PEACE:
THE REFORMIST CASE
Main Book: Quran a reformist translation; Translated and annotated by Edip Yuksel, Layth Saleh, and Martha Schulted.
Their argument: Quran is not written in clear Arabic words, but in mathematical code.
Their Prophet: Rashad Kalifa
Accusation: twisting the word, and leading farther astray the already lost Muslim community.
Reformist is one of the latest sects competing for the sheep-like followers in the Muslim community. They are good at cutting the ears of their cattle so that it cannot listen.
According to the reformist, their messenger received revelation in 1974, in which he, and his disciples, were allowed to twist the whole idea of the message of Quran. They sound just like Paul in the bible.
They affirmed in Surat 74: ?Prophesy fulfilled?. Claiming that verse 74:30 translated by them as ?on it is nineteen? refers to the Quran and its 19 Code. Let?s analyze the verses around it, in order to show their corruption.
74:25 سَأُصْلِيهِ I will burn him/ cause him to suffer سَقَرَ SaQaR 74:26 وَمَآ And what أَدْرَاكَ tells you مَا what سَقَرُ SaQaR [is] 74:27 لاَ No تُبْقِى She spares وَلاَ and not تَذَرُ she leaves 74:29 لَوَّاحَةٌ Scorcher/ burner (fem. Noun) لِّلْبَشَرِ for the human/ skin 74:30 عَلَيْهَا over her تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ nineteen 74:31 وَمَا And not جَعَلْنَآ we have made أَصْحَابَ guardians [of] ٱلنَّارِ the fire إِلاَّ except مَلاَئِكَةً angels. وَمَا And not جَعَلْنَآ we have made عِدَّتَهُمْ their number إِلاَّ except فِتْنَةً trial لِّلَّذِينَ for the ones that كَفَرُواْ they have disbelieved?
Verse 74:30 is clearly speaking about SaQaR wich is presented as a synonym of Fire. It is impossible that 74:30 could be speaking about Quran, or even Kitab (the book), because it is talking about a feminine subject, and Quran and Kitab are masculine.
3:7 He [is] the one that descended upon you the book, مِنْهُ of him(it) verses/signs precise/well defined?
72:1 It has been revealed to me that a group of the Jin listened, they have said: verily we, we have heard a Quran wondrous.72:2 يَهْدِيۤ he(it) guides إِلَى over/to ٱلرُّشْدِ the good judgment/ correctness; فَآمَنَّا so, we have believed بِهِ in him(it) وَلَن and never نُّشرِكَ we associating بِرَبِّنَآ with our Lord أَحَداً anyone.
19:97 فَإِنَّمَا then, verily that يَسَّرْنَاهُ we have facilitated him(it) بِلَسَانِكَ in your language لِتُبَشِّرَ to give good news بِهِ with him(it)?
85:21 بَلْ Nay هُوَ him(it) قُرْآنٌ [is a] Quran مَّجِيدٌ [a] Glorious one.
They claim that verse 74:35 makes emphasis on the code 19 . However, 74:35 إِنَّهَا verily her(it) لإِحْدَى * one[of]/unique/alone َ ٱلْكُبَرِ the greatest, it is still talking about the feminine subject SaQaR. Maybe SaQaR has a 19 code. Well, if the continue in their path, soon they will come to know.
They also claim more nonsense about Surat 74, they say: ??now we know that the word Saqar refers to an intellectual punishment. The extreme allergy and aversion demonstrated by Sunni and Shiite mushriks against the number 19 is part of the prophetic fulfillment of these verses.? They even dare to call people Mushriks, they should get the plank out of their eye, so that they can see the piece of grass in their brother?s eye.
They claim that the Quarn is numerically structured, and put as evidence 83:9,20, which they claim to say ?numbered record?. However, the word مَّرْقُومٌ Marqwm has a closer meaning to marked, inscribed, than to numbered. Furthermore, verse 89:9 is not talking about Quran, but about Sijyn, the record of the wicked, and verse 83:20 about I?lywn, the record of the pious.
They claim to even have the true interpretation of the mutashabih (resembling, allegorical) verses, because, as they claim, they are people well founded in knowledge. However, if the root is rotten, then the whole tree is sick.
Can their translation of Quran be trusted by believers? They say: ? To correct the egregious historical biases so obvious in previous English translations, we have chosen to take an inclusive approach incorporating input from scholars, lay readers, and even non-Muslims?? This people are a joke.
This people seem to be only in the business of creating controversial issues, and creating confusion in the community with respect to rituals commanded by God, in order to sell books.
2:11 If they are told ?Do not make evil in the land,? they say, ?but we are the reformers!?
2:12 No, they are evildoers, but they do not perceive.
May God increase our knowledge and give us wisdom.
