Who Wrote the Qur'an | What Sources Were Used?

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[@UsefulCharts]

Watch Al Muqaddimah's video on the Sana'a manuscript: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn7IiYGjbZ2NY8k

[@andrewwake8607]

Have you re uploaded this particular video.

[@taoriq3632]

Did you reupload this again

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@andrewwake8607 yes, he did

[@andrewwake8607]

@@Omer1996E.C Thanks Omer. I wonder who he's offended.

[@Omer1996E.C]

@@andrewwake8607 I think he just wanted to upload the video after "al muqaddimah" did

[@zakiamashhdi3672]

I am an elderly Muslim woman. I love to watch your highly objective vedios. I loved this one too. I don't think it would hurt any one's feelings. I refrain from expressing my own views as my community is highly sensitive about these matters. People are not ready for objective discourses on religious matters. Sir please do something to bring different communities, specially Jews and Muslims to see eye to eye and believe in one common religion that's humanity Stay blessed

[@olorin7940]

My respect to you, really! Hope you have a wonderful life.

[@yolir.u9452]

Wow ! 🥰i like the way you think

[@ddoomsday7313]

U giving so much hope dear. This so normal opinion is lack among all the culture, in the west too.

[@ddoomsday7313]

@Jai Bholenath जय भोलेनाथ it cant work with the 99 percent idiots but with normal persons its okay. Just they shall then fortify themselfs

[@bluelotus.society]

Look into the Sufi community - there are channels on here, such as Seekers of Unity, that talk about them and religious unity

[@DnKZone]

My religion is Islam, I am a Muslim, But I judge and question everything, it's my nature...I always try to know the historical and scientific view of religion. Thanks for your research...Very grateful ❤️

[@davidway4259]

TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS THE MUSLIM SALVATION.

[@AbderrahmanEhab]

@@davidway4259 My brother David: In Islam, we do not need to shed the blood of an innocent person in order for God to forgive a sin that we did not commit. To forgive sins in Islam, all you have to do is turn to God alone without a mediator and repent of your sin and not return to sin. Bloodshed is not required, in ezec 18 "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the "iniquity of the son

[@AbderrahmanEhab]

@@davidway4259 In our religion, Adam repented of his sin in the first place, and God forgave him. In your religion, Adam sinned by eating from the forbidden tree. Imagine, in order for God to forgive this sin, he has to incarnate and sacrifice his son, who is God, and he himself is God, meaning that he sacrifices himself to forgive us for a sin we didn't commit.

[@AbderrahmanEhab]

You can refer to dialogues between Muslim preacher and Christian common people , as well as missionaries. In the speakers' corner, just write the speakers' corner, duaa. I am inclined and I love Sheikh Othman. You can listen to some of these conversations if you have free time. We believe in Christ and we all respect him as a human being and a prophet, and we believe in his virgin birth And all the prophets

[@davidway4259]

HOLY MEANS WHAT

[@muhammaddicka4102]

I think this is the most inoffensive and respectful video about Islam comparing to other videos🤝

[@Omer1996E.C]

Inoffensive? It's not offensive, it's just ignorant about the vast differences of the quran and other books, I was just watching an old video from "many prophets, one message" on KZbin, and the quran and Bible can never be copy of one another

[@ixoh7754]

@@Omer1996E.C nevertheless... if u think about it, during the period of Prophet even if these supposed texts were there floating around, he was someone who cannot read or write. For someone like that to compile the stories would be extraordinary. In-depth analysis of Quran, the arrangement of surah and numerical miracles and some scientific facts and predictions are too many coincidences to occur at once. Faith is something u cant explain with solid proof but u believe in it anyway. This video increased by faith in the Quran and its authenticity. Thanks

[@soar865]

@@ixoh7754 how to know if he was lying about being illiterate

[@ixoh7754]

@@soar865 - imagine if he claimed to be a doctor… now his mom gonna say “don’t come near me when I am sick u are not a real doctor”.. he friends be like “Yo, u never went to med school all these years u been with us playing in the fields”… his followers be like “dude.. u know very little about medicine”. 1500 years later… me “he was not a doctor” And you be like “how do u know he is not a doctor ?” I’m like “bro.. wtf”

[@rxw5520]

@@ixoh7754if faith, as you say, is believing something without evidence, then there would be no need to seek evidence for authenticity… unless your faith was weak. If you have strong evidence, you don’t need faith. So considering the tremendous evidence you’ve found for the truth and authenticity of your holy book, you don’t really have to have much faith at all. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know!

[@sheenapearse766]

Amazing overview , analysis and insight into the multiplicity and overlapping derivations of sacred scriptures . There wouldn’t be enough hours in the day for one to read all the texts / books , so WOW ! Thanks a lot !

[@FuhhFyuhb-wb1zp]

The Holy Qur’an differs from the rest in that it is only one copy in all the countries of the world, and even in the written texts, it is the only word that has not been changed.

[@waakyeuchiha6112]

​@@FuhhFyuhb-wb1zp😂lol yeah right 🤣 Next!

[@FeedYourBrainChannel]

@@FuhhFyuhb-wb1zp There have been some manuscripts that have slightly different words in it (though, yes, the Qur’an appears to have been scarcely edited, at least relative to other holy books). And the book was originally written/dictated in Arabic, which was translated to other languages, thereby changing the semantics anyway. But the book has pretty much stayed the same, at least of what we know of.

[@lesblase3667]

@@FuhhFyuhb-wb1zp WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT HAHAHA

[@FuhhFyuhb-wb1zp]

@@FeedYourBrainChannel All manuscripts of the Qur’an are identical to the Qur’an that we have today. The simple errors you are talking about in the Sanaa Manuscript are simple spelling errors, and the owner of the channel has a video titled The Sanaa Manuscript in which he shares the whole matter.

[@abdullahtheduude8206]

there's an error in this video regarding the compilation of the quran, and unfortunately its a very widespread common misconception uthman wasn't the first to compile the quran, it was actually abu bakr, who reigned for 2 years after the prophet passed away. after a battle with apostates, a sizable number of muslim memorizers who had the quran memorized died in the battles, which worried umar ibn al khattab, and he asked abu bakr to compile the quran. after much convincing, he accepted to do so abu bakr had the quran compiled at his time, and the quran was kept at his house during the reign of uthman, the muslim empire had already held a huge amount of land, and people generally had the quran passed around and memorized orally. issues arose when people on the fringes of the empire started arguing and debating on what the actual verses were, and so uthman got some scribes to make several copies of the quran, and sent a copy to the main districts of the empire, so that people in those regions, if they differ, they can go check the true version. and even after that for the most part people memorized it orally(and the extra copies were pretty much backups in case anyone messes up) thats also when uthman ordered the destruction of all other written copies, because the actual true one was already compiled by abu bakr decades before uthman's reign, at most 2 years after the prophet's death(im not sure exactly during which point during abu bakr's reign the quran was compiled, but he reigned for 2 years so its not more than that) so no, the quran wasnt written down in a whole book form 20 years after the prophets' death, but at most 2 years. and so theres a saying that goes "abu bakr gathered the quran, while uthman gathered the people on the quran", its still a pretty wide misconception even among muslims.

[@uchihahacker9434]

Thanks for the clarification

[@joyre1679]

Spot on. I learned this in school and am surprised it's not common knowledge.

[@georgeurlea5370]

Ma sha Allah brother please if you know how to contact this person tell him to delete this video

[@tommynoblethecouncilofheav4657]

Yea uthman only burnt all the korans he could get hold of then rewrote it to his own interpretation

[@abdullahtheduude8206]

@@tommynoblethecouncilofheav4657 here comes the clown I tell him that the quran already existed in book form 2 decades before uthman's rule, and he says uthman wrote it

[@afifirawan6756]

as a Muslim I was always curious about the point of view of Quran by a non-Muslim. so how I felt. thank you for the experience!

[@hamzawiblue3157]

read the Quran brother you know whats their view

[@gershonperry5952]

The Quran, at least in its early part is quoting much of the bible and especially Musa about 73 or maybe 74 times. It suggests to the Bani Israel to go back into their land in the name of Alla, and not leave. The Children of Israel are sometimes referred to as Ummat Al Kittab and there is nothing wrong with that. I wonder if in the name of peace we could stick to the good parts and put aside the less peaceful parts. Those who believe in the Hebrew Bible did it and nobody is claiming that an eye for and eye is justice. I think that some of the less peaceful parts in the Quran may have come from traditional and tribal times preceding or after the life if the Nebi.

[@larry4africa]

@@gershonperry5952 That is an interesting parallel between the different Holy Scriptures, to lay aside the violent parts. But at some time one needs to address the purpose God had in each of these instances to utilize violence. Nevertheless, it does start us on a more level playing ground. Peace

[@davemiles3062]

Its a fools paradise

[@fleursdelilas9487]

@@gershonperry5952 As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Omitting anything from what one believe is the word of God is a disrespect to him. anything that is there exits for a reason. what you're saying is similar to sayin "why not only talk only about the inventions and technology Americans have contributed to the world , and how they abolished slavery, and omit the part of history books where they talks about what they did to the native americans and the african slaves, just for the sake of peace and harmony?"

[@larrylangman3544]

Truly an excellent presentation on the subject and brilliant for its graphic presentation/representation of the relationship between matters being discussed......of course I hit the subscribe button and will now go right through your catalogue of material. It is wonderful to come across such a well structured and organized source.......

[@the1344show]

Even after you gave a "heads up" that watching the second half of the content could offend the watcher, I found your discussion of who wrote the Qur'an from another point of view really respectfull (even censoring the depiction of Abraham and Mary as in how the Muslims always censor the depiction of their theological figures) and was delivered with amazing objectivity. Of course, this does not change my faith (as I am sure it was not what you wanted to achieve to begin with) and today I gained new knowledge from your videos. Please keep on making videos!

[@jonathandjing1065]

There is nothing to be offended about regardless of your religion. It’s actually good to listen to different points of view and how other interpret the holy books

[@waynemiller4598]

Islam is not a religion it's a crime family

[@SirBenjiful]

Try telling that to the guys who tried to murder Salman Rushdie for referencing controversial Quranic scholarship in his work.

[@HardCore_Islamist]

Its weird how "historically" we can reject that the hadith tradition is written about 200 years after the prophet muhammad but we accept acounts of Alexander the great after a Melania

[@jonb5493]

@@HardCore_Islamist Well I never gave Melania much credence, but hey, sometimes you have to get an immigrant to do disgusting stuff that no local would do!

[@kirkp-ko8hk]

​@@HardCore_IslamistActually that is not true. The Hadith were compiled as early as 80 years after the prophet. Many know the name Bukhari but few know the name Sufyan at Thawri. But critical use of the Hadith began with the companions themselves.

[@angelicking2890]

I am happy you admit your biases or your background so that the audience gets an idea of what lens you view the question through. Some youtubers just don't admit they have a bias and say stuff as matter of fact .

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

why doesn`t trinity is written in bible,,.;'[.

[@JustIssybee]

How does Quran have how many scientific evidence which has only been discovered by modern scientists.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@JustIssybee ,it`s a core evidence islam is ultimate truth,that`s why islam is the fastest growing religion in the world as per western media said unanimously,peace maz

[@rosalia2940]

Exactly! the Koran writer didn't even know what Christians believe! The writer of the Koran didn't even know that God became man according to Christianity! The writer of the Koran did not even know the most important foundations of Christianity!

[@rosalia2940]

Malachi 3:6 = Reading helps! This is about good and bad!! ***********Exactly!!! God is not a human! Even if God adds a human body to himself, God still remains God!**************

[@alfred2018]

Even if it's heavily influenced by Syriac literature or whatever that is, the question is became: How Muhammad can be able to recite it all back in Arabic while Arabic, Syriac and Aramaic is far too different to be able to bridged by a man who know nothing about Aramaic or Syriac? As we know that Arab's tradition of preserving events by oral and those kinda literature must be held by some people with high status like rabbi yet Muhammad family doesn't have such status, therefore probability of obtaining such text is slim, if not impossible. To be able to create a book (or oral tradition which later canonized) from other language to Arabic is just like asking some random shepherd from Mongolia to come up with a book like Art of War by Sun Tzu by hearing its content here and there in the original language.

[@pstbukkie]

The fact that his direct followers preserved the book by memory makes it a not-so-far fetched feat. Besides, the obvious differences between the Syriac and the Arabic story may then account for the paucity of information recounted from memory, plus its additions

[@alfred2018]

@@pstbukkie Then how can Muhammad get such high status mentor who have the book and teach him to memorize some stories? Do you think that such book can be owned by everyone like nowadays? Also Muhammad compiled such stories into a literature (Qur'an) which is unifying and standardizing Arabic language. Like I said, like asking random Mongolian shepherd to come up with Art of War by Sun Tzu AND asking to make it to unify and standardize the Mongolian language. Mind you, unifying nomaden Arabs and Mongols is hard, it is even harder using literature as the unifying aspect.

[@pstbukkie]

@@alfred2018 I don't think that the stories were that esoteric. While I can't speak with any degree of certainty (and neither could anyone else), it is entirely possible that Bible stories were common in the region he lived in. Moreso, the fact that Jews and Christians are referred to as the people of the book shows that he is aware of some book. And while the book wasn't as common as it is now, the stories were also taught and a lot of people memorised it like they do the Qur'an. Not entirely miraculous for an Arabian Shephered to be able to recount

[@maverick7291]

It says that it took 23 years to receive all the relations. So I don't think it would be hard for anyone to memorize anything if they had 23 years. Especially if it was given in portions randomly throughout the 23 years. Also he had followers who were like his assistants that kept tabs of everything he said and memorized it as well. So he had backup.

