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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #30 - January 19, 2011, 04:52 PM

    Yeah, Mohammed just wanted to be Moses.

    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #31 - January 19, 2011, 08:46 PM

    You should forget the word "day", you just know that Muslims will use the Bucaille defence "It means periods-of-time".

    I think the argument about it taking 6 units of time no matter how short is a good one, why not a single atomic operation?  Could Allah not do it?  Or didn't Allah know what it wanted and had to tweak it?  Does Allah not merely have to say "Be"?  Surely he doesn't need to say "be be be be be be"

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #32 - January 19, 2011, 09:22 PM

    Yeah funny that isn't it? I mean God's whole plan is all about testing man.  He's quite capable of just saying 'be' and here we are! All around us plains full of galloping gazelles and swarming swallows.

    But instead he chooses to spend billions of years slowly evolving the landscape and creatures - killing off a multitude of species for no reason and raising more until he finally and torturously reaches man naked in his caves.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #33 - January 19, 2011, 09:25 PM

    Yea Hassan, Allah SWT works in mysterious ways, who are you to question him?  parrot

    I still don't get why Muslims so adamantly try to hold on to creationism: Muslims scientists were discussing evolution centuries before Darwin stole (X-tians accused Darwin of this, yes!) this from the Muslims.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #34 - March 06, 2011, 08:10 AM

    Quote from: SahihMuslim_6707
     Abu Haraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) took hold of my hands and said: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created the clay on Saturday and He created the mountains on Sunday and He created the trees on Monday and He created the things entailing labour on Tuesday and created light on Wednesday and lie caused the animals to spread on Thursday and created Adam (peace be upon him) after 'Asr on Friday;the last creation at the last hour of the hours of Friday, i. e. between afternoon and night.  


    (they all seem to say "and lie" rather than "and He")

    Link

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #35 - March 06, 2011, 09:27 AM

    Ibn Kathir mentions that hadith in his tafseer. It's weak, 'mursal' or something, specifically.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #36 - March 06, 2011, 09:39 AM

    I find it odd that SAHIH Bukhari has WEAK hadiths in it.  Can you explain how that works?

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #37 - March 06, 2011, 10:22 AM

    As it happens I have no doubt the 6 day thing was simply copied by Muhammad from the Bible.

    The verses with the 1000 or 50000 are in reference to angels traveling to the earth and back - it may be Muhammad or a scribe thought it would take longer than a day.


    Or maybe the Qur'an predicted the theory of relativity!

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #38 - March 06, 2011, 10:24 AM

    1 day being like 1000 years is also in the bible.

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #39 - March 06, 2011, 02:50 PM

    Ibn Kathir mentions that hadith in his tafseer. It's weak, 'mursal' or something, specifically.

    It's mursal if it doesn't cite which one of the sahabah was the source.

    But it says Abu Haraira on it.

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #40 - March 06, 2011, 02:51 PM

    So does that make it Sahih then?

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #41 - March 06, 2011, 05:51 PM

    It's mursal if it doesn't cite which one of the sahabah was the source.

    But it says Abu Haraira on it.


    Yes, I've checked the reference. It isn't mursal, rather, it's ghareeb, or strange.

    Both Ibn Abu Hatim and Ibn Mardawaih mentioned in explanation of this verse (Q. 2:29) the hadith narrated in Sahih Muslim in the book of commentary on the Holy Qur'an, through Ibn Juraij, who transmitted it from Isma'il Ibn Umayyah, from Ayyub Ibn Khalid, from Abdullah Ibn Rafi', the freed slave of Umm Salamah, that Abu Hurairah (r.a.) said: The Messenger of Allah (s.a.a.s.) took hold of my hands and said: Allah (s.w.t) created the clay on Saturday and He created the mountains on Sunday and He created the trees on Monday and He created the things entailing labour on Tuesday and created light on Wednesday and caused the animals to spread out on Thursday and created Adam after 'Asr on Friday; the last creation on the last hour of the hours of Friday, i.e., between afternoon and night.

    However, this is a strange hadith in Sahih Muslim about which such scholars as 'Ali Ibn al-Madini and al-Bukhari talk, and they regard it as a part of the speech of Ka'b al-Ahbar, and Abu Hurairah seems to have heard it from him, but some transmitters were confused in tracing it to the Prophet, and this is confirmed by al-Baihaqi.
    -- Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 1, p. 99, on Q. 2:29
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #42 - March 06, 2011, 05:54 PM

    I find it odd that SAHIH Bukhari has WEAK hadiths in it.  Can you explain how that works?


    As the extract I posted should make clear, the muhaddiths may still dispute the authenticity of ahadith even if they're part of the 'Two Sahih.' The fact that any given narration belongs to those collections does not necessarily mean that it's authentic, or that it's seen to be authentic by the scholars of hadith.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #43 - March 08, 2011, 08:23 AM

    Haha! Amazing, Hassan!

    I'd like you to add this to the documentary:

    By Sophia: She said:

    Quote
    Earth before heaven…
     
    (هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُم مَّا فِي الأَرْضِ جَمِيعاً ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى إِلَى السَّمَاء فَسَوَّاهُنَّ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ )[البقرة : 2]
     
    … or heaven before Earth?
     
     أَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقاً أَمِ السَّمَاء بَنَاهَا{27} رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا {28} وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا {29 بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ دَحَاهَا {30} أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا {31} وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا {32} مَتَاعاً لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ {33}


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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #44 - March 08, 2011, 09:11 AM

    Haha! Amazing, Hassan!

    I'd like you to add this to the documentary:

    By Sophia: She said:



    And for the benefit of non Arabic speakers.....?

