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Quran Talk BlogRuhThe Quranic word Ruh, often rendered spirit or revelation, traced through its root and its 57 occurrences, starting from 17:85 and our minute knowledge of it. Verses follow on God breathing His spirit into Adam, our Spirit sent to Mary, Jesus supported by the Holy Spirit, Gabriel bringing down the Quran, inspiration supporting believers and carrying God's commands, and the Spirit alongside the angels.October 9, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNazareth (Bible vs. Quran)Nazareth in the New Testament, where it is the hometown of Jesus, and the claim in Matthew 2:23 of a prophecy that he would be called a Nazarene, which no Old Testament verse supports. The article traces the Nazarite vow, the vow over Mary's birth in the Proto-Gospel of James and in Sura 3 of the Quran, and the Quranic word for Christians, which shares a root with supporters of God.October 6, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNone can grasp it except the sincere (56:79)Verse 56:79 and the traditional claim that only the physically clean, and never menstruating women, may touch the Quran. The article argues the Arabic is a statement of fact rather than a command, so muṭaharūna means the spiritually pure. It also weighs how translation involves interpretation and defends Dr. Rashad Khalifa's rendering, None can grasp it except the sincere.October 6, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNew Testament Fake Verse CitationsNew Testament passages that cite scripture with no exact match in the Old Testament, including Matthew's Nazarene prophecy, a Zechariah passage credited to Jeremiah, and Mark's blending of Malachi with Isaiah. Jude's use of the Assumption of Moses and the Book of Enoch also appears, along with Paul's reliance on the Septuagint over the Hebrew text of Isaiah 28:16.September 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNew Testament Geographical DiscrepanciesGeographical problems in the Gospels, including the region of the Gerasenes and Gadarenes, Jesus' route from Tyre through Sidon, travel between Samaria and Galilee, Judea beyond the Jordan, Bethphage and Bethany, the census under Quirinius, and Bethany beyond the Jordan. These errors suggest the Gospel authors were not contemporaries of the events, which casts doubt on the reliability of their other claims.September 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNew Testament Old Testament Textual AlterationsNew Testament authors quote Old Testament verses with altered wording or meaning, read in light of Quran 2:78-79 on those who distort the scripture. Examples include Paul's use of Deuteronomy 30 in Romans 10, almah rendered as virgin in Matthew's use of Isaiah 7:14, and Septuagint readings in Hebrews and Acts. A claimed prophecy of the Messiah rising on the third day is shown to appear nowhere in the Old Testament.September 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogDifferent Words For Sin in QuranThirteen Arabic words in the Quran that translate as sin are examined one by one, from dhanb and ithm to fisq, zulm, wizr, and lamam. Each entry gives the word's root, how often the root occurs, its shade of meaning, and supporting verses. The distinctions run from unintentional error and minor offenses to deliberate defiance of God, harm to others, indecency, and crime.September 28, 2024

Quran Talk BlogEvidence of Arab Literacy Through ArabicArab literacy in the Hejaz at the time of Prophet Muhammad, argued against the common belief that the Arabs were largely illiterate. The evidence comes from the Arabic language itself: a connected script suited to pen and ink, merchants' contracts and the Abjad number system, the command in 2:282 to write down loans, structured grammar, the triliteral root system, and the consistent spelling of early Quranic manuscripts.September 28, 2024

Quran Talk BlogThe Smoke of 537 & The Rise of IslamA volcanic eruption in 536 or 537 CE darkened the sun, caused famine, and helped the Plague of Justinian spread through the Byzantine and Sassanian empires. The article traces how cold, rats, and fleas drove recurring waves of plague, why the Hejaz was spared, and how the exhausted empires fell quickly to the early Islamic conquests. It presents this chain of events as God's control over history, citing Quran 30:9.September 28, 2024

Quran Talk BlogGenesis vs. JubileesThe Book of Jubilees, a retelling of Genesis and Exodus found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, is set against Genesis and the Quran on several points. Topics include the divine plural We, whether God rested on the seventh day, the Watchers and Satan, and Satan rather than God testing Abraham over his son. A last section covers the killing of the firstborn in Egypt.September 26, 2024