[@alfred2018]

@@maverick7291 Muhammad's first followers mostly slaves. Why? Because Islam teaches equality for all which is the enemy of feudalistic nomaden Arabs. It appeals slaves, not nobles ofc. How can you expect bunch of slaves be able to do such thing? You have to remember that Muhammad is not born in todays era. Apply the circumstances of Arabian desert at that time and look again how impossible it is to do what you said.

[@AlgerianTalk]

I like before watching! Thank you for the effort

[@luigisuper4143]

I would love a series on who wrote the Avesta. It would probably be the most difficult to make out of all of them, but it would be interesting to see how much is known. Zoroastroanism is very scarcely talked about on KZbin, and it would be amazing to cover in this series the Gathas and the Avesta.

[@luigisuper4143]

@@luigianchondo7241 In my case it is based on Luigi from Super Mario. Quite an old username. Let's hope the video on the Avesta comes out. I really think there should be more information on KZbin about zoroastroanism and Ancient Iran in general.

[@abdulaleem9207]

i second this.

[@SkynetVortex]

Agree!

[@davidjairala69]

I wrote the Avesta in college with George Lucas. We basically just spent a week locked in our dorm with an ounce of pot and a big bag of adderalls. AMA

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

The Avesta is really interesting especially when compared to the Vedas

[@comb528491]

Slight Correction, Sunni Tradition holds that even before Uthman, the Quran was compiled into a single copy under Abu Bakr RA, 6 months after the Prophet SAW died, due to a bunch of reciters getting killed during the Battle of Yamama. What Uthman RA did was was standardized it and make many copies of it and respectfully retire the minor variations (called Ahruf) (the Quran is retired like a Flag in America, throwing it away is considered as disrespectful so we burn out of respect)

[@p.h.freitas6727]

This copy was kept by one of poet Mohammed's wife, but was lost.

[@p.h.freitas6727]

Also, acording to the young girl Aisha much was lost, and the cow 🐮 surah was longer.

[@sonofagun00]

This PH guy has no idea what he's talking about. There are no legitimate sources to prove his comments. Just rubbish conjecture.

[@p.h.freitas6727]

@@sonofagun00 just because you want to protect your silly deen from criticism.

[@p.h.freitas6727]

@@sonofagun00 when a girl turns 10, she is not good any more... the good ones are like Aisha.

[@wirrbel]

I would be interested in an episode on who wrote the buddhist Pali Canon (and potentially also follow ups with the question who wrote the Mahayana Sutras)

[@Harry-bd6pb]

Sanskrit mostly for chinese

[@seanbuskey357]

That would be like a 500+ hour video

[@hamzaabdullahmoh]

Thank you. Please keep up the good work.

[@devinsmith4790]

Would love to see a video about who wrote the Homeric poems, but I'm not gonna pressure you man. It's your channel and it's up to you to decide what content you want to make next.

[@ethanwalker3392]

I on the other hand will pressure you.

[@webproductions28]

As will I. DEW IT

[@shubhamraj9986]

This is most funniest TOPIC I feel like even I can write pedophilia Religion 😭

[@WitchOracle]

I would love this!!

[@reeyees50]

D'oh

[@juliettanzer4738]

I just wanted to say thank you for your subtitling. I know it is a lot of work but it is so helpful for people who need it. Brilliant work as always

[@gmansplit]

It's entirely plausible that he doesn't do the subtitling himself. There are tons of people online who you can pay to do subtitles for videos (Fiverr has many such people). Also, one excellent newer feature of youtube is the ability to edit the auto-generated subtitles. Because Matt speaks so clearly and precisely, I bet that he uses this method, and likely has to make barely any edits to them in order to make them 100% correct.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

why doesn`t trinity is written in bible,,.;'[.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

why doesn`t trinity is written in bible

[@Nexus-jg7ev]

@@lufhopespeacefully2037 Because it's not Biblical, that's why. The ending of Mathew that mentions The Father, Son and Holy Spirit was added very, very late. It was not found in the early Greek manuscripts. Jesus' disciples did not believe that Jesus was God during his life, they started believing that he became divine when he was exalted tovheaven after his alleged resurrection.

[@ctjohansen]

This is so great! Thank you! Would you be able to do one of these videos on the Book of Mormon? I know a lot of the contents are of 19th century theology or culture. This video is just so well done!

[@UsefulCharts]

Already done sir :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4vWhapmlKihhM0feature=shared

[@aadams5864]

Great video. Super informative. Thanks for putting in the effort!

[@1926jqg]

As an ex-mormon, I am so excited for the "Who wrote the Book of Mormon" video. If you haven't already. I would suggest looking up Mosiah Priority. I think it's a very interesting theory that explains the odd structure of the book, and fits well with what was happening to Joseph Smith at the time.

[@megameow321]

Joseph Smith and Muhammad have a lot in common.

[@AnDyity]

The book of Mormon is just a single taken book of the bible I forget which one it starts with a D, I had a book of Mormon one time and compared it with the bible book and it was the same.

[@called2voyage]

@@AnDyity There are a number of differences between The Book of Mormon and Deuteronomy. I look forward to Matt's coverage of this, because there's not an obvious answer.

[@1926jqg]

@@AnDyity You could be thinking of Isaiah. The entire book of 2nd Nephi in the Book of Mormon is cribbed word for word from Isaiah in the Old Testament.

[@DoctorCyan]

Mormons and early Muslims have so much in common. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mormons evolve into the 5th big Abrahamic religion, behind Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Baha’i

[@amourmtungo623]

🤔Thank you for the research, knowledge and great efforts in doing your work.

[@abedbbb7083]

it contains just perhapses that's not knowledge that's an opinion and to be frank he cited some incorrect things like the Quran was not written in life time of the Prophet Muhammed that's not right because the compagnions of the Prophet did write it in his time and one of the very famous historical figure that did it was the first ommeyad Calife muawiyah ibn abi soufyan and it was compiled in one book called al Musehaf and the Book used by Uthman to standardize the Musehafs across the state was that of the wife of the Prophet Muhammed called Hafsa bint Umar ibn al khattab so he does not know that and for the Book being based on Syriac and as an Arabic speaker that is mostly a Bull shit, Syriac and Arabic belong to the same family tree everybody who tried to do this manoeuvre indeed tried to distort the meanings of resembling words that have different meanings in the two language and that is a deliberate corruption based on fallacies, for the Sanaa manuscript I don't know his position exactely but it has a very known story for a later time to tell but he is assuming that inconsistencies existed in the text that 's also a declaration made to out-proportion the dialectal differences in Quraysh tribe's ( the Prophet's Tribe) language that used to exist in the way of recitation, these differences are very minor and don't distort anything neither in the text nor in the meaning and the most important of that they are very known and classified and very very few dialectal differences , this Book is very well preserved because everybody in that time learned it by heart directly from a chain of well known people traced to the prophet so for the language beeing without vowel that's a void and wrong argument because the Book at that time was taught verbaly and no one was allowed to teach it or to recitate it in prayer without learning it verbaly from someone who also learned it verbaly from another till the chain ends up to the prophet, the one who learn it just from the mushaf was called a musehafi and it was a kind of pejorative description.

[@EricJennings444]

This is excellent IMO. Thank you.

[@Vedioviswritingservice]

Great Channel. So happy to have discovered it.

[@barrymoore4470]

A minor correction at 20:25 : The Arabic language does indeed have vowels (all human languages have vowels), but rather it is the traditional Arabic script that typically or mostly does not express them in written form. Several other writing systems historically expressing other Afro-Asiatic languages, such as ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, also have this feature.

[@youseffarawila8125]

Come on! Arabic vowels are central to the language and writing. The first letter of the Arabic Alphabet is Alef, which is a vowel! The letter Wao is our O, and it looks like the English comma, also means AND. It is part of the decimal system and punctuation of European languages - an Arabic vowel!!! A third vowel is Yaa, which sounds like i and e and y depending on the word. The Arabic language is based on 3 or 4 letter root verbs, and these roots often contain one or two vowels. If you trace the origin of the vowel-less legend about Arabic you will find an idiot or an orientalist, which is the same thing often. 😢

[@wafiq1958]

@@youseffarawila8125 he means harakaat

[@isaiahdelacruz6221]

There is no correction there you just said it yourself arabic does not recognize vowels you are adding to his point you are confused

[@nightthemoon8481]

@@isaiahdelacruz6221 Arabic (and all semitic languages) have long vowels, it's short vowels specifically that are embedded in each letter

[@kinunshele]

There are diacritics included in my copy of the Qur'an... Which give an indication of the vowel sounds (I'm a total beginner at Arabic but very interested in it). Are these added for modern interpretation?

[@amourmtungo623]

🤔You bring joy to the people because your materials are so addictive, interesting and lovey in many ways. Thank you for your work, effort and understanding 🤔

[@chj3289]

Non-sense...!!! Quran thru Gabriel and written by God.. utter nonsense.. use some common sense here of when was Quran written and when was Old Testament written. BC and CE. 🤣🤣🤣Whoever the author of this video is, just look into the facts and then say Jew'sTorah and Bible are one and the same, whereas the Bible emphasizes on the old and new Testaments. To add to your old videos on the moon of Muslim worship The crescent of the new moon signifies the beginning and end of fasting during Ramadan. *However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul).*

[@vecturhoff7502]

​@@chj3289 this is the secular idea of the creation of the book, not the religious one

[@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760]

@@vecturhoff7502 Explain to us then. Is queer'an created or uncreated?

[@vecturhoff7502]

@@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760 created of course

[@ahmedaalmaryme942]

Thank you, it was a wonderful explanation. Greetings to you from Libya

[@patdunkley3283]

Dear Matt - I hugely admire your fantastic work. Simply magnificent, beautifully presented, and you are a real pleasure to listen to. But I have a question about you: you say at around 3:52 you are a theist but would place works of religious literature as 'authored by humans'. Yet I would have guessed that you, with your fantastic knowledge and experience would have been an atheist, an anti-theist (as I am), or at at most a pantheist or a deist - how come a theist? Sorry if it's a personal question, but it just doesn't seem to square! If you've addressed this elsewhere I'd love to hear, and from anyone who can clarify In the meantime thanks again for your superb efforts!

[@mas-udal-hassan9277]

For all of those who think it is ideal if Muslim women are not financially dependent on men: Would it be ideal if Muslim men were not sexually dependent on their women? For example, would it be ideal if men could purchase (at low cost) harems of docile life-like forever-young sex robots? How would you respond to Muslim men who justified this by saying such robots are necessary to give men true independence, such that they are not forced to stay in relationships with women who are rude, jealous, controlling, manipulative, fat, old, or ugly? How would you respond to Muslim men who said that Muslim women need to "step up their game" such that men choose to be with them instead of a robot that is more friendly, beautiful, young, and thin? The cop out answer is to say sex robots are haram, but there are other conceivable halal alternatives that would do the same thing: flood men with cheap alternatives. Obviously, such alternatives would weaken and ultimately destroy marriage because it takes away the dependence that men have on women for sex. But that is literally what giving women financial independence does; it makes them independent from men. And that's why no society or religion ever did give women that independence, except for our current dystopia.

[@brandonhacksandtrainers9246]

Fix: The surahs are not ordered according to their lengths. Surah Kosar is the smallest surah but isn't the last one.

[@hussainsultanzada6123]

Kauthar* It's an Arabic word, keep it that way

[@zaeroses1096]

I believe it was mentioned that it is not strictly so, but generally they are roughly in order of length from longest to shortest.

[@ashfan80gmailcom]

It is not strictly so. But more or less so.

[@abdo-dr1tu]

They are definitely ordered by length, just not perfectly ordered.

[@bashyirshariff6356]

surah orded are from Allah. And sahabah keep it that way when The Prophet Muhammad read it for the last time with The Angel Jibril.

[@ninreck5121]

I really love how respectful you always are to religious people in your explanations!

[@valerianmonye402]

felt more like fear than respect, with his meandering disclaimer. lol

[@potts995]

@@valerianmonye402 Yeah, sounds like he’s trying to avoid death threats more than simply being respectful

[@IwasUnknownUser]

@@potts995 why should other have to be respectful to their religion? That's already kind of terrorism.

[@fifa4lifeunknow795]

@@potts995 Extremly religius people are cinda scary i remember talking to someone and they argued that the Only morals we got is What comes from the bible (the person was Christian btw ) That made me realise What would those people do If they Dident belive in something like that Would they be normal and have Basic understanding What is right or wrong Or Would they be a lunatic😂

[@lets_wrapitup]

@@IwasUnknownUser no it’s not it’s respect. How did you equate respect to terrorism. Everything deserves respect

[@wolfgangkohlhof2180]

Hi! I just saw my first video of your series and found it very instructive. A - maybe silly - idea came to my mind: would there be a way to show, to tell a history of atheism as far as it is known? The background of my question ist: if there's something to alter nation state perspective on history, then it's the history of belief, isn't it? Umberto Eco wrote: in what believes a non believer? If we - ideally - knew that we are all schooled without really knowing what 'school' is, we ('we?') would become aware of our responsibility before whatever we know as devine. What do you think about it? Thanks for the video.

[@arriuscalpurniuspiso]

I don't know of any atheistic texts from the ancient world, now that you mention it. You ask a good question. I can only cite the ancient atomistic philosphers Democritus and Lucretius off the top of my head in that respect.

[@rashedaltamimi8652]

Similarities between the Quran and the other books don't mean someone copied from the others but means that there is one source behind all the Abrahamic religions who is trying to deliver his message to all humanity over and over.

