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0:01Look at the Quran itself. Now, I don't
0:04believe this, by the way, folks. I don't
0:05believe any of these Qurans are seventh
0:07century. Why? Well, wait till we get to
0:09the Quran. You'll see why. Nonetheless,
0:11Muslims claim they're from the seventh
0:12century. When you look at the Quran
0:14internally, you notice there are only
0:16four references to Mhm., not Muhammad,
0:18but Muhammad on the earliest
0:20manuscripts.
0:22Fascinating. Moses is found 136 times.
0:26Jesus is found 93 times. Abraham is
0:28found 79 times. Pharaoh is found 74
0:32times. Suggesting that Muhammmed was not
0:35very popular.
0:37And when you look at those four times,
0:38there it is in chapter 3:14. In chapter
0:4133:40, in chapter 47:2, and in chapter
0:4448:29, in every case, in every case,
0:48this is Jesus Christ.
0:50This Mhmed is the Messiah. Just read the
0:54references. As you can see when you take
0:55the vowels out and go back to Mhm. it is
0:58the Mad that we should expect to find in
1:00the seventh and 8th century. None of
1:02them refer to a person called Muhammad
1:04who lived in the hij in Arabia but the
1:06Mm. They all refer to the Mm. They most
1:09likely refer instead to the blessed one
1:11or the anointed one or the praised one
1:13as we have noted. It's a title. That is
1:16the word Mhmmed means. And who could
1:18very well therefore be Jesus Christ.
1:21If this is not the prophet from Mecca at
1:23all, then Muslims cannot use the Quran
1:25to support Muhammad, the prophet's
1:27existence in the seventh century and one
1:29of the foundations of Islam begins to
1:33fall. Well, what about the Dome of the
1:35Rock? I've talked about the Dogamont
1:36earlier and you've heard me say that
1:38there's the Dome of the Rock. Notice
1:39where the two arrow green arrows are.
1:42That that's the inner amulatory. That's
1:44the only original part of the dome. It
1:47has been destroyed and rebuilt 11 times.
1:49That's the only part that was actually
1:51created in 691. And that's where the
1:54inscriptions are. And when you read the
1:55inscriptions, they're all attacks
1:57against Jesus Christ. That's where the
1:59shahada first begins to appear. And that
2:01is all referring that the praise one is
2:04not is nothing more than the messenger
2:07of God, the blessed one, who could be
2:09Jesus. The Quranic verses in these
2:11inscriptions are not the same as that
2:13which we have in the Quran today, though
2:14they're copied into the Quran later on
2:16and are thus possibly precursors to the
2:19Quranic verses which were written later
2:21and then changed to refer to the prophet
2:23himself. Conclusion, if correct, that
2:25Muslims cannot use the Dome of the Rock
2:28to support Ma Muhammad's existence in
2:30the seventh century either. And another
2:32foundational pillar of Islam begins to
2:35fall even further. Now, hold on a
2:37minute. Muslims will come back and say,
2:39"Yes, but there are lots of ris
2:40references to this MMA, this Muhammad
2:44in the seventh century. So, let's look
2:46at them." No, there are not. The many
2:49that they come up with have no reference
2:51to Muhammad in any of them. There are
2:53only five that have the word Muhammad in
2:56them. Not Muhammad, but Muhammmed. Why?
2:59Because there's no vowels that early. So
3:01when you hear that, Muslims are imposing
3:03that onto the text and they don't
3:04realize that Arabic does not accommodate
3:07Muhammad. Not that early.
3:10So let's look at those five.
3:13Thomas the Prespirator in 634 writing,
3:16he talks about a battle between the
3:17Romans and the Tay Dum Mahm. Now notice
3:21it's Mm with a T. This is the Persian
3:23spelling for the praise one. And he
3:26refers to that. It's in Gaza. This is a
3:29Palavi, the Tay. They are the Lmeds that
3:32are in what is today northern Iraq in of
3:34what is today Mosul in TikT fighting in
3:36Gaza way over to the west. So therefore,
3:38this cannot be the Muhammad of Islam
3:40because it's way up to the north and way
3:42too far to the west. He's over 1,00
3:44to,200 miles too far to the north. It
3:47cannot be the Mad or of of Islam. 636
3:52you have a fly leaf which talks about
3:53the Arabs of Muhammmed killed many
3:56Syrians in Yamok in Gabbatha. Look where
3:58Yarmmok is. That's way up in Jordan in
4:01Syria. Muhammad never went to Yarmmuk.
4:04Way too [clears throat] farther north.
4:05So it's another praised one. It's more
4:08likely reference to someone who used
4:09that title to a grandise himself. In
4:12660, Sabas refers to an Ishelite called
4:16Mm who with 12,000 Israelites attacks
4:19the Byzantines. There is no record of
4:22any Arabs or less even 12,000 of them
4:25partnering with Jews any time in the 7th
4:27century invading Byzantium in the
4:29seventh century. This is not only his
4:31and not only not historical, it's
4:34fraudulent from its very core. So we can
4:36throw that one out. The fourth one is
4:39probably a little better. 690. We're now
4:41at the end of the 7th century. By this
4:43time the Dome of the Rock is well built.
4:45This is the time the Dome of the Rock is
4:46built. This is a time the coins are
4:48being introduced with the name Mahmud on
4:50it. And John of Bara talks about this
4:52Mahmud, this teacher, leader of the
4:53Arabs. This is the first real good
4:56reference. But still, he talks about him
4:58way up in the north, up in what is today
5:00Iraq. That's a thousand miles too far
5:02north. And then we get John of Damascus.
5:05Now I love John of Damascus because John
5:07of Damascus is right there in the courts
5:10of Abdul Malik. He is there in Damascus.
5:12He is part of the courts of Abdul Malik.
5:15So he is watching it happen right there.
5:17He's an eyewitness to what is going on.
5:19He then retires in 7:30 and goes to a
5:22monastery and writes his most famous
5:25book. But look at the title of the book,
5:29The Heresy of the Ishelites.
5:32Why don't we read that title? Who are
5:35the Ishelites? The Ishalites are the
5:38Arabs, the Nabotian Arabs who are from
5:40Jordan. They are the ones that trace the
5:43lineage back to Abraham through Ishmael.
5:46The Jews and the Christians also go to
5:48Abraham through Isaac. The IshRaelites
5:51are also known as Hagarin. And notice
5:53all these Arabs referred to themselves
5:55in five different words. There are five
5:58different words they use. They use
5:59Ishelites because they're in the line of
6:01Ishmael. They use Hagarin because
6:03they're in the line of Hagar. They use
6:05MR, which means people of the Hagarines,
6:07people of Hagar. They use this the words
6:10mush um um not mushurikun um
6:15muajidum the people who go on a hij
6:19people who go on an exodus they're
6:20nomadic they're always moving to place
6:22to place and they name themselves well
6:24they don't name themselves they're
6:25referred to as sorasans no reference to
6:28any people called Muslims these are all
6:31people in the line of Ishmail they're in
6:32the line of Hagar and they're proud of
6:34their lineage but here's the problem
6:36they now control the deafit. They are
6:39now in Damascus. They control from Spain
6:42all the way to India, from Turkey all
6:45the way to Yemen. They are the
6:47superpower of the day. Only the
6:48Byzantines are greater. The Byzantines
6:51are Christians. The Jews are try in
6:53charge of Jerusalem. But they control
6:54Jerusalem, right?
6:57And here's the difficulty. The Jews and
6:59the Christians have a prophetic line,
7:01right? Through Isaac. We know that
7:03prophetic line. We know exactly where
7:05all the prophets come from.
7:07The Jews and the Christians have a
7:09revelation. The Old and New Testament.
7:11The Ishraelites have no prophetic line.
