Hi there,
Your reply goes quite a bit off topic regarding what l was trying to say - which was about pure divine revelation, versus human accretion. You go into particulars about the revelation, and also separately about power politics in the shadow of revelation.
I shall quickly reply though:
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The verse does not assume the Prophet knew how to apply the law of Moses, in fact the Qur’an explains in various places that the Prophet was not taught such that he composed the Qur’an himself. This is the disjointed narrative of the debunker who will, always, debunk. To the debunker: the Prophet must have spoken to a fisherman, and pearl diver, to know the particulars of high waves at sea, and the darkness at the depths. He received emissaries from the meat industry or medical community, to learn about developmental biology, and the production of semen, the origin of bee’s honey, and so forth. He added a few cryptic verses about the Speed of Light without explaining the Speed of Light was encoded, because well, for the giggles. It was all guesswork though, a fair guess and it turned out fairly correct actually (spot on actually). Then of course he deftly dodged assassins or somehow persuaded them not to kill him. Confronted with enemies he said “wooo l’m scary, be scared”. They were scared and thus were defeated. He saw Jews, naturally got jelly, they said they were Chosen but waaaahhhh i wanna b chosen 2. So he said let’s be friends. They said no. He made a cry-cry and then separated. Or was it with Catholics? I heard he was a Catholic. But anyway. He also added stuff correcting the Bible, and never repeated mistakes (cough cough metal skydome, cough cough some guy sodomising his own dad, cough cough some guy making it with his 2 daughters in a cave and amazingly getting them both pregnant successfully and then the 50 shekels rape-for-marriage contract etc. he left all that out. oh Wait what was the subject. I forgot. Listen, your Copycat Hypothesis, that the Prophet Muhammad copied Judaeo-Xtianity, is disjointed, forced, and defamatory. By all means say what you will, but you really need to have serious evidence. Not begging the question, having the conclusion first and then working backwards. That is exactly how Christians today are mysteriously concluding that the Prophet / Islam / Muslims are the antichrist, because, well, they are, they have to be, so you know … they just are.
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The Qur’an did not revise or correct the Law of Moses, in one or two places it reminds us what the Law of Moses stated, that’s pretty much all the Qur’an does. The Qur’an is a new revelation, in a completely new format from what l can tell, unless the Psalms could be considered similar. You even admit this in the same breath re: Karen Armstrong.
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You then explain ways in which Judaism degenerated from the original Revelation, to explain that my explaining that original Revelations degenerated into unsanctioned private enterprises, doesn’t ring true. This is surely self contradiction. Let me also remind you that Judaism degenerated into many different forms besides Pharisees. I know also of: Sadducees, Herodians, Zealots (inc. Sicari). Unsure where to place Essenes but l think they were also equally a heading.
The Temple is central to Judaism but l’m sure you would differ and l’m unsure it matters here.
The ass bearing a load of books could also mean the books were the Torah, but then l don’t want to directly attack people bearing the Torah. I wanted to attack the human accretions solely, thus l wanted to highlight libraries of irrelevant nitpicking discourse born by pack mules rather than link Torah to an ass. That was out of deference and also, each verse of the Qur’an could have multiple meanings. I carefully stated “I feel…” not that l was laying down the sole interpretation.
You may have carefully researched and found that ancient generations didn’t speak of Rabban / Rabbins. However, my Monotheism-First theory would have predicted that anyway. Because Rabban / Rabbin means “Lord”, and that is either forbidden or shaky ground to call another human that, except perhaps if they are a feudal lord perhaps?
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The Prophet’s views on Jews didn’t change noticeably in any way l’m aware of. That’s the revisionist debunkery again, see above re: Prophet supposedly getting jelly of chosen people status, and so going his own way when they refused to cut him some kind of deal. This is a naive thought process and you’d be better to drop it or at least, for goodness’s sake, procure evidence or, well, proof. I know you won’t because you can’t. The Qur’an has fairly large tracts abrogated. Did you know that? You’ll now say you do. But l don’t think you’re aware how much was abrogated and indeed, erased. Actually erased. What is left? Open the Qur’an at any point, the cances are you’ll read something about Moses, Abraham, Lot, King David, Joseph. Most likely Moses. If the Prophet were just jelly and had a hissy fit after somehow being rejected over licensing of a chosen people meme (which we affirm by the way - that the House of Israel was indeed Chosen, but failed, but still, the Jews are key to the End of Times, where it will ultimately be Christ the Hebrew, vs. Antichrist the Hebrew) then why oh why didn’t he clear out all the stuff praising Hebrew prophets? There were many non-Hebrew prophets also in the Qur’an, some not even in the Bible. We had enough to go by, so why keep Jews / Hebrews in the Qur’an if it was all made up by a man who got jelly of Jews? Please my friend, leave it for the debate, take me on in an official debate.
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Re: equal rights so long as Jews remained politically supportive - what does that even mean? The deal was that those allied with the Muslims would not attack the Muslims in their own state, that is treason, then as now. No matter which country you’re in. If you read teenage / gangster power politics into that, then you’re saying treason is a lifestyle choice that triggers some guys into jealousy that you don’t wanna be their friends no more. Facepalm.