Quran Talk BlogUmar & The Supposed Stoning VerseUmar's speech in Sahih al-Bukhari 6830, in which he claims a stoning verse was revealed in the Quran and fears people will one day not find it. The article sets this against the Hadith saying Zaid Ibn Thabit compiled the Quran under Abu Bakr and Umar, asking how Umar could fear losing a verse already left out 11 years earlier. It also retells his account of Abu Bakr's selection as Caliph.September 2, 2024

Quran Talk BlogRevisiting Abu Lahab: Was He Abu Sufyan?Sura 111 condemns Abee Lahab and his wife, yet Hadith and Sirah literature say almost nothing about them. The article proposes that the pair are actually Abu Sufyan and Hind bint Utba, the fiercest opponents of the prophet at Badr and Uhud, and suggests the Umayyad dynasty founded by their son Mu'awiya had motive to hide that identity.August 31, 2024

Quran Talk BlogFolding the Heaven (Quran & Bible)God's promise in Quran 21:104 to fold the heaven like the folding of a book and repeat the first creation is set beside parallel passages from the Bible. Isaiah 34:4 describes the heavens rolled up like a scroll amid judgment against the nations, and Revelation 6:14 depicts the heavens receding like a rolled scroll at the opening of the sixth seal.August 23, 2024

Quran Talk BlogBukhari Longevity HacksSunni reliance on Sahih Bukhari, which the Quran gives no authority, is mocked through a satirical guide to its health advice. Hadiths cited include dunking a fly into a drink, bloodletting, camel urine, black cumin in the nostrils, and seven Ajwa dates against poison and magic. The guide closes with warding off the angel of death through dogs, pictures, and the story of Moses slapping him.August 14, 2024

Quran Talk BlogHoly Spittle (Bible vs. Hadith)Healing by saliva is traced from the Roman emperor Vespasian through three Gospel accounts of Jesus curing with his spit to the many hadith crediting the prophet's spittle with cures, multiplied food and water, and blessings. The Quran affirms Jesus healed the blind but records no spit. Sunni veneration of such relics is presented as idol worship, and the hadith as fabrications borrowed from the Gospels.July 31, 2024

Quran Talk BlogIdeal Goals, Practical MeansGod calls believers to choose the difficult path and strive for the ideal, yet never burdens a soul beyond its means, as the reassurance of Moses shows. The Quran's fallback provisions for the contact prayer, fasting, ablution, fighting in the Sacred Months, prohibited foods, forced profession of disbelief, and polygamy illustrate this. Sincere intention and effort keep believers from exploiting God's grace.July 30, 2024

Quran Talk BlogCalling God Father?Whether followers of the Quran should call God Father, a question Christians raise to contrast the Jesus of the Gospels with the Quran. The article notes the Quran neither condemns nor endorses the term, traces it through Aramaic and Koine Greek, and argues its Trinitarian connotations make it unwise today, citing 33:70, the Raa'ena example of 2:104, and the biblical husband metaphor that worshipers likewise avoid.July 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogCamels Created From the Devils (Quran vs. Hadith)Hadith reports in Ibn Majah and Abu Dawud forbid praying where camels rest because camels were created from the devils, and Ibn Qutaybah defends the claim. The article sets these against the camel urine hadith in Bukhari, then turns to the Quran, where God's camel is a sign to Thamûd and 88:17 calls believers to reflect on how camels are created.July 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogGospel ContradictionsContradictions among the four Gospels, offered as reason to doubt that any statement attributed to Jesus is verbatim, including claims that he is God or part of a trinity. Late anonymous authorship, translation from Aramaic into Greek, and hundreds of thousands of manuscript variants frame examples from the genealogies, birth narratives, Jairus' daughter, the Lord's prayer, the crucifixion timeline, and the resurrection.July 28, 2024

