Former Muslim Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017) exposes some little-known facts about Islam which he discovered through his own research. And what he learned about his childhood religion was WILDLY different from what the media and educational materials teach us today!
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Muhammad initially thought he was demon-possessed when he received the first Qur'anic revelation.
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Muhammad tried to commit suicide when his angel didn't return for a while.
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Muhammad was susceptible to black magic and delivered Qur'anic verses he later admitted were from Satan.
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Many unsavoury facts about Muhammad were reported by Islam's most reliable sources of Hadith, i.e. Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim etc.
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The earliest biography (Sira) of Muhammad by Ibn Ishaq was edited and redacted