7:14There's no one after Ishmael. Who's
7:16comes after Ishmael? Nobody. We don't
7:18know of anybody.
7:21The Jews, the Ishelites and the
7:22Helegarines have no revelation. What
7:25revelation do they have? So now you are
7:28in charge of the holy place. You were in
7:30charge of Jerusalem. You control all
7:32this land. And right north of you is
7:35your greatest threat. the Christian
7:37Byzantines. So what do you do? You go
7:40and you build the Dome of the Rock right
7:42in the holy place of Jews and
7:44Christians. And what do you do? You
7:47write these inscriptions attacking
7:49Jesus, attacking his divinity, attacking
7:51the Trinity. You're an Israelite. And
7:54what do you do next? You confront and
7:56look where the Dome of the Rock is
7:58built. Right where the Temple Mount is,
7:59right where the Messiah, where the
8:00Mahmud is going to return. And it's
8:02above looking down on the church of the
8:04suppler where all the Christians come
8:05for pilgrimage. It's looking down on the
8:07Christians. It's looking down on the
8:09Jews. And now you are an ishelite. What
8:11do you do? You need to therefore create
8:13your own prophetic line. And if you're
8:15going to create a prophetic line, who do
8:16you think you're going to use? You're
8:19going to use the Mad cuz everybody's
8:21waiting for the Mad, right? The Jews are
8:24waiting for the Mad. They put that name
8:25before every one of their exelarks. The
8:27Christians are waiting for the Mmud to
8:29return a second time. So you say we've
8:31got the Mahmud, but you put three vowels
8:34above his name, Muhammad.
8:38So here comes John of Damascus in 7:30,
8:41right? He comes and he writes this great
8:43reference. He writes about this and he
8:45says, "Here is this MD that you're
8:47talking about." So he's in he's well
8:49into the 8th century now. And he then he
8:51looks and says, "This Muhammmed has
8:53ludicrous doctrines." And then he starts
8:55naming them off. He talks about these
8:56books that this Muhammmed has created.
8:58He refers to this book called the cow.
9:01That's now in chapter two of the Quran.
9:03He talks about the book called the
9:04women. That's in chapter four of the
9:06Quran. He talks about the book called
9:07the table. That's in chapter five of the
9:09Quran. And then he talks the book called
9:10the camel. That's capital. That's
9:12chapter zero. There is no book called
9:14the camel in the Quran.
9:18But I thought there was only one Quran.
9:20I thought the Quran was complete by
9:227:30. But certainly by se by 652, right?
9:25We're in 7:30. We're well into the 8th
9:27century and there are four different
9:29books. All of which then are in tick in
9:32put into the Quran in chapter 2, chapter
9:344, chapter 5, and then a chapter that
9:36doesn't even exist. This is not the
9:38Quran that we have today.
9:40Are you starting to see what's going on,
9:42folks?
9:44You have to have a prophet. Once you
9:45introduce this prophet, he has to have a
9:48book.
9:49Now, you're starting to realize where
9:51we're going with all of this
9:54conclusion. every reference to Muhammad
9:57or Mahmud in the seventh century places
9:59have been in Gaza or Jerusalem or
10:01Damascus or in Ha which are all situated
10:04in Jordan and in Syria and Iraq all far
10:07to the north and probably refer to
10:09another MM praised one probably Jesus
10:13Christ here are the conclusions we won't
10:14go through them again he's already done
10:16through I just want to end with this one
10:18these coins and inscriptions refer to
10:20the Christian and Jewish MMs who are
10:22either the Messiah yet to come That's
10:24the Jews for the first time or the
10:27Messiah yet to come a second time.
10:29That's the Christians. It is that
10:31Muhammmed who is then appropriated by
10:33the 7th century Ishmonalite Arabs, the
10:36Umiads, as their prophet Muhammmed who
10:38then is introduced as Muhammad by the
10:418th to 9th century Abbasids as the
10:44fulfillment of the other two. Now, we're
10:47going to get into the Quran. We're going
10:48to end with this. You ready? Here we go.
10:51What about the Quran then? Once you got
10:54a man, once you got a prophet, you've
10:56got to have a book. You've got to create
11:00a book.
11:02So what do the Muslims claim about their
11:04book? This is what the Muslims claim.
11:07The Quran is uncreated. That has always
11:09existed. It has never been created. It
11:12is the uncreated Quran. Why do we know
11:13that? Because if chapter 85:22 says that
11:16it's already internal to the Quran. They
11:18also say the Quran was sent down to a
11:20man named Muhammad between 610 and 632.
11:22that 22-year period that the Quran was
11:25completed by um man in 652 that's mid7th
11:28century and that the Quran has unchanged
11:31in the last 1400 years not one word not
11:34one letter has changed now look at those
11:36four letter words in blue uncreated sent
11:39down completed unchanged can you
11:42remember those four words
11:44those are the four claims Muslims make
11:46about the Quran every Muslim whether
11:48they are radical or nominal may not the
11:50liberals but the radicals and the
11:51nominals will all make those claims. 99%
11:54of all Muslims make those four claims
11:56about the Quran.
11:58Memorize those four words. We're going
12:00to come back to them. So, why do they
12:02make these claims? Because folks don't
12:03blame them. They're in the Quran
12:05themselves. It's the Quran that makes
12:07those four claims. Eternality is found
12:09in chapter 85 21 and 22 as far as not
12:13one word has been changed. That's in
12:15chapter 10:15 and in chapter 18 27. And
12:18the reason that none can change his
12:21words or his letters is because Allah
12:23himself guards it in chapter 15:9. It
12:26says that that Allah guards it. That's
12:27why no man can change what is eternal,
12:30what God has not created because it's
12:32uncreated. So what is our agreement
12:34tonight? Well, I cannot critique sent
12:36down or uncreated because I'm not there
12:38in the seventh century. But I can
12:40critique the second two. I can't
12:42critique number one and two, but I can
12:44uh critique three and four. Thus, what I
12:46would want to find from any Muslim that
12:48wants to engage me in a debate, they
12:50then have to provide for me one Quranic
12:52manuscript that's from the mid7th
12:55century, not from one that's after
12:56because they're the ones that claimed it
12:58was finished by 652 that um man was the
13:00one that created the Quran and wrote it
13:02down in its written form. Therefore, it
13:04must be 114 suras unchanged. It must
13:08look just like this Quran that I have in
13:09my hand today. Must be just like this
13:12114 surah. Not one word, not one letter
13:14that's different because that's their
13:16claim. Not my claim. That's their claim.
13:19Now, what do they say? This is what they
13:20say. According to what Al Buhari says,
13:23and he is the one that tells us how the
13:24Quran was put together. He said that
13:26Muhammad died in 632. The Quran had not
13:28yet been
13:34okay
13:36just told me about my flight. So it says
13:39that if the um man the Quran had not
13:42been written down when he died in 632 it
13:45was written down by the time of Utman
13:47the the what they call the Qureshi Quran
13:50in 652. So that's the mid7th century.
13:53Now when he wrote that down and had it
13:55written down by Zimabid his secretary he
13:58then sent it to five cities. Those are
14:00the five cities you see up there. Let me
14:02get my clicker out here. And they are
14:04Mecca, Medina, Basra, Kufa, and
14:07Damascus. There they are over here.
14:09Mecca, Medina, Basra, Kufa, and
14:11Damascus. So, two in what is today
14:14Arabia, two in what is today Iraq, and
14:17one in what is today Syria. Those were
14:19sent to those five cities to preserve
14:22them so that nobody would change them
14:24because they didn't want to be any
14:25changes. These were the original ones.
14:28Now, here's what's interesting.
