Headings
Introduction: Discerning the Miraculous from the Daemonic
Demonic intelligence and knowledge is far greater than our own and older…much older. Daemons are very easily able to give the appearance of the miraculous. All this is predicted in the Bible and warned against explicitly in verses like: “For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:12).
I constantly see things in Islam that are touted as “miraculous” and I’m thinking “well, that’s a piece of cake for a daemon!”. Daemons can see in dimensions that we cannot and in modes that we cannot because they are spiritual creatures. We see “predictions” from mystics all the time, even today. These are not miraculous, rather merely the daemons making “educated guesses”.
It is useful in appreciating the knowledge of angels to know what is the difference between “discursive” knowledge and “intuitive” knowledge. We gain knowledge in a deductive manner by going from premises to conclusions, or from data to theories and so forth. This is in accordance with our temporal natures and because we gain knowledge through our sense perception. Thus in humans knowledge increases in an exponential manner throughout life. This means that at any given period of life his knowledge is always deficient, because a person’s knowledge is always less than he will know at a later stage.
Angels do not have sense perception, because they do not possess physical bodies at all, they are spiritual creatures. God infuses them with all the knowledge that they will ever have at the very moment of their creation (this is also the reason why Satan is irreversibly condemned to Hell with no concept of repentance at his first rejection of God).
This knowledge unlike that of humans is not discursive, rather it is able to grasp at once both the premises and the conclusion. In other words, there is no “learning curve” in the spiritual realm.
I’m not an exorcist by any means, but I will give a couple of examples how even Christians have been fooled by demoniacs and I have been able to help in discernment:
1. A lady I know once said to me that a long time ago, a diviner was able to tell that she would contract a “chronic disease”, and that this was before they had any signs or symptoms. Years later she found out she had contracted the HIV virus. This made the person believe that demons knew the future. This lady is a practicing and devout Christian herself.
I was able to explain to this lady that it is nothing for a demon to know that she has slept with a person who has HIV. Even if that person she slept with was himself not aware of his illness, it is nothing for a demon to be able to detect the virus in the person.
The demons can do with their spiritual vision, what man requires laboratories and microscopes to do. It can detect the cells and chemicals in your body. It can detect the disease before your body gets the disease by detecting even the presence of one virus in your blood.
These creatures are not bound by physical barriers, Their only limits are those that God sets for them. Think of the scariest thing that you have ever seen in a movie, and you would not even begin to address the malice of these creatures.
Lucifer was one of God’s highest angels. Think about that, Lucifer is the highest intelligence that God bestowed upon a creature. How great is that intelligence likely to be?
2. Just one more example, people might receive predictions of weather from mystics, knowledge of upcoming earthquakes, tsunamis and so on. Again this is possible for a daemon to predict is exactly the same manner in which a weather report predicts weather, but considerably more efficient, for the same reason of enhanced spiritual sight and demonic intelligence obviates the need for instruments and measuring and monitoring equipment like satellites. A demon could go to the centre of the earth should it wish and see the developing faults and pressure build ups in the crust.
There are many more such examples it is possible to give, but many more that it is not possible for us even to understand, the myriad ways in which the devil might trick us. If the point of religion is to Go to Heaven and avoid being deceived and go to Hell, then it is the function of religion to discern between the divine and the satanic. This discernment is not straightforward, and the arrogant and proud will certainly stumble right into it. As G K Chesterton once said, “humility is the only thing that is not susceptible to plagiarism” (slight paraphrase). It is only love that has no counterfeit, and the love that is to death that carries with it the certainty of not having been counterfeited. True prophecies are not the prediction of physical events the divinity of which is always questionable and neither is this the nature of the truly miraculous. In the immortal words of Al Pacino in the Devil’s Advocate, “the Devil’s greatest trick was to make people believe that he didn’t exist”. In the Qur’an the trick is to make people believe that he is unintelligent, even backward. That makes his job easy, because it means people are easily impressed. God bless you all. True Love is the only genuine and impenetrable defence against the Dark Arts.
A Literary miracle?