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #45 - March 08, 2011, 10:39 AM

    Well one Aya claims that heaven was created before Earth while the other claims the opposite!

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #46 - March 08, 2011, 10:40 AM

    I guessed that, but I cannot tell what the chapter/verse numbers are Smiley

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #47 - March 08, 2011, 10:44 AM

    Ask Sophia she'll be with us shortly...

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #48 - March 08, 2011, 10:47 AM

    But I'll try to post from memory:
    The first one I think is from Sura 2 Aya 29
    The second one I think is somewhere in the first short Sura of Chapter 30
    Sorry if I'm mistaken but I'm in a real hurry... piggy

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #49 - March 08, 2011, 11:59 AM

    The second one is a from surah 79:27-31:

    What, are you stronger in constitution or the heaven He built? He lifted up its vault, and levelled it, and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon; and the earth-after that He spread it out, therefrom brought forth its waters and its pastures, and the mountains He set firm, an enjoyment for you and your flocks.
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #50 - March 08, 2011, 02:35 PM

    Ibn Kathir mentions that hadith in his tafseer. It's weak, 'mursal' or something, specifically.


    mursal does not necessarily mean weak, it depends on the madhab one follows really. e.g. shafi'i had a different approach to ibn hanafi(who i think rejected them).
  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #51 - March 08, 2011, 03:27 PM

    Yeah, I don't know jack about hadith, all I know is the number of names for different kinds of ahadith makes my head spin  wacko

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  • Re: Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #52 - March 08, 2011, 07:07 PM

    that's probably better for more detailed analysis but if you want something shorter, this is a book i bought from when i was a muslim:

    http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/hadeeth/sh_ish/
  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #53 - December 19, 2015, 01:03 AM

    For the second time in two days, I've seen (online) two different muslim guys doing Dawah and they begin with a bag and put plastic and metal in it and start shaking. And say, if I shake this for million years, do you think this will become into a toy. They conclude with #atheistLogic

    I find it very silly.
    Now I know how to counter that but my knowledge might not be enough.

    Counters please?

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  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #54 - December 19, 2015, 02:48 AM

    That has nothing to do with atheism.

    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #55 - December 19, 2015, 04:03 AM

    For the second time in two days, I've seen (online) two different muslim guys doing Dawah and they begin with a bag and put plastic and metal in it and start shaking. And say, if I shake this for million years, do you think this will become into a toy. They conclude with #atheistLogic

    I find it very silly.
    Now I know how to counter that but my knowledge might not be enough.

    Counters please?


    I love that visual.

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  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #56 - December 19, 2015, 04:34 AM

    For the second time in two days, I've seen (online) two different muslim guys doing Dawah and they begin with a bag and put plastic and metal in it and start shaking. And say, if I shake this for million years, do you think this will become into a toy. They conclude with #atheistLogic

    I find it very silly.
    Now I know how to counter that but my knowledge might not be enough.

    Counters please?


    I seen that used, or they say, "If I had 26 blocks with the letters of the alphabet on each block, what chance would I have if I threw them onto the floor and they lined up in alphabetical order?"

    It really doesn't have to do with being an atheist. It's some creationist jargon that they use. They're trying to use the "The world is so beautiful and in order, that there must be a creator" argument.

    All they have to do is watch a basic documentary on evolution.

    There really isn't a counter if they're not willing to listen in the first place.

    "If you don't like your religion's fundamentalists, then maybe there's something wrong with your religion's fundamentals."
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  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #57 - December 19, 2015, 04:44 AM

    Or, you know, just counter with the obvious.
    That has nothing to do with atheism.


    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #58 - December 19, 2015, 08:25 AM

    For the second time in two days, I've seen (online) two different muslim guys doing Dawah and they begin with a bag and put plastic and metal in it and start shaking. And say, if I shake this for million years, do you think this will become into a toy. They conclude with #atheistLogic

    I find it very silly.
    Now I know how to counter that but my knowledge might not be enough.

    Counters please?


    It is the Watchmaker fallacy in which one is clueless that an artificial constructed object, the toy, is not natural thus the comparison is flawed. A toy is not found in nature, ever. It also uses the idea that complexity requires a designer. However if something complex requires design than God to, being complex, requires a designer. Only by using special pleading a logical fallacy or theological sophistry, thus fallacious, is the point side stepped. However the argument fails anyways.

    I seen that used, or they say, "If I had 26 blocks with the letters of the alphabet on each block, what chance would I have if I threw them onto the floor and they lined up in alphabetical order?"


    Flawed comparison since the example is only of one person doing one act over and over. This does not account the possibility that such events could include more than a single participant. There could be trillions of worlds in which such an event is played out. Even within our world that could be billions of such events all over the planet. Taking into account that such an event is not merely a single participant add the billions of years to the possible trillions of events. Also the alphabet part of language thus a construct created by us. We give meaning to the symbols of ABC, these have no meaning in nature without us. These symbols do not exist is nature without us.

    Quote
    It really doesn't have to do with being an atheist. It's some creationist jargon that they use. They're trying to use the "The world is so beautiful and in order, that there must be a creator" argument.


    It has to do with being told flawed arguments without their teaching mentioning the flawed then parroting the arguments like parrots that do not consider what they say.

    Quote
    There really isn't a counter if they're not willing to listen in the first place.


    You can not convince someone not willing to even entertain the possibility their religion is wrong.
  • Creation in the Qur'an
     Reply #59 - December 19, 2015, 10:19 AM

    or they say, "If I had 26 blocks with the letters of the alphabet on each block, what chance would I have if I threw them onto the floor and they lined up in alphabetical order?"


    Exactly the same chance as any other specific order. Such as whatever order it ends up actually landing in.

    I don't think it's worth countering those stupid videos. They should at least present an actual argument.
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