Circular Reasoning

In today's blog I will prove that there is no evidence showing the Islamic Holy Book "The Qur'an" as the word of God. In doing so, I will disprove a few myths about the Qur'an that Muslims, often use to glorify the book as being too good to have been created by man. Please keep the hate messages tasteful and to a minimum.

The first "evidence" that Muslims point to when proving the Qur'an is the word of God is the poetic nature of the book. The Qur'an goes beyond a collection of poems which has fundamentally defined the literature of the Arabic language (famous for its poetry). That is precisely why when reading the Qur'an people usually tend to do it in a rhythmic voice. Muslims of today's era cannot help but tear up whenever they hear the truly seductive words from that book and wonder how can a man ever write such beautiful words? The answer to that question is fairly simple: a man can write such beautiful poetry because men of that age did speak in that matter regularly. They did not consider this type of literature rare and glorious but normal chit chat language they use everyday, so it is not beyond comprehension that a well versed man could have written this.

Another point Muslims usually bring up is that Mohammed was an illiterate, so how can an illiterate man write one of the most amazing pieces of art? I will answer this by proposing:

At the age of 25, Mohammed married the older Khadijah, who was a very successful merchant business woman. Mohammed in turn worked with her by traveling the world. It was either by that or living in Mecca, which was a holy place before Islam (since Abraham built the Kaaba), Mohammed has most likely learned to read and write and obtained a copy of other man-made-up books, the Old and New Testaments, which explains why a lot of the biblical stories from those books match the stories from the Qur'an.

Finally, Muslims always claim the Qur'an is perfect and was never altered in anyway. They claim that God spoke those words to Mohammed, through the angel Gabriel, then Mohammed memorized them until he spoke them to his friends, relatives and followers who in turn memorized some, and wrote some on animal skin. Finally about a dozen years after Mohammed died, those people who memorized and wrote those words were asked to bring them forward to put everything in a book. After they put everything in that book, they made a bunch of copies and sent them all over the world to avoid alteration. By the way, the Arabic language (at that point) did not have dots or light vowels. In Arabic and specifically in the Qur'an there are words, phrases and even sentences that would have completely different meaning if you change one light vowel or dot, let alone all of them. The language did not acquire such features until about 200 years later.

Yet Muslims continue to claim the accuracy of the Qur'an and when presented with the above argument, they respond by saying that God said IN THE QUR'AN that he sent us the Qur'an and he will protect it from evil doers. That is what you call circular reasoning.