The importance of the supposed “literary miracle” of the Qur’an is this- it’s the only objective intellectual challege the Qur’anic author seems to offer for skeptics. But while it’s clearly offered as a challenge in more than one place, it is exceptionally hard to discern just what the challenge really is. Clearly, the author is quite pleased at their literary prowess, but it might not immediately be evident to modern audiences why this. For example, we can discount, on the authhority of the Qur’anic author themselves, that the challenge is not related to beauty in the poetry:
“We have not taught him poetry; it is not seemly for him. It is only a Remembrance and a Clear Koran…” (Q 36:69)
Expanding Universe?
This is a diagram of how the ancients conceptualized the cosmos, and there are similar beliefs across several cultures, the classical “flat earth” cosmos, which forms the context in which the Bible Creation account is given 2 millennia past:
H1, H2, H3… are three Heavens. From this diagram, it is one possible to see what is meant by: “the vault of the sky separated the waters from the waters”, and the sky was “stretched out like a canopy” over the Earth. Thus the Biblical verses:
Psalm 104:2 “The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent”
Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
The Qur’anic verse 51:47 gets referred to by Islamic apologists as representing the expanding universe model. However on analysis, I am drawn to see it merely as the manner of speaking that was prevalent in ancient cosmology. The translations that use “expanding it” only seem to crop up after the scientific proposal is put forward.
Word study:
Here is the verse:
“And heaven — We built it with might, and We extend it wide.” (Q 51:47)
The Arabic is lamūsiʿūna (لَمُوسِعُونَ) is the nominative masculine plural (form IV) active participle (the “m” usually indcates participial usage). The lam is an intensifier, the m is a participial prefix, then you have the root, and the una ending is the person which is first person plural, so extending refers back to the subject of the sentence we which is first person plural (participle agrees with the subject).
So the literal translation using an active participle would be “we constructed the heavens with strength, indeed extending it”. “Extending” conveys magnitude “we made it so big”, in line with the Biblical usage, and would be the obvious candidate for the translation, just as a king extends his kingdom, or a tall building “extends to the skies”. “Expanding” on the other hand assumes a specific cosmological connotation, with expanding space. A building extending to the skies or a king extending his kingdom, does not denote an expanding building or kingdom. Those are two different things.
If we study the use of the word in the Qur’an itself (triliteral root و س ع), this is the only time that the word is used in this form or even with this implication. The root actually indicates vastness, or spaciousness, from which the verb form is derived. 9 times the same root is used for Allah himself, where the translation is “All-Encompassing” (wasi’un- وَاسِعٌ: Allah can hardly be called “Expanding”!), and other occurences as Wasi’a- or wasi’atan- spacious/ vast (10 occ.), sa’atan – abundance (6 occ.), wus’aha0 capacity (5 occ.), l-musi’i- the wealthy (1 occ.,- 2:236).
The obvious implication from the word study is that the triliteral root has the signification of vastness, and therefore the only participial usage found in the Qur’an would have the implication of making something vast.
in fact the very next verse (48) is “and the Earth we spread (farshnaha) it, how excellent its spreaders (l-muhiduna)!”. Here we have a word “spread” with two different Arabic words and once more, a difficult translation in the Quran, because once again the usage in this sense is only once in the former and twice in the latter. We’ll leave this discussion here for the reader to consider.
English translations and their evolution:
English Translations of Verse 51:47 prior or around the time of Edwin Hubble’s discovery in the 1930’s of an expanding universe:
“…With power and skill did we construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of space…. “ (Yusufali)
“…And the heaven, we raised it high with power, and most surely we are the makers of things ample.… “(Shakir)
(Pickthall): we have built the heaven with might, and we it is who make the vast extent (thereof).
(Dawood): “we built the Heaven with our might, giving it a vast expanse, and stretched the Earth beneath it”
Late twentieth century translations of the same verse, after Hubble’s discovery:
Shabbir Ahmed: “And it is We Who have built the Universe, and behold, we are steadily expanding it.”
Khalifah: “We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.”