[@RohitYadav-fh9ly]

Or it was copied lol😂😂😂😂

[@normalactivity7404]

But one could argue that since Torah and Bible predates the Quran, Quran may copy scripture from the Torah and Bible, Quran claim the original scripture is corrupted which is why Torah and Bible still exist now but different, but THIS IS ACCORDING TO QURAN from a neutral perspective, one could argue that if it's possible that Torah and Bible is "corrupted", then it's also possible to say that Quran just copied a scripture from other scripture including Torah and Bible

[@m070sam]

and your god failed to send this message many times? that's even worse

[@muslimresponse103]

@@m070samthe message was delivered but the people rejected or corrupted it over time and so the message was sent again to their successors by other Prophets of God. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was the last messenger of Allah ﷻ sent to all humans.

[@muslimresponse103]

@@normalactivity7404it is a fact, not just possible that the bible and torah is corrupt, this is proven by the text itself and you can also prove the Quran did not copy them because if it did then the Quran would also have the same mistakes that the bible has.

[@tarekmarrouki8203]

just a small misunderstanding; "thou al qarnayn" means "the one who lived for two centuries" you see the word قرن in Arabic means both "horn" and "a century" and since my childhood, as a Muslim kid I've been taught that information so I don't fall into the confusion. Other than that, I appreciated such an academic level of research this channel never failed to live up to my expectations.

[@engineeresemkay6929]

Perhaps this misunderstanding is caused by the people who had come up with the idea that the person mentioned in the holy Quran is to be taken as the one who lived for 200 years or 2 centuries. this idea does not make any sense, because it would employ that the person was of 200 years of age and he had already lived for 2 centuries at the time period during that story. again because you do not give a 30 years old person a name like ["thou al qarnayn" means "the one who lived for two centuries" ]

[@Sasori.OfTheRedSand]

No one agreed who he was .. any muslim know that

[@engineeresemkay6929]

@@Sasori.OfTheRedSand The General consciences points it to be Alexander the Great. The coins of His time with his pictures on those items depict him to be having two Horns,

[@wolfking4879]

Thank you. as a Muslim from the west, it's easy for people to fall into this... I'm sitting here watching and my stomach is just turning. Allahu Akbar

[@Sasori.OfTheRedSand]

@@engineeresemkay6929 some agreed and some not

[@deadalready7467]

Enjoy ur videos so much. Not too long, packed w/info, extremely exiting, & educational to boot. Thank U so much. Many Blessings to All 🙏 🇺🇸

[@John-lf3xf]

There are so many issues with this video. I recommend that people see Hythem Sidky (an actual high quality secular academic) and his interview on Blogging Theology instead of this nonsense. Actually watching that will show exactly why I call this video nonsense and smoke and mirrors essentially.

[@HardCore_Islamist]

Do people really just believe anytime on the internet like that? Does it make you fell Good to hear information that fits your narrative

[@abhiramns7247]

That's a perfect way to present such a sensitive topic .

[@jonathanlee5185]

Thanks. Your explanations and visuals are very clear.👍

[@SamarNiaz29]

I am a muslim, and although I am certain in my belief that Quran is a divine text, I am not offended by you raising the topic. Infact, I really appreciate your interest, time and efforts on the center of our faith.

[@zitools]

I'm curious. Is there any Muslim you know that would be offended? If you were to estimate, what percentage? Actually I'm more interested in the percentage that are understanding of the question, like yourself. I assume it's like 85-90%, but I've been taught and experienced that it's best not to discuss religion with Muslims.

[@feduntu]

Textual variants in kooran Surah 37:12 Hafs بَلْ عَجِبْتَ وَيَسْخَرُونَ (But you wondered while they mocked) *عَجِبْتَ* Duri بَلْ عَجِبْتُ وَيَسْخَرُونَ (But I wondered while they mocked) *عَجِبْتُ*

[@alextrezvy6889]

@@zitools "but I've been taught and experienced that it's best not to discuss religion with Muslims." // If you understand russian, I strongly recommend to listen Geydar Djemal's lections and speech. He worked out the question about "discussing" the religion very well. If you don't understand russian, it is worth to begin to undestand. One of the points is: the language itself (not only the content written or spoken in a language) is a revelation.

[@SamarNiaz29]

@@zitools okay so the thing is, the spread of islam was pretty fast. A major contributing factor to this quick spread was the fact that islam was offering equality to every human being, which if you go a 1000 year back, was a big deal. especially in places such as Indian subcontinent, which was plagued by a cruel caste system, in which privileged upper castes (which were a minority) ruled over lower castes, that lived their lives in very destitute conditions. When this population was introduced to islam, they were quick to accept it, as it was offering them an escape from the derogatory system they were used to off. Since the time of our Prophet, it has always been the poor who have been in the forefront to accept islam. The wealthy class obviously resists it, as it is beneficiary of the status quo. While this enables islam to gain huge numbers, the down side is that majority of them are poor and uneducated. Now, partially due to how world works, and partially because of our failure, we havnt been able to lift everyone out of this illiteracy, and impoverishment. Which means we have a sizable population among us with very little understanding of their own faith. Financial security causes frustration, which is vented out in the form of intolerance. So yeah, I would say about 50-60% of muslims wont be open enough to take the question in point academically. they tend to be more sentimental about these things. But i guess, this would be the same for any group of human beings.

[@jamesbedukodjograham5508]

Yeah in most Religions the poorest people are in the majority of mass following until someone gives mankind a different type of leadership in terms of faith and Religion. In Gh we have the study of Religuous Practice and of course all our varied tribes do not condone Homosexuality in all its forms as it is practiced in the Western World.

[@cwlim62]

Excellent presentation as usual 👍

[@usr-34-gambaman]

I will answer some points , the last point mentioned by Luxembourg, Qura'an mentions that was revealed in Arabic to challenge Arabs whom are best known for a language can't be learned by other than Arabs and a challenge to their poetry which they took pride in. The mentioned stories goingback to the Bible are a challenge for people of the Book (jews and Nazarens (Christians now)) specially jews and a call for them to accept the new revelation which affirms the revelation they had from their prophets but with new jurisprudence , Qura'an even dictates what happened in the days of the prophet peace be upon. Qura'an also mentions stories unrelated to bible as Salih and Hud peace be upon them and tells the jews caliming the copying of their texts where those stories came from if that is true. Add to that if your claim are true , the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is quite a man : illiterate yet learned armaic , assyrian greek and hebrew , learned the Bible, apocryphal texts, Talmud (which is recently wrote down) and knew about greek legends. Affirming that God revealed Quraan is easier than affirming that a man with those circumstances where people wage war over a camel came up with this new book after learning 7 new languages and thousands of books. "إن الله وملائكته يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما"

[@quitsiencer8778]

Well said

[@MoukhlesDerbal]

Well put

[@dd6742]

There was no Arabic Bible and as such we find that there’s barely a place in the Qur’an capable of accurately describing what Christians actually believe. I cannot think of one, but there are many places in which the Qur’an makes errors in describing Christian belief. Furthermore, in other places, the Qur’an repeats the false folklore tales of the Syriac Christians, such as Dhul Qarnayn / Alexander as if it were real history. But we know these stories are not true and where they come from. It is clear that the author of the Qur’an was not too familiar with Christianity. This is actually a sign of it being all too human, I’m afraid.

[@MoukhlesDerbal]

@@dd6742 How does Quran get Christianity wrong?

[@usr-34-gambaman]

@@dd6742 you're wrong , Qura'an tells about the trinity in Surah al-Ma'idah 73. They disbelieve those who say, “Allah is the third in a Trinity.” But there is no god, except One God. If they do not refrain from what they say, a painful punishment will befall those among them who disbelieve." , tells the father son narratives from both old and new testament:" jews said Uzair is the son of God then nazarens said Issa is the son of god". Qura'an doesn't mention holy spirit explicitly but refers to Jibril (Gabriel) as the trustworthy spirit (Ar'Rouh Al'Amine). Qura'an also mentions that chistians saying Jesus is God in Surat AlMa'idah "Surely, in disbelief are they who say that Allah is the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary). Say (O Muhammad SAW): "Who then has the least power against Allah, if He were to destroy the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), his mother, and all those who are on the earth together?" And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them. He creates what He wills. And Allah is Able to do all things" that's for one. For two , the prophet peace be upon him traveled once to Levant when he was young then stayed his hole life and for the second time he didn't speak any language but arabic. "إن الله وملائكته يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما "

[@pangerangaz2160]

1:10 the way you didn’t make picture/graphics of the islamic prophets.. is very respectful of you Sir. ❤ thank you for making this vid☺️

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Which prophets? The ones who marry 6 years old girls like Muhammed ?

[@j.r.8176]

​@@suprememasteroftheuniverseIn the time stamp it reads: Moses, Abraham, Elijah, David. No mention of Muhammad.

[@ikhlaqahmed4568]

The earliest Quranic manuscript that has been reliably dated by scholars is known as the "Birmingham Quran manuscript." It is a collection of Quranic text fragments on parchment that were discovered in 2015 at the University of Birmingham in England. The manuscript has been carbon-dated to between AD 568 and 645, which is within the time period of the Prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community. This makes the Birmingham Quran manuscript one of the oldest surviving copies of the Quran in existence.

[@soumayaafilal2931]

Indeed this video is rather outdated in regards to that information

[@dtabije08]

how many folios does Birmingham Quran mss. has? Does it have 114 Surahs? Hehehe. Funny response.

[@soumayaafilal2931]

@@dtabije08 I see your point but the state of preservation not even a single word was altered and the message of that Sourate to the Christian archeologists found speak louder than if it was 114 found it's like Allah have sent a sign/message to those Christian archeologists who found it! Why didn't they find other chapters and found that specific Sourate with those specific verses!

[@dtabije08]

@@soumayaafilal2931 Hehehe. If you can show me the unchanged & preserved Utmanic Quran, then I will revert to Islam. As of now, I am enjoying reading Hadith that says your prophet was a womanizer, killer & pedophile.

[@KissMyBlackStone]

Fragments? 😂

[@areyeh4979]

Great explanation with a super useful chart indeed!

[@nurullahguzel2020]

it is not a great explanation at all ; quite contrary it is a very foolish explanation , according to him because the similar stories are found in other books ,he thinks they are inspired from other books , that's not necessarily correct . if there are similar apples inside two different baskets it doesn't mean the apples bounced from one basket to the other , it proves the similar apples were put in the baskets by a single God who created them at first place . the genuine source of all information is Great Allah ,whether you like it or not ...

[@TheJo201]

This was amazing

[@jiqbalg]

Interesting study and comparison❤❤❤

[@Esperalzi-Esfaral]

4:55. I am a Muslim, I am not offended, I continue watching, I want to hear alternative theories. I am good. I respect your views which I may or may not agree but nothing wrong listening to the alternative theories..

[@zaid9026]

allah says in quran : "And if you have any doubt as to (the truthfulness of the Qur'ân) which We have revealed to Our servant from time to time, produce a single Sûrah (- Qur'ânic chapter) like any of (the chapters of) this, summoning (to your assistance) all your helpers (that you have) beside Allâh, if you are truthful (in your doubts)," "But if you fail to do (so), and never shall you do (it), then guard against the Fire, the fuel of which will be human beings (who are deviating from the way of truth) and stones, (it is) prepared for the disbelievers. " quran chapter 2 verses 23 and 24 1400 years since this verse was revealed on the prophet and to this day no one was able to fulfill this challenge

[@SaeedAcronia]

then you're one in a million. Muslim take holiness of quran extremely seriously

[@Serious9185]

@@SaeedAcronia Nah , most of us are like it , unless you watch fox news.

[@mt000mp]

@@SaeedAcronia extremist muslim (NOT ISIS) should get secular academic with skepticism , islam intersect the secular(human) and the spiritual(divine) ••Quran encourages verification of any news that reaches to a believer. "O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful." (Quran 49:6) ••Quran also encourages that believers must reflect upon religion and not just obey religion blindly. Allah says in Quran: "And those who, when reminded of the verses of their Lord, do not fall upon them deaf and blind." (Quran 25:73)

[@SaeedAcronia]

@@mt000mp That's a circular logic. If it turns out that Quran was written by humans and not God, then you wouldn't be a muslim because being a muslim means believing quran is from God. Also you wouldn't be able to refer to Quran anymore because it was fake in that case.

[@RugajRozoj]

Idk how to thank you for your whole painful effort on the research, the subtitles, and the cute, eye-catching, colorful charts. Thank you soooo much..

[@chj3289]

Non-sense...!!! Quran thru Gabriel and written by God.. utter nonsense.. use some common sense here of when was Quran written and when was Old Testament written. BC and CE. 🤣🤣🤣Whoever the author of this video is, just look into the facts and then say Jew'sTorah and Bible are one and the same, whereas the Bible emphasizes on the old and new Testaments. To add to your old videos on the moon of Muslim worship The crescent of the new moon signifies the beginning and end of fasting during Ramadan. *However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul).*

[@Timakiwala]

Islam is formed with Forces, Swords ⚔️, Bullets, Killings, means all are Converted from other religions. No self ideology,,No laws,, Only Men's are rulling,, Womens are tortured,, Womens are machines for producing 20,30, 50 childrens.. 4/5/6 wives...Talak TALAK Talak 3 words to destroy Women's,,, Interested in 72 HOORS with very big size Breast....Ladies have no place in society. Hum converted SUWARS Hai. Hum KALAMA Padhate hai... Huma-me JAJABA hai... Hum TALAK de sakate hai... Hum HALALA bhee karate hai(enjoyment)... 72 HOORS with big boobs for us... We can produce 20/30/50 kids , hamara Penis عضو تناسل Powerful Hai(4/6 wives)... Kya huwa, hamare bachche بچے Pancharwala Beggers Hotel worker Butcher Riksha puller hai to,, JIHADI bhee hai, inshallah....

[@3L4.]

