Muslims believe that the Qur'an contains a message from an all-powerful, all-knowing, infallible being. If this is true then it should not contain any errors, mistakes, or information that contradicts known facts about the universe. If even one error exists in the text of Islam's holy book then the claims of divine authorship and infallibility are not true. An objective evaluation of the Qur’an shows that it contains numerous scientific and historical errors and it reflects a pre-scientific, 7th century view of the natural world.



Mary Confused with Miriam

Each of the following verses narrates the story of Jesus's birth. But Mary the mother of Jesus was born in the first century BCE and is not related to Moses and his family that existed 1500 years before. Miriam, not Mary, was the sister of Moses and Aaron and daughter of Amram (Imran).


Qur'an 19:27-28

At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought! O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"

Qur'an 66:12

And Mary, the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into (her body) of Our spirit;

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Hence the claim that Mary's mother is the wife of Imran is also false.

Qur'an 3:35-36

Behold! a woman of 'Imran said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate unto Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept this of me: For Thou hearest and knowest all things." When she was delivered, she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!"- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected."




Oopsies is allah confused or the author pretending to be allah.

Maybe its all just a misunderstanding and we have got it all wrong.

gizmo_2655 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2015 at 12:22am:


Hmmm so the author is not confused then about who mary was related to then if we use the english how exactly ?

It's the same as Jesus...

"Yeshua (ישוע, with vowel pointing יֵשׁוּעַ – yēšūă‘ in Hebrew) was a common alternative form of the name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ("Yehoshuah" – Joshua) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling Iesous, from which, through the Latin Iesus, comes the English spelling Jesus"

SweetLambo wrote on Feb 21^st, 2015 at 1:07am:


Not entirely (although I do agree that the Quran, and all other 'holy' books were actually written by men). The point is, Miriam is the Hebrew language version of Mary, so if you read the particular book in Arabic or Hebrew, the name will be Miriam, if you read an English translation, it's Mary. The same name, just different text.

Even 'hello' looks different in French, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, Danish etc text than it is in English text...

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1295396564/1#1

wally1 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2015 at 12:40pm:


You clearly didn't, where did I say mary wasn't the same name as miriam and the quran got the name wrong ?

For the simple : The key to the op is its talking about who they are supposed to be related too because the quran has it wrong who the mother of Jesus was. The assumption was the author was confused over miriam and mary due to the relationships stated.