Finally these two versions remain reasonably neutral, and are respected Qur’an translations:
Hilali/Khan: “With power did we construct the heaven. Verily, we are Able to extend the vastness of space thereof.”
Asberry: “And heaven — We built it with might, and we extend it wide.”
Summary: The claim of knowledge of the expanding universe is no more than an allusion to the vastness of the creation. In any case this “stretching” is also seen in Psalm 104:2 and Job 9:8 many centuries before the Qur’an.
Big Bang cosmology?
Muslims will make a loose allusion of the following verse to the Big Bang cosmological model:
“Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then we separated them? And We have made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?” (Quran 21:30)
This is quite similar to the Bible cosmology. We can see here that all is initially water, and then the dome, by appearing “in the midst of the waters” effects the separation:
“In the beginning (…) the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Heaven” (“sky” and “heaven” are the same Hebrew word)..”.
An initial unity which is the “formless void” (seemingly a watery void), is “separated” into heaven and earth. All this sounds very Biblical especially when the very next line has the Biblical theme of water in it too.
Summary: All this sounds very Biblical. I can concede that although it is quite vague “heavens and earth were one thing and we separated them” does not contradict the Big Bang at face value.
Moon’s reflected Light?
“Blessed be He who has set in heaven constellations, and has set among them a lamp, and an illuminating moon” (Q 25:61)
“waqamaran muniran”. Muniran is “shining” or “illunimating”, it is from “nur” which is “light”. SO there is nothing about reflected light. Sun looks like a ball of fire anyway, so he called it “lamp”. The verse does not display any understanding about a reflected light.
Protection of Ozone Layer?
The verses purported to describe this protective action do nothing of the sort. It says that it is in fact the sky that is guarded, ostensibly from falling down, as it sometimes does to disastrous effect, as given elsewhere. Remember the ancient cosmology did view the sky as a sort of covering as we already saw and in the diagram.
Surah 21:32 “And we have made the sky a roof withheld (from them). Yet they turn away from its portents.”
Iron is from Outer Space Prophecy?
“And we also sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses for mankind…” (Quran 57:25)
Muslim apologists claim the verse shows that Muhammed had “divine” knowledge that surface iron arrived on earth in meteorites. This is a modern theory, not fully confirmed, but considered likely, the theory that most of our surface metals came to earth in meteor showers 200 million years ago. This is because at the formation of the Earth, all the iron sunk to the centre and formed the core, along with most other precious metals like gold, platinum, tungsten, where it is completely inaccessible to humans. This is not just about iron but all the metals related to modern industry. Here is an article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-earths-precious-metals
However it is completely unnecessary to assume that Mohammed is speaking of this pre-historic meteorite bombardment of the planer. Rather, prior to the discovery of the smelting process which is required to harness iron from ore, the only iron available for tools/ weapons was not from ancient meteorites, but from found meteorites. Large scale production of iron through smelting is found from 1200BC onwards, at the end of the Bronze Age (This is because iron smelting requires higher temperature furnaces than bronze)
The stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi is a meteorite and was said to have been thrown down by the God Zeus to Earth. Reportedly many other Greek and Roman temples enshrined rocks that had “fallen from the heavens”.
“Meteor Beliefs Project: meteorite worship in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds” McBeath, A. & Gheorghe, A. D. Journal of the International Meteor Organization, vol. 33, no. 5, p. 135-144. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JIMO…33..135M
This details various meteorites that were worshipped in Greek and Roman temples and there certainly seems to be stories of these stones falling out of the sky, in fact surely it is the fact of these meteorites falling out the sky and lying regally in huge craters itself that gave these stones their venerated status.
The cult in the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, possibly originated with the observation and recovery of a meteorite that was understood by contemporaries to have fallen to the earth from Jupiter, the principal Roman deity. There are reports that a sacred stone was enshrined at the temple that may have been a meteorite.
