QURANIC PROBLEMS

"The great merit of Muhammad," says Osborn, "is that among a people given up to idolatry, he rose to vivid perception of the unity of God and preached this great doctrine with firmness and constancy amid ridicule and persecution." "Being also a master in eloquence," says Sir William Muir, "his language was cast in the purest and most persuasive style of Arabian oratory."

The sinfulness of man, the necessity of faith, the duty of prayer, and the judgment of all men at the last day, are other truths which Muhammad forcefully taught.  The Fatiha is a prayer which can be adopted by all much like the Lord’s Prayer or the Twenty-third Psalm.

Exaggeration in the Quran

The simple narratives of the Bible are distorted and magnified to an incredible degree in the Muslim Quran.  In the Surat al-Baqarah (The Cow) 2:259, for example, the Quran says Ezra, or ‘Uzair, and his all died "for a hundred years" and were then raised to life.

 Or (bethink the of) the like of him who, passing by a township which had fallen into utter ruin, exclaimed:  How shall Allah give this township life after its death?  And Allah made him die a hundred years, then brought him back to life.  He said:  How long hast thou tarried?  (The man) said:  I have tarried a day or part of a day.  (He) said: Nay, but thou hast tarried for a hundred years.  Just look at thy food and drink which have rotted!  Look at thine ass!  And, that We may make thee a token unto mankind, look at the bones, how We adjust them and then cover them with flesh!  And when (the matter) became clear unto him, he said:  I know now that Allah is able to do all things.