Quran Talk BlogBible: Lord vs. Lord (Greek vs. Hebrew)Psalm 110:1, which Jesus cites to the Pharisees in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, reads differently in Greek and Hebrew. The Greek uses one word for both lords, while the Hebrew distinguishes Yahweh from l'adoni, a term never used for God in the Old Testament. The article concludes that the verse cannot be used to assign divinity to Jesus.July 20, 2024

Quran Talk BlogDid People in the Gospel Worship Jesus?The Greek word proskyneō, often rendered as worship in the Gospels, is better translated as paying homage, as shown in the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant and in the Magi and Herod seeking the King of the Jews. Those who accepted Jesus as the Messiah honored him as king, not as God. The test for his people was whether they accepted him as the Messiah.July 20, 2024

Quran Talk BlogJesus: The Last AdamPaul's letters distinguish God the Father from the Lord Jesus, and he calls Jesus the last Adam. Tracing Luke's naming of Adam as son of God, Paul's link with Luke, and The Life of Adam and Eve, where angels bow to Adam as the image of God, the article argues that for Paul Jesus was appointed Son of God and remained subordinate to God, not God.July 20, 2024

Quran Talk BlogSon of God ≠ GodThe Gospel title Son of God, read in its Jewish context as a name for the Messiah and King of Israel rather than a claim of divinity. Passages from Matthew, John, and Romans, along with the high priest's question and the charge on the cross, are used to argue against the later Christian doctrine of a divine Jesus. An appendix lists the title's occurrences in the New Testament.July 20, 2024

Quran Talk Blog3:7: Basic Law of Hermeneutics For Studying ScriptureQuran 3:7 sets the basic rule for studying scripture: straightforward verses, the essence of the scripture, interpret the multiple-meaning ones. Prompted by a Christian polemicist's attack on the Quran, the article applies the rule to the Torah and Gospel too. It draws on Rabbi Tovia Singer's answer that Ezekiel 18, which says no innocent person dies for the sins of the wicked, refutes reading Abraham's sacrifice as a picture of Jesus.July 19, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMoses’ Miracles (Quran vs. Bible)The Quran's nine miracles given to Moses for Pharaoh are set beside the plagues and signs listed in Exodus. The death of the firstborn, central to Passover, is absent from the Quran and conflicts with biblical verses holding each person responsible for their own sin. The Book of Jubilees, which attributes that killing to Satan rather than God, is presented as closer to the Quran.July 19, 2024

Quran Talk BlogQuran, Gospel (Injeel), & TorahA response to the Christian argument called the Islamic Dilemma, which claims the Quran's call to uphold the Gospel endorses the New Testament. The Quran recognizes the original Injeel given to Jesus, not the later canon or Paul's writings, and Jesus in the Gospels upheld the Torah's law and condemned traditions such as Corban. The Quran confirms and supersedes previous scriptures, with an appendix of every Quranic verse naming the Gospel.July 18, 2024

Quran Talk BlogAn Undue BurdenPeople demand far more proof for new religious ideas than for the beliefs they inherited, a double standard explained through cognitive dissonance and the endowment effect. The Quran's answer is to examine all words and follow the best, accept better guidance than what our parents left us, reject books not from God such as the Hadith and Paul's writings, and examine ourselves.July 16, 2024

Quran Talk BlogProphet (Nabi) & MuhammadThe Quran's distinction between Muhammad as prophet (Nabi) and as messenger (Rasool), building on Dr. Khalifa's footnotes to 49:2 and 33:56. Verses calling him prophet are shown to apply only during his lifetime, while messenger verses, including the nineteen commands to obey God and the messenger, remain binding. Apparent exceptions such as 3:68, 7:157, 33:40, and 66:8 are examined in context.July 16, 2024

Quran Talk BlogQuran’s Use of Plural TenseGod's use of the first person plural in the Quran signals the participation of angels and other agents, not a plurality of gods, answering readers shaped by the trinity doctrine. Verses on revelation, forgiveness, granting children, answered prayers, and our servant illustrate the point, while worship and direct speech to Moses stay singular. Readings of to us they were worshipers that imply idol worship are rejected.July 16, 2024