14:29According to the Islamic traditions, not
14:31me, according to the standard Islamic
14:33narrative, a new crown starts to appear
14:35in Damascus now written by a man named
14:37Uba Ibn Kob and it has 116 suras. So it
14:41has two more suras than what the Quran
14:43has today. Then suddenly another one
14:45appears in Bhagdat written by Ib Masud
14:48and it has 110 suras. That's four less
14:51than the Quran we have today. Then a
14:53third one appears in Basa written by Ibn
14:55Musa. It has 114 suras. But when you
14:58look at these three Qurans, when you
14:59look at the Islamic traditions, when you
15:01look and see what they say about these
15:03Qurans, there are 15,000 differences
15:07between those three Qurans and the Quran
15:09I have in my hand right here. 15,000
15:12differences. It's not me saying this.
15:13The Islamic traditions tell me this. So
15:16that's already within the seventh
15:18century, you're seeing huge amount of
15:20changes. But here's what I want to ask
15:22you. Where is Uba Ibn Kab's Quran?
15:24Where's Ib Masoud's Quran? Where is Ib
15:27Musa's Quran? Where are the five copies
15:29that were sent to those five cities?
15:30Show me one.
15:33Not one Quran exists today from the
15:36seventh century. Not one.
15:38No Muslims can come up with them. I've
15:40asked this for 40 years. The European
15:43scholars, we are all asking if these are
15:45from the seventh century, show me one.
15:47Listen, this should be easy for Muslims
15:49to reveal. Why? Because we can go back
15:51to the Siniaticus from the 4th century.
15:53You can go to the Alexandrinus from the
15:55fifth century. You can go to the
15:56Vaticanis which is in the 4th century.
15:58We have the entire New Testament from
16:00the fourth and fifth century. That's two
16:02to 300 years earlier. If we can provide
16:04three metropolitan cotices from the
16:06first fourth and fifth century, why
16:08can't they come up with one Quran of the
16:10five from the seventh century? Not one.
16:16Thank God for my Bible. Thank God we
16:19have preserved our manuscripts.
16:22Thank God. Listen, not just those three
16:25metropolitan cotices. By the sixth
16:27century, we have 65 either partial or
16:30complete New Testaments. By the sixth
16:32century, if you want to talk about what
16:34we have in our hands today, we have
16:358,500 New Testament manuscripts. We have
16:3810,000 Latin Vulgates. We have 19,000 in
16:4111 different languages.
16:44If we had want to change any one of
16:46them, we would have to go back to that's
16:4824,000 manuscripts. We'd have to go back
16:50to Oh, excuse me. all 24,000 manuscripts
16:53in all 11 languages. Change every one of
16:55them so they agree. To me, that's a
16:58greater miracle. The fact that we don't
17:01have to change one of them shows how
17:04amazing our Bible is. We don't have this
17:07problem. This is only 1400 years ago and
17:10they can't even come up with one
17:11manuscript. Now look at those five
17:13cities. Mecca, Medina, Basra, Kufa, and
17:16Damascus. They have been controlled by
17:18Muslims for 1400 years. There has been
17:21no floods. There have been no wars. I
17:24don't know of any fires. So why aren't
17:26they there today?
17:28Either this is complete ineptitude
17:31or they never existed.
17:34I choose the latter.
17:39Now note there were at least five Qurans
17:43in the seventh century from Medina,
17:44Mecca, Basra, Kufa, and Damascus.
17:47conclusion. We don't even have one of
17:49them today. In fact, all we have are six
17:52of the earliest extent Quranic
17:53manuscripts. So, let's look at them.
17:55These are the six earliest Qurans we
17:57have in existence today. Three of them I
17:59have in my in my office. Faximiles of
18:02them of full-size faximiles of them in
18:04my office. Not the originals obviously.
18:07That's [clears throat] the top copy
18:08there. The toe copy is there in
18:11Istanbul. That one is about 99% of the
18:14Quran. It is dated to the late late or
18:17middle to late 8th century. It's not a
18:20seventh century Quran. It's the best
18:21Quran they have because it is probably
18:23the closest to what we have today. But
18:26it has 2,270
18:28manuscript variants. That means letters,
18:31words, and phrases in that Quran that do
18:33not parallel the Quran we have today.
18:35And yet that's the best they've got.
18:39Then you have the Samaran manuscript
18:40over here that's in Tashk in Usbekistan.
18:43That one there only goes up to surah 43.
18:46It only goes up to the for uh the 43rd
18:48surah. That means half the Quran is
18:50missing. And even amongst the 43 suras
18:52that you see there, 16 of them don't
18:54even exist. There's only one surah that
18:56is complete. And all the others have
18:59manuscarian have hundreds of
19:00manuscarians. In fact, so many
19:02manuscarians, it has lazy Arabic.
19:05Whoever wrote it didn't know Arabic very
19:06well. So most Muslim scholars say,
19:08"Don't even read it. It's an
19:09embarrassment.
19:12Then you have the Mel manuscript which
19:14is on the left there. That's right there
19:15in the British Library the in the
19:18Ribbach Gallery. That one is also goes
19:20up to 43 sur 43. So it's only half the
19:23Quran. What's interesting about it it is
19:26uh written in a around the late 8th
19:29century. The one before that the Samaran
19:31is the mid 8th century. This one is the
19:33late 8th century. This one here. And
19:35notice it has a slanted text. So it is
19:37considered to be one of the earliest
19:38manuscript but it only it's missing much
19:41of the Quran. It's missing half of the
19:43Quran to be exact with hundreds of
19:45manuscript variants. And then you have
19:46the Petropolitanus which is in the
19:48biblotech national in there in
19:50France. And when you look at that it is
19:52also a slanted text like the one over
19:54there the Mayel text. It only has 23% of
19:57the Quran. And within the 23% there are
20:0093 manuscript variants. That means words
20:02or phrase that are different in that
20:04manuscript from the Quran we have today.
20:07Then we go to the next page and you see
20:09the Husini manuscript. The Husini
20:11manuscript you see on the left there.
20:16It's in Cairo in Egypt. It's a
20:18monumental text. Take a look at it. It's
20:20huge. It's massive. It is from the 9th
20:23century. It has a lot of coverings. You
20:26can't really see it. We're going to show
20:27you some other pages later on. covering
20:29after covering after covering where they
20:30have manuscript they have censored the
20:32text hundreds of them there but the most
20:35exciting Quran is this one here on the
20:37right this is the Sana manuscript
20:38discovered in 1975
20:41it if you look carefully you will notice
20:42that there's surah 19 there and then it
20:44jumps to surah 22 what happened to surah
20:4720 and 21
20:49where that yellow mark is you that's a
20:52good question I'm glad you asked if you
20:54look over here you'll see 20 begins on
20:56this side there's 20. But they noticed
20:59are you notice there are two completely
21:01different scripts between the two pages.
21:03This is a completely different script.
21:05There's about 60 to 70 years between
21:07those two pages.
21:09What's more, do you see an orange mark?
21:10See where all the orange marks are
21:12there? Every time you see an orange
21:14mark, that is a manuscript variance.
21:16There is over a thousand of these words
21:19and phrases that's no longer in our
21:21Quran today.
21:23Proving that this is one of the earliest
21:25manuscript. In fact, this is considered
21:26to be probably the earliest manuscript
21:29dated to 705, early 8th century. And
21:33yet, it is full of manuscript variants.
21:36Summary of these manuscripts, when we
21:39look at the six earliest Quranic
21:41manuscripts, we find that none of them
21:42are from the 7th century. None of them
21:44are complete. None of them completely
21:46agree with each other. None of them
21:48completely agree with the current 1924
21:50Huffs text. That's this book I have in
21:51my hand today. All of them have hundreds
21:53and even thousands of subsequent
21:55manuscript variants. So when was the
21:57complete first complete Quran? Could we
22:00have recently discovered on an older
22:01example? What about this one here? The
22:04sun. When you look at the sun and you
22:06put it into under ultraviolet light, you
22:08notice that there's an under layer.
