Author: Korede Olawoyin

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hafs and warsh variants

Jun 6 2019

Quranic Variant that Changes the Meaning – Hafs and Warsh

One of the claims of the Muslim for the perfect preservation of the Qur’an is that, since its revelation and down to the compilation, the Qur’an has maintained it pristine position, and that not a word, letter or even jot had changed! In order to validate this, Muslim apologist are quick to verse 9 of the 15th chapter of the Qur’an, which states;

We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption). – Yusuf Ali

Muslim Apologist and exegetes, had in the time past and currently used this verse as an evidence of Allah’s promise to protect the Qur’an from changes (corruption), in form of addition and omission. One of Islam’s most popular and respected tafsir, the tafsir of the Al Jalalayn has this to say on the verse in question;

Verily it is We nahnu emphasises the subject of inna or functions as a separating pronoun Who have revealed the Remembrance the Qur’ān and assuredly We will preserve it against substitution distortion additions and omissions. – Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Interestingly, only few Muslim Apologist makes the claim again due to the manuscripts evidence that are now being discovered from recent examinations and analysis. A good example is the recent publication of Dr. Dan Brubaker on the , you might want to see the book promo here if you haven’t, you might also want to see Dr. Jay Smith’s debate with Mansur Ahmed on this at the speaker’s corner here as well. Finally, if you haven’t bought the book, you could get it on Amazon by clicking on this link.

With that said, we want take a look at another interesting aspect of this subject, namely the readings of the Qur’an. Many Muslims today are faced with the dilemma presented by the various readings of the Qur’an available today, many are even reluctant to call them variant readings, they prefer to call them just readings of the Qur’an. Out of the multiple readings of the Qur’an that exist today, we will only examine and compare that of Hafs and Warsh, the reason being that, these two are the widely used in the Muslim ummah today.

Even though the Hafs is widely used in 90% of the Muslim world today, and the Warsh reading with about 10%, we shall examine a few textual variant between these two readings and see if they change the meaning of not. Many Muslims and Muslim Apologist claim that these readings do not really change the meaning, but are merely complementing to one another, and that the message are exactly these same, the truth is, this claim is completely false. More

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adnan rashid who resembles jesus

May 9 2019

Do the Old Testament Prophets Pray Like Muslims?

In his recent debate with Dr. James White on the topic “Who Resembles Jesus; Muslims or Christians?” Adnan Rashid made a claim that the Islamic prayer mode which is bowing down was the practice of the prophets and that of the patriarchs in the Bible including Jesus. This argument is not new, many Muslims have claim that the Muslim mode of prayer is in the Bible and they quote Bible references to support this claim.

This claim of Adnan is false for obvious reasons. The Prophets in the Bible did indeed fell on their faces to the ground when either praying or worshiping, but that wasn’t the only form they assumed when engaging in this act, and in this article, we shall show forth an evidence for that.

I will also show that Jesus and his disciples did contrary to the claim of Adnan Rashid as well, but before doing that, let us take a look at the verses cited by Adnan for this claim; More

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New Zealand mosque attack suspect

Mar 22 2019

New Zealand Terrorist Attack – My Thoughts

In the wake of the New Zealand terrorist act, I have seen a couple of things in display, and I decided to share my thought here.

First off, let me make it CLEAR that I condemn this act, this person is indeed a terrorist and does not have any justification whatsoever to have killed these precious souls. This is unacceptable and no one is his right mind would be happy with such.

With that said, let me share my observations. I decided to break them down in bits. I will be addressing three (3) groups of people in this article, they are as follows;

– The Angry Muslims

– The Muslim Apologist

– The Hateful Christians

1. Angry Muslims.

The 45 people killed were Muslims and this heinous act was done in the Mosque. Naturally, Muslims are angry about this (and they should rightfully be), no one would be happy when his brother is being slaughtered like this, it is a painful experience. More

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bart ehrman on mark not being jewish

Feb 2 2019

Bart Ehrman is Only Human!

Bart Erhman has become the go-to person for most skeptics and Muslims who are looking for what they think is a reliable source of information on the corruption of the New Testament to engage the Christians with, quotes from his book are used in debating and engaging Christians on this subject.

However, Bart Erhman recently made a post that the author of the Gospel of Mark “almost certainly was not” a Jew, a post he has eventually deleted from this blog, offering an apology for his mistaken and erroneous claim. Deane Galbraith did a good job in pointing out the reason why this was erroneous in his blog post which you can read here

Here is what Bart said on his blog in his apology to his readers;

In response to my post yesterday about whether the author of Mark was a Jew, in which I said no Jew would make the claim that Mark does, in chapter 7, that “all Jews” washed their hands before eating — a claim that is simply not true — a couple of astute blog members have pointed out  that there is another text, certainly written by a Jew, the Letter of Aristeas (about the how the Septuagint — that is, the Greek translation of the Old Testament — came into being), from the first century BCE or earlier, says something very similar about “all Jews” washing their hands.  Hmm….   I’ve only read the Letter of Aristeas about 75 times.  You’d think I would have noticed that.  But alas.

So, for the first time in recorded history, I’m going to cover and atone for my abject shame by removing the post.  Ugh.  Many apologies for the false information, the fake news, and the alternative facts.

What is most interesting about this is what makes the headline of Bart’s new post about his claim, which he retracts when apologizing to his reader, the headline read something like  ‘Don’t Trust What You Read!’ This is exactly how Ehrman worded the heading of his apology to his readers, is that not interesting indeed? More

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