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Quran Talk BlogGod or Satan as our god?Satan's respite after defying God frames life as a test of freedom of choice: obeying any command over God's makes Satan one's god. Drawing on the fitrah, the golden calf, and the party of God versus the party of Satan, the article explains why people set up false gods and why there is no god beside God remains true despite them.December 5, 2024

Quran Talk BlogRemember Your Mission & Avoid Metaphysical DistractionsSpeculation about the nature of God, His first creation, and how He made the universe can distract believers from their purpose, pictured here as a video game hero who never presses start. The article urges worshiping God through gratitude, charity, obeying His commands, justice, and humility, citing Quran verses such as 2:62, 6:103, and 17:85 on what leads to success.November 29, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMarcus Aurelius: The Philosopher-King’s Dark ShadowMarcus Aurelius, admired for Stoic wisdom and his Meditations, presided over the persecution of early Christians, including Justin Martyr and the Martyrs of Lyons. The article explains why Christian monotheism threatened Roman civic religion and identity. It argues that Stoic steadfastness without truth revealed by God leads astray, closing with Quran 25:42 on idol worshipers who persevered with their gods.November 28, 2024

Quran Talk BlogGod is Ahad (Echad) “One”The Hebrew echad of the Shema and the Arabic Ahad of Sura 112 both declare God absolutely One, without partners or divisions. The article answers the Trinitarian claim that echad means a compound unity, using the hermeneutic rule of 3:7, the Quran's term Wahed, Old Testament usage of echad, and Jesus affirming the Shema in Mark 12.November 26, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMessengers vs. TraditionMessengers, the Quran shows, were sent to challenge inherited religious traditions, and following one's parents was the defense their peoples raised against them. The article traces this through Abraham, Moses, Hud, Saleh, Shu'aib, and Muhammad, then argues from 7:172 to 7:173 that tradition is no excuse before God. It closes by asking whether a messenger today would not overturn traditions Muslims hold dear.November 25, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWould You Support God’s Messenger, Today?The common belief that one would have followed God's messengers in their own time meets the Quran's record of how Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad were doubted and opposed for their humble origins. The article traces this recurring pattern of rejection, shows from the Bible and the Quran that God has not ceased sending messengers, including the messenger of the covenant, and asks whether readers would accept a messenger today.November 25, 2024

Quran Talk BlogChristians Don’t Love JesusGospel passages in which Jesus ties love for him to keeping the commandments and upholding the Law of the Old Testament. The article argues that Christians follow tradition and the creeds of men instead, against his warnings, and that salvation is to be sought in Jewish sources. It closes with Matthew 7:21 to 23, where Jesus disowns those who call him Lord but do not do God's will.November 21, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMake Christmas Pagan AgainThe pagan origins of Christmas, from the choice of December 25 to match solstice festivals like Sol Invictus and Saturnalia, to the role of Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicaea in fusing Christian and pagan practice. It also covers the contradictory Nativity accounts in Matthew and Luke and the pagan roots of the evergreen tree, mistletoe, and Santa Claus, and urges Christians to abandon the holiday.November 20, 2024

Quran Talk BlogPower, Interpretation, and the Enduring Nature of TruthSunni orthodoxy, the article argues, rose through political power rather than truth, as traditionalists like Ibn Hanbal used Hadith to suppress the Mu'tazilites and Kalam, and Caliph al-Mutawakkil enforced the shift. It traces the canonization of Bukhari and Muslim, then Dr. Rashad Khalifa's Quranic case that the Quran is the sole source of law, concluding that truth endures and falsehood vanishes.November 19, 2024

Quran Talk BlogThe Messenger vs. The MessageFollowers of God's messengers often fix on the messenger instead of the message he delivered. Christians turned from Jesus' teachings on repentance, compassion and obeying God's commandments to debates over his divine nature, and Muslims turned from the Quran to Hadith and Sunnah and the imitation of Muhammad's personal habits. Citing verses such as 6:112 to 6:116 and 33:21, the article urges returning to scripture alone.November 18, 2024

Quran Talk BlogTraditionalists vs. Quranists CompassA compass modeled on the political compass maps people who claim the Quran along two axes: arrogance versus humility, and dogmatism versus skepticism toward hadith and tradition. Its four quadrants describe arrogant and humble Traditionalists and Quranists. The potential submitter sits low on ego with balanced skepticism, open to dialogue and willing to submit to the truth once recognized.November 18, 2024

