JehovahsWitness wrote:
Difflugia wrote:Are there any contradictions in the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon, or any other holy work that can't be reconciled even by biblical standards?
I dont know either book well enough to say
I think my favorite weirdness of the Qur'an isn't strictly a contradiction by apologist rules, but is one of the clearest indications that the text isn't divinely inspired. In that sense, it's more like the different deaths of Judas or the the sermons on both the mount and the plain. I like it because it gives the Qur'an a bit of personality.
Muhammad (or whoever the actual author was) confused Mary, the mother of Jesus with Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron. Both are "Maryam" in Arabic, so legends got confused making Jesus the nephew and contemporary of Moses in at least part of the Qur'an.
To me, it makes for an interesting insight into what the writer(s) of at least those particular stories were "going for." I also like it because it's painfully obvious (like the deaths of Judas and sermon locations) that's what happened, but Muslim apologists bend over backwards to claim that it didn't. Here is the commentary for Sūrah 19 (
Maryam), Ayah 28 from
The Study Quran:
That Mary is addressed as sister of Aaron is not, according to commentators, meant to indicate that she was the biological sister of the prophet Aaron, brother of Moses. This would be chronologically impossible, although Mary’s father’s name is ʿImr�n (66:12), as is that of the prophets Moses and Aaron, according to Islamic tradition. Some commentators explain that the name Aaron signified righteousness among the Jews of this time, and so the title sister of Aaron was meant to indicate that Mary was like Aaron in righteousness. Another explanation is that the name Aaron was common among the Israelites and that Mary had a half brother named Aaron. The most widely held view among the commentators is that Mary was a descendant of the prophet Aaron and the title sister of Aaron is meant as a reference to her noble lineage; see also 3:33–34c.