🚩 Ramesh Shinde 🇮🇳

✅ Challenge accepted. The Quran, considered “perfect, divine, and free of contradictions” by Muslims, is nevertheless a contradictory work containing glaring human errors. Here is just ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE (which, incidentally, involves no fewer than three contradictions!), a more in-depth analysis of which can be found in my book 100 Contradictions and Scientific Errors in the Quran. In the Quran, Allah sometimes recounts the same historical event twice, in two different surahs, as when He describes, in two different places in the Quran (Surah 3 and Surah 19), the moment when He has His angels announce to Zechariah that he will have a son: John. However, the human author hiding behind Allah's pen made the mistake, in each of these two surahs, of describing this event using verbatim quotations, that is, dialogues, and more specifically, statements made in the first person. Indeed, a perfect God who knows everything—and therefore knows the exact words spoken during a specific historical event—should not present TWO CONTRADICTORY VERSIONS OF ONE AND THE SAME FIRST-PERSON STATEMENT, which He should quote identically whenever He reproduces it in different surahs of the Quran. So, what did Zechariah reply when Allah conveyed to him the announcement of John's birth? According to verse 40 of Surah 3, Allah states that Zechariah, surprised, replied: “My Lord, how will I have a boy when I have reached old age and my wife is barren?” Yet, in verse 8 of Surah 19, Allah states that Zechariah, at that very same moment, said: “My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife is barren and I have reached extreme old age?” These two Quranic quotations, from Surahs 3 and 19, supposedly reproduce the same words spoken by Zechariah during one single, specific historical event. They should therefore have been identical, word for word. Yet these two quotations reverse the order of the two arguments, while also differing by an adjective that appears in one version but is absent from the other. You must answer these three simple and binary questions to demonstrate that Allah does not contradict Himself in the Quran: ➜ 1. When Zechariah, surprised by the announcement Allah had conveyed to him, replied, did he say “I have reached old age” or “I have reached EXTREME old age”? ➜ 2. And did Zechariah mention his old age BEFORE or AFTER mentioning his wife's barrenness? The factual and historical account presented in Surah 3 contradicts and invalidates the one presented in Surah 19, even though both are supposedly equally divine and truthful. Furthermore, what answer did Zechariah receive to his request? Here again, there is a contradiction! The divine response that follows is not quite the same in the two accounts. For while, in verse 41 of Surah 3, Allah indicates that the response begins with “Your sign is that you will not be able to speak to the people for three days” (أَيَّامٍ / ayyāmin), the version of the beginning of the response in verse 10 of Surah 19 is “Your sign is that you will not be able to speak to the people for three nights” (لَيَالٍ / layālin). Did Allah therefore have two different recollections of the dialogue with Zechariah recorded in Surahs 3 and 19 of the Quran? ➜ 3. So which was the correct expression addressed to Zechariah: “three days” or “three nights”? The issue is not whether “three days” and “three nights” are equivalent in duration. These are supposed to be verbatim quotations describing one and the same specific statement. We should therefore find exactly the same words in both versions, in Surah 3 and Surah 19. The human author of the Quran made the mistake of recounting the same historical event multiple times while including first-person dialogue. And I have found other contradictions of the same kind in the Quran: involving Moses, Abraham, Mary the mother of Jesus, and others. I analyze them all in the chapter of my book 100 Contradictions and Scientific Errors in the Quran devoted to narrative contradictions. Allah, who “neither errs nor forgets” (Surah 20, verse 52), should be capable of remembering His exact words, word for word, and therefore reproducing them word for word. Allah should not be imprecise or have two different recollections of the exact words He heard or spoke during one and the same event.

The Quran is ✅ a human work and ⛔ not a divine work protected by Allah. Between 2020 and 2023, I created the book 100 Contradictions and Scientific Errors in the Quran, the world's largest database cataloguing the 100 most significant contradictions and scientific errors found in the Quran. Here is just one example (case 16/100 in my book). ⬇️ In surah 7 of the Quran, verse 27, Allah asserts that He made devils the allies of those who do not believe "O children of Adam! Do not let Satan tempt you as he caused your parents to be expelled from Paradise, and made them remove their clothing to show them their nakedness. He and his tribe see you from where you do not see them. Indeed, We have made the devils the allies of those who do not believe." And Allah clearly claims here to have created Himself the relationship of "allies" uniting "the devils" and "those who do not believe", a responsibility He takes on with the phrase "We have made (اَن ْ ل َجعَ / ja`alnā)". Allah uses the same expression, for example, in verse 16 of surah 15 of the Quran, when He designates Himself as the author of the celestial constellations, whose divine paternity Muslims probably do not imagine challenging "Indeed, We have made (اَن ْ ل َجعَ / ja`alnā) constellations in the heaven and beautified it for those who look." Yet, in surah 7, verse 30, Allah claims that those who have taken devils as allies deserved divine misguidance "There is a group that He has guided, and another group deserved misguidance because they took devils as allies besides Allah, and they think they are rightly guided!" In verse 27 of surah 7, Allah says He is responsible for the relationship of allies uniting those who do not believe and the devils, but at verse 30 of this same surah 7, Allah asserts that He was right to bring about the misguidance on those who have chosen devils as allies. Who really made devils the allies of unbelievers? Can Allah then reproach the misguided for what He imposes on them? Furthermore, Allah affirms that humans will find no allies besides Him. For example, in verse 17 of surah 33 "Say: 'Who can protect you from Allah if He intends to harm you or intends to show you mercy?' And they will not find for themselves, besides Allah, any ally or helper." Allah even dared to specify, regarding the unbelievers, that they would have no ally either on the Earth (surah 9, verse 74 "[...] there will not be for them on Earth any ally or helper") or in the hereafter (surah 33, verses 64 and 65 "Indeed, Allah has cursed the unbelievers and prepared for them a Blaze, abiding therein forever, they will not find any ally or helper."). Hence, when Allah states in verse 27 of surah 7 "We have made the devils the allies of those who do not believe", He thus admits to providing allies "besides Allah" those humans, something He previously claimed was impossible.