#prohpet

First, this post is out of love. There is so much talk that "all roads lead to God", while my opinion may be unpopular, Jesus is the only way to salvation. Here are a few reasons why I cannot accept Islam as truth. (If it is the word of God, it should be completely true and have no contradictions....)

According to the Quran (Surah 9:30) the Jews believe that Ezra is the Son of God - the Messiah. (not historically or religiously accurate)

According to the Quran (Surah 19:28, 3:33-36), Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the daughter of Imran or Amram, the father of Moses and Aaron. Mary is also said to be the sister of Moses and Aaron. Clearly, Muhammad confused Mary with Miriam.

A second interesting point about Mary is the story of the date palm speaking and offering its fruit to her (Surah 19:23). This legend is easily traced to similar legends found in the apocryphal "Protoevangelium of James" the "Pseudo-Matthew" and "the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary" all of which have been dated to the fourth to sixth centuries, and were again believed by the sects found in Arabia. 

According to the Quran (Surah 20:90-100) A Samaritan helped the Israelites build the golden calf, and it mooed after coming out of the fire. In reality, Samaritans did not exist as a people until at least 1000 years after the time of the Moses and the Israelite exodus from Egypt.

In the Koran, Abraham lived in a land ruled by King Nimrod.  In the story (Sura 21:58-69), Abraham destroys the idols of his people, and as a result, is thrown into a fire by Nimrod.  However, Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah and the founder of the cities of Babylon and Nineveh (Genesis 10:8-11), but Abraham was nine generations separated from Noah (Genesis 11:10-27) and came from Ur of the Chaldees.  How could Nimrod (a man who had been dead for many years) throw Abraham (a man who had not even been born yet) into a fire?

In multiple places in the Koran (Suras 28:35-42, 40:36-37), there is a story where Pharaoh orders his minister, Haman, to build a tower reaching to heaven so that Pharaoh can “look upon Moses’ God” (Sura 40:37).  However, there are numerous problems with this story.

First, Haman was the minister of the Persian king, Ahasuerus (i.e. Xerxes I), who lived many centuries after the incident with Moses and Pharoah.  Not only does the Koran have Haman in the wrong time period but also in the wrong place.

Second, the tower that Pharaoh had built to “look upon Moses’ God” (Sura 40:37) was undoubtedly the Tower of Babel (see Genesis 11:1-9 and compare Sura 28:38 with Genesis 11:3). However, the event of the failed building of the Tower of Babel took place at least 400 years before Moses and Pharaoh, and furthermore, it took place in Babylon, not Egypt. Indeed, the reason that Babylon is called Babylon is because it is Akkadian for “gateway to a god” (i.e. the Hebrew for Babylon is “Babel”), an obvious reference to the attempt made by its inhabitants to build the tower. So, even if it is argued by the Muslim that the Bible was corrupted, then there is still incontrovertible evidence (from the name of the city) that the event took place in Mesopotamia and not Egypt, contrary to the Koran.

The Quran claims that one night, God took Muhammad to the "al-Aqsa" mosque is in Jerusalem: "Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing." - Quran 17:1

The Muslim army conquered Jerusalem in 637 AD and the al-Aqsa mosque was completed in 705 AD. The problem with the above passage in the Quran, is that Muhammad died in 632 AD, which was 5 years before the Muslim army reached Jerusalem and 73 years before the al-Aqsa mosque was built.

4: 78, 79.  Verse 78 says that all actions good or evil come from God while the verse 79 says that good comes from God while evil comes from humans, an obvious contradiction.

37:139-145 Jonah ( Younis) was ejected from the belly of the whale, while in 68:48-49 Jonah was not ejected. Which is it ejected or not ejected?

Was Pharaoh killed or not killed by drowning? (10:90-92), (17:102-103)

What was man created from, blood, clay, dust, or nothing? (96:2), (15:26), (16:4)