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Learn about Islam; The fundamentals
Topic Started: Sep 24 2010, 12:18 PM (53 Views)
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On a Muslims forum, in response to my challenges on the many ambiguities and contradictions in the Qu’ran a responder suggested that the ambiguities were put there deliberately by God so that different generations could interpret it in their own way to fit changing times!!

From the first day that Muhammad announced the first verse and on every day since, Muslims have struggled to understand the Qu’ran because it is a complete shambles. The problem for them is that they must believe that this is the verbatim word of an unerring God delivering his message to all mankind and that it is his last and final message.

The Qu’ran
The messages were revealed to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel over a 23 year period. Muhammad was illiterate (as were the vast majority), he was a member of the Quarish tribe who spoke their own dialect which had no written form. He dictated the messages to scribes who wrote them on leaves, bones etc., (they had no paper or even papyrus). It seems that right from the beginning his people were struggling with the ambiguity and contradictions. One of the early verses attempts to dissuade the difficult questions with a message from God which says - Qu’ran 2:106 None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, but We substitute something better or similar: Knowest thou not that God Hath power over all things? And later under continued difficulties with the contradictions he gives them another message from God - Qu’ran 16:101 When We substitute one revelation for another,- and Allah knows best what He reveals,- they say, "Thou art but a forger": but most of them understand not.

When he died in 632 the struggle to make sense out these ramblings continued. In 650, in attempt to make a sensible document, Uthman (the 3rd Caliph) re-wrote the Qu’ran and destroyed all the original writing. Presumably because much of the original messages were memorised Uthman had to come up with something that resembled the original and consequently his (Uthmans) Qu’ran was still riddled with ambiguity and contradictions.

Pause for a moment – this is God’s messages, his final messages, a God that is perfect, knows all that was and all that will be – how can it be that God reveals ambiguous and contradictory messages?

The Hadith/Hadeeth
After Muhammad died, still struggling with the contradictions, Muslims turned to the ‘companions’ for answers. The companions were his close relations/friends/followers. Their explanations on what he (Muhammad/God) meant are the hadith/hadeeth. The hadith were memorised and passed on and later compiled into books, the principle and most respected author being Bukhaari who wrote them down some 200 years after Muhammad’s death. There are different levels of hadith, they are graded according to how reliable they are. A lot of the problems today arise because there has been no Caliph (the Muslim equivalent of Pope) for 1400 years there has been no person able to say that hadith is true and that is false. In consequence your Muslim radical fundamentalist can find an hadith justifying almost any atrocity.

Pause for another moment – Why didn’t God foresee that the messages he left were so contradictory that it would cause 1400 years of questioning?

The Sunnah
When the Qu’ran and the hadith don’t answer the question or when a Muslims wants to try a little bit harder to please God they look to the Sunnah. The Sunnah is how Muhammad lived his life and a lot of that comes from the stories of Aisha, his last wife whom he married when she was 6 years old (but didn’t consummate until she was 9 years old). For example she revealed that Muhammad liked his wives plucked or shaven; so all Muslim women must shave all their bodies of hair but bizarrely she revealed that he would allow his wives to pluck their eyebrows; so all Muslim unibrows (men and women) must stay unibrowed.

Conclusion
The reason Islam prescribes that Muslims must not mix with non-Muslims is because they know that if the seed of doubt is sewn and a Muslim starts to look into Islam they will discover that it is clearly not the word of God but the words of a 7th century warring bandit.
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The hallmarks of a cult. Stop the believers from communicating with those who might sow doubt. Kill those who leave.
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I wrote a similar thing about Abrogation on here. Your 100% right, there is no way a perfect being creature would allow ambiguity in his teachings of the truth. Its counter productive and is best described as a complete failure. It is however a very human characteristic to change opinions over time through experience and change of situation etc. Certainly not a characterisitic of a devine being.
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