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Acting upon the Muslim credo that the Koran “proves” itself; then we have to look no further than what the authors of the text have penned within its collected pages.
Let’s look at this fine example of what occurred…
وَالْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ
Waalkitabi almubeeni
43.2 And The Book, the clear/evident.
What is clear and evident…?
The Book.
What is “The Book”…..?
Reviewing the classic definition…
الْكِتَابِ = “alkitabi”
“alkitabi” definition:
Lane references sura 2:2 in his definition:
ذَلِكَ الْكِتَبُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
Thalika alkitabu la rayba feehi hudan lilmuttaqeena
That The Book no doubt/suspicion in it, (it is) guidance to the fearing and obeying. (2:2)
“That is the book, or scripture”;
as though combining in itself the excellences of all other books or scriptures; or meaning that is preeminently the book, or scripture.
The Pentateuch or Mosaic Law; and the Gospel, or Book of the Gospels; the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians. Divine prescript, appointment, or ordinance; judgment, or sentence; fatal decree or predestination.
References:
An Arabic-English Lexicon, E.W. Lane, volume one, p. 74; volume seven, p. 2590
“The Book” is the Holy Bible.
Period.
The Holy Bible is proclaimed as being clear & evident.
So much so, that look what happens...
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
Inna jaAAalnahu qur-anan AAarabiyyan laAAallakum taAAqiloona
43.3 Certainly we have
made it an Arabic Koran, maybe/perhaps you reason/comprehend.
What is the Koran…..?
قُرْآنَ is so called because it has
collected the histories of the prophets, and commands and prohibitions, and promises and threats, and the
verses or signs, and the
chapters.
Look at what has occurred.
1) The Holy Bible “alkitabi” (OT & NT – written in Hebrew and Greek), is proclaimed as clear and evident
2) The Holy Bible is made into “jaAAalnahu” an Arabic “collection” or Koran
Thus…
It is obviously stated in the Koran itself, that the Holy Bible was converted into Arabic by its authors.
Understand this…
If the Koran was originally in Arabic, then there would have been absolutely no need for the disclaimer of converting it into Arabic….as stated in 43.3.
This statement is absolutely foundational to the correct understanding of the contents of Islam’s book of faith.
Hence, since we now know that the authors who penned the Koranic text (as we know it to be today) translated the prior Biblical scriptures into Arabic – what exactly would you expect to find within its suras….?
But…
Who were the authors that made this bold proclamation….?
Observe these interesting comments by Lane…
Every language without a written literature tends to decay more than to development by reason of foreign influences; and the history of the Arabic exhibits an instance of decay remarkably rapid, and extraordinary in degree. An immediate consequence of the foreign conquests achieved by the Arabs under Mohammad’s first four successors was an extensive corruption of their language; for the nations that they subdued were naturally obliged to adopt in a great measure the speech of the conquerors, a speech which few persons have ever acquired in such a degree as to be secure from the commission of frequent errors in grammar without learning it from infancy….
Such being the case, it became a matter of the highest importance to the Arabs to preserve the knowledge of that speech which had thus become obsolescent, and to draw a distinct line between the classical and the post-classical languages. For the former language was that of the Kur-an and of the Traditions of Mohammad, the sources of their religious, moral, civil, criminal, and political code’ and they possessed, in that language, preserved by oral tradition, - for the art of writing, in Arabia, had been almost exclusively confined to Christians and Jews….
The classical language they called, by reason of its incomparable excellence, “el-loghah,” or “the language:” and the line between this and the post-classical was easily drawn, on account of the almost sudden commencement, and rapid progress, of the corruption.
….I often have found in my knowledge of modern Arabic a solution of a difficulty; but without great caution, such knowledge would frequently have misled me, in consequence of the changes which have taken place in the applications of many words since the classical age.
References:
An Arabic-English Lexicon, E.W. Lane, volume one, pp. vii – viii; xxii - xxiii
It is quite inescapable that Islam’s “prophet”….who is not even mentioned in the Koran… did
NOT write the Koran…
Moreover…the authors, who did finally put pen to paper, and translated the Hebrew and Greek into Arabic, were more than likely Christians…..!!!
Thus...it becomes rather apparent why the Koran contains Biblical material such as:
• Salvation through Jesus….sura 103
• Jesus’ Crucifixion….sura 86
• The plurality at the Throne…sura 81
• The Triune God….sura 53
And on, and on, and on….