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The Quran asserts that Allah punished a certain group of Jews by transforming them into apes and pigs: And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated! S. 2:65     Shall I tell thee of a worse

In this post I will be citing specific narrations taken from the Shia hadith collections in respect to the existence and identity of the Gospel, which the Quran states was given to Jesus and which is said to have been in the possession of the Christians at Muhammad’s time.

In this post I will be quoting from an online Muslim Q&A site, which asserts that the Arabic Quran recited by Muslims and written down is created. These authors/scholars state that the Quran as the speech of Allah is not identical to that which is in the

In this post, I cite specific narrations from the Al-Kafi collection, considered by Shia to be one of their most authoritative sources on ahadith, in respect to the corruption of the Quran. According to this Shiah work, the Quran initially contained 17,000 verses and was “revealed” in one way,

In this article I will cite particular hadiths from the collection titled Al-Kafi in respect to Allah’s body-parts and the Quran’s relationship to him. Unlike Salafis who affirm that references to Allah’s hands, eyes, shin etc., are to be affirmed to really exist as Allah’s attributes

I start a new series where I will be sharing narrations from Shia Islam’s most authoritative collection of traditions called al-Kafi.  I will be citing from the online version which can be accessed here: Al-Kafi – Volume 1 – The Sufficient. Here’s what the site itself says about this collection: