Islam, the Quran and Mohamad

By Joe Darlington

The singular contribution of Islam to the concept of religion or theology is that it killed the idea of God, if he did exist, continuing to send down prophets to Earth to guide mankind.

Islam, in its first recitation in the Quran, clearly states (like Buddhism) that there is no God but the religion holds that if a God did exist, then he would have certain attributes. The religion refers to the 1001 known attributes of God and this figure is sometimes mistakenly referred to as the various names by which God is called.

The attributes of God cannot be referred to as the names of God.

The first attribute of God is Allah which means the all powerful, the all mighty.

Generally, the Quran is plagiarised wholesale from the Bible and goes on to add the life and times of Mohamad who is mistakenly referred to as a Prophet and also mentions Jesus as a Prophet. Jesus himself, although he foretold the future, did not claim to be a Prophet. He said he was the Messiah (Saviour) and the Son of God.

A Prophet is one who foretells the future.

Mohamad never foretold the future. He took 22 years to compile all the verses of the Quran into the first Quran.

The first hand produced copies of the Quran was done by the Ottoman Empire, several hundred years after Mohamad, by the first Caliphs.

The verses of the Quran are those that Mohamad claimed were recited to him by the Archangel Gabriel and others which he felt in his heart.

Mohamad deleted many of the verses that he felt in his heart from his compilation. He felt that these were satanically-inspired, not divinely-inspired.

Hence, Salman Rushdie's famous book, The Satanic Verses.

Salman's thesis statement in the book: if Mohamad felt that many of the verses which he felt in his heart were satanically-inspired, what guarantee is there that the rest of the verses which he included in the Quran were not similarly satanically inspired?