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Response by Khalid to Newton's response 1

Asslam Alaikum

Newton in his attempt to answer brother Wail Ibrahim once again is showing his bankruptcy in Arabic grammar.

So he is saying, in a response to the so called error #1, and notice the "apple" example !!

You must compare apples with apples. If you want to make an analogy that fits the two verses in question with the same grammatical setting, your explanation should be something like this: "He hurriedly went to the market" or "He go to the market in a hurry" That is the kind of error we have in the the Qur'an.

And then he goes

You can try every trick in the book. But here again if we use your previous example of "He hurriedly went to the market" or "He go to the market in a hurry"

Using your method of reasoning we can say that he go to the market is not an error because we can insert "can" or "did" after the word "go" and thus the sentence becomes: "He CAN go to the market in a hurry" or "He DID go to the market in a hurry"

And his last line was:

And it is our argument that the Qur'an is no different from the pre-Islamic poetry when it comes to grammar. Both can have the same errors. Appealing to an error in the poetry of jaheliah does NOT correct an error in the Qur'an.

Dose this looks anything like comparing apple with an apple ? What dose this has to do with Arabic grammar?

You see the only thing Newton found himself able to discuss was the *ENGLISH* sentence brother Wail offered as an example. So why he wasn't able to discuss the real issue?

Newton in many *known* cases proved that he don't know any thing about the Arabic grammar, and his response to bro. Wail is one example of these cases. It is always advisable in any debate between educated people not to make an unstudied answer, and it would be *foolish* to insist on some claims one cannot support.

One reason for that is that the responses to these claims would be seen as offensive and insulting a thing Newton should avoid:)

So if Newton still insists on his claims about the so-called grammatical errors in the Quran, he should be ready to discuss the real issues and not the English linguistics.

I can't recall how many times he had been offered the chance to discuss the subject as an educated person but he always comes with irrelevant answers like the above. I don't know what the word *belief* means to Newton but if all of his beliefs are based on such weak grounds and not on solid information, then he should start questioning all of it.

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