22:10That's what a palmus is. That means it
22:12was written on animal skin and then it
22:14was washed off and written over top. And
22:17when you write it over top, the what you
22:19wash off disappears. But hundreds of
22:21years later the ink starts to bleed
22:23through. So you can see the bleeding
22:25through right there. So they put it
22:27under ultraviolet light and this is what
22:29they have found that the under layer is
22:31from the last two decades of the seventh
22:34century. This is the by far the earliest
22:36part of the Quran. But what was
22:38interesting when you look at the ver the
22:40lower text there are 63 verses in that
22:42lower text from the late 7th century.
22:45There are 70 variants between the upper
22:47and lower text. 25 times there are verbs
22:50and nouns and articles and participles
22:52and junctions that are different. 29
22:54times there are isolated letters,
22:55prepositions and expressions that are
22:57different between the two layers. 16
22:59times there are entire sentences some
23:02overlap within the same verses. Asmaali
23:05looked at this and she was as a Muslim
23:06said well this is nothing more than a
23:08school text. What she was saying is
23:10these are students who were practicing
23:12and therefore they made all these
23:13mistakes. So the teacher washed it off
23:15and wrote over top. No, you don't give
23:17animal skins to students. They're highly
23:20expensive. Only scholars would ever be
23:23able to get to animal skins because you
23:25have to cure the animals. These are the
23:27most expensive writing material. You
23:28give them papyrus, you don't give them
23:30vellum, and you don't give them
23:31parchments. These are obviously done by
23:34scholars. So, Dr. Elizabeth Quinn who
23:36has done the most work on the on the
23:38manuscript said that these are example
23:41of a nent Quran the lower layer with
23:43corrections then washed off and
23:45rewritten in 705 that's why you see an
23:48evolution in the Quranic text by the
23:51early 8th century some say they there
23:54might be one even older Quran and this
23:56is the what we call the Birmingham Quran
23:58you heard about this in 2015 when they
24:01discovered these two folios now folks
24:03that's not a whole Quran that's just two
24:05pages front and back. When you look at
24:07it, you notice it's just two pages front
24:09and back. It's only 63 verses. There are
24:126,236 verses in the Quran. So, that's
24:14not the whole Quran. Uh 63 verses even
24:17within the three suras that it rec
24:20contains. There are 343 verses in those
24:22three chapters. That's not nearly the
24:25full chapters. What's more, they're not
24:27even the same sequence that's in the
24:28Quran that we have today. What's
24:30interesting is when you read those three
24:32those two pages, read what's in them.
24:35These are stories that are nothing to do
24:37with the Quran. In chapter 18 17-31, it
24:41talks about the seven sleepers of
24:43Ephesus. This is a Christian legend
24:44written by Metaphyses in 521 AD. This is
24:48precoronic, pre-Islamic. Yes, you can
24:51see this was written long before the
24:53Quran came into existence. So 1991 to98
24:56is a Syriak Christian and rabbitic
24:58apocryphal account by of the proto
25:00evangelium of James written in 145 AD.
25:04This is from the 2 century. And then
25:06surah 20 verse 1-40 is the bible story
25:09of Moses written in 1400 BC. Conclusion:
25:12These folios front and back are
25:15pre-Qoronic, pre- Muhammad, and thus
25:17pre-Islamic, written by Christian, Jews,
25:19and secular Arab writers, and then
25:21simply borrowed by the later Muslims for
25:23their own revelation in the 8th to 10th
25:25century. Folks, if you take a book and
25:28you have to come up with a book real
25:30quickly because you now have a prophet,
25:31where do you think you get your book
25:33from? You borrow it, do you not? You go
25:37to Christian sectarian writings. You go
25:39to Jew Jewish apocrypha writings. You go
25:41to Zorastian writings and you just
25:43amalgamate and put them into a text.
25:45Now, do you realize when you read the
25:47Quran, there's no chronology in the
25:49Quran. Have you noticed? Those of you
25:51who have read it, stories don't begin,
25:53stories don't end. It jumps all over the
25:55placeoom.
25:57Why? Because that's what you do when you
25:59borrow.
26:00And if you borrow something, they have
26:02to exist before what you borrowed. Am I
26:04correct? So, of course, there's Arabic
26:06writing. There's lots of Arabic writing.
26:08There's no dots and vows in it. These
26:10are what we're going to find out exactly
26:12what the Quran is full of. But hold on,
26:14that's yet to come. Now, my good friend
26:17Dr. Dan Brewbaker has probably done one
26:19of the most devastating work. Back in
26:222010, he decided to do his doctorate on
26:25the manuscripts himself. He started, he
26:26was the first one to actually go to the
26:28manuscripts to all these six plus
26:30another four manuscripts, all the
26:32earliest manuscripts and filmed every
26:34page looking for manuscript variants.
26:37Now these are consonental variants.
26:41That means these are the dot these are
26:44not the vowels. These have nothing to do
26:45with the dots. These are the consonants.
26:4816 consonants that existed in Arabic. So
26:51he started taking pictures. And what he
26:53was looking for, he was looking for just
26:55maybe one error, one difference between
26:57one manuscript and another. By the time
27:00he finished his doctorate in 2014,
27:03he had found over 800 variants.
27:07800 variants. He wrote his doctorate,
27:10passed his doctor of flying colors, sent
27:12me his manuscript and I debated Dr.
27:15Shabiri, the world's leading debater in
27:172014 in Canada on those six manuscript
27:20just looking at his material. Have any
27:22of you seen that debate? That debate
27:26over two million people have watched. We
27:29know over a hundred Muslims that have
27:30come to Jesus Christ because of that one
27:32debate because that debate destroyed the
27:36Quran 10 years ago using his research.
27:39Now that was in 2014. Dr. Shabid Ali had
27:42no response. He had never looked at
27:45these manuscripts. He had no idea what
27:47he was up against. His only response
27:50was, "Who cares about what you have
27:52found? Who cares if they're not
27:54complete? Who cares if they don't agree
27:56with each other?" I look at the Quran
27:58today. When you look at these set of
27:59verses and you look at these set of
28:00verses, you get the number 19. When you
28:02look at these verses and these verses,
28:04you get the number 19. When you look at
28:06these words and these words, you get 19.
28:071919 19. He talked about the miracle of
28:09the number 19. I went back after the
28:12debate and asked and looked to see how
28:13much time he had taken to to regail us
28:16on the miracle of the number 19. He took
28:18a lack exactly 19 minutes. That was the
28:22miracle.
28:24He had no idea what he was talking
28:26about. I said, 'What are you referring
28:28to? What set of verses? None of these
28:31are the same. What set of verses are?
28:34There's no versification in any of these
28:35manuscripts.
28:37What manuscript are you referring to?
28:39What Quran are you referring to? There's
28:41no even today's Quran, the verses are
28:43not the same.
28:45What are you referring to? It took me 30
28:48minutes for him to finally admit what he
28:50was talking about.
28:52He was talking about this Quran. This is
28:55the 1924 Huffs Quran. This is the Quran
28:59that's used all over the world today and
29:00it's only 100 years old. It was chosen
29:03in Cairo by one man, Muhammad Al-Husani
29:06Al-Had, as the official Quran. This is
29:09the one that has the verses he's talking
29:11about.
29:13That's only 100 years old.
29:15By the end of that debate, he had no
29:17rebuttal. Within two months, he had to
29:19write nine pages because the Muslims
29:21wereounding him all over the world,
29:22saying, "How did you lose that debate?
