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salam alaikum

http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/refuting_the_argument_regarding_allah_s_words_do_not_change

Thank you brother Egyptian, I hope questions can always be in this form. May Allah bless you and bless Egypt.

 Thank you so much brother Sama for that article, I read it, but unfortunately I wasn't compelled by it. I also read this article here

http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/abrogation_and_the_unalterable_word_of_god__by_ansar_al__adl


^These are both very good articles and they cover a lot! But the best argument he makes is that it was Allah's word that he would abrogate his word and no one can change his word, therefore Allah will abrogate words as he promised.

But my problem is that it is still his word that he is changing and said that no one will change his word.

If I say that no one can change my word, and then I changed it, then I contradicted myself.

Is there a more proper definition of the Arabic word "kalimaat". Does it mean Allah's scripture because his word exists in it?

Thank you brother Farhan, the article doesn't directly answer the question because it is mostly focused on other things as well (besides the moral aspect).


I found this on Yahoo answers, I thought it would be rather helpful:

The problem is UNDERSTANDING the verse:

In actual the verse is DISCOURAGING capital punishment.

The Torah came with laws of equivalence in the sense:   An eye for eye, a hand for hand, an equal injury for an injury.

The Quran has a different law code: It DISCOURAGES capital punishment, but does NOT abolish it.

[2:178]
O you who believe, equivalence is the law decreed for you when dealing with murder - the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the female. If one is pardoned by the victim's kin, an appreciative response is in order, and an equitable compensation shall be paid. This is an alleviation from your Lord and mercy. Anyone who transgresses beyond this incurs a painful retribution.

[2:179]
Equivalence is a life saving law for you, O you who possess intelligence, that you may be righteous.

The objective is to discourage capital punishment.

So IF the heir of the victim insist on capital punishment, then one has to see, if there is equivalence in the matter i.e. the guilty and the victim have to be of the same category i.e. free would be punished if the victim was also free. The guilty slave will be executed ONLY if the victim was also a slave. The guilty woman would be executed ONLY if the victim was also a woman. Else !!! the heir of the victim will HAVE TO accept a compensation, instead.

It is IMPERATIVE to understand AND FAIRLY LOGICAL to understand that you CANNOT punish Paul in place of Peter. This is MADNESS.
And this is a totally ABSURD explanation of idiot Muslims that the Quran in any way is trying to teach us basics in this regard. It is total madness.

Here is a good example that should give the shut up call to such idiots: As this is BASIC justice.

[12:78]
They said, "O you noble one, he has a father who is elderly; would you take one of us in his place? We see that you are a kind man."

[12:79]
He said, "GOD forbid that we should take other than the one in whose possession we found our goods. Otherwise, we would be unjust."

What's the name of the music tune, dear brother?

I Honestly don't know, I actually took it from another youtube video recording. If you want the file, I uploaded it to my blog in a hidden page at:
http://answeringislamicskeptics.weebly.com/music-file.html

Brothers you even have my consent to do the necessary edits to the video to make it appear to your liking and add it to your channel. I uploaded the windows live file for that reason as well.


If I am able to find the name of the song, I will let you know.

salam alaikum

More appropriate translation:
Glory be to Him who created all the pairs; of what the earth produces, and of their own selves, and of what they do not know.
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=36&verse=36

i.e He created all the existing  pairs, so what !

I apologize for my ignorance in Arabic, but can you explain why this is a more appropriate translation?

Because it literally reads: "Glory be to the one who created pairs all of what grows the earth".

Thanks brother.

Thank you brothers! You guys defeated that perfectly and this article is also perfect:

http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/refuting_the_argument_regarding_the_qur_an_ordering_the_jews_and_christians_to_judge_by_their_scriptures

If I get any more questions, I will ask here.   

If you have any specific points you want to share, we will debunk them right hare  :D

Salam,

A Hindu named Rahul Raj criticized Qur’an for mentioning only 25 prophets and most of them were sent to Children of Israel.

A ridiculous objection about Qur’an is,

“Some Nabees’ names not mentioned” (Al-Moomin 40:78)

It is not “Some”. Allah only mentioned the names of 0.02% of His Nabees out of 124,000 Prophets and forgot to mention the names of 99.98% of them.

Please give your answers for rebuttal.

I really do not understand how this invalidates the fact that Allah sent many messengers. The verses that say so are clear.

I think the Hindu may just be asking why did Allah mention only those that were sent to the people of Israel?

-Answer:

1.) The people of Israel were preferred to carry the message:
   2:47   O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I bestowed upon You and that I preferred you to all others (for My message).

      2:122     O Children of Israel! call to mind the special favor which I bestowed upon you and that I preferred you to all others (for my message).     

So although Allah preferred them to send the message. So that means Allah sent the most messengers to them, and the people of Israel were the most successful in upholding Allah's message. So the Quran would obviously reference that-especially. As for the other messengers, Allah would simply acknowledge them.

2.) Relevance: Some stories are irrelevant to mention. The people of Israel's stories are very relevant. The other messengers are not necessary to go in depth about them, so Allah will simply acknowledge them.