Cassendur Mus’s Reviews > A Concise Guide to the Quran (): Answering Thirty Critical Questions > Status Update

Q 3:47: “ God created what He wills.”
Q 3:49: “I (Jesus) will create for you out of clay as the likeness of a bird.”

“For instance, if the Arabic Quran describes Jesus as ‘creating’ a bird from the clay, how will the translators deal with the verb ‘to create,’ as it presumably assigns divine attributes to Jesus?” (Pg. 70)

Aisha, Mohammed’s wife, admits a missing verse in the Quran.

د محمد میرمن عایشه په قرآن کریم کې د یو آیت ورکیدل مني.

“The verse of stoning and of breastfeeding an adult ten times was revealed, and the paper was with me under my pillow. When the Messenger of Allah died, we are preoccupied with his death, and a tame sheep came in and ate it.” (Pg. 45)

There are different versions of the Quran. This Quran was not perfectly translated.
د قرآن کریم مختلف نسخې شته. دا قرآن کریم په بشپړ ډول نه دی ژباړل شوی.

“Hafs and Warsh contain major differences in crucial words. Al-Shaiban also notes that Q 3:146 reads ‘fought’ in the Hafs version and ‘were killed’ in the Warsh. (Pg. 57)

“The first explicit reference to Muhammed in a non-Muslim source dating precisely to Friday, February 7, 634. This reference is attributed to Thomas the Presbyterian, a seventh-century Middle Eastern Christian: “There was a battle between Romans and the Arabs of Muhammed.” (Pg. 19)

“Because the Quran is not written in modern Arabic, the Classical Arabic of the book is not easy to understand - even for many Arabs.” (Pg. 6)