Neither the Jewish nor Christian apocryphal material is canonical or inspired. They have always been considered to be heretical by believers and literate people everywhere. For this reason scholars find it suspicious that the apocryphal accounts should have made their way into a book claiming to be the final revelation from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Another analogous account is that of The Secrets of Enoch (chapter 1:4-10 and 2:1), which predates the Qur'an by four centuries. What Allah didn't steal from the Jewish fable, he borrowed from an old Persian book entitled Arta-i Viraf Namak. It tells how a pious young Zoroastrian ascended to the skies, and, on his return, related what he had seen, or professed to have seen.
The description of Paradise in suras 55:56, 56:22, and 35-7, which speak of the righteous being rewarded with wide-eyed houris, or virgins, who have eyes like pearls has interesting parallels in the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, where the maidens are quite similar. The rivers in the Persian Paradise flow with wine as well. Bukhari:V4B54N469 "Allah's Apostle said, 'The first batch who will enter Paradise will be like a full moon; and those who will enter next will be like the brightest star.
Their hearts will be as the heart of a single man, for everyone of them shall have two wives from the houris, each of whom will be so beautiful, pure and transparent that the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the flesh. They will never fall ill, and they will neither blow their noses, nor spit. Their utensils are silver, their combs are gold, the fuel used in their centers will be aloe, and their sweat will smell like musk.'"
Muhammad, or whoever compiled the Qur'an, incorporated parts of the religion of the Sabeans, Zoroastrianism, and Hinduism into Islam. He adopted such pagan rituals as: worshiping at the Ka'aba, praying five times a day towards Mecca, the zakat tax, and fasting in Ramadhan.
This caustic brew of uninspired ingredients may be why William St. Clair Tisdall, in his Original Sources of the Qur'an, wrote: "Islam is not an invention, but a concoction; there is nothing novel about it except Mohammed's mixing old ingredients in a new panacea for human ills and forcing it down by means of the sword."
He went on to say: "Islam's scriptures came to reflect the carnal and sensual nature of its founder. Islam therefore may aptly be compared with: 'that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed,' which, receiving into its bosom the waters of many streams that united form a basin that turns them into one great Sea of Death, from whose shores flee pestilential exhalations destructive to all life within reach of their malign influence. Such is Islam.
Originating from many different sources, it has assumed its form from the character and disposition of Muhammad; and thus the good in it serves only to recommend and preserve the evil which renders it a false and delusive faith, a curse to men and not a blessing. Muhammad's concoction has turned many of the fairest regions of the earth into deserts, deluged many a land with innocent blood.
While the devout Muslim believes that the rituals and doctrines of Islam are entirely heavenly in origin and thus cannot have any earthly sources, scholars have demonstrated beyond all doubt that every ritual and belief in Islam can be traced back to pre-Islamic Arabian culture. In other words Muhammad did not preach anything new. Everything he taught had been believed and practiced in Arabia long before he was ever born. Even the idea of 'only one God' was borrowed from the Jews and Christians.
Carlyle's dictum on the Qur'an was also enlightened: "It is as toilsome reading as I ever undertook, a wearisome, confused jumble, crude, incondite.
Samuel Zwemer, in The Influence of Animism on Islam wrote: "In no monotheistic religion are magic and sorcery so firmly entrenched as they are in Islam; for in the case of this religion they are based on the teaching of the Qur'an and the practice of the Prophet." In other words, it's Satan's book.
Muhammad is allah. He testifies to himself. There is no one who testifies but himself.
The prophets of the Torah testify to Jesus. His disciples testify to Jesus. And now there is a greater testimony...the Holy Spirit testifies.
1 John 5:9
We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.
ironmonkeypalm 2 years ago
Believing in men will only condemn man. Seek God and His Son, Jesus the Christ. Ask Him who He is while you are still alive.
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
ironmonkeypalm 2 years ago
Your voice lack hormonse, sounded like a lady. You are wanking out lies from your mouth. Your knowledge level is not even that of a Islamic child.
Quran is Truth, not Satan's Book.
Al-Baqarah, verses 6,7.
bushlee 2 years ago
The Laws of God have not changed through the Torah, the Gospels and the rest of the New Testaments. Jesus further gives us insight on the Laws and his disciples testify to it. Only Satan would change the Laws.
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws.
ironmonkeypalm 2 years ago
We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind. Isaiah 64:6
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of Gods glorious standard. Romans 3:23
ironmonkeypalm 2 years ago
But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. Isaiah 59:2
For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23
ﺭﻭﻣﻴﺔ 6:23
23 لأَنَّ أُجْرَةَ الْخَطِيئَةِ هِيَ الْمَوْتُ، وَأَمَّا هِبَةُ اللهِ فَهِيَ الْحَيَاةُ الأَبَدِيَّةُ فِي الْمَسِيحِ يَسُوعَ رَبِّنَا.
ironmonkeypalm 2 years ago