings of the Judaic Messianic sect of the Rabbi from Nazareth.
The background to this may be found in the anti-Semitic efforts of a now persecuted non-Jewish following of 'Christ' (not Messiah) and seminal arguments that sought to repudiate Jewish influences for the new allegations that Judaism now bore the guilt of causing the Romans to execute the 'King of the Jews.' And yet, later (how much later still a question) the Jewish narrative found its way into the Quran. Whose religious interference was that?
Since the early writings (from Aramaic to Arabic(?)) cannot be analyzed for the lack of a true reading in classical Arabic, and Quranic Arabic is an adoptive translation, where do we find when the Quran was made Kitab Mubeen? Or does it require corroboration from its initial source; in Aramaic/paleo Hebrew/classical Arabic before the Persian Babylonian filtering.
From there, your perceptions of the other questions take their initiation; and this is the path this observer needs to get the 'clear picture.'

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