Quran Talk Blog“Wa” in the QuranThe Arabic prefix wa serves many functions in the Quran, and context decides its meaning. Most weight goes to wa as and, especially joining items that are not mutually exclusive, as when the statute book is shown to sit inside the scripture given to Moses. Its uses as an oath marker, and for while, but, yet, even, and or, are each illustrated with verses.November 17, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWhen “god” is used for other than God in QuranThe Arabic distinction between ilah, any being worshiped, and Allah, the one true God, frames a survey of what people take as gods besides God in the Quran. Verses cover statues, the sculpted calf, Pharaoh, the ego, messengers, and Mary and Jesus, set against Satan's permission to entice people and the free choice to worship God alone.November 10, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWhy Are Muslims Suffering?Muslim countries suffer invasion and chaos, the article argues, because Muslims abandoned the Quran for Hadith and Sunnah. It traces God's unchanging Sunnah of sending hardship, even through unrighteous nations, to call people back, citing ancient nations and the Old Testament invasions of Israel. Distorted ablution, dietary laws, prayer and Shahadah show the departure, and returning to God alone and the Quran as sole law lifts the retribution.November 9, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWho Did Jesus Say Would Come After Him?Jesus's sayings in the Gospels about those who would come after him, read as pointing to the Quran as the Spirit of Truth and to prophets and messengers beyond Jesus. The article argues Muhammad was the final prophet but not the final messenger, citing the covenant of 3:81, and links a Gospel of Truth passage on 23 aeons and letters to the Quranic initials and their multiples of 19.November 8, 2024

Quran Talk BlogTurning God’s Blessings into IdolsBlessings from God become idols when people turn them into rivals to Him, beginning with the golden calf and the bronze serpent that Hezekiah destroyed. The article then traces the same pattern in the deification of Jesus, the veneration of Mary, the elevation of Muhammad and fabricated narrations above the Quran, and devotion to money and children. It closes on why idolatry is a gross injustice.November 6, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWhich Messiah Was Jesus? Ben David, Ben Joseph, or Ben Aaron?Jesus' descent from David is weighed against the Gospel genealogies traced through Joseph, while Luke, the Infancy Gospel of James, and the Quran's description of Mary as a descendant of Aaron point to a priestly lineage. The article surveys the Bible's many anointed figures, including Messiah ben Joseph, and argues that Jesus' spiritual, nonpolitical mission fits Messiah ben Aaron rather than the Davidic king.November 5, 2024

Quran Talk BlogAnte-Nicene Church Father Heresies Regarding TrinityThe writings of the church fathers before the Council of Nicaea, from Polycarp, Ignatius and Justin Martyr to Irenaeus, Clement, Origen and Tertullian, are set against the later doctrine of the Trinity. Their own words rank the Father above a begotten Son and a lesser Spirit. The article argues that the Trinity was not an original Christian belief but a theology that took shape over centuries of councils.October 31, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNotes from The Second Canonization of the Qur’an (324/936)Notes on Shady Nasser's study of how Ibn Mujahid fixed the seven canonical readings of the Quran in 936 CE, set within five stages of canonization ending with the 1923 Azhar edition of Hafs an Asim. Topics include how readings became anomalous, the weak chains linking the Eponymous Readers to the Prophet, criticism of readers like Hafs as transmitters, and the trial of Ibn Shanabudh.October 30, 2024

Quran Talk BlogThe Supernatural: Science Waiting to Be UnderstoodMiracles in the Quran, such as the parting of the sea, the fire staying cool for Abraham, and the transport of the Queen of Sheba's palace, are presented as workings of natural laws science has not yet grasped rather than breaches of them. Answering skeptics who call miracles logically impossible, the article draws on a video game feat and Arthur C. Clarke, closing with verses on God's knowledge of all secrets.October 27, 2024

Quran Talk BlogJesus Forgiving Sins Doesn’t Make Jesus GodAnswers the Christian argument that Jesus forgiving sins proves he is God, using the Gospel accounts of the paralyzed man and the woman who anointed him. Gospel passages show his authority came from God, and disciples, priests, John the Baptist, and an angel in Isaiah also convey forgiveness. The principal and agent relationship shows an agent of God is not God.October 23, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMuhammad Prophecized in BibleBiblical prophecies of Muhammad as the gentile prophet whom, according to Quran 7:157, the Children of Israel find written in their Torah and Gospel. Isaiah 42 and 49 and Deuteronomy 18 are read as pointing to Muhammad rather than Jesus, who was sent only to Israel. The article also disputes the Great Commission as a later addition to Mark and calls the Quran a message to the Children of Israel.October 23, 2024