29:24How come you couldn't come up with
29:25something better than that? He had to
29:26write a rebuttal and in his nine pages
29:28he kept on talking about the miracle of
29:30the number 19. What a waste of time. Dr.
29:34Shabidali will not debate me anymore
29:36because of that debate 10 years ago. Can
29:38you see how this just shuts down the
29:40Quran? When you look at the manuscripts,
29:42take a look at what he has found. If you
29:43look here, you can see here you can see
29:46that there these are insertion. There's
29:48a word that's inserted above the line.
29:49See how it's inserted there. Here's
29:51another one. These are erasers. See how
29:53they've erased there? They've erased
29:54there. They've erased there. We have no
29:56idea what the word was before. But now
29:57when they have erased it, notice what
29:59they have done. Every time they've
30:00inserted a word there or assert a
30:02letter, every time they have erased it,
30:04what they've left behind now supports
30:07this book right here.
30:09Supports the Huffs text from 1924.
30:14Then they have erases overwritten. So
30:16they've erased and they've just
30:17overwritten over top. You can tell it's
30:18two different words. Can you notice
30:20that? Even not the same number of
30:21letters. Here they did it in the red
30:23ink. They didn't even care if you didn't
30:24noticed it or not.
30:26What was left over now supports the
30:28Huff's text. And then they overwrote.
30:30Here they overwrote sometimes above the
30:32line, sometimes different color. Here
30:33they overwrote an entire two entire two
30:36sentences. They didn't care if you could
30:39see it or not. They were not worried
30:40about that because they didn't they
30:41didn't think anybody would look for
30:42this. Well, Dan Brewaker found this.
30:47And then most devastating are these
30:49selective coverings. See, there's a
30:50covering there. There's a covering
30:51there. Do you see that? There's a
30:52covering there. 1 2 3 4 5 6 eight
30:55coverings on just that one page. What's
30:57left over just look like chicken
30:59scratches. But what's left over now
31:02supports the Huff's text. This is
31:04censorship at its greatest. They're
31:07censoring the text to standardize it to
31:10fit that text from 1924.
31:14Here you can see another cover. Another
31:15cover. Another cover. Look at that.
31:17Those are coverings. And sometimes they
31:19covered and they wrote over top. So
31:21there they've covered it and they wrote
31:22over top. There they've covered it and
31:23written over top. There you can see
31:25there they've covered not written over
31:26anything. But there you can see where
31:27they've covered it and there they've
31:28covered over. This is censorship.
31:31Standardization of a text. And sometimes
31:34they just put a patch over. He thought
31:36maybe that was because it was damaged.
31:37When he looked on the other side there
31:38was no damage whatsoever. That's
31:40censorship
31:41folks. these insertions, these erasers,
31:45these coverings, these patches suggest
31:47wholesale censorship during the 700
31:49period that during the Ottoman Empire
31:51because they controlled all of these
31:53manuscripts
31:55and they were the ones that chose the
31:56Huff text. This is censorship at its
32:00worst. Standardizing the texts in each
32:02of these manuscripts to support the 1924
32:05Huffs Razub text, the Huffs text because
32:07the Ottomans had chosen the rough that
32:09they had 700 years to standardize all of
32:13these manuscripts.
32:15Now, I wanted to take down his material
32:16down to speaker's corner. So, I got up
32:18on the ladder and there his hatsh my
32:20colleague that I was talking about
32:21earlier. She's the one that's been
32:23beaten up. She's been stabbed. They've
32:24broken her ribs. They've broken her
32:25feet. She's been hung. And yet she's
32:28still living because Jesus Christ full
32:29preserver until he's ready to take her
32:31home. She is a tigris for Jesus Christ.
32:35As we got on the ladder there, this man
32:37here, Mansul Rahmed, got on the ladder
32:38with him. Ms Ahmed is probably one of
32:40the leading authorities on the
32:42manuscripts on the Quran. He controls
32:44all the manuscripts on the Islamic
32:46awareness website that's up there in
32:48Cambridge University. So he got on the
32:50ladder to confront us and he started
32:52making claims. I'm not going to though,
32:54you can watch the video. It's on Fender
32:56Films. and he started saying listen we
32:58don't care about these these manuscripts
33:00we have found we know that we can trace
33:02we can trace the Quran all the way back
33:05to the time of Utman so I said well
33:07that's interesting man 652 you have a
33:10manuscript that's 114 suras not one word
33:13not one letter has changed exactly like
33:15the Quran we have today and he was quiet
33:18said where is that manuscript he didn't
33:19want to say I said well what about the
33:20seventh century he didn't want to answer
33:22I said well then what's he said it's
33:24within the first century ah after hijra
33:28that means between 6:22 and 719 that he
33:33could find a complete Quran I said a
33:35complete Quran by 719 can you tell me
33:37what manuscript you're talking about he
33:40says we have 97% of the Quran by the
33:43first century age by 719 we have 97%
33:47what is he talking about you want to
33:49know don't you let's take a look just go
33:51up on his in Islamic awareness website
33:54and that's what he's talking about
33:5763 fragments.
34:00Those are not it's not one manuscript.
34:03It's 63 fragments. That's half the Quran
34:06right there. That's the 2165. That's the
34:09Mel Quran that's there in the British G
34:11Rback Gallery there on the British
34:13library. That only is half the Quran.
34:15That only goes up to surah 43. That's
34:17the best they've got. All the rest are
34:19nothing more than fragments. Fragments
34:21all the way down to one verse or two
34:22verses. And when you add them all 63
34:25together, you get 97% of the Quran.
34:27Assuming therefore that every one of
34:29these manuscripts and these fragments
34:31are before 719. He didn't know that we'd
34:33go and check them up on it. So we did. I
34:35had my team go check them up. And this
34:37is what we found. 20 of them, the ones
34:40that I'm putting up right now in the
34:41green are tentatively dated with
34:44disagreements. That means these have no
34:46ones have come to any conclusion because
34:48people are still debating them. We have
34:51no idea whether any of them are prior to
34:53719.
34:55Notice that three of them are three of
34:56the largest ones that they have up there
34:58on the graph.
35:00Nine of them, including the largest one,
35:02the Mel one, which comes from the late
35:038th century, is not before 719. He
35:06should have never used those ones in
35:07blue right there. None of them are from
35:09before 79. They're all after 719. Well,
35:12what about the other 34? If you look at
35:15the other 34, no one's done any work on
35:17any of them. Therefore, they have no
35:19idea what dates they are. No one's ever
35:22come up with any conclusion. And
35:23therefore, they use them because they
35:25needed them, not thinking that we would
35:26hold them accountable before them. When
35:28you look at every one of these 63
35:30fragments, what of our conclusions? The
35:32conclusions are that none of them are
35:34really valid. Since all of them are
35:36either later or tentatively dated or
35:38have no supporting evidence,
35:42now we come to probably the most
35:44devastating material. This is the stuff
35:45that Hutintosh found and this is why
35:47they want to kill her. The Kats. How
35:50many know what the Kirats are? Raise of
35:51hands. None of you. Woo. Okay, this is
35:56going to all be near to you. This is new
35:57for all of you. Okay. The kats are the
36:01readings of the Quran. Now remember,
36:04Arabic was used in the Quran today. It
36:06does not the same as the Arabic that was
36:08used in the Quran in the hijab in the
36:107th century. The Arabic was Nabotian
36:12Aramaic with only 16 letters and
36:14therefore the Rosom the the letters the
36:17Rosen what we know the conental text did
36:20not have any dots. A single consonant
36:22letter could be pronounced five to eight
36:24different ways depending on where you
36:26put the dots in the vowels. But remember
36:28these dots and vowels did not exist in
36:30the seventh century. Thus in the 8th
36:32century the jams, the dots and the
36:34haraka which are the vows had to be
36:36created for that reason because no one
36:38could read them. as you who are Arab
36:40speakers, you can't read those
36:42manuscripts. You need to have dots and
36:44vowels. So, let me just give you an
36:46example. Here is a normal letter in
36:49Arabic. It's just a smiley face. You put
36:51one dot, it becomes a na or an N. Two
36:54dots becomes a T or a T. Three dots
36:56becomes a th or a th. One dot below
36:58becomes a b or a b. Two dots becomes a
37:00ya. So,
37:02those dots are needed to make to
37:04distinguish between five different
37:05letters. But those were all created in
37:07the 8th to 9th century. They did not
37:09exist in the seventh century. Then you
37:11have the three vowels. The dhama which
37:14is the ooh sound, the kas which is the e
37:16sound below the letter and then the fata
37:19which is the a sound. Now when you look
37:21those dots and vowels in the different
37:22vowels, if you take three letters
37:24together and you put dots and vowels
37:26where you want to, you can get 19
37:27different words.