Quran Talk BlogGod Does Not ChangeGod's immutability, argued from classical philosophy and Sura 112, holds that God is outside time and space and never acquires or loses an attribute. The article applies this to Revelation 1:17 and the Gospels to conclude that Jesus, who died and changed, cannot be God. It closes with Old Testament passages and Quranic verses on God's unchanging system and the natural instinct of monotheism.July 15, 2024

Quran Talk BlogKhalifa on Earth (Not Paradise)Satan, not Adam, is the Khalifa, or temporary god, that God announced to the angels He was placing on Earth in 2:30. The article reasons that Adam first lived in Paradise and came down to Earth only after the devil duped him. Earth is the domain where humans choose between God's path and Satan's, recalling the covenant in 36:60 to 61 to worship God alone.July 15, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWhy Quranists Don’t Have MasjidsQuranists and Submitters both claim to follow the Quran alone, but Quranists lack a consistent method of interpretation, redefining terms like the contact prayer and splintering until no lasting congregation or masjid forms. The article warns against both following the majority and worshiping one's ego, and contrasts Submitters, who settle disputes by referring to the messenger of the covenant, Dr. Rashad Khalifa, and his Authorized English Version.July 13, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWhy The Submission Movement Stalled & How to Fix ItThe Submitter movement's stagnation since the martyrdom of the messenger of the covenant in 1990 is traced to a growth ceiling near 150 members, the Dunbar Number, past which communities splinter. Top down rulings, avoiding contentious topics, and agreeing to disagree are each weighed and found lacking. The proposed remedy makes the Quran the only source of law, defers to God's messenger in disputes, and separates Submitters from Quranists.July 12, 2024

Quran Talk BlogPerception of Safety & CultureAn American habit of assuming something is safe unless warnings or safeguards say otherwise, and how it shifts responsibility onto others in traffic, shopping, work, and health. The author recalls reckless adventures in New Zealand, where people are expected to use their own judgment, credits God's grace for their protection, and urges personal caution and responsibility.July 11, 2024

Quran Talk BlogFollowers of Jesus Prevailed (61:14 & 3:55)Trinitarian Christians cite Quran 61:14 and 3:55 to claim their doctrine prevailed, and the article answers them. It traces how the Jewish Christians, who did not hold Jesus divine, fled Jerusalem before 70 CE while the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians faded. It also argues that martyrdom and redemption in the Hereafter are the real victory, and that Jesus preached worship of God alone.July 10, 2024

Quran Talk BlogParables: Bible vs. Fabricated HadithTwo parables of Jesus from Matthew, the wedding banquet and the vineyard workers, set beside Bukhari hadiths that retell them with a Sunni traditionalist bend, though the Quran says the Prophet Muhammad was a gentile who did not know the previous scriptures. The article argues the wages hadith contradicts the Quran, which grants Jews and Christians who accept its message twice the reward, and cites verses condemning fabricators of lies about God.July 10, 2024

Quran Talk BlogFiha & Fihi (21:91 & 66:12)Arabic grammatical gender explains why 21:91 says God blew into her (fiha) while 66:12 uses the masculine fihi, likely referring to Mary's womb (farj). The article also reads fihi as a parallel between Jesus and Adam, citing 15:29, 38:72, and 3:59, and argues that God works miracles through natural means to test people's faith.July 8, 2024

Quran Talk BlogTimeline of Prophets & MessengersThe 26 messengers named in the Quran are arranged in a rough chronological order from Adam to Jesus, drawing on verse clues and the order the Bible gives. Lineage links such as Noah to Abraham to Amram are traced, along with evidence that Hud and Saleh preceded Abraham while Shu'aib came after him. The uncertain placement of Idris and Job is also noted.July 6, 2024

