Hi Nova, and welcome to the forum.
While I can appreciate what would seem the inter-Islamic differences regarding perception on inheritance of persons, this forum is more about the
fundamentals of Islam, and Christianity, and such crucial things as Mohammed's religion being revealed as the exact opposite of the Gospel. I'll move this thread to the Islam section in a bit.
In regard to inheritance, for example, how the everlasting covenant God has with Abraham and his seed was inherited by Isaac and specifically not Ishmael.
Regarding the inspiration of the Quran it enjoys quite a colorful history indeed.
http://islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=2285.msg9459#msg9459Regarding no error in the Quran I'll defer to the world's leading expert on that. According to Gerd Puin (
Google the name),
the world's leading specialist in Arabic calligraphy and Qur'anic paleography, regarding his study of the oldest manuscripts...
"My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within the Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants. The Qur'an claims for itself that it is 'mubeen,' or clear, but if you just look at it, you will see that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn't make sense. Many Muslims will tell you otherwise, but the fact is that a fifth of the Qur'an is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Qur'an is not comprehensible, if it can't even be understood in Arabic, then it's not translatable into any language. That is why Muslims are afraid."
Gerd Puin was the head of a restoration project, commissioned by the Yemeni government, which spent a significant amount of time examining the ancient Qur'anic manuscripts discovered in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1972, in order to find criteria for cataloging them scientifically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_R._PuinLet me ask. In the 7th century, after the Gospel had been translated into every popular language, had been copied tens of thousands of times, and had been being read all over the known world, Mohammed said the following
Sura 5:47
Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed therein. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) those who rebel.Can you explain this? It is certainly what Christians do.