37:29That's why you had to have dots and
37:31vowels. But they were all created two to
37:34300 years later. So that what we now
37:37have today are all these Qurans with
37:39different Dawson vowels. Everybody start
37:42putting their Dawson vowels where they
37:43wanted to. So you live in Kufa, you put
37:45your Dawson vowels where you want to.
37:46Your name is Huffs. Now you live in
37:48Cairo and you decide that you're going
37:49to put your DOS and vowels where you
37:51want to and your name is W. But you live
37:53in Mecca, Medina, so you your name is
37:54Albin Kat, so you put your dots and
37:56vowels where you want to. And you don't
37:58even look at each other's books and so
37:59you come up with completely different
38:00Qurans and your family memorizes yours.
38:03And those people in Cairo memorize yours
38:05and those in Middle East in Saudi Arabia
38:07memorize yours. But they're completely
38:09different. Well, don't just stop with
38:11you. Every one of you here starts to put
38:14your dots and vowels. By the 10th
38:15century, there are 700 different Qurans.
38:18Did you hear me? 700 different Qurans,
38:22all written by 700 different men all
38:24over the Middle East. There was a
38:26dilemma.
38:28Now, I'm going to show you 26. These are
38:30the 26 that Hatutun Tosh found just by
38:32going to Jordan, going to northern
38:35Africa, going to Yemen, and going to
38:37Syria. She found these 26 by 2016. She
38:41came and she showed me these 26. Not one
38:44of those 26 are alike.
38:47These you can buy today, folks. She
38:49bought them in different bookstores all
38:50over the Middle East. We took them down
38:52to Speaker's Corner. But what are they
38:55read? These are the 20 These are 26 of
38:57the 30 that exist. Here are the first
39:00seven that were created and chosen by
39:02Iban Mujahed. Look at the date. 936.
39:04Notice every one of those writers died
39:06in 785, 736, 770, 736, 745, 752, and
39:12805. They're all 8th to 9th century
39:14writers, right? None of them knew
39:15Muhammad. None of them were living when
39:17Muhammad was living. They were all
39:18creating their Quran's ex Nikilo.
39:21Can you see that? They weren't good
39:24enough. They needed a lot more. So, they
39:25had to choose some more. So a man named
39:26Al-Shabi chose two students from every
39:29one of those seven. So now you have 14
39:32others chosen to add to the seven. Now
39:34you have 21 different Qurans by 1194 by
39:37the 12th century. We're talking about
39:39500 years after Muhammad. Those still
39:41weren't enough. They had to choose
39:42another three kats and another six of
39:45their students. So you have Al Jazadi
39:47choose another three kats and six more
39:50students. So now you have nine. 7 + 21,
39:53sorry, 7 + 14 + 3 + 6 makes 30 different
39:57Qurans. By the end of the 15th century,
40:02800 years after Muhammad, you now have
40:0430 Qurans. 30 official Qurans chosen out
40:07of the 700. You're looking at them, but
40:10when you look at them on the internet,
40:11they're all there, and none of them have
40:13their dates on them. No Muslim wants you
40:15to see their dates. Look at their dates.
40:17Look when they died. They all died in
40:19the 8th and 9th and 10th century,
40:21hundreds of years after Muhammad. Not
40:23one of them is from that time period.
40:25But the one that was chosen is this one.
40:27I've just circled the huffs. How many
40:29differences between this one and the
40:31other 29? We've now found out 93,000
40:36differences.
40:3893,000 different words, which means
40:4193,000 different letters, which means
40:4393,000 different theology, different
40:45doctrines, different practices. There is
40:48not just one Quran. There are 30 Qurans
40:51with 93,000 differences. These two I
40:54have right today are the three the two
40:56the two most popular. This is the
40:58waters. This is yours from uh Cairo and
41:00this is yours. This is from Kufa. This
41:02was written in 796. This one is written
41:04in 812. There are 5,000 differences just
41:07between these two Qurans.
41:11That's all you need is just these two.
41:1393% of the Muslim world memorizes this
41:16one. 3% of the Muslim world memorizes
41:19this one. All the ones in North Africa
41:20memorize this one. Can you see why they
41:23cannot give up memorizing? Because
41:24they're completely different Qurans.
41:26They have to keep to their Qurans. Now,
41:30we showed them at Speakers Corner in
41:322016, and boy, the world went berserk as
41:35we filmed and put it up on the internet.
41:37But there was a man there who was
41:38watching what was going on. His name is
41:40Muhammad Hijab. That's him right there.
41:42and he he completely went outside the
41:44group and he said, "People come to me.
41:45I'll explain what's going on." Well,
41:47that was in 2006 and he didn't know what
41:49was going on. So, two four years later,
41:52he decided he had to do something. This
41:54is what happened. He had to go to this
41:55man here, the world's leading authority
41:57on the kadot. He was the one that did a
41:59doctoral degree at Yale University on
42:01this very problem. In 1995, he got his
42:04doctorate. Therefore, he's the world's
42:05leading official. He lives in Houston,
42:07speaks fluent English and Arabic and
42:09Udu. He's from Pakistan. His name is Dr.
42:12Yasar Kadi. He is all over the internet.
42:14If you go up on the internet, he has
42:15over a half a million followers. So
42:17Muhammad Hijab from London who is there
42:19at the corner who has a following of
42:21600,000 subscribers on his YouTube
42:24channel wanted to ask Yasar Khadi what
42:27he's going to do. And the first question
42:28he said, I'm going to put out a blank
42:30sheet, a blank hand. Which Quran are you
42:33going to write? Which is the eternal
42:34Quran?
42:36Is it Tus? Is it W? Is it IB? Isu before
42:41he could finish Yokai said do not ask me
42:44this question. We do not talk about this
42:46in public. Turn off your camera. He had
42:49no idea we were all watching and
42:52recording what he was saying.
42:55And then he says
42:57the au and the ko are the most difficult
42:59topic for scholars. You do not tell the
43:02new converts about of Islam about the
43:03kirat. Only with the more advanced
43:05students do you deep dive on this issue.
43:08asked me after this interview and I'll
43:09tell you about it. For the last thousand
43:11years, scholars do not have an answer
43:14for this problem. Muslim respect the
43:17Quran. He says, "We have a red line
43:18beyond which we don't go." So, Muhammad
43:21Hijab, is that what happened to you
43:23there at Yale University when you had a
43:25crisis of faith? No, no, no, not a
43:26crisis of faith, a crisis of knowledge.
43:30He says, "I still believe it's the word
43:31of God."
43:33He says here in the west there are no
43:35red lines at Yale University that you
43:37can ask any question you want.
43:40The standard narrative he says you your
43:42standard narrative has holes in it.