@@chj3289 ah i see. You say the Al quran is copy of Bible

[@rosalia2940]

*Who explains to us why the Koran says Christians believe God has a biological son!* To all Muslims! Son of God means NOT SON! What is called the son of God is the word of God = god himself! Which has nothing to do with a child (son)! Thus, the Son of God is incarnated as the human Jesus and the human Jesus is therefore referred to as a son, which does not mean a son!

[@rosalia2940]

Hebr 1,2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, *by whom also he made the worlds;* as everyone can see the term Son of God refers to the Word of God = god himself! For through that God created the worlds! *what a mistake in the Qur'an!*

[@intelerfan]

I like the way the history is being explored here. But as a muslim, I must make some notes. The Quran and its verses were preserved because it is one of the promises and statements of Allah. So if Angel Gabreil revealed the verses from Allah to Prophet Mohammed, there was no need for him to come across the biblical/torah stories from elsewhere where. Another pretty strong evidence of the Quran being divine, are the various scientific processes that were only discovered recently by scientists.

[@joygibbons5482]

So it’s preserved because it says it is? Just curious, so why did god fail to preserve the earlier revelations? Seems odd. When someone claims that he was visited by an angel would you believe him, or note that those stories he’s relating were in circulation in oral and written form among the community he lived in? Which would be more probable? No, none of the so called scientific processes in the Quran are new ideas when it was written. As above, they were in circulation in the 6th century CE, or are so vaguely described that the claim is overstated.

[@user-mf9wk9iu5j]

The Birmingham Quran manuscript is a single sheet of parchment on which two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript or muṣḥaf have been written. In 2015, the manuscript, which is held by the University of Birmingham,[1] was radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE (in the Islamic calendar, between 56 BH and 25 AH).[2][3] It is part of the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts, held by the university's Cadbury Research Library.

[@Lazarus365]

What is written in the single parchment.

[@Jk-ow8ny]

How many pages is the Birmingham quran

[@kingofheartsxyz]

it was later discovered that it is not as old as it believed initially !

[@jayj8709]

Quran never say it's a new religion but a continuetion of Judaism and Christianity and was revealed to correct the privous scriptures so definitely there will be a lot of similarities

[@samboy90]

Islam is not a continuation of neither of those man made religions. It is the original teaching of God.

[@user-sy9ev8hh5k]

@@samboy90 "man-made" lmfaooo kay sure fam whatever floats your boat

[@abdals3101]

All revelations are named by the mighty Allah is Islam. According to the Quraan حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى النُّصُبِ وَأَنْ تَسْتَقْسِمُوا بِالْأَزْلَامِ ذَلِكُمْ فِسْقٌ الْيَوْمَ يَئِسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ دِينِكُمْ فَلَا تَخْشَوْهُمْ وَاخْشَوْنِ الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ فِي مَخْمَصَةٍ غَيْرَ مُتَجَانِفٍ لِإِثْمٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ ﴿۳﴾ You are forbidden (to consume) the dead, blood and the flesh of swine; also flesh dedicated to any other than Allah, the flesh of strangled (animals) and of those beaten, that which is killed by falling, gored to death, mangled by beasts of prey, unless you find it (still alive) and slaughter it; also of animals sacrificed on stones (to idols). (You are forbidden) to seek division by the arrows, that is debauchery. Those who disbelieve have this day despaired of your religion. Do not fear them, but fear Me. This day I have perfected your religion for you and completed My favor to you. I have approved Islam to be your religion. (As for) he who does not intend to commit a sin but is constrained by hunger to eat of what is forbidden, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (3) So it's "the word" revelation revealed to prophets and messengers that Allah put guidance to individual communities and humanity as a whole. Allah choices is not up to academia to evaluate as it is bound by human ingrained weakness. Therefore your choice is just a childish try to discredit the almight control.

[@MDSAIF-uy3xz]

@@thepilgrim1581 How could JESUS(pbuh) save us when he couldn't save himself.

[@waalaikumsalam.]

@@MDSAIF-uy3xz oooooooh XD do not make it to hard for him XD

[@kierangraulich5762]

This dropped in the middle of my finals schedule and I needed this badly! Thanks for this series, this channel is probably one of the best finds I've made this year.

[@curtiswfranks]

Good luck on your finals!

[@John-lf3xf]

There are so many issues with this video. I recommend that people see Hythem Sidky (an actual high quality secular academic) and his interview on Blogging Theology instead of this nonsense. Actually watching that will show exactly why I call this video nonsense and smoke and mirrors essentially.

[@gmansplit]

@@John-lf3xf You can't just say the video is shit without providing any explanation or reasoning. It's dishonest.

[@John-lf3xf]

@@gmansplit True. I did in a long comment which you will find if you look through recent comments and scroll down to the comments which are from around the date of the reply above you are looking at on this chain.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

why doesn`t trinity is written in bible,,.;'[.

[@MuslimReplies]

There are three main stages of the preservation of the Holy Quran. 1. In the life of the Prophet Muhammad 2. In the life of the first Caliph, Abu Bakr 3. In the life of the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan The Arabic word Caliph comes from the Arabic word khalifa "خليفة", meaning "successor" or "next in line." Abu Baker was the first leader of Muslims after the Prophet Muhammad's death and Uthman Ibn Affan was the third leader of Muslims. 🔸 In the life of the Prophet Muhammad Allah granted the Prophet Muhammad the power to memorize the verses He revealed to him. Immediately, the Prophet under his supervision gathered his scribes and orally dictated the verses he just received to them to be written on whatever writing material that was available at that time. Since the Prophet Muhammad was illiterate, he directed his scribes to read back to him what they wrote to avoid writing other than what he received from God. Afterward, the Prophet Muhammad recited what he memorized to the Muslims around him. Muslims instantly memorized what the Prophet recited to them and started reading what they memorized in their five daily prayers. The Quran at the time of the prophet was preserved in two places: 1- The written pages. 2- The heart of Muslims. The Prophet Muhammad also directed his scribes where to place the verses in the growing body of the text. Allah promised to protect the Quran from being changed or lost: Allah says in the Quran 15:9 (Interpretation of the meaning) "Indeed We have sent down the Quran, and indeed We will preserve it." During the Prophet Muhammad's life, thousands of Muslims memorized the entire Quran, and after his death, the number of Muslims who memorized the Quran kept increasing until we find today millions of Muslims of different nationalities and ages who know the Quran by heart. And many of them do not speak or understand Arabic. ❓❓WHAT DOES THIS MEAN❓❓ It means that if we were to destroy all the copies of the Quran books that exist on earth, Muslims in a different part of the world would be capable of rewriting the Quran exactly as it was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, from their memory, word by word and all the written Quran all around the world will match word by word and page by page. It further means that if anybody tries to add, change, or delete any word or verse in the Quran, Muslims will easily discover it and reject it. 🔸 In the life of the first Caliph of Muslims, Abu Bakr Abu Bakr, the first leader of Muslims after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, realized the importance of collecting all the written pages of the Quran into one book. He formed a committee and assigned two known companions who memorized the Quran to supervise the compilation of the Quran. To make sure nothing was written by mistake, they double-checked each written verse with the memories of each member of the committee. Finally, the first compiled copy was placed with the Prophet Muhammad's wife Hafsa, daughter of Omar ibn al Khattab. 🔸 In the life of the third Caliph of Muslims, Uthman ibn Affan One of the questions that many Islam attackers ask Muslims in an effort to disqualify the Quran we have today being the Word of God is: Why did the third leader of Muslims, Uthman, burn all copies of the Quran and keep only one copy during his reign? And point to Quran 15:9 where Allah says He will protect the revealed Quran verses from being changed or lost. They do not bother to learn because they want only to attack Islam. Please pay attention to what I will write to be able to give a satisfying good answer. When the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad there were different Arabic spoken dialects in the area. The Prophet Muhammad's spoken dialect was his tribe's Quraish dialect. Do different Arabic dialects mean different Quran meanings? Different Arabic dialect does not mean different meanings for the same spoken Arabic word, it means different pronunciation and is slightly differently written while the meaning stays the same regardless of what Arabic dialect different Arabic tribes speak. After the Prophet Muhammad's death, the whole Quran was memorized by hundreds of thousands of Muslims and nobody was reported complaining about other people reading the Quran using different dialects. By the time of the third leader of Muslims, Uthman ibn Affan, the Muslim population had spread over vast areas outside the Arabic Peninsula where there were many people of other cultures and languages. Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamaan, the companion of Prophet Muhammad, warned Uthman bin Affan about the future dilemma of having the Quran written in different dialects. Uthman bin Affan acknowledged the dilemma of Muslims starting to fight about in which dialect the Quran should be recited. Uthman ordered the collection of all the written copies of the Quran. He burned all of them and preserved only the Prophet Muhammad's Quraish tribe dialect copy of the Quran. Afterward, he assigned scribes to write many copies of the Prophet Muhammad's Quraish tribe dialect copy of the Quran and redistribute it to all tribes. With Allah’s help and guidance to Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamaan and Uthman bin Affan, the Quran we have today, wherever you go, is the same original Arabic Quran that was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the Quraysh dialect. 🤔Think about it: Why did history not record any rejection from any tribe for burning its copy of the Quran? Nobody rejected, it because It did not make any difference for any of them since the Quran verses give the same meaning no matter in what dialect it is written or recited. Muslims always had ONE CONSISTENT Quran, which is still written in Arabic the original revelation language of revelation.

[@baonemogomotsi7138]

Please do your research.

[@MuslimReplies]

@@baonemogomotsi7138 I did and wrote a document I shared it with others 🙂 Now did you do any research about the Bible, I did and also wrote a document I share with others.

[@theanimatology9801]

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[@MuslimReplies]

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[@ibra9798]

The other books mentioned as sources of the Quran from a secular perspective, are there any manuscripts for them that indicate exactly when they were written? Also, there is a lot of scientific information that was not mentioned in any book before the Quran, such as the development of the fetus and the rotation of all parts of the universe. What does the secular perspective say about them?

[@stuartsummers1303]

Interesting you should mention embryology in the Quran. It’s almost the exact same as Ancient Greek beliefs on the subject, written before Muhammad was born. You’ll find that nothing in the Quran is unique, you just aren’t aware that these ideas were already in existence prior to the Quran being written.

[@kyoungd]

The secular perspective is that there is no scientific information in the Qur'an. The development of the fetus was copied from the Greeks (also copied its error), and astronomy was repeat of six century knowledge (including geocentricism and flat earth). It is Muslim apologetics who reinterpret old verses to fit the new Science which is common for all religion.

[@osumanaaa9982]

7:50 small addition. It was the caliph Aby Bakr who compiled the first Quran (less than two years after the death of the prophet pbuh)

[@osumanaaa9982]

@Stomp on a leftys Face Oh look ! An angry pagan.

[@Professor_GC]

Yes he forgot to mention that, bt rather skipped to when the standardization was completed under Uthman. Umar made the suggestion to Abubakar, who began the process but the process was completed under Uthman! This is a vital point that shouldn't be ignored. He also made a baseless argument that their wasn't any written manuscripts of the Quran during the Prophets lifetime when infact several of his companions had such copies but were discouraged to wait till the revelations were finished so they do not mix Quran with Hadith! He never made any statement that several Companions memorized the Quran wic was why it wasn't tainted, and the concept of memorization is what makes it the most untainted religious book in history!

[@cramax4871]

​@@Professor_GCProcess of memorization wouldnt make it most untained. Rather it would do the opposite. Its well studied human memory can be...tricky. It can be changed and influenced by many things. Sickness, old age, trauma, etc.

[@Professor_GC]

@@cramax4871 Yes those factors can influence once memorization ONLY if that person stops reciting it daily to keep it their memory. Good thing the Quran exists in written texts that can easily read! For a person who memorized a musical lyrics and sings publicly, a slight mistake like change of a word could be easily recognized by any random fan who knows such song, not because he reads The lyrics everyday but constantly listen and mym it. Say what you want the Quran is not like the Bible that needs to be reedited by random fellows for selfish reasons everytime they need to print new copies. People minds are different when it comes to memorization that's exactly why not every Muslim has the entire Quran memorized but most Muslims always have a copy they read and indeed the 5 daily prayers is also a factor that keeps such memory fresh.

[@sikanderali3170]

Well Quran was written during the life of Prophet Muhammad PBUH during his life, however it was on individual pages, Caliph Uthman unified it in the form of a book. You can still find several such pieces today. 2nd thing is than the different versions of Quran were different in dialects like waladwaleen vs walazwaleen vs waladaaleen. No version was different in text.

