Abdullah Sameer

أَلَا يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted? (67:14)

Responding to the Odd/Even Math Miracle of the Quran

Abdullah Sameer

One of the claims regarding the Quran is there is a checksum on it.

What is a checksum?  Well it’s an integrity check, a way for an author to sign or “seal the envelope” in order to indicate that the message has not been tampered with. A very simple checksum would be for example if I put the total word count at the bottom of this article.  When you get to the bottom you can see if the number matches the words in this article and you can confirm its correct.  However this wouldn’t be very tamper proof as you could change all of the words and maintain the same number in order to still pass the checksum. A better checksum would be to assign each letter a value (A is 1, B is 2 and so on) and then put the total at the end.  This would be better, but it’s still very weak as someone could tamper with it as long as they kept the same number of letter uses the same it would still pass the checksum.  Nevertheless the point should be clear.

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The so-called mathematical miracle of the Quran

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Some people claim there are mathematical miracles to the Quran in terms of number of times words appear to be the same.   This is such a weak argument. It was never used historically and is has several problems.

Just because you find some patterns in the book does not mean it had a divine author.  Can we find these same patterns in other books?  Yes!  There are such coincidences as written here about Moby Dick).  If anyone actually spent the time to count the words you would see it’s really a case of cherrypicking and stretching the data to fit the narrative.

Not just that, all these “miracles” depend on a very specific reading of the Quran which is the Hafs en Asem.  If you read the Warsh or any other variant these counts would be totally different!

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Why I left Islam – Core Issues

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These are not why I left Islam.  They are reflections after leaving Islam.  Keep in mind that even if I was completely wrong about every single one of these, it would not make me come back to Islam.  As a Secular Humanist, I find these to be troubling issues we find and they seem to show that Allah is not the intelligent supreme being that sent us a beautiful wise religion but rather a 7th century invention with barbaric rules and orders that matched that early era but do not belong in today’s world.

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