Quran Talk BlogQuran and TrintyA response to an October 2024 Capturing Christianity live stream claiming the Quran misunderstands the Trinity. Drawing on a rebuttal by Dr. Khalil Andani and Dr. Steven Nemes, it argues that 5:73 targets the beliefs of ordinary Christians, examines the Johannine Comma and the absence of explicit Trinitarian statements by Jesus, and reads 5:116 through the veneration of Mary and the Nestorian controversy.October 21, 2024

Quran Talk BlogHow Mass Memorization of Quran Fulfills the New Covenant ProphecyMass memorization of the Quran, which calls itself The Reminder, is presented as the fulfillment of the new covenant in Jeremiah 31:33, where God writes His law on hearts and minds. Deuteronomy's commands to keep God's words on the heart support the reading, and Quran 7:155 to 158 link the covenant to the Gentile prophet Muhammad after the golden calf episode.October 20, 2024

Quran Talk BlogGod and TimeGod's complete knowledge of every event, before and after it happens, and why that knowledge leaves human free will intact, illustrated by Satan and Adam. Statistics serves as the science useful to humanity but useless to God, and God stands outside created time, which explains the Quran's past tense for the Day of Judgment and saying God willing. Angels' experience of time and revelation as a window into the unseen close it.October 18, 2024

Quran Talk BlogHistory of the Umayyad Caliphs & History of Islam & The Sunni DilemmaThe Second Civil War between Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr and the Umayyads, traced through al-Suyuti's History of the Caliphs and Najeebabadi's History of Islam, from Karbala and the sack of Medina to the burning of the Kaaba and al-Hajjaj's siege of Mecca. The article then asks why many Sunnis excuse Abd al-Malik and al-Hajjaj despite the Quran's condemnation of aggression and killing believers.October 16, 2024

Quran Talk BlogAcademic SalafismUnderstanding the Quran only through how 7th century Arabs read it, as filtered by Western academics, is likened to Salafism. Prompted by a Twitter dispute over venerating the prophet's sandal and beard hair as relics, the article argues from 6:114, 68:52, and 48:23 that the Quran is complete, fully detailed, and meant for all people across time, with God's unchanging sunnah and its numerical structure.October 15, 2024

Quran Talk BlogMessenger Praying For Forgiveness (4:64)Verse 4:64 describes a living messenger praying to God for the forgiveness of believers who also pray to God themselves, so both parties pray to God alone. The article explains why the verse says messenger rather than prophet and uses 5:109 and 5:116 to 5:118 to show that dead messengers know nothing of this world. Praying to the dead prophet for intercession is therefore idol worship.October 15, 2024

Quran Talk BlogExposing Practice Exposed by Justin MartyrInfant exposure in ancient Rome, the abandonment of unwanted newborns, is examined through Larry Hurtado's Destroyer of the gods and Justin Martyr's First Apology, which charges that exposed children were raised for prostitution. The article also traces Roman tolerance of prostitution and the sexual use of children, and the early Christian terms coined in the Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas to condemn it.October 14, 2024

Quran Talk BlogIbn Khaldun Genius and IgnoranceIbn Khaldun's scientific errors in The Muqaddimah serve as evidence that the Quran, revealed centuries earlier, came from God rather than its era. Excerpts cover his claim that the sun is not hot, the humoral theory of disease and digestion, climate and race, absurd stories he rejected from al-Mas'udi, and Umar's destruction of Persian books.October 14, 2024

Quran Talk BlogNon-Arabs (Mostly Persian) Influence on Sunni IslamNon-Arab scholars, mostly Persian, shaped Sunni Islam, from the six hadith compilers and Abu Hanifa to the founders of Arabic grammar, major historians, and theologians like al-Ghazali and al-Maturidi. The article also traces the four schools of jurisprudence and the rising weight given to Hadith over the Quran. It explains the pattern through social status, urban settlement, Persian learning, Abbasid patronage, and Ibn Khaldun's own account.October 14, 2024

Quran Talk BlogEvery Community Receives a MessengerThe Quran's three words for community, qaryah, qawm, and ummah, and its promise that every community receives a warner, guide, witness, or messenger. Since Muhammad spoke only Arabic to the Arab gentiles, the article argues the Quran itself is the messenger to the world, which must be translated. That role points to Rashad Khalifa, the messenger of the covenant, who translated the Quran.October 10, 2024

Quran Talk BlogWas Muhammad the Final Messenger?Quranic verses show Muhammad was the final prophet but not the final messenger, citing 33:40, the people of Joseph, angel messengers, and a messenger for every community in its own tongue. The distinction between prophet and messenger is set against the traditional view, and the lone Tirmidhi hadith on a final messenger is weighed against other mubash-shirat narrations. Verse 3:81 foretells a messenger to come after Muhammad.October 10, 2024

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

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