[@zaid9026]

his whole claim is retarded and shows that he is ignorant in the three books (quran ,torah,bible) here is why : 1)there was no single Arabic translation of the Bible till the tenth century CE, i.e., three centuries after the Prophet’s death. The available texts of the Bible were either in Syrian, Greek, or Hebrew. If the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) could have any direct access to the Jewish or Christian scriptures, he would have quoted them, being in dire need to challenge his opponents. 2) The Prophet peace be upon him was illiterate, does not read or write, and it has not been proven that he saw the Torah and the Gospel, or read in them, or transmitted from them. 3)let us examine the two texts, the Qur’an and the Bible. The Qur’an was revealed over 23 years in installments to match multitudes of events, issues, and queries, which were finally compiled into surahs, each having a homogeneous flowing narration. On the other hand, the Bible is a collection of 58 (plus 16 disputed) books written by several human authors and groups. These books were originally not intended to be holy scriptures, but were selectively made so by the ecumenical councils of the Church, several centuries after Christ. An academic or even casual hand-on examination by an impartial sound intellect could never fail to witness the deep contrast between the superb text and context of the Qur’an, compared to the fallible human texts comprising the Bible books. 4) If this were true, his enemies from the polytheists would have taken it as a pretext for them, with the aim of defaming it. 5) Further, the Qur’an has vehemently unveiled the Christian and Jewish distortions of the original messages of Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them). The original Injeel and Torah are no longer available. Please read, for example, the Qur’anic correction and reply to the Biblical distortions: - Abraham was a Jew: 2:140; 3:65 - Allah tired from act of creation? Allah forbid: 50:38 - Jesus the son of God? Allah forbid: 9:30; 5:17 - Trinity: 5:72-73 - Sanctifying the Church: 3:64 - Solomon blaspheming: 2:102 - The first Qiblah: 3:96 Could a copy (i.e., the Qur’an, according to the allegation) correct the claimed original (i.e., Bible)? 5)What happened from the agreement in some of the rulings does not indicate that the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was taken from them, and he learned from them, but because Judaism and Christianity have their correct origins that are consistent with the principles of Islam, had it not been for the distortion, change and alteration that they experienced. 7)The rulings of Islamic Sharia were descended gradually according to incidents and facts, and the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, depended in ruling on some matters until revelation came down to him, which indicates that he had no prior knowledge, and he did not ask the People of the Book. 8)The Noble Qur’an exposed the Jews and Christians, exposed their veils, and slandered them allah says in quran '' O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His apostles. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs." (4:171) 9)Again, could the Qur’an learn from the Bible? There are, of course, points of agreement between the Qur’an and the Bible, e.g., the main aspects of the stories of prophets. That is natural as far as the original source of information being the same, divine revelation of Allah through His Messengers teaching essentially the same message. But here again, in the stories of the prophets we witness the profound differences between the Qur’anic narrations and those of the Bible. Compare for example: the story of prophet Joseph in the Qur’an (12:4-102) and the Bible (Genesis 37-45). Here, the brief to-the-point yet lively objective Qur’anic narration to emphasize advice and exhortations can be contrasted to the marginal details listed in the lengthy once-upon-a-time style of the Bible. While the Qur’an gives due respect and reverence to the prophets as Allah’s chosen inviolable human beings, radiating His guidance to their contemporaries and future generations, the Bible frequently portrays them dishonorably. Consider for example: Genesis 9:20-24: Noah being drunk and appearing naked in front of his sons Exodus 32:3-4: Aaron shaping a golden calf for the Israelites to worship 1 Kings 11:9-10: Solomon worshiping false gods 2 Samuel 11:4-5: David committing adultery Genesis 19:31-36: Lot committing incest with his two daughters

[@endtimeslips4660]

Surah Al-Ĥāqqah Q69:44-46 44 And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings, 45 We would have seized him by the right hand; 46 Then We would have cut from him the aorta. Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 In-book reference : Book 64, Hadith 450 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 5, Book 59, Hadith 713 Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet (ﷺ) in his ailment in which he died, used to say, "O `Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison." Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 4512 In-book reference : Book 41, Hadith 19 English translation : Book 40, Hadith 4497 Grade: Hasan Sahih (Al-Albani) Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah would accept a present, but would not accept alms (sadaqah). And Wahb bin Baqiyyah narrated to us, elsewhere, from Khalid, from Muhammad ibn Amr said on the authority of AbuSalamah, and he did not mention the name of Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah used to accept presents but not alms (sadaqah). This version adds: So a Jewess presented him at Khaybar with a roasted sheep which she had poisoned. The Messenger of Allah ate of it and the people also ate. He then said: Take away your hands (from the food), for it has informed me that it is poisoned. Bishr ibn al-Bara' ibn Ma'rur al-Ansari died. So he (the Prophet) sent for the Jewess (and said to her): What motivated you to do the work you have done? She said: If you were a prophet, it would not harm you; but if you were a king, I should rid the people of you. The Messenger of Allah then ordered regarding her and she was killed. He then said about the pain of which he died: I continued to feel pain from the morsel which I had eaten at Khaybar. This is the time when it has cut off my aorta. Reference : Sunan Abi Dawud 4513 In-book reference : Book 41, Hadith 20 English translation : Book 40, Hadith 4499 Grade: Sahih in chain (Al-Albani) Narrated Ibn Ka'b b. Malik: On the authority of his father: Umm Mubashshir said to the Prophet during the sickness of which he died: What do you think about your illness, Messenger of Allah? I do not think about the illness of my son except the poisoned sheep of which he had eaten with you at Khaybar. The Prophet said: And I do not think about my illness except that. This is the time when it cut off my aorta. Abu Dawud said: Sometime 'Abd al-Razzaq transmitted this tradition, omitting the link of the Companion, from Ma'mar, from al-Zuhri, from the Prophet , and sometimes he transmitted it from al-Zuhri from 'Abd al-Rahman b.Ka'b b. Malik, 'Abd al-Rahman mentioned that Ma'mar sometimes transmitted the tradition in a mursal form (omitting the link of the Companion), and they recorded it. And all this is correct with us. 'Abd al-Razzaq said: When Ibn al-Mubarak came to Ma'mar, he transmitted the traditions in a musnad form (with a perfect chain) which he transmitted as mauquf traditions (statements of the Companions and not of the Prophet).

[@sikanderali3170]

@@endtimeslips4660 I didn't get your point. Why did you mention all this?

[@endtimeslips4660]

@@sikanderali3170 Quran69:44-46 44 And if Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings, 45 We would have seized him by the right hand; 46 Then We would have cut from him the aorta. Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 "O `Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison."

[@endtimeslips4660]

@@sikanderali3170 Sunan Abi Dawud 4513 On the authority of his father: Umm Mubashshir said to the Prophet during the sickness of which he died: What do you think about your illness, Messenger of Allah? I do not think about the illness of my son except the poisoned sheep of which he had eaten with you at Khaybar. The Prophet said: And I do not think about my illness except that. This is the time when it cut off my aorta.

[@RobbyRamdhani18]

I’m a muslim and I really appreciate with your work on this topic. If your curiosity based on science needs, I hope you’ll find the truth. Because I think your search isn’t reach the truth, you applied the science methodology on the first but you lay on “if” and “perhaps” on the conclusion. I suggest you to also read the asbabunnuzul of the quran so you have more view on this topic and more understanding of the quran Idk are you have read the quran or haven’t yet (but I think you haven’t), in the quran, the author of the quran challenges everyone who has a doubt about quran to produce one surah (chapter) or one ayah (verse) that has quality similar to quran (in content or language), many people try it and failed (you must read those and feel free to laugh). Some things important if you want to extend this topic, you have to search on how quran could provided many prophetic verse, provided scientific signs accurately and solved many problems in modern society.

[@kyoungd]

"Earth is sphere and slavery are evil." That sentence is better than the Qur'an because it is scientific accurate and clear. If you ask non-Muslims, they will agree with me. If you ask Muslims, they will disagree. It is a meaningless challenge because it is so subjective.

[@ramiribat]

Length may appear to be the pattern on arranging the chapters, but that's not totally accurate as some shorter chapters are placed ahead of longer ones. There're different says on how it was arranged, the most popular one says it was based on how the prophet read them (i.e. when he recites the full book).

[@Mamunabdullah-ko1ls]

The Birmingham Quran manuscript is a single sheet of parchment on which two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript or muṣḥaf have been written. In 2015 the manuscript, which is held by the University of Birmingham, was radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE

[@boo3553]

That means the parchment was possibly written during the lifetime of the prophet pbuh.

[@venenareligioest410]

No! It means it was written by Mohammed et al! Who wrote the Quran - Mohammed, his wife Khadijah, Omar and Khadijah’s cousin Waraqa ibn Nawfal (‘a clever Christian’). What sources did they use, everything that had gone before! But unable to erase ‘religious history’ they plagiarised and then modified it suit their own agenda! During his lifetime people knew he was rewriting myths, tales and other peoples religions. The Quran mentions these critics of Muhammad; for example Quran 25:4-6 says the critics complained that Muhammad was passing off what others were telling him as revelations. (I can give at least three occasions where Omar admits to feeding Mohammed ideas which were then incorporated into the Quran). Those who disbelieve say, "This is nothing but a lie that he made up, and others have helped him at it (Khadija & Omar). Tales of the ancients; he wrote them down; they are dictated to him morning and evening." * If he ‘wrote them down’ then even the traditional ‘fact’ that he was illiterate is a lie! Without lies, Islam dies.

[@disgruntledtoons]

This proves only that the material of the parchment was taken from something that lived during that span of time.

[@venenareligioest410]

It was 109 years after the traditional death of Mohammed before Mecca was mentioned in any text, and another 100 years after that before Mecca appeared on any map, yet several small towns and cities around its modern day location were mentioned. Fact check from independent sources, if you dare!

[@NoumanKhan-pb4zk]

​@@venenareligioest410 You mean Waraqa Ibn Nawfal a clever Christian knew about the big bang theory. and the whole Embriology the creation of baby. you mean he knows the people of time of Abraham when they worshipped to a star. even this is not found in the Torah and bible. you mean Waraqa knows that Pharoah body will be kept for future generation. and much more... You can not deny QURAN. The Previous Books (Torah, and Gospel) changed and corrupted. That's why God sent down the Last Testament (Quran) for the whole Mankind. From Adam to the last Prophet Muhammad (Pbu them all). all were Muslims. and Muslims mean submit to the one TRUE GOD. There is only ONE TRUE GOD. From Adam to the last Prophet Muhammad (Pbu them all). all were prostrated to that one TRUE GOD. even Jesus bow down and prostrated to one TRUE GOD. and now Christians are following Paul instead of Jesus original message. (Pbuh). Jews saying Ezra is the son of god. and Christians saying Jesus is the son of god. the TRUTH is both were Prophets of one TRUE GOD. Jesus brought the Moses Law. Moses never said about Trinity. Moses knew that same one TRUE GOD of every Prophet. For Moses God was "Elah, Elohim or Yaweh". For Jesus God was "Alaha" in his Aramaic language. The Trinity and Jesus devinity developed later by Church. and the Jews are also agree with that. The earlier Ebionites were TRUE followers of Jesus(Pbuh). they were true Christians. they knew that Jesus was only a messenger of God and The True Messiah. we Muslims have the updated version of God religions. because the previous Torah and Gospel changed and corrupted by Men. they became Men made. I request you Jews and Christians. update yourself before God delete you from the Paradise. 😂 Thank God i am a Muslim. Peace ❤️✌️

[@lostfan5054]

Brilliant work, Dr. Matt. Thank you!

[@chj3289]

Non-sense...!!! Quran thru Gabriel and written by God.. utter nonsense.. use some common sense here of when was Quran written and when was Old Testament written. BC and CE. 🤣🤣🤣Whoever the author of this video is, just look into the facts and then say Jew'sTorah and Bible are one and the same, whereas the Bible emphasizes on the old and new Testaments. To add to your old videos on the moon of Muslim worship The crescent of the new moon signifies the beginning and end of fasting during Ramadan. *However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul).*

[@alarqb]

⚠️⚠️🚨🚨🚨This is my response to you: 14:10 *(The story of Abraham breaking idols)* You said, *"It comes from a commentary on the Book of Genesis, written by a rabbi, sometime between 300 and 500 CE So, it's certainly possible that Muhammad was familiar with the story"* But you only mentioned half the truth. The scholars indicated that this text had been subjected to *distortion, and that it was subject to always for long and short additions* (1) Even the scholar *Becker* described it as an *“open text”* because it is an expandable commentary (2) , and that it *"appears to have been revised in a belated way in the Middle Ages."* (3) And it was stated in the *"Encyclopaedia Judaica 7/449”*: *"There are several parts in Genesis Rabbah whose style, language and exegetical character do not represent an integral part of the original midrash, but rather they are late additions"* The story of “Ibrahim” with idols and fire appears in chapter 38 of the Midrash, *it is among the chapters that scholars have said that it has been subject to distortion and belated revision.* And although it resembles the Qur’anic story, it is noted here: *The Midrash story contrasts with the Qur’anic story in detail in many ways.* * This midrash has been subjected to *severe change*, and Orientalists and evangelists do not have an argument for the *authenticity* of this story in this midrash or for the proof that it existed in it before *the time of the Prophet Muhammad,* noting that the oldest manuscript of this midrash in our hands today: (Vat. 30) dates back to 400-500 years after the appearance of Islam!!(4) Also, the text published today in the original language, which was prepared by Theodor and Albeck (1929 AD), does not match any ancient manuscript due to the many differences between them! *#################################################* 15:29 *(Mary And the Palm Tree)* You said, *"a very similar story is told about Mary and the palm tree"* and claimed that there is only *one difference* between the two stories. But the truth is that there are at least 6 differences between the two stories *(in the place, time, characters of the story, what miracle happened, what caused it and who did it)* 15:40 You said, *"Pseudo-Matthew was written around the same time as Muhammad lived"* But many scholars such as *(Robert Miller, Lynette R. Muir, J.K. Elliott, and J. A Tasioulas)* say that it was written in the eighth or ninth century, i.e. *after the advent of Islam.* (5) 15:58 You said, *"its more likely is that this was simply a well known story that was floating around at the time and that both authors were familiar with it"* But the scholar *(G. K. Eliot)* explicitly stated that the *Pseudo-Matthew was not known in the East* Stephen J. Shoemaker said, *"It appears that the apocryphal gospel of Matthew was written somewhat late, which prevents it from having an impact on the Qur'anic text, and most importantly, this apocryphal gospel was composed in the beginning in Latin somewhere in the Christian West and was completely unknown in the Christian East"* (6) *#################################################* 16:12 *(SLEEPERS IN THE CAVE)* As for the story of (The Seven Sleepers), it is a historical event mentioned by the Qur’an in order to take a lesson from it, and the Qur’an never claimed that there is no other book that preceded this story!! . And your saying that it is a well-known story to other nations, this supports the fact that this story occurred because it has historical testimonies! *#################################################* 16:12 *(DUHL-QARNAYN)* You did not mention any book before the Qur’an that narrates the story of Dhul-Qarnayn, but you most likely mean the book of Alexander Romance, especially the Syriac version of it, which some orientalists claim to be a source of the Qur’an, but the truth is those Syriac versions of Alexander the Great were written after the advent of Islam under the Islamic rule. Ernest Wallis Budge says in his book (The life and exploits of Alexander the Great: being a series of translations of the Ethiopic histories of Alexander by the Pseudo-Callisthenes and other writers, with introduction, etc) about the *Syrianc versions of Alexander Romance were inspired by the Arabic culture and were written under the rule of Islam* This means those Syrianc versions were written and inspired by the Arabic culture, *not quoting from the Greek ones* He also said it was written by a *Syrianc Christian person who lived in the Islamic countries under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate during the 10th century AD* B. M. Wheeler says, *"A more discerning examination of the different texts show that the later recensions of the Alexander stories are dependent upon the Qur'an as understood through the medium of early Muslim commentators. Key elements of the later stories, such as the appellation of "Dhu al-Qarnayn" attributed to Alexander owe their origins to the commentaries"* (7) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- The Jewish Encyclopedia, 3l64 2- Chaim Milikowsky, ‘On the Formation and Transmission of Bereshit Rabba and the Yerushalmi: Questions of Redaction, Text-Criticism and Literary Relationships,’ in The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 92, No. 3/4 (Jan. - Apr., 2002), p.526 3- Scott B. Noegel and Brannon M. Wheeler, Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002, p.124 4- L. M. Barth, An Analysis Of Vatican 30, 1973, Monographs of the Hebrew Union College No. 1, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute Of Religion, pp. 88-89 (Quoted by, M S M Saifullah, The Story Of Abraham And Idols In The Qur'an And Midrash Genesis Rabbah) 5- Robert Miller, Born Divine, the Births of Jesus and other Sons of God, California: Plebridge Press, 2003, pp.309-310 Lynette R. Muir, The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.89, Richard P. McBrien, eds. The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, New York: HarperCollins, 1995, p.53 J. K. Elliott, The Apocrypahl Jesus, Legends of the Early Church, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, p.11 J. A. Tasioulas, ‘Between Doctrine and Domesticity: The Portrayal of Mary in the N-Town Plays,’ in Diane Watt, ed. Medieval Women in their Communities, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997 ,p.228 6- J K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p.84 Stephen J. Shoemaker, Christmas in the Qur'an: The Qur'anic Account of Jesus' Nativity and Palestinian Local Tradition. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 28 (2003), p.19 7- B. M. Wheeler "Moses Or Alexander? Early Islamic Exegesis Of Qur'an 18:60-65", Journal Of Near Eastern Studies, 1998, op cit., p. 214