Quran Talk BlogJinn Companion & The Dead Sea ScrollsThe Quranic teaching that every person has a jinn companion is compared with the two spirits of truth and perversity described in the Manual of Discipline, a Dead Sea Scrolls text from Qumran. Drawing on verses such as 50:27, 114:1 to 6, and 2:257, the article traces shared themes of dual spiritual influence, an inner struggle between light and darkness, and the need for divine help.July 5, 2024

Quran Talk BlogTraits of the HypocritesHypocrites, set beside the righteous and the disbelievers of Sura 2, are traced through the Quran's verses on why God condemns them most. The article lists seventeen traits, among them harboring doubt, lying, repelling from God's path, causing division, and lazy Contact Prayers. It explains why God allows hypocrites as a test and how believers should identify them, refuse to befriend or defend them, and deal with them sternly.June 25, 2024

Quran Talk BlogDifferent TrinitiesVerses 4:171 and 5:73 condemn calling God a trinity, and the article answers why the Quran never names the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It surveys alternative trinities from Christian history, including Philo's Sophia and Logos, Valentinian Gnosticism, an Elohist model, Christian Kabbalah, and Sabellian modalism. Given so many competing sets, it argues, the Quran rejects the concept of a trinity outright.June 19, 2024

Quran Talk BlogChristian Gentiles & God’s ScriptureThe canonization of the Christian Bible, drawing on a video by Tovia Singer: the Church Fathers who chose its books were Gentiles without Hebrew, Athanasius made the first list of 27 books, and Irenaeus later attributed the four Gospels. Verses 2:78, 2:79 and 6:93 of the Quran are read as describing gentiles who know scripture through hearsay and those who attribute their own writings to God.June 18, 2024

Quran Talk BlogJesus on Identifying HypocrisyJesus's signs of hypocrisy in Matthew 23 are applied to Christians today: failing to uphold the law of Moses, equating righteousness with outward prestige, and calling priests father. Paul is presented as contradicting Jesus on the law and on being called father, and as one of the false prophets Jesus warned would come.June 17, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMuhammad’s Divine Utterances Restricted to Quran AloneGod's all-encompassing oath in Surah 69 affirms that the messenger's utterance is the Quran, a revelation from the Lord of the universe, and warns that Muhammad would have been punished had he uttered any other teachings. Verses on his waiting for revelation, listening, and caution in speech are set against Hadith narrations of religious decrees not found in the Quran, which the article judges false attributions.June 11, 2024

Quran Talk BlogSomething Similar to It?God's challenge in 17:88 that no one can produce anything like the Quran, set against the narration in Sunan Abi Dawud claiming Muhammad was given the Book and something like it. The article argues that since the Quran calls itself Hadith, man-made Hadith fail that challenge, contradict the Quran's dietary laws and one another, and turn their followers into idol worshipers.June 11, 2024

Quran Talk BlogChristian CastrationSelf-castration among early Christian men, which the Councils of Ancyra and Nicaea each addressed in their first canon, traced to Matthew 19:12 and the ascetic example of Origen. The article sets this against the Quran's rejection of invented hermitism, its statement that God's messengers had wives and children, and its view of spouses and God's provisions as blessings to enjoy with appreciation.June 9, 2024

Quran Talk BlogCode 19: Qiraat Sura 36 (Y.S.)Code 19, presented as the fourth mechanism by which God preserves the Quran, is used to judge between the different recitations (Qiraat). The Hafs recitation of Sura 36 has 285 occurrences of its prefixed letters Y and S, 19×15. The article lists verse by verse where other recitations, such as Warsh, Qunbul and Yaʿqūb, change the letter count away from a multiple of 19.June 3, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWho Claimed Masses From The Sky (Part III)The challenges in 17:90 to 93, especially climbing into the sky and bringing a book to read, are argued not to address Muhammad, who ascended to heaven and was given the Quran, as 17:1, 17:106 and Sura 53 describe. The distinction between a prophet given scripture and a human messenger points instead to a messenger after Muhammad, Dr. Rashad Khalifa.June 3, 2024

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