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16 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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Below this tweet I'll be linking all the threads on this account, most of them related to Islam
On Orientalists, claims of parallelism in the Qur'an, and how this this a proof of Prophethood

Regarding the Quran saying that the ahlul kitab took their rabbis/monks as "lords besides Allah"

On the splitting of the moon

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17 Feb
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Islam and the splitting of the moon

This thread is about some errors made in the video and an alternative approach for Muslims, one that is far more effective in my opinion

As mentioned in the video, Rasulallah (ṣallā -llāhu ʿalayhī wa-sallam) had split the moon as a miracle. This is also mentioned in the Qur'an (first few verses of Surah Al-Qamar, the 54th surah).

The video also mentions authentic ahadith from multiple eyewitnesses (companions)
The video moves on to non-Islamic sources from India, namely an account of a Malabar king who saw this event and converted to Islam. This account is actually historically questionable (I will discuss why later on in the thread).
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16 Feb
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"They took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah..." [Qur'an 9:31]

Many scholars mention how this is about taking rulings from them that opposed what Allah revealed. Attached are screens taken from the abridged translation of tafsir Ibn Kathir ImageImage
The famous Rabbi, Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama, quoted in the Talmud as "Rava", is cited as saying that the words of the "sages" (ie, the authoritative rabbis) are more important than the revelation (Torah)!

Rava: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rava_(amo…
Screen source: sefaria.org/Eruvin.21b?lan… Image
Note in the previous tweet, the top part of the screenshot also mentions the sages brought completely new mitzvot as well (ie laws, commands, prohibitions, etc)

The below text from another part of the Talmud also claims "a Sage is greater than a prophet"

sefaria.org/Bava_Batra.12a… Image
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15 Feb
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There are a couple of potential objections disbelievers can make to try and get around this conclusion, but on further examination, these objections do not work. A Short thread

Disclaimer: I do not endorse every claim of parallelism in the chart, some can be disputed
If said claims of parallelism were true, Rasulallah (ṣallā -llāhu ʿalayhī wa-sallam) must have known all these languages & had a library of books if he had made up the Quran

A potential objection is: "But the stories could be orally floating around & not taken from books"
Thus, according to the objection, Rasulallah (ṣallā -llāhu ʿalayhī wa-sallam) did not need to know any other language or have access to any writings, these were just commonly available oral stories

However the Qur'an demonstrates clear language specific knowledge of Hebrew:
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