[@rosalia2940]

It is very easy to refute Islam! Because the God of Islam does not know that according to Christianity God incarnated True love = the love of God! *God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being* Philippians 2:5-8

[@intuitive_data_science]

@@rosalia2940 lol easy to refute islam because it doesn’t confirm my made up beliefs about worshiping a human 😂😂😂 get real woman

[@doyoufeel...thatyoulackcri6760]

@@intuitive_data_science *surah 4:80* alLah associates muhammad a partner with alLah and makes him god. Do you think alLah will be able to forgive alLah for the sin of comitting shirk?

[@Barakeh]

I'm Muslim and I must say after watching the entire video that it is very informative and very insightful and most of it actually doesn't challenge the divinity of the Quran. Knowing that Muhammad was a trader before he settled with a well known tradeswoman and his first wife, Khadijah, he met all sort of people that made him question the paganism in Mecca, it was God's will that he meets those people, the ancient Christians and Jews and doesn't settle for worshiping the idols. There is one hadith where Muhammad tells us to debate Christians and Jews and they'll teach us a lot about our own faith and he is right, here I am learning more about my faith from a Jewish man, thank you so much. Also even the Syriac thing is very plausible, remember, the Quran standrised Arabic, and if that standardized Arabic was influenced by ancient Syriac Christians then that fills me with joy as well because I'm Lebanese, my ancestors were probably those people, and therefore we are the same people as ancient Arabs we didn't just adopt their culture, we merged.

[@kyoungd]

Exactly. History does not challenge divinity of any religion. Denying history to push an ancient dogmatic narrative will only hurt your religion. Religion can and do evolve to incorporate new ideas and new understanding.

[@Barakeh]

@@kyoungd Well said, I agree wholeheartedly.

[@DannyDoGood]

So much cope smh. It's a fabricated collection of other stories.

[@Barakeh]

@@DannyDoGood My bro of course you'd say that, otherwise you'd be Muslim, so if you didn't believe it's a collection of stories with some advice here and there, then it would appear to me that you've adopted Islam, which you have not. My only problem with faiths in general, not just my own is that people tend to stick their own traditions and older faiths and try to sell those new old tenants as part of the faith, they're not, a lot of ancient Arab traditions should be split from Islam in my opinion, Islam is its own thing plus ancient Arabs were pagan.

[@DannyDoGood]

@@Barakeh But it's not its own thing. We know where the influences come from.

[@albaraedkhil8119]

From an academic point of view, I would conclude that you intentionally injected some fallacies into your rhetoric. For example, Muslims assert that the current versions of the Bible contain fabrications, thus making them not a different text from the Enjil (Evangel), Tawrat (Torah), and Zabur (Parts of the Old Testament). There are no original books that were conceived and then shown as a new mutilated version. Instead, the books were compiled many decades, or sometimes centuries, by different schools of either Judaism or Christianity, leading to the emergence of different versions. The Islamic Quran did not undergo this versioning issue. However, opposing to what you mentioned, the Quran was compiled not 20 years but only 2 years after the death of Muhammad. All other versions were destroyed when a total standarizing of the book took place after 20 years of the prophets death ( The standarisation included a standard sorting of the "Surahs" and standard orthograph). Unfortunately, this argument reflects some of your biased colors. The Quran was compiled with the existence and agreement of the people who lived with Muhammad, many thousands of them. The versions that you noted are not variations of the Quran, but rather scripts with orthographic errors that lead to different reading issues and no contextual changes, I say it again No contextual changes (as proven by the oldest pre-unified version of the Quran called the Birmingham Codex of the Quran). Comparing this to the versioning of the Bible, which is a historic account of the life of Jesus, the Bible has different versions in terms of words, meanings, and even the number of books. This is evident even if we only consider the canonical books standardized by the Romans at the Council of Nicaea as the most correct. Yet, the majority of scholars agree that a "Q" source is missing to justify some compilation differences. This Q source could be considered the closest version to the true Evangel, if we can put it this way, or perhaps the farthest. Lst bt n lst, rdng Arbc wtht vwls dsn't rqr spcl sklls nd cnnt chng th cntxt r th mng f th sntnc. Ths d s pwrly cnstrctd nd amed t dscrdtng th bk. I m cnfdnt tht any nrmal prsn cn rd nd ndrstdng ths txt n Englsh evn f t dsn't cntn vwls, jst to llstrt hw flwd ths argmnt is. it is wrth mntnng tht Arbc, th Siryac lngge, Canaan lnggs, aramaic.., nd othrs all cme frm th sm orgn, so it's natrl t fnd smlrts btwn thm.

[@MerelyanIdea]

I am loving this series and all the charts! This is a hard subject area to find a good, secular entry point too. Your summaries are amazing and comprehensive! Take as many side quests as you can! Also want to shout out Extra Credit's Early Christian Schisms series as another enjoyable watch in this vein.

[@John-lf3xf]

There are so many issues with this video. I recommend that people see Hythem Sidky (an actual high quality secular academic) and his interview on Blogging Theology instead of this nonsense. Actually watching that will show exactly why I call this video nonsense and smoke and mirrors essentially. An actual good academic entry point would be there, not this.

[@edwardtimothy3581]

No Kidding. There aren't many secular critique or secular view that trying to disagree with The Quran

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

here we go the truth coming up,actually turah&bible were from god but they had been corrupted afterwards as a result god sent down quran upon prophet muhammed&god said i`ll preserved the quran thereby god had fulfilled ,let me show u friendly&honestly the truth,okee dokee.sheding the light on christianity to know the truth first of all there is no original bible the 4 main bible are contradicted to each other yet there is 1 quran but who is the writer of bible the answer is paul the jewish who hates jesus let us discuss about the significant event which is crucifixion why does your claimed god left his only son to crucify without any sin he had committed the disaster reached its uttermost when u found bible said on the tongue of jesus my god my god why do u forsaken me means jesus never crucified willingly have u an idea why do they crucify jesus because it`s a penalty of impure &particularly crucifixion because dindn`t touched the earth make it impured that what paul said jeasus get impure for us &see the authentic god what does said in quran chapter 3 verse 55 by the name of god the most gracious&most merciful , O Jesus, I will take you and raise you up to me, and had purified you from those who disbelieve, and He will place those who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection, then to Me is your return, so I will judge between you regarding that in which you differed,the authentic god rose jesus to the sky before they kill him in addition he had purified him from a false accusation that he is impure the quran verse is comply with the bible itself :So they lifted up stones to stone him. But Jesus did and went out of the temple, passing through them." ( John 8:59 ),let alone of many verses in the bible incites to violence thus u found the largest massacres had happened in history the ww1&2 christian countries against christian countries 100 millions had been killed not to mention the sex stories in the bible nay u never found a single sex word in quran,don`t take it in personal just i clarify u the plain truth,bible said woman when she during the menstruation she gets impure &any thing she would touched it will be impure &should stay at her room till had done of it don`t see that an insulting to woman &how does the claimed god in bible said so he demeans& underrates his own creatures, yet islam hon happen mestrual bleading happens it always stops when a female gets pregnant ,menstrual cycle ovulation the female genital system consists of one uterus to overuse vagine& externat genital organs ,,the blood during menstruation could cause diseases to spread and that’s why a woman during her menstruation needed to isolate so the blood would not be passed around to other people And diseases not be spread that`s what god said in quran and they ask you about menstruation say, isolate women don't come near them untill they get purified verse 222 chapter 2,why there are priests,pastors&nuns reverted daily to islam,yet u never a muslim clergy left islam as per western media said that islam is the fastest growing religion in the world,i didn`t like to push islam onto u god said no compulsion in religion verse 256 chapter 2,figure it out then make up your mind

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@edwardtimothy3581 .debauchery is quite clear in your bible. don't ya getting shy when u read song of songs for solimun ,the incest between lot with his daughters,david with his soldier `s wife furthermore david send this soldier to a war for get rid of him does that is a morals of prophets,jacob with his son`s wife, could that is god`s word,undoubtedly that definitely wouldn`t god`s word,prophets of god are honored in quran unlike your bible which had insulting the prophets including jesus who u took him as god or son of god

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

@@edwardtimothy3581 in your bible on tongue of jesus i do came for sword not to bring peace,the only book in the history which had commanded about killing babies,that why wws,crusader wars,even current war between russia &ukrain christians killing christians triggered by your bible that`s the real love of catechism oh booooooooooy🤣🤣🤣,don`t fool yourself ya pretty well know what i have told u is completely truth,stop beat around the bush &reconsider your belief,i done with u& time&again from bottom of my heart wish u&your family live into a glee forevermore god willing,bye alice forevermore

[@ummiazmi6552]

I agree that God (Allah) is the author of Qur'an. But you missed some of the important things including the subscribers if you really want to talk about who wrote the qur'an. One of them was personal subscriber of the prophet , Zayd ibn Thabit. The prophet would check the text if it's written correctly . Also he would recite the qur'an from the first chapter till the last every year with his followers. Qur'an was completed before he passed away.

[@DJAC1987]

Akhi you think they care about the actual objective facts? Haha.. all I heard in the video was “we can assume that” “it would be reasonable to guess that” ..... all personal opinions lol

[@tbishop4961]

If Allah was the author, how did he so thoroughly botch names like Abraham? Did he do it for the benefit of people who were only mildly literate?🤔

[@DJAC1987]

@@tbishop4961 make a claim all you want.. just bring your evidence please.. “botched a name” lol this is getting absurd with all these adhomenims

[@tbishop4961]

@@DJAC1987 it's just an "objective fact" as you say

[@DJAC1987]

@@tbishop4961 thought so... no logic or evidence.. just you nagging haha. May Allah guide you

[@HK-fj8hj]

The book you referred, The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran is too problematic from its German (?) author to methodology from examples to thesis. I’ll take a simple review from Wikipedia: Francois de Blois has postulated that Luxenberg is not German, rather a Lebanese Christian. He believes that the individual is a dilettante whose Syro-Aramaic reading "does not actually make better sense" than the standard classical Arabic reading. He notes that the theory is not novel, rather Luxenberg seems to adapt earlier works by James A. Bellamy and Günter Lüling without citing them in his bibliography, which "poses questions about [his] scholarly integrity." He posits that Luxenberg has an articulate knowledge of dialectal Arabic, passable (though flawed) command of classical Arabic, and a basic (though "very shaky") command of Syriac. He ultimately concludes that German academics have no reason to hide their identity; “It is necessary, in conclusion, to say a little about the authorship, or rather the non authorship, the pseudonymity of this book. An article published in the New York Times on 2nd March 2002 (and subsequently broadly disseminated in the internet) referred to this book as the work of 'Christoph Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany'. It is, I think, sufficiently clear from this review that the person in question is not 'a scholar of ancient Semitic languages'. He is someone who evidently speaks some Arabic dialect, has a passable, but not flawless command of classical Arabic, knows enough Syriac so as to be able to consult a dictionary, but is innocent of any real understanding of the methodology of comparative Semitic linguistics. His book is not a work of scholarship but of dilettantism [amateur].[19]” You were expected to be more scientific!