Quoting from http://www.meteorite.fr/en/basics/history.htm
“…several Native American tribes venerated pieces and fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, a giant iron meteorite that excavated Arizona’s famous Meteor Crater upon its impact about 50,000 years ago. Archaeological finds throughout the United States and Mexico, proved that Canyon Diablo fragments had been traded briskly centuries before Columbus reached the shores of the New World. The Winona meteorite was found in a stone cist in the prehistoric Elden pueblo, Arizona, in 1928. The circumstances of the find suggest that the builders of the pueblo had kept the meteorite as a sacred object after actually witnessing its fall. The tribes of the Clackamas in Oregon claim that they once worshiped the Willamette meteorite, one of the largest irons known, weighing about 15 tons. Prior to their hunting trips, the Clackamas dipped the heads of their arrows and lances into the water that had gathered in the large cavities of the iron – they were convinced that this ritual would harden their weapons and grant them success in their hunt.
Native tribes throughout the world venerated meteorites, and similar stories have been told from Greenland, Tibet, India, Mongolia, and Australia. Pure iron has always been rare and so there is little wonder that iron meteorites were especially coveted by ancient civilizations as raw material for cultic knives and weapons in times prior to the Iron Age. Such knives and daggers have been recovered from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, from Mesopotamian sanctuaries, and from the graves of the leaders of the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca, in both Americas.”
Conclusion: Iron meteorites are present in abundance, Mohammed merely required to deduce that these falling meteorites was the source of all iron, which in fact is likely to be true, but from meteorites that fell in prehistory. It would have been impressive if Mohammed had said “this iron you use for your weapons, we had sent down even before Adam was created”, but he did not, he merely said “this iron you use, we sent it down…”. One must be careful about prophecies like these in any case, none of this information is beyond the reach of demons who are older than the Earth, and witness to all these cosmic and geological events.
History- Fate of Pharaoh Prophesied?
In Sura 10:92, Allah speaks to Pharaoh who ferociously chased the Children of Israel, “But this day We save you in your body, that you may be a portent(sign)for those after you.” Although this verse makes it clear that Allah saved Pharaoh from drowning, Suras 10:90 (just two verses prior), 28:40, 17:103, and 43:55 state that Pharaoh was drowned: “Therefore We seized him and his hosts and abandoned them unto the sea … But We drowned him and those with him, all together … And [We] drowned them, everyone.”
Muslims today seem to take this to be a prophetic miracle that Pharaoh’s body would be mummified. This seems strange because embalming was a common practise, and perfectly non-miraculous. Tomb raiding is an ancient criminal occupation, ever since the time of the Egyptians. There have been embalming practices in several other ancient cultures and preserved bodies, some through natural mummification have been found on every single continent. So for Mohammed to say “we save thee in thy body” even were he referring to mummification, would not be prescient For example if I composed a poem about ancient Egypt and said “and God will save this Pharaoh in his body”, no one is going to credit me with prescience two hundred years later. interest in the study of mummies dates as far back as Ptolemaic Greece, most structured scientific study began at the beginning of the 20th century. Prior to this, many rediscovered mummies were sold as curiosities or for use in pseudoscientific novelties such as mummia. The first modern scientific examinations of mummies began in 1901, conducted by professors at the English-language Government School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt.
Supposedly Pharaoh has a intra-oceanic conversion, his conversion occurs simultaneously with the process of suffocation. This itself sounds unlikely. But on top of that Allah chooses not to reward him by saving him, rather through mummifying him, something that Egyptians and many others did to their dead anyway. It is hard to see this as a reward or miracle. I have seen somewhere it was mentioned that there was traces of sea salt in the mummy. This again seems hardly surprising even if true, because salt is used as a preservative anyway.
Finally we cannot discount the presence of the demonic in many miracles of apparent prescience. These are not “predictions” because they are past events. It is entirely possible for the information to be circulated, and also in the spiritual realm, demons have access to knowledge that men cannot have access to. True miracles are those in the order of Jesus’, the command of the elements, healing and the gift of life, and true prophecy, of the order that it is in the Bible. The mummy of Ramesses II was 90 years old and suffering from several diseases of old age which could have killed him individually at the age of 90 which is when he died.
Lying Centre in Brain?
