Is the Quran Allah's book?
Bashar
did not understand Asghar
Mohammad Asghar
Mr. M. J.
Bashar's is justified in raising the questions he has raised on
my write up, because: he has not understood why I have asked
those questions he has responded to by saying things that I did
not expect from a person of his erudition. To be honest, my
comment was on the write up of Jeremiah D. McAulife, Jr., M.D.,
who tried to refute Ibn Warraq by stating, among others, what I
have quoted in my comment.
The Editor of
Shodalap published it with the title, [Is the Quran Allah's
book?
If Mr. Bashar
had paid attention to what Jeremiah wrote, I am sure, he (Mr.
Bashar) as a good Muslim, would have raised the same questions
I had the audacity of raising; for what Jeremiah wrote should
make the blood of all believing Muslims boil, provided they
could understand what he wrote in his rebuttal.
Jeremiah has
hinted that Allah has borrowed foreign words {such as the word [Furqan],
it being identical with the Aramaic word [porqan] for
[salvation]- it is my observation}} for writing the Quran and
that in it are incorporated those rites and rituals that were
prevalent in the Arabian Peninsula of Muhammad's time. These
effectively turn the Quran into a textual book - a position
that challenges Allah's statement, who has hinted that He wrote
the Quran on a Tablet and preserved it in Luh-Mehfuz, so that He
could transmit its contents to His prophets and apostles from
time to time.
Instead of
asking why Allah would borrow words from the humans for writing
the Quran and also why He would found Islam on those rites and
rituals, for example, of paganism, when He fought and killed the
Pagans for believing in and practicing paganism in contravention
of His Wish, he came out with some equations which are good for
kids and not for a person of his or my age.
That said, may
I ask Mr. Bashar if he accepts what Jeremiah has written about
the origin of the words of the Quran and, also, if it is a
textual book.
If he answers
the question in affirmative, then I would say he is right in
taking me to task; but if his answer is in negative, then I
would ask him: why did he not raise any objection on Jeremiah's
observations, when he must have read them a good time ago?
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