[@mustaneerkhan8097]

Hi there @usefulcharts. I am a muslim and I have some issues with your explanation. While explaining the sources of the Quran, you only mention the names of the people like Zulqarnain or the Story of Abraham. The Quranic surahs have a context and they should be read from start to understand the whole message. Please try finding the sources after reading the entire surah. The Torah and the Bible were also holy books from Allah. In the Quran, many things like this are explained and connected so the people outside Arabia can also witness the true word from Allah.

[@amuthi1]

How come that Muhammad was not sucessfull with his message in Arabia? The pagans didn't buy his early teachings leaning to a non-trinitarian christian creed with Jesus as a messiah figure. And he could not sell this story to the jewish tribes around Medina later, who could clearly see that he got lots of jewish tradition wrong (i.e. like David and Solomon titled as "prophets" when they were kings for the jews.).

[@pouya9242]

Love it! Definitely keep up the good work

[@adnans8778]

There are some misrepresentations in this. Most Muslims believe the Quran was written down in the time of the Prophet. The Prophet encouraged this and had dedicated scribes. This collection of writings were gathered together during the reign of Abu Bakr, immediately after the Prophet's death. Importantly, there were several spoken forms of the Quran, somewhat like how different dialects pronounce the same words differently - this was approved and accepted in the time of the Prophet. In the time of Uthman, as the Muslim community expanded massively, there were fears that different spoken forms would lead to conflict, so 6 skilled Quran scholars were appointed to compile a definitive "version" of the Quran. This group used the Quraishi dialect and interviewed all available companions in Medina who memorised parts of the Quran to compile a robust version. This version was cross checked with the Abu Bakr version. Thus, there were no material differences in the Quran, there were just oral differences that were aligned under Uthman. This is a key difference in understanding between Muslim scholars and Orientalists.

[@eugeneteddyowusu4289]

David Wood, Al Fadi, Jay Smith and Apostate Prophet have debunked all these claims you've made.

[@ppppidk4404]

@@eugeneteddyowusu4289 💀them clowns did nothing, why not look to opposing views before concluding that?

[@adnans8778]

@@eugeneteddyowusu4289 very easy to say so and so debunked this, which sounds clever until you realise you haven't said anything at all. Why don't you tell me which point isn't accurate and why, and I can respond. BTW those ppl you mention themselves make numerous misrepresentations of Islam. They are not scholars, they are individuals with a ready made conclusion who look for arguments to support their conclusion.

[@izzatnori2890]

Just to add, the main reason Abu Bakr decide to compile the Quran in the first place was because he noted that a number of Muslims who memorized the Quran by heart died in battle during the Ridda War. However, the movement didn't take place until the time of Umar since Abu Bakr was prioritizing in quelling the rebellion and strengthening the Muslims in order to face the Byzantine and the Sassanid.

[@hanif2800]

@@eugeneteddyowusu4289 Lmao david wood says a bunch of bs in his videos, but when it comes down to debates, david wood loses pretty much all of his debates

[@cophumor1557]

I really appreciate the amount of research you put in your videos but a tiny little detail you forgot to mention is that Muhammad(PBUH) was illiterate so it was impossible for him to do that kind of extensive research of gathering all those books just so that he steal some of the stories mentioned

[@kyoungd]

Qur'an was written over 23 years. From a historical view, the prophet Muhammad heard a story, summarized it and someone else wrote it down. There was no research involved in the way that you are thinking. The stories found the Qur'an is not obscure to the six century Arabs.

[@bas6628]

Fascinating thank you

[@27Madable]

God bless you. Although I don’t agree with the historian’s belief that the Quran was written by Muhammad (Pbuh), I very much respect the way you have put the information forward. There is so much to learn from your methods of delivery.

[@thewholetruth5473]

*MuhamMAD

[@RichardWolfgang]

@@thewholetruth5473 calm kids

[@thewholetruth5473]

@@RichardWolfgang I was just correcting a serious error. He spelled the guy's name as just "Muhammad" (without putting any emphasis on his madness). MuhamMAD is the correct way to write his name. By the way, I am calm, and I'm 40 (hardly a "kid").

[@bloomwithaynur3898]

@@thewholetruth5473 But you act like a kid lol! I mean why to hate people here? Does it make you a less mad :/

[@thewholetruth5473]

@@bloomwithaynur3898 I hate no one. What the heck are you talking about? Simply reminding people about the madness of history's maddest man ever should not mean I "hate"

[@TheWilyx]

Would love one about the Book of the Mormon! Edit: Wrote the comment before finishing the video! So glad to hear you are doing it!

[@khigor1]

if you want some laughs and some history about Mormons,South Park made an episode about that,meanwhile we'll wait until the realize

[@asr2009]

19:10- your question is like someone saying "my car was stolen and turned into a banana"(lets assume this was possible) and you asking, "ok show me when this banana was a car". you can't show a thing you have lost. so the question is invalid.

[@Professor_GC]

I was also surprised at his ignorant deduction here. He clearly stated those books were revealed to 3 people (prophets) which of course both the Jews and Christian faithful agree that indeed they all received revelations for their people like the Prophet PBUH had. Yet he argues that there isn't any evidence to back it up 😂 which clearly is ironic lol! Muslims do believe they received such revelations wic became tainted over time. But no Muslim argues that he/she has the untainted version lol! Every Christian agrees the Bible is a collection of independent books some directed revealed by JESUS (AS) while others written after his departure containing accounts of what he did (Hadith). Just like the Jews believe the Torah exist but the current Talmud is an extensive interpretation by Rabbis not the original Author of the Torah (Moses). His videos are great but this time around a bit biased and clueless!

[@joygibbons5482]

@@Professor_GC “Every Christian agrees the Bible is a collection of independent books some directly revealed by Jesus”No, literally no Christian believes that.

[@happyguy650]

So there is this super intelligent, all knowing, omnipresent God with a very important message for humanity which answers all their problems and will give them salavation. So what does he do? He chooses to appear to someone In a desert, a warlord and who also happens to be illiterate and reveals the message to him in private. He then goes out and recites it others. Some memorise it (coz they can't write too), and some who can write, note it down. After 20 years of his death, his followers compile it into a book from their memory through oral recitation and some from written texts, while destroying other variants before coming up with a final version. My question, is this the best way for a super intelligent God to reveal his message to each and every human on this earth? Is the system of revelation based on oral recitation not flawed? How do we trust the authenticity of the message or the revelation, as it cannot be independently verified as it's 1 man’s word against the rest of the world? So there are 2 possibilities. Either this God does not exists, or has a very poor understanding of logic and reasoning and standards of evidence as to what should convince a person to believe in him. Personal revelations via a third party have to be the worst possible way if God wants to convince the entire world of his presence.

[@kyoungd]

I totally agree. It is an excellent question. Is this the best that God can do? If I can think of a better way, why couldn't God? Personally, I would have used a laser printer.

[@Kimeikus]

Great video, I’ve always wondered what secular historians make of Islamic texts. It was interesting to see the stories found in earlier sources because the Qur’an describes itself as a confirmation of revelations that came before.

[@ReasonedAnswers]

_"It was interesting to see the stories found in earlier sources because the Qur’an describes itself as a confirmation of revelations that came before."_ Correct, however, you need to consider the nature of those texts: they definitely are not "revelations" in many cases, as they are human commentary on the Jewish scriptures. It seems the compilers of the Quran didn't know the difference. You also have to consider whether the Qurans "correction" claim makes sense in light of the actual texts. What we actually find in many cases is the Quran copies random details that don't make a lot of sense by themselves, but make perfect sense in the original story.

[@melissalisaandrean6803]

Quran is like this. A new religion is born and they belive in a book that considered holy and eternal. Also believing it confirm the bible. but the stories in it are from Dante Inferno, a novel, not a Bible.

[@deechonada]

@@melissalisaandrean6803 dantes inferno came 900 years after the Quran? were you just making an example?

[@xk8485]

@@ReasonedAnswers reading a christian writing about "original texts" is laughable! Original text dated to The Messiah, peace and blessing of The Almighty be upon him and his mother, given by him or his immediate disciples: ZERO Preserved messages with chains of transmission from Messiah, pbuh: ZERO Now that is a FACT. With all the money and evil manipulations at your disposal, yet you are a good way of spreading Islam in every house, and yet you think you are fighting it. Subhana Allah! Search Egyptian Kings and Pharaohs of different times and the accuracy of the Quran, once done, compare it to the bible. Iera channel has a good video of it. Go check it out and learn. Times of christian clergy lies is over. There is a reason for the surge of apostasy in the west, and that is you guys. For others reading this comment, wanting to learn more and having questions join the live stream of EFDAWA.

[@xk8485]

@@melissalisaandrean6803 🤦🏻‍♂️ You most definitely got your "Islamic PHD" from Fox news, CNN or MSNBC or even better, from christian apologists.

[@OmnipotentPotato]

7:22, note: chapter 110, i.e. Surat Al Nasr, is the last whole surah to be revealed, however most people agree that the last revelation is Chapter 5 (Surat alMaidah) verse 3, the verse of the Perfection of Religion.

[@lucygrey37]

My legit fav Ayat(verse) in the whole quran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@John-lf3xf]

There are so many issues with this video. I recommend that people see Hythem Sidky (an actual high quality secular academic) and his interview on Blogging Theology instead of this nonsense. Actually watching that will show exactly why I call this video nonsense and smoke and mirrors essentially.

[@swdrre-upload5423]

@@John-lf3xf elaborate please

[@John-lf3xf]

@@swdrre-upload5423 There is a comment I wrote a few hours ago on the general comment section which you'll be able to find by hitting 'newest first' if youre interested.

[@user-sy8lt7nb9l]

"And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a surah like it and call your helpers other than Allah, if what you say is true." Quran 2:23

[@bajang1897]

very powerful verse >>>

[@ReinaldoKyesse]

@@bajang1897is it ?

[@bajang1897]

@@ReinaldoKyesse yep ... to me ... and to you ?

[@ReinaldoKyesse]

@@bajang1897 I don’t know

[@ujjalkumar3518]

Abu lahab's wife did produce a verse that was even better. Go read it.

[@Saad_Wazir]

please release more videos on this topic

[@SA41959]

14:53 - In Surah Maryam (19:23) it is generally believed to be the voice of an angel who tells Mary to shake the tree for the dates (not figs) to fall for her to eat. The Quran doesn’t state that it was Jesus in the womb who told her to do that.

[@indrain1331]

Correct

[@indrain1331]

@@deurellbussell5469 it doesnt matter

[@indrain1331]

@@deurellbussell5469 LOL how do you know he never did that?did u there ??

[@indrain1331]

@@deurellbussell5469 is there any prove jesus is the son of god?did u see god having sex with mary?

[@starcapture3040]

@@deurellbussell5469 this video has msiteks, Babylon wasn't mentioned in the quran. also the Assyrian language is absolutely not different language from arabic. why he failed to montione is that qurain doesn't claim to bring something new but correct what was corrugated. also thu al qarnayn is not known who is he and alexander never bulit a wall anywhere.... and most muslims believe it was cyrus the great.

[@joshygoldiem_j2799]

Props to al Muqaddimah for having the guts to edit this AND make his own video

[@temporaryhandle802]

@ملقرت ملك صور doubt

[@theredstonesword9293]

@ملقرت ملك صور المقدمة هو من السنة و أصلن نحن المسيحية أكثريتنا ما من قول شي عن القرآن مثل ما أكثرية من المسلمين ما بيتمسخروا عن العهد الجديد و أكيد لازم نحترم بعضنا و كتبنا المقدسة.

[@Froggeh92]

@ملقرت ملك صور shiites just dont subscribe to the crooked narrative cooked by the fake hadeeths in mainstream islam.

[@mekhimkl2702]

@@slym741 yes they are. They submit to God and follow Quran.

[@emeraldaxx8631]

@@slym741 Shia are Muslims

[@YosiMahendra-ci8im]

Very well explained

[@bihpitbull]

Nice video, you forgot to mention that there are millions of Hafiz around the world who have memorised the entire Quran from cover to cover in its original form. No other scripture / religion have this advantage and dedication from its followers.

[@samiarahman3985]

Indeed.

[@user-bs4qu7tb2g]

Have you ever heard of the Pali Canon? If not, I have to disappoint you. The entirety of the early Buddhust scriptures were memorized orally for some centuries before being written down to preserve them from being lost due to political turmoil. Even after being written down, the oral memorization continues to this day among certain groups of Theravadins. During the sixth Buddhist council in the 20th century, when official versions of the Pali text were decided on to be transcribed into the Singhalese, Thai and Burmese national scripts, elder monks who memorized the Pali Canon were an essential part when deciding on the details of the doctrine. The closest disciple of the Buddha, his cousin Ananda, is attributed to have had an exquisitely trained memory, to the point where he could pretty much dictate the entire life of the Buddha 3 months after the Buddha's total extinguishment (Parinirvana).

[@samiarahman3985]

@@user-bs4qu7tb2g it could be but is it still memorised by millions ?? The number Hafiz(who memorise Quran) will never fall down.Still all over the world hundreds of thousands people, children are memorising it. That is the beauty of Quran. There so many hafiz among my relatives, childhood friends. And they have other profession as well. That is how Allah(our God) kept it secure.

