Is Muhammad the Best Interpreter of the Quran? $2500 says NO! (2500 sub contest)
Channel: Reasoned Answers
Date: 2020-05-30

Muslims claim that Muhammad is the best interpreter.  However, in practice, they often ignore his alleged words and come up with their interpretations of the Quran. I examine an obvious Quranic error, show why both the common explanation and Muhamamd's explanation fail, and challenge anyone to prove Muhammad's explanation is historically plausible.  $2500 says no one can do it - see the pinned comment for full contest rules.

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Sources cited:
Joseph Islam / Quran's Message: http://quransmessage.com/articles/mary%20sister%20of%20aaron%20FM3.htm

Surah 3:35-36 (Arberry): When the wife of Imran said, "Lord, I have vowed to Thee, in dedication, what is within my womb. Receive Thou this from me; Thou hearest, and knowest."  And when she gave birth to her she said, "Lord, I have given birth to her, a female." (And God knew very well what she had given birth to; the male is not as the female.) "And I have named her Mary, and commend her to Thee with her seed, to protect them from the accursed Satan."

Surah 3:45-47 (Arberry): When the angels said, "Mary, God gives thee good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary; high honoured shall he be in this world and the next, near stationed to God. He shall speak to men in the cradle, and of age, and righteous he shall be." "Lord," said Mary, "how shall I have a son seeing no mortal has touched me?" "Even so," God said, "God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing He does but say to it 'Be,' and it is."

Surah 19:27-28 (Arberry): Then she brought the child [Jesus] to her folk carrying him; and they said, "Mary, thou hast surely committed a monstrous thing! Sister of Aaron, thy father was not a wicked man, nor was thy mother a woman unchaste."

Surah 66:12 (Arberry): And Mary, Imran's daughter, who guarded her virginity, so We breathed into her of Our Spirit, and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and His Books, and became one of the obedient.

Exodus 6:20 (ESV): Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. 

Exodus 15:20 (ESV): Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.

Sahih al-Bukhari 3769: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Many amongst men attained perfection but amongst women none attained the perfection except Mary, the daughter of `Imran and Asiya, the wife of Pharaoh. And the superiority of `Aisha to other women is like the superiority of Tharid (i.e. an Arabic dish) to other meals.

Sahih Muslim 165 b: Ibn Abbas, the son of your Prophet's uncle, told us that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had observed: On the night of my night journey I passed by Moses b. 'Imran (peace be upon him), a man light brown in complexion, tall. well-built as if he was one of the men of the Shanu'a... 

Sahih Muslim 2135: Mughira ibn Shu’ba reported: When I came to Najran, the Christian monks asked me, “You recite the verse, ‘O sister of Aaron,’ but Moses was born long before Jesus by many years.” When I came back to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, I asked him about it and he said, “Verily, they would name people with the names of prophets and righteous people who had passed before them.”

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Part 1, Palestine 330 BCE-200 CE, by Tal Ilan , 2002. ISBN 3161476468.

Islamic Awareness: https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/contrad/external/mary


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