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Numerical discrepancies in the Qur'an: Does Allah's day equal to 1,000 (Sura 22:47, 32:5) or 50,000 years (Sura 70:4)? Observe how similar 32:5 and 70:4 are worded (in English - I don't know the Arabic) "ascend unto him in a day the measure whereof is [fifty] thousand years [of your reckoning]." Maybe it originally was "fifty thousand" in both and "fifty" dropped out in one place? A corrupted manuscript? Or does God just not know how to relate the length his days to human years?
How many gardens are there in paradise? ONE: 39:73, 41:30 [the Garden], 57:21 [a Garden], 79:41
[the Garden], or The plural "Gardens" has to refer to at least three because if it/they were two, then the Arabic would use the dual form of the noun. Therefore this is a discrepancy of at least 200% from "one" to "several".
Sura 56:7 mentions three distinct groups of people for judgement. But 90:18-19, 99:6-8, etc. mention only two groups
There are conflicting views on who takes the souls at death. Sura 32:11 reads "Say: THE Angel of Death, put in
charge over you, will (duly) take your souls. Then shall ye
be brought back to your Lord", i.e. on specific angel is in
view.
Sura 73:15-16 says that one messenger was sent to Pharaoh, while Sura 10:75 speaks of two (Moses and Aaron). 73:15 only says "a" (not a stress on "one") messenger, but the comparison of this messenger to Muhammad, who is sent just in the same way makes a strong point for the "one", since Muhammad undoubtedly was only one in his time. And verse 16 affirms this by saying "the" messenger. Also 7:103 also speakes only of sending Moses.
Sura 35:1 says that angels have 2, 3, or 4 pairs of wings. This is contradicted by a hadith which says that Gabriel had 600 wings. This is narrated by Abu Ishaq-Ash-Shaibani, see Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 54, Number 455
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