Surah 96:15,16 “Nay, but if he cease not We will seize him by the forelock. The lying, sinful forelock”
I bring this up because I have seen it come up as a miracle. A “scientist” is pictured live as stating that the cingulate gyrus in experiment it has been shown that when it is damaged in human subjects, they are not able to lie very well and therefore it is the centre of lying ability. That scientist then states that this gyrus is situated “on your forehead, just above the hairline. It can be seen that this is not the case all. Enough said.
The Internal Waves?
Internal waves (waves at the density boundary layer) are often produced by the Strait. Like traffic merging on a highway, the water flow is constricted in both directions because it must pass over the Camarinal Sill. When large tidal flows enter the Strait and the high tide relaxes, internal waves are generated at the Camarinal Sill and proceed eastwards. Even though the waves may occur down to great depths, occasionally the waves are almost imperceptible at the surface, at other times they can be seen clearly in satellite imagery. These internal waves continue to flow eastward and to refract around coastal features. They can sometimes be traced for as much as 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi), and sometimes create interference patterns with refracted waves.
“But those who disbelieved – (…) [they are] like darknesses within an unfathomable sea which is covered by waves, upon which are waves, over which are clouds – darknesses, some of them upon others. When one puts out his hand [therein], he can hardly see it. And he to whom Allah has not granted light – for him there is no light” (Sahih International 24:39, 40)
It is true that “deep waves” caused by high salinity bands in the sea water have been discovered in the sea. It is also true that beyond a certain depth, no light can reach. Mohammed is using a metaphor for the blindness of those who don’t believe him.
give the impression that there are layers of darkness whose purpose is to show that the unbeliever is completely covered over many times. Waves upon waves really could better be taken to mean many layers indeed and I do not think that oceanography proposes more than two. Dawood merely states “darkness upon darkness”
Yusuf Ali: Or (the Unbelievers’ state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! For any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!
Pick hall: Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covered him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon layer of darkness. When he holed out his hand he scarce can see it. And he for whom Allah hath not appointed light, for him there is no light.
Linguistic analysis similarly seems to show that it is the sea which is covered by the waves of darkness, rather than anything internal to the sea that is being referred to in this verse, or even waves covering over the unbeliever.
Honey Belly of the “Female Bee”?
The contention of some apologists is that the Qur’an miraculously addresses the honey bees in the female, and further that it refers to the “honey belly” of those female workers. As regards the gender I would say that in many languages, genders are assigned by convention. A bee is a bee. For example l’abeille is a feminine noun by convention. No one cares in conversation as to whether a bee is really female or not. Its an insect.
The honey-belly is a nice one, though. Perhaps the demons truly had a hand in that. Or perhaps Muhammad is ignorant that honey actually comes from flowers, flowers being in scarcity in the desert, and he thinks that it is produced de novo in bees, that too is possible. All this is just taken from this Muslims website: https://www.thelastdialogue.org/article/quran-miracle-female-honey-bee-her-abdomen/:
“Surah Nahl 16:68-69 ٦٨ وَأَوْحَىٰ رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ أَنِ اتَّخِذِي مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا وَمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
And your Lord inspired to the bee, “Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.
٦٩ ثُمَّ كُلِي مِنْ كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ فَاسْلُكِي سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلًا ۚ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌ مُخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهُ فِيهِ شِفَاءٌ لِلنَّاسِ ۗ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you].” There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.
Further, from the facts presented above, we come to know that the Male bees do not make honey. This was only known recently. However, 1400 years ago, the Quran refers to bees that generate the honey as females. Previously people thought that the worker bees are male bees and reports to a king. The words used (Take) اتَّخِذِي, (Eat) كُلِي and (Follow) فَاسْلُكِي all are for a female subject. Otherwise, God would have used كُلُ, اسْلُكْ, and تَّخِذُ .
