In this final Historical talk to the ICMDA doctors and dentists Jay confronts the four claims by Muslims concerning their Qur'an, which are:
A) The Qur’an is un-created and exists eternally on clay tablets in heaven (S.85:22)
B) The Qur’an was sent down to Muhammad between 610 - 632 AD
C) The Qur’an was completed by Uthman in 652 AD
D) The Qur’an is unchanged in the last 1400 years
To dismiss these four claims Jay looked at 13 areas, including:
[1] What do modern Muslim Leaders Claim?
[2] What did early Muslim Scholars Say?
[3] Historical Anachronisms
[4] Source Criticism
[5] The 2 compilations of the Qur’an
[6] The 30 late Diacritical Variants (i.e. the different Arabic Qur’ans)
[7] The 6 Earliest Qur’anic Manuscripts
[8] The 2 Layers of the Sana’a Palimpsest
[9] The 4 Carbon Dating Lab Reports
[10] The 4,000 early Consonantal Variants
[11] The 63 Earliest Extant Fragments
[12] The 1924 Hafs canonized text
[13] The New Aramaic ‘Proto-Qur’an’ research
In these 4 talks to the ICMDA Jay's remit was to investigate both Mecca, Muhammad, and the Qur’an. Why? Because everything Muslims are dependent on comes from one ‘book, one man and one place’, all based on the Islamic Traditions (SIN) written 200 - 300 years too late, and 100s of miles too far north
Of these three areas Mecca proves the most problematic for Muslims.
The SIN claims Mecca had much vegetation, existed since Adam & Eve, where 300 prophets were buried; yet Mecca doesn't fit any of these.
In fact Mecca is not referred to until 741 AD, and none of the pre-7th century maps show Mecca at all.
Patricia Crone debunked Watt’s land based ‘Trade-Route Theory’ back in 1987, while we debunked the Red Sea Trade via Arabia, proving the trade was all via Africa, because it had water.
All of the 7th century Qiblas were facing Petra up to 706 AD, and not Mecca until 729 AD, while none of the surrounding empires ever heard of Mecca, and all of the stages of the Hajj were simply borrowed from other places, mostly Jerusalem.
The 7th century coins prove that the area under “Islam” was either Christian or Zoroastrian until 692 AD, while the Rock inscriptions prove that Islam as we know it didn’t appear until around 730 AD.
When we look at the Qur'an we find that the 6 earliest manuscripts proved that men created different Qur’ans between the 7th-9th centuries.
The Birmingham Folios proved that Muslims borrowed stories created long before the Qur’an, while the thirty 8th-10th century Qira’ats proved the Qur’an was evolving everywhere.
Holding up the 26 Qira’ats in 2016 opened up a whole ‘can of worms’ for Muslim scholars, followed by the interview of June 8, 2020 which created a platform for us to go public with the Qira’at Narrative.
The 29 Qira’at Variants dumped into the Nile in 1924 proved that when Muslims find problems with their Qur’an, they either burn them, wash them, erase them, cover them, or sink them to destroy the evidence!
The 4,000 Consonantal Variants proved that Muslims have accreted, deleted and corrupted their text, before standardizing it during the Ottoman Period.
The 63 fragments employed to find just 96% of the Qur’an proves they still cannot find a complete Qur’an for over 100 years, as their fragments are tentative, or have no sources.
The Aramaic proto-Qur’an proves that when we return to the original text we will find Jesus!
So, what happened: The 7th - 8th century Arabs in order to create their own distinct identity needed a ‘book, a man, and a place’, which they did with the Qur’an, Muhammad and Mecca. Yet, it didn’t take just 22 years as the SIN claims, but centuries, proving that Islam is as man-made as any other religion, unlike Christianity!
We can use this material today to disprove the Preservation of the Qur’an, Muhammad and Mecca, while pointing out that it is Islam and not us who are ‘arguing from silence’, as we have the 7th c. evidence they don’t have. These arguments hit at the very foundations of Islam; yet they are neutral and ‘politically correct’.
From what we have researched and found, we can convincingly say that:
-The Qur’an was not created by God at all
-The Qur’an was not sent down to Muhammad between 610 - 632 AD
-The Qur’an was not completed by Uthman in 652 AD
-The Qur’an was changed in the last 1300 years
-The Qur’an was finally compiled in 1924, and made official in 1985
-Thus, the Qur’an is a mere 99…no wait…38 years old!
-Consequently, many of us are actually older than the Qur’an!
In conclusion, when we consider the 4 claims for Qur’anic authority, we can apply them to our Logos, Jesus Christ Himself?
Note:
-Jesus is eternal?
-Jesus was sent down?
-Jesus is complete?
-Jesus has never changed?
Thus, the 4 criteria Muslims are looking for in their Qur’an, their “Primary Revelation”, we already have in Jesus Christ, our ”Primary Revelation”!
Let’s “bring Muslims Home” to a much greater and better Revelation, JESUS CHRIST!
© Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, August 26, 2023
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