43:45That's why we call it the standard
43:46narrative. What narrative is that? The
43:49standard Islamic narrative. S I N. Well,
43:53we know sin has holes in it all over the
43:55place. Of course it has holes. But he
43:57was the one that coined the phrase and
43:58that was in October. What is the date?
44:00That was June the 8th, 2020. He said,
44:03"Western academics have come leaps and
44:05bounds on this issue. They look at the
44:07rest of us like emperors with no
44:08clothes. I've never lectured on this
44:10subject for the last 25 years. This
44:13subject should never be brought up in
44:14public. Turn off your camera. Do not ask
44:17me this to say which was written on the
44:19blank Muslim because he asked him a
44:20second time. Which one are you going to
44:21write?" Says, "Do not ask me this
44:23question." When he finally asked him the
44:25third time, he said, "Okay, okay." He
44:28finally had to give in. He said, "They
44:31are all the Quran. You mean a little bit
44:34of Huffs, a little bit of W, a little
44:35Yes. a little bit of every one of these.
44:37You just mix them all together and
44:38that's the Quran we have today." I
44:40started clapping.
44:42I said he had no idea what he was
44:44saying. He had no idea is the trap he
44:46had just walked into. Cuz no longer
44:49after June 8th, 2020 can now Muslims say
44:52there is one Quran that is completely
44:55preserved. Because the world's leading
44:57scholar has finally admit there are many
44:58Qurans. No two are alike. Within two
45:03weeks, all the comments I was looking at
45:04the comments on both of their YouTube
45:06sites. There were hundreds and hundreds
45:08of Muslims that were saying, "I am no
45:09longer a Muslim. I've given up Islam
45:11because of that interview, and my blood
45:13is going to be on your shoulder." There
45:15were hundreds of Muslims that were
45:16leaving Islam because of that interview.
45:18Just 28 minute long interview.
45:22[applause]
45:24Within two weeks, they had to shut down
45:27all those comments. They could not let
45:29those comments go. Within two months, by
45:31o August of 2020, they had to delete
45:34those interviews off of both of their
45:36sites. But I have it. It's right here in
45:40this computer. You can have it. Hatun
45:43has it. David Wood has it, Sam Shamoon,
45:45we all have it. And every June 8th, we
45:49bring it up again and we have a
45:51celebration when the Quran was thrown
45:54under the bus by Dr. Yasari. [applause]
45:58See what YouTube can do.
46:01So, how did the huffs come to be? How
46:03did they get this Quran that we called
46:05the Huffs? This all happened 100 years
46:07ago in 1924 when they were there in high
46:10schools just high school kids were
46:12coming with 20 30 different answers to
46:14these standardized tests. They had a
46:16dilemma. So they went to Muhammad
46:17Al-Husani Al-Had who is a scholar there
46:20at Alazad University and he chose the
46:23Huffs Quran. Why? Because the Ottomans
46:24had chosen the Hut Quran. So he used
46:27this Quran as the final Quran and they
46:29took the other 29 Qurans and dumped them
46:31into the Nile thinking that would get
46:32rid of them. What a stupid idea.
46:35I may get rid of them for Cairo but not
46:37for the rest of the world. And then they
46:39decided that this would be the official
46:41Quran for just the univers I'm sorry for
46:43just the high schools in Cairo. But they
46:45found that there were problems. There
46:46were lots of in difficulties. There were
46:48grammatical errors. So they had to
46:50change it seven times. Finally by 1936
46:54they decided they finally called the
46:55Faruk edition. After seven different
46:57changes they came up with the Faruk
46:59edition which they made the Quran for
47:02all of Egypt. that became so successful
47:04that in 1985
47:07King Fod who is the king uh the the
47:09their of Saudi Arabia decided to make
47:12the Huff Quran the universal Quran for
47:15all the world that was in 1985. How many
47:18of you here were alive in 1985? Raise
47:21your hands. That means every one of you
47:24that's raising your hands, you are older
47:26than the official Quran.
47:28>> Doesn't that make you feel old?
47:30The official Quran that every Muslim
47:32used today or 93% of the Muslims use
47:35today made to by this man right here in
47:37796
47:39is only 39 years old. Oo, that makes me
47:42feel old.
47:45Where did the material of the Quran come
47:47from? I'm going to end with this and
47:48this is the most devastating. This is
47:49the best one. So, where did this Quran
47:52come from? Where did all this material
47:55come from?
47:56When you look at the Quran, you will
47:57notice that about 25% of it no one
47:59understands. These are known as the dark
48:01passages. This is the beautiful poetry
48:03that's in the Quran. A lot of it none of
48:05the scholars can understand. They can't
48:06follow. It doesn't make any sense. 25%
48:09of the Quran makes no sense. Can you
48:12imagine what would our pastors do if 25%
48:14of the Bible made no sense?
48:16Thank God we don't have that problem
48:18with the Bible. We can understand every
48:19verse. Isn't it great? What a Bible we
48:22have. So, here was a problem. And this
48:25scholar here, his name Dr. Gunter
48:27Luding, he's a good friend of mine. I
48:28went to see him in 1970. He decided to
48:31look and he noticed that a lot of this
48:32beautiful hymn, these beautiful poetry
48:35that you see in the Quran that Muslims
48:37claim this must be from God because how
48:39could an illiterate man write such
48:40beautiful poetry. He said, "I've seen
48:43that before." So he decided to take the
48:45dots off. Remember I talked about the
48:47five dots and the three vowels? He took
48:49those dots and vowels off and got it
48:51down to its original consonental text.
48:53And then he went to Syriak dots and vows
48:55and put them back on. And when he put it
48:58back into the Syriak, he found that
49:00every one of this beautiful poetry were
49:02Christian hymns written in the sixth and
49:04seventh century.
49:09He wrote his doctorate, passed his
49:11doctorate. As a result, he got excan
49:14opus, which is the highest grade you can
49:16get in Germany. But within two years he
49:19was thrown out of the university, thrown
49:21into obscurity and he went on welfare
49:23for 30 years and his wife. I went to see
49:26him the end of 1990s. I went to his
49:28home. I asked him about his doctoral
49:29thesis. He showed me and I says, "Can I
49:32take them back to in London with me?"
49:33And I get them translated into English
49:34because no one can understand your
49:36German because this German, listen, the
49:37first sentence was 400 words long. This
49:40is high German. And I went through three
49:43translators in Britain to try to
49:45understand what this all made sense. We
49:46finally got it all translated into
49:48English. We sent it back to him. That's
49:50it there in the yellow. He then got it
49:51printed up in India and he went all over
49:54the world and he is now been
49:55resurrected. He's back. He was back in
49:57academia and he died a happy man by 2015
50:00just because we got it translated into
50:02English. [applause]
50:07Christoph Luxembourg, that's not his
50:08real name. Another German scholar, it's
50:10all coming out of Germany. He decided to
50:11go one step further. He wanted to do
50:13what gulluling did but he wanted to go
50:15look to all this dark passages that no
50:17one understands and he went through
50:19seven different layers. He first looked
50:21at the alabar's 10th century taps the
50:24commentary and he couldn't find any help
50:25there. He then looked at the listen alab
50:27the tongue of the Arabs the Arabic
50:28dictionary he couldn't find any help
50:30there and then he went and looked at the
50:32homonymous synonyms in the Aramaic then
50:34started he started seeing things happen
50:36then he tried different diiocritics
50:38taking off the five dots putting on the
50:41other Aramaic dotsaic dots and then he
50:44looked for Aramaic roots with different
50:46diiocritics and then re-ransated the
50:48Arabic word back into the Aramaic using
50:50the semantics of the cyroaic words
50:53trying to find the lost meanings of
50:54these Arab words using 10th century
50:56Syraic lexicons, he was able to
50:59translate every one of the dark
51:01passages. But guess what he found?
