Surat al-Rahman: Post Script

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jul 17, 2022 at 15:55

M Tovey,

Thank you for your kind words.

The Two Seas (or one sea and one river) Traditions generated so much Islamic explanations and most of them are nonsense. And the most nonsense was written by Sufi Muslims.

And every tablighee and his cousin from India and Pakistan tell us: "Brother, this is a scientific miracle" when in actual fact the early Mufasereem, as I proved, had no clue what these traditions really mean. And as you can see in Tafsir al-Jalalyn they (the two Jalals) make it very clear that there are two seas that shall not meet because of a PYSICAL barrier that is it

Check this link below and this is what tablighees tell us these days and urge us to compare the verses in Acts 27: 38-41 with the very opaque tradition in Surat al-Rahman

I did read the Aramaic text (because if indeed the author of the tradition plagiarized it from Acts then it would have been from the Aramaic and not the Greek copy of the NT). I fail to see the supposed resemblance between the verses in Acts and the two traditions

Check this link and notice the shameful translation of both traditions from Arabic to English. I do not know who is this so called Prof Ibrahim Khalil but I'm not impressed.

https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/118577/science/scientific_impacts_of_the_meeting_of_two_seas_in_bible__quran.html

The Qur'an is not a book of science after all the authors of the Qur'an claim that the earth is flat and the sperm of a man is generated not in his testicles with seminal fluid from the prostate, but it comes from the back bone (Sacrum?) and women also have semen, no I'm not joking, and it comes from the area of the sternum and we have two sunrises and two sunsets because the earth is flat as per al-Tabari in Surat al-Rahman

The wonderful Father Zakaria Botros once said and I'm paraphrasing: Never stop your adversary from talking because sooner or later he will make a fool of himself.

I'm not aware of any traditions in the OT that are even close to this Islamic tradition.

I hope this helped

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