[@Amitaistein]

In Judaism we have many thousands of scholars that memorize every book of the Torah

[@Rafaelhand77]

Their were only 4 hafiz

[@tfs2015]

I was waiting for this episode; great and informative series overall as a Muslim, I have two corrections to make: 1- the Quran isn't ordered by length as you mentioned. in fact, the second-longest Surah, by the number of words, is the 4th Surah, whereas the second-longest Surah, by the number of Ayat, is the 26th Surah. You can also see that the shortest Surah is the 104th Surah as opposed to being the final Surah. so simply saying that it's ordered by length is a huge misstatement. 2- while the Quran was indeed standardized during the reign of the third Caliph Uthman, standardization is a completely different process than compiling the written book itself. most religious scholars date the first compilation of the book to the first Caliph Abu Bakr who died only 2 years after the Prophet's death. also, as you mentioned, Uthman ordered all variant copies to be destroyed which simply shows that in fact there were multiple written copies of the Quran by that time. in fact, most religious scholars believe that Uthman used these written books to issue his standardized version of the Quran.

[@ubwirutv3154]

how holy was uthman to decide ?

[@alexalexis7121]

You typed too much without listening. He said it could be categorised so shut up

[@StalinistEnjoyer]

Imagine watching a video explaining y ur religion is fake and still believing in it💀

[@tfs2015]

@@ubwirutv3154 Uthman didn’t “decide” anything regarding what’s written, he only compiled what was already written during the life of the prophet, all what he did is issuing a standardized copy to accommodate those who don’t speak Arabic.

[@tfs2015]

@@StalinistEnjoyer did we watch the same video?! Also if you’re getting your beliefs from youtube, then probably you should reconsider.

[@sohailmalik3288]

What a nice video! So lucid. May I know what programme you used for the graphics and design of templates?

[@musamwibela1179]

He uses adobe illustrator

[@sheguftahasnine4765]

The timeline graph for 570 to 861 isn't visually proportional to the time periods, which is misleading...gives a false idea about the time gaps between the mqjor events

[@lili13]

We Muslims don’t need manuscripts because we’ve been learning the Quran by heart from the time of Muhammad peace be upon him so if you’ll find a person in US and in Japan or anywhere in the world they will recite the same thing with no errors The Quran is protected by god so If you burn all books in the world only Quran will survive , for example every Ramadan Muslims all around the world recite and learn Quran

[@stuartsummers1303]

Then why did the early Muslims destroy copies of the Quran? They were noticing differences in the text.

[@garyford3533]

Muslim pride again.

[@elibella5660]

I can't wait for your "who wrote the book of Mormon " video to come out!!!! Just minutes before you mentioned it, I was already thinking of leaving a comment requesting just that lol A little back story; I was raised Mormon, but wanted to learn about other religions when I was 18. I knew very little about Islam and Muhammad at that point, except what my father had told me...which was they believed in father Abraham because all Arabs were desendents of Ishmael. I was never told their faith had anything to do with Jesus. So when I started learning on my own, not only was I shocked about the belief of jesus as a great prophet, but also about the story of Muhammad and the Quran. It was a case of deja'vu lol... the story was eerily similar to the story I had heard all my life of Joseph Smith and the book of Mormon. I have my theories these days, but I'll keep them to myself (spoiler alert, I don't think Muhammad copied Joseph Smith) I'll be fascinated at any other similarities you find, either to Islam or other texts/sources. If you would like any information about the book of Mormon or the church and what it teaches, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions. Wonderful video and content!!!

[@MrInsdor]

you can already find the video on the channel, I thought it was very well made!

[@elibella5660]

@@MrInsdor thank you! I just watched it, and it absolutely exceeded my expectations. .

[@MrInsdor]

@@elibella5660 yeah mine as well. I was only very superficially familiar with the book as I'm an ordinary, irreligious German guy. I've met people from many religious denominations from early on in life, but Mormonism wasn't one of them.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

why doesn`t trinity is written in bible,,.;'[.

[@shaybani74]

Joseph Smith came centuries later so would have copied Prophet Muhammad not the other way round

[@sunkwanjang]

The story of Jesus making birds from clay is also found in some of the non-canonical gospels. It’s very interesting.

[@calebzeman3818]

That is the biblical version , but in the Quran there is no magick or miracles performed by Jesus.

[@Musa-bmbr]

@@calebzeman3818 mohamad copied and modified the apocryphal accounts. Read your quran again.

[@calebzeman3818]

@Efraim Bar Tolmai I do not have to look for any source other than Quran, and Quran is my only source, and in Quran there is no such mention of magick by Eisa ibn Mariyam, if you say Eisa ibn Maryam had miracles , where in Quran it is mentioned?

[@geilleadh4852]

Those non canonical gospels are generally dated after the rise of Islam

[@ilyassebenana3824]

​@@calebzeman3818 oh you're quite now? Well next time don't wait until you're proveh wrong, just shut up from the beginning okay?

[@gabrielbabatunde3793]

The main question is how do we know that the reports of said words of Muhammad were his?

[@fredmac1000]

Thank you 🙏🌷

[@alangervasis]

Can you do a video on the comparative analysis of the oldest complete manuscripts of religous texts like the Tanakh, New Testament, Quran, Vedas and Pali Canon.

[@idxprrofesor879]

very interesting. I'm a Muslim, so I listen to all existing knowledge, right or wrong, God gave us reason to think about it

[@joojlee]

Exactly. People is scared of receiving a punishment for questioning the religion, but in that way they are believing in a god that it's actually not good. if god is good and love god wouldn't punish people for that.

[@youngreezy7353]

Its good to think about things, but make sure you do all research yourself and make sure they are all authentic and unbiased. This dude left out a very important part of the sanaa manuscripts and everything he states is on speculation and not fact.

[@jenex5608]

Leave Islam. For your safety

[@Feisal13]

@@jenex5608 Why you're saying that 🤔

[@youngreezy7353]

@@jenex5608 We will all know the truth when we die. If I die and there is no afterlife then I have lost nothing. However if you die and Islam is true…

[@farhanaljarrah9310]

great video, but I have a question, if the case for the Quran to be a product of it's time and stories that were floating around, yet the Quran it challenges people to get a verse like any verse in the Quran, not to mention that there is still to this day a debate about who is the two horned guy ( meaning that the guy was not known). another point to make about the Arabic language is, Arabs to this day take pride in the fluency of their speech and poetry not to mention that Mecca was the meeting place for poetry battles (Arabs are really crazy about their language) so it being based on syrieac is debatable.

[@kyoungd]

What do you mean by a "verse like it"? What qualifies as a "verse like it"? If Muslims can define the challenge, we can create a verse like it. Your last point about Syriac origin is probably right. It is a fringe theory.

[@farhanaljarrah9310]

@@kyoungd so the verse in quastion was this "And if your are In doubt concerning what we have sent down to our servant, then bring a surah like it, and invoke your helpers besides Allah, if your are truthful". the quran had three challenges, bring a book like the quran(they couldn't), then bring 10 surahs ( they couldn't), then bring a surah( like the verse above says-they couldn't) . a surah is at least 3 verses, you have to bring 3 verses like it acourding to the Arabic language (quranic arabic) with the right grammar ,Pithiness, Eloquence and Phrasemaking. arabs like I said are crazy about the Arabic language, and if an illiterate arab like Mohammad can come up with the quran, then surly another more poetic arab can, or even a group of people can come up with it, being like what's said in the video a product of it's time. (sorry for confusing a verse with a surah- it's only 3 verses at least 😅)

[@kyoungd]

@@farhanaljarrah9310 Let me clarify my question. Who decides if a verse has the "right grammar, Pithiness, Eloquence and Phrasemaking" and what criteria do they use? What you described is all subjective and that is the problem of this challenge. If I say, create a verse like "Stan Lee" of Marvel comics, it would be the same question. If someone worships Stan Lee as the greatest comic book creator of all time, they will always find something to disagree with. Qur'an is not magical. There are non-believing Qur'anic experts who disagrees with the divine nature or the best eloquence narrative. Even back in prophet Muhammad's time, there were those who did not think it was the best among the Arab poetry. This narrative was developed and adopted centuries later.

[@farhanaljarrah9310]

@@kyoungd the best linguists among Arabs or non arabs if they are good, you only need to be good at arabic to know those criteria , even a real bedouin would do as a judge. and here i would ask you do you know arabic? it would be much easier this way. the quran came in a form which was not used by the arabs in there literature, to say that stan lee came up with his own thing is not true, you have many competitors, batman and joker alone can top any one of stan lee's creation. noble prize candidate taha hussain couldn't do much, he only said that the peotry before te quran was not true, but that was his limit. let's say that I agree with you that the quran is not magical( which is not btw, it's divine) who are the people who came up with a book like the quran, many did during the life of Muhammad and after, to this day they still pop up, and who are those non-beliveing experts and where is there version of the quran? I'm really asking, I'm not thick headed about these things. people at the time of Muhammad before madina told him we will make you our king and will make you rich and you will marry the best looking girl in Arabia if you stop, sounds like a defeat to me. and again I say if it's not the best eloquence or it's the best poetry etc.. where is the thing that tops it?

[@amakrid]

@@farhanaljarrah9310 Yes man. We will ask a Bedouin if Ibn Rushd or Ibn Rushd or Al Farabi bests the Quran in "grammar, Pithiness, Eloquence and Phrasemaking" and we will wait for his judge. Rest assured.

[@savingyoursoul]

Absolutely excellent!!

[@kaosarahmed6560]

Great content. Though I wanna add some information. According to Sunni tradition, it was during first caliph Abu Bakr's reign the full quran was compiled as a single book. 3rd caliph Uthman just made six copy of em and sent them six corner of empire. Secondly, it was widely believed by scholar of Quran that Dhul Qarnain was Cyrus the great, not Alexender. The description in Quran matches more to Cyrus then Alexender. Also, the verses of Dhul Qarnain was revealed because of some question from jew Rabbi to Muhammad. Cyrus was more connected to jews then Alexender.

[@abdo-dr1tu]

Actually My own sunni traditions (شافعي or Shafieae) indeed thinks that the two horned guy is Alexander the Great. So i would not dismiss that just yet.

[@kaosarahmed6560]

@@abdo-dr1tu I didn't said that it was in sunni tradition that was believed Dhul Qarnain was Cyrus, I said that most scholar think that Dhul Qarnain was Cyrus the great. It is highly debated topic. Allah knows better.

[@kingsentertainment786]

right.

[@NotLikeWhatYouThink]

No scholar agree thats cyrus the great.

[@kaosarahmed6560]

@@NotLikeWhatYouThink I said Scholars of Quran, not secular Scholars.

[@chihabhsn7274]

I congratulate you sir for putting such interesting subjects in the spotlight.

[@Timakiwala]

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[@chj3289]

Non-sense...!!! Quran thru Gabriel and written by God.. utter nonsense.. use some common sense here of when was Quran written and when was Old Testament written. BC and CE. 🤣🤣🤣Whoever the author of this video is, just look into the facts and then say Jew'sTorah and Bible are one and the same, whereas the Bible emphasizes on the old and new Testaments. To add to your old videos on the moon of Muslim worship The crescent of the new moon signifies the beginning and end of fasting during Ramadan. *However, this symbol did not originate with Islam; it was adopted for the first time by the city of Byzantine (which later became Istanbul).*

[@3L4.]

@@chj3289 hmm look like you are troller

[@emmaschmidt4774]

It is very easy to refute Islam! Because the God of Islam does not know that according to Christianity God incarnated True love = the love of God! *God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being* Philippians 2:5-8

[@xeon39688]

@@chj3289 the Cresent was used way before Byzantine, by the Zorasastrians

[@ibra9798]

Correction: The first compilation of the Quran into a single book occurred after the Prophet's death, within a period of less than two years during the time of Abu Bakr. Most of it was written down during the time of the Prophet, and the rest was preserved by many of the companions. During the time of Uthman, five copies of the Quran were written and distributed to five cities in the Islamic world following its expansion. Additionally, from the time of the Prophet until today, the primary source of the Quran is its memorization by Muslims, not the written book. There are millions of Muslims who memorize it now, just as it has been throughout history.

[@kyoungd]

There are 40 scribal errors between the four books distributed to each city. It is amazing that they made so few errors copying by hand. It was a remarkable accomplishment. Modern day Qur'an has about 2,000-word difference from the earliest known copies which accounts for about 3% of the Qur'an. That too is an incredible dedication.

[@cramax4871]

Fearing that it might become lost or corrupted, Umar requested that Abu Bakr authorise the compilation and preservation of the scriptures in written format. The caliph was initially hesitant, being quoted as saying, "how can we do that which the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless and keep him, did not himself do?" He eventually relented, however, and appointed Zayd ibn Thabit, who had previously served as one of the scribes of Muhammad, for the task of gathering the scattered verses. The fragments were recovered from every quarter, including from the ribs of palm branches, scraps of leather, stone tablets and "from the hearts of men". The collected work was transcribed onto sheets and verified through comparison with Quran memorisers.[80][81] The finished codex, termed the Mus'haf, was presented to Abu Bakr, who prior to his death, bequeathed it to his successor Umar.[82] Upon Umar's own death, the Mus'haf was left to his daughter Hafsa, who had been one of the wives of Muhammad. It was this volume, borrowed from Hafsa, which formed the basis of Uthman's legendary prototype, which became the definitive text of the Quran. All later editions are derived from this original

[@Ibn_yahya_]

We have it written down in narration, so start there next time...

[@BinoyAbeywickrama]

I Really enjoy your videos ❤️ Please do a video on Buddhist texts as well 🙏☺️

[@treubuchet]

I found this entire video to be hugely useful, thank you, once again @Usefulcharts. Would it be possible to produce another chart on the primary beliefs of the Abrahamic/Ibrahimic religions for comparison? This would better my understanding, thank you.

[@a88ullah]

As a muslim, I enjoyed this video. You covered all hypotheses possible in unbiased fashion. I was waiting until the end to comment: ( you forgot to mention the Syriac influence ) but you mentioned it at the end .. However, I want to add that before Islam, Prophet Mohammed's wife (Khadeejah) was known to have a Christian priest cousin named (Waraqah ibn Nawfal), you forgot to mention him 😁