Further, there is also another miracle which shows the divine origin of Quran as in verse 69 Quran stresses that in the individual female bee there are abdomens (i.e more than one stomach), which in Arabic is “بُطُونِهَا /butuniha,” the “هَا / ha” points to a single female bee. If the plural of the word “abdomen” was meant to refer to the female bees (i.e multiple bees), then the plural feminine pronoun “ ھنا /hunna” would be connected to the verb “بُطُونِهَا.”. That clearly shows that the noun (Stomach) is plural and the pronoun used is for 3rd person famine singular. This thing that a female worker Bee has multiple stomach portions not known until very recently. Only this one fact is enough for any person to believe in the divine origin of the Quran.”
Conclusion: my refutations are in the first paragraph.
Alcohol Prohibition to Protect the Unborn?
alcohol, is first praised in the Qur’an, only to then become mysteriously forbidden in that same book. There are narratives that state that this prohibition was made because believers were turning up drunk to prayers. This does not stop some Muslim polemicists from claiming that God through this divinely protected children from fetal alcohol syndrome. Can this be true?
The prohibition is blanket, neither men nor women are to drink it. Alcohol is initially praised before the prohibition by the same Allah. Many other Quranic practices are harmful to children, like pedophilia, sexual slavery, mut’ah marriage, there is no prohibition with regards to these. There are other general practices that are harmful to the unborn like smoking cigarettes, opium, and these receive no prohibition in the Qur’an.
Further, consanguinous marriages are well-known to be causes of the transmission of genetic disorder, yet the Qur’an seemingly encourages these. This is straight from the respected islamqa website https://islamqa.info/en/answers/105/ruling-on-marrying-cousins:
“There is no objection whatsoever in the Islamic religion for a man to marry any of his relatives except al-maharim (those forbidden for marriage ) whom Allah mentioned in Surat Al-Nisa, 4:23 (interpretation of the meaning):
“Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, daughters, sisters; father’s sisters, mother’s sisters; brother’s daughters, sister’s daughters; foster-mothers (who breast-fed you), foster-sisters (who breast-fed from the same woman as you); your wives’ mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives with whom you have consummated marriage, no prohibition if ye have not consummated; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time, except for what is past; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Thus, when Allah mentioned for us the relatives to whom marriage is forbidden, we then come to know that there is no objection for the remainder of the family relations.
Furthermore, there is no condition that it be the last resort as indicated in the question. Among the most prominent evidence of this fact is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married his daughter Fatimah to ‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with them) and he is the son of her father’s uncle, as well as the marriage of the Prophet himself to Zainab bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her) and she is his aunt’s daughter (i.e. his cousin); and there are many other such examples…”
Conclusion: Given the foregoing, it is difficult to entertain the assertion that the Qur’anic author has the health of the unborn foremost in their mind in making the blanket ban on alcohol for men and women. It is more likely precisely what the hadith states: the men were turning up drunk for prayer time and it was directed primarily at them.
Conclusion: It is difficult, given the foregoing, to seriously consider the assertion that the Qur’an has the unborn in mind in making the blanket prohibition on alcohol.
Milk Production from the gut and the blood?
Surah 16:66 “And verily in cattle (too) will ye find an instructive sign. From what is within their bodies between excretions and blood, we produce, for your drink, milk, pure and agreeable to those who drink it.”
Milk is not pure, it has to be pasteurized.
If by this Muhammad truly means to imply that milk is produced through the animal digesting its food and assimilating the nutrients therefore into its blood, which then goes to supply the mammary glands, that that is quite a good description. Perhaps a demon told him, or perhaps that’s not what he meant at all, I’m biased, and I’ll leave that decision to the reader.
Is Joseph’s King a Hyksos and not a Pharaoh!
We’ve had a great deal of hoo-hah in recent times about the Quran calling the Egyptian monarch at the time of Joesph “king” instead of Pharaoh, and this being accurate with respect to history because the Pharoahs only cam later. I don’t think this historical question is settled one way or another. No one can really say anything with a great deal of accuracy from that time in Egyptology, and further it is also difficult to date Joseph with any great certainty. This is a great article from a Bible site with is nothing to do with Islam: https://www.biblewise.com/bible_study/characters/egyptian-pharaohs.php?fbclid=IwAR2lAVupAqxdxgvjkoDqZMxrnbXQu5YfzhL1g7_vAaPObKYkqnbI06mpAGI