Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Contradictions Muslims Saw — and the Ones They Refused to See

How Early Muslims Confronted Some Problems But Missed the Fatal Ones


🔍 Introduction: The Selective Vision of a Theological System

Every religion must wrestle with its own internal inconsistencies. Islam is no exception. From its earliest days, Muslims have been quick to identify contradictions in the Jewish and Christian traditions—real or perceived. They argued that Jews altered the Torah, and Christians corrupted the Gospel, inserted the Trinity, deified a man, and so on.

But what if, in doing so, they blinded themselves to contradictions in their own house?
What if the very contradictions they accused others of were mirrored—if not magnified—within their own scripture?

This post uncovers the glaring theological and logical contradictions in the Qur’an and Islamic doctrine that many Muslims—then and now—refuse to see.


1. 🔁 Affirming and Denying the Same Scriptures

Muslims are taught the Qur’an confirms the scriptures that came before:

  • "It is He who sent down the Torah and the Gospel... as guidance for the people." (Q 3:3–4)

  • "Let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein." (Q 5:47)

But they are also taught that the Bible is corrupted.

This is not a subtle contradiction. It is a fatal inconsistency:

AffirmationDenial
The Qur’an confirms the Torah and GospelMuslims say the Bible was changed
The Qur’an commands Jews/Christians to follow their booksMuslims claim those books no longer exist in pure form
The Qur’an uses the Bible as evidenceMuslims say the Bible is unreliable

Early Muslims like Ibn Abbas and even Muhammad himself never accused the Bible of being textually corrupted. That idea came centuries later, when contradictions became too blatant to ignore.

So instead of facing the contradiction, later Muslims chose evasion:

“Those weren’t the real scriptures.”

A convenient claim—unsupported by history and unjustified by the Qur’an itself.


2. 🧱 The Injil Dilemma: A Revelation No One Ever Saw

The Qur’an speaks of the Injil (Gospel) given to Jesus. But it never tells us what it contains, how long it was, or where it went. Muslims are taught that:

  • The original Gospel has been lost

  • The New Testament is a fabrication

  • The "real" Gospel confirmed Islam

But let’s ask:

Where is this Gospel?
Why did no Christian ever read it?
Why is there no manuscript, no quotation, no trace?

Muslims quickly accuse Christians of inserting the Trinity and Paul of distorting the message. But when confronted with the total absence of their alleged "original Injil", they say:

“It was lost.”

Here’s the contradiction:

  • If it was lost, the Qur’an has no authority in affirming it

  • If it existed, then Islam is false—because that Gospel denies Islam’s theology

They saw the contradiction in the New Testament, but refused to see the ghost Injil their faith demands.


3. 🧍‍♂️ The Prophethood of Muhammad: Claimed but Unverifiable

Muslims are told the Bible predicts Muhammad:

  • “Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel…” (Q 7:157)

Yet no Jewish or Christian text remotely resembles a prophecy about Muhammad. Muslims have:

  • Allegorized Song of Songs

  • Mistranslated Deuteronomy 18

  • Twisted John 14–16 to make the Paraclete into Muhammad

And when confronted with the total lack of messianic or prophetic expectation for a figure like Muhammad in any Jewish or Christian literature, they respond:

“The predictions were removed.”

Another contradiction:

  • If the Qur’an says the Torah and Gospel contain Muhammad’s prediction (7th century)

  • But Muslims say those books were corrupted before Muhammad

  • Then the Qur’an is wrong—those books didn't contain the prophecy

  • Or the Muslim claim is false—and the books were not corrupted

Either way, Muslims refuse to face the contradiction.


4. ⚖️ Sharia: Claimed Perfection, Historical Failure

Muslims claim that Sharia is divine law, perfect and just. Yet history reveals:

  • Inconsistent application across empires

  • Brutal punishments and social stratification

  • Discriminatory treatment of women and non-Muslims

  • No successful model of sustained Sharia-based governance

When modern Muslims are asked to reapply Sharia, they either:

  • Modify it (thus admitting it's fallible and adaptable), or

  • Impose it by force (Taliban, ISIS, Iran)

The contradiction?

  • A “perfect law” that cannot be implemented without injustice or tyranny

  • A “divine system” that fails wherever it is tried in full

They criticize secular liberalism’s flaws, but ignore the historical bankruptcy of Sharia governance.


5. 🧠 The Logic vs Faith Split: The Double Standard

Muslims love to say Islam is the “religion of reason.” They cite the Qur’an's frequent appeals to “ponder,” “reflect,” and “use your intellect.”

But when Qur’anic contradictions or irrational doctrines are exposed, the answer becomes:

“You must have faith.”

This is cognitive dissonance:

  • Reason is invoked to prove Islam

  • But banned when it threatens Islam

For example:

  • God is One, yet His speech (the Qur’an) is uncreated and eternal → two eternals?

  • Muhammad is a prophet, yet he never performed miracles recorded in reliable hadith—just legends?

  • God is just, yet He pre-ordains disbelief for many (Q 10:100, Q 6:125)

These contradictions are swept aside with fideism.
Faith becomes a shield against reason, when it should be tested by it.


🚨 The Core Contradiction: Affirming While Denying

Islam’s greatest contradiction is existential:

It affirms the authority of prior revelations while rejecting their core doctrines.

This is not a minor tension—it is a complete theological collapse.

  • Islam says it confirms the previous scriptures

  • The previous scriptures say Jesus is Lord, crucified, risen, and returning

  • Islam says He was not crucified, not divine, and not the Son of God

So either:

  • The scriptures are true, and Islam is false

  • Or the scriptures are false, and Islam lied when it confirmed them

Muslims see contradictions in others’ theology.
But this contradiction, they refuse to acknowledge.


🧯 Conclusion: The House Built on Blindness

Islam survives by selective vision:

  • Highlighting others’ errors

  • Excusing its own contradictions

  • Inventing historical fictions (a lost Injil, corrupted Torah)

  • Using “faith” to patch over fatal logical flaws

But truth fears no examination.
And a system that cannot withstand internal scrutiny is not a revelation from God—it’s a human construct held together by dogma and denial.

The greatest contradiction Muslims ever faced
Was the one staring at them in their own scripture.

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