51:05By translating it back to the
51:07Cyro-Aramaic,
51:09all the dark passages were Christian
51:11lectionaries, Christian homalies, and
51:13Christian hymns, all to Jesus Christ.
51:16[applause]
51:18It's not what he found, it's who he
51:21found. All of these beautiful poetry,
51:24all this beautiful part of the Quran, it
51:26was all from Christian lectionaries,
51:29Christian homalies, and Christian hymns.
51:32Folks,
51:34you know what that means? That means we
51:36need to go back and take the Quran back
51:38to its roots. We need to take the Quran
51:41back to the Syriak roots. And what we're
51:44going to do, we're in the process of
51:46doing that now. We're going to take
51:47bring the Quran home. Now remember I
51:50told you to memorize four words. I told
51:53you that the Quran was eternal,
51:57sent down, complete and unchanged.
52:01That's what the Muslims claim, right?
52:03Have we shut down eternality tonight?
52:06Yep.
52:07>> How about sent down? We shut that down
52:08tonight. Complete? No. None of it's
52:11complete. None of the earliest
52:12manuscripts complete. Unchanged.
52:1493,000 changes. And that's just the diet
52:17critical changes. 4,000
52:21come on continental changes that Dan
52:23Brewbaker has found since 2014. The last
52:2610 years he's found 4,000 changes and
52:28he's still counting. So pretty much
52:31we've shut those down. No longer can
52:33Muslims claim that the Quran is eternal
52:35or sent down or complete or unchanged.
52:38We've shut that down. And we would never
52:40make that claim about our Bible. Please
52:42don't. Our Bible is not eternal nor was
52:44it sent down. Complete. Yes. the
52:46original manuscripts. We don't have the
52:48original manuscript changed. We know
52:49where the changes are because they're
52:51right there. We're very transparent
52:52about it. But see, the Bible is not the
52:55only word of God we have, right? There's
52:58another word of God, the logos.
53:02Jesus, is he also not called the word of
53:04God?
53:06>> Yes. In John 1,
53:09he is our eternal word of God. Let's ask
53:11these four questions of Jesus. Is Jesus
53:13eternal? Number one, was he sent down?
53:18>> Number two, is he complete?
53:21>> Number three, has he changed? Never.
53:24Everything the Muslims are looking for,
53:26we have in Jesus Christ.
53:29Mo folks, listen. The four criteria
53:31Muslims are looking for in their Quran,
53:33their primary revelation, we already
53:35have in Jesus Christ, our primary
53:37revelation. In conclusion, let's bring
53:40them home to a much greater and a much
53:43better revelation. and his name is Jesus
53:45Christ.
53:47[applause]
53:51[applause]
53:54>> I've got to catch my plane. I have two
53:56minutes before I leave. But folks, I
53:58want to end in prayer. Let's pray. Our
54:00heavenly father, this has been a good
54:02night because we have unpacked probably
54:04the most devastating material that shuts
54:07down the whole foundations of everything
54:09Muslims believe. They believe in one
54:11book, one man in one place.
54:13We've shut down that place quite easily.
54:16The man's a little bit more difficult.
54:17The place even more difficult. But Lord,
54:21just by going back to that time, that
54:23place in the 7th century in the middle
54:26part of Arabia, we pretty well know
54:28there was no Muhammad, there was no
54:30Quran, and there certainly was no Mecca.
54:32But see, we don't have that problem.
54:34Lord, you have made sure that you have
54:37left these coins for us to look at. You
54:39have made sure that you've left these
54:41inscriptions and these manuscripts and
54:43these buildings. You have made sure that
54:45if we're not going to cry out, the rocks
54:46are going to cry out for us.
54:49Lord, you have kept all these beautiful
54:51pieces, these gems all through the
54:53desert so that we can find out who you
54:55were, what you did, what you said, and
54:56we can trust what has been written about
54:59you because it was written by those who
55:00actually knew you,
55:02who were with you for the last three
55:04years of your life.
55:06Lord, we have passed every one of these
55:08tests. These are tests that we have
55:11always had to do for the last 2,000
55:13years. Since the 1800s, we have had to
55:15pass these tests to prove that you did
55:16exist, to prove that you did die, and
55:18especially to prove that you rose again.
55:20And we have proved every one of those,
55:23which means we are the most best capable
55:25to do the same with Islam and any other
55:29religion that shows its face and take
55:31claims to be historical. So Lord, help
55:34us to get beyond this fear. Give us the
55:38courage to take that which you have
55:40given us to not hide it under a bushell
55:44to expose it to the world and expose it
55:46to the to the Muslims are be beautiful
55:49lovely men and women who I love
55:52who have been changed and dis and
55:54completely destroyed by one book and one
55:57man. Lord, help us bring them home.
56:01Let's bring them home to you. Take them
56:03away from Allah, back to Yahweh. Take
56:06them away from Muhammad, back to Jesus
56:08Christ, to you, Lord. Take them away
56:10from the Quran and back to your
56:12scripture in your gospel. And Lord, help
56:14us to do that in with every Muslim we
56:17meet. So Lord, as we leave tonight, we
56:20ask that we take this message with us
56:22and that we use it, that we don't hide
56:23it, and Lord, that we use it with our
56:25Muslim friends because they need it more
56:27than anybody else and they're growing
56:28faster than anybody else. We need to
56:30actually bring them home. What would it
56:32be to have that many souls who become
56:34Pauls? Can you imagine these most
56:35radical Muslims bringing them to you?
56:37And Lord, what you can do with them? And
56:40so Lord, we ask that you help us to
56:42understand this material and use it for
56:44your glory, for your kingdom. In
56:46Christ's name we pray. Amen.
56:49[applause]
56:51>> Okay, I have two questions.
56:55I'm going to end with these two
56:56questions. I said I was going to ask you
56:59two questions at the end. Don't get up
57:00yet. to stay here. How many of you
57:03understood everything you saw tonight?
57:05Raise of hands.
57:07Not exhaustedly, but how many
57:09understood?
57:11>> Okay, about half of you.
57:14How many, if I gave you this PowerPoint,
57:17could actually use it and actually teach
57:20it yourself?
57:22Look at that. Wow.
57:25See how easy this is?
57:27This is by far the easiest material I've
57:30ever used in 40 years. I've never had it
57:32this easy. It's all visual. You notice
57:35it's maps, it's timelines, it's coins,
57:39it's inscriptions, it's manuscripts.
57:42Notice none of you had to learn Arabic
57:43to learn what you what we were saying
57:45tonight. You don't have to learn all
57:47about these great these terrible these
57:49difficult arguments in the hadith and
57:51the traditions. You don't have to
57:53memorize any of this. You don't even
57:54have to look at the Quran. Don't even
57:56read the Quran. What a waste of time.
58:00Let me do that.
58:02All you have to do is ask those
58:04questions. And one of the easiest
58:06question is, where's your evidence?
58:09Have you done your research?
58:11How can you claim Mecca existed? There's
58:13no water there. What are you going to do
58:14without water? You can't have a
58:16civilization. You can't even have a
58:18Quran. All these questions, every one of
58:20those slides is an argument in
58:22themselves. And you can have these
58:24slides now. You can have every one of
58:25these. I've got to leave. You're
58:28[snorts] going to stay. I hope you meet
58:30Muslims. They're all around you. Listen,
58:32please. Whenever you go up to Muslim,
58:34always ask them, show or say two things
58:36to every Muslim you meet. I believe
58:38Jesus is God. I believe the Bible is the
58:40word of God. Do you have an opinion?
58:43They'll have hundreds of opinions.
58:46But show the evidence that we have for
58:48our Bible, our book, and our man, Jesus
58:51Christ. So much evidence. They have
58:54nothing in return. God bless you. We'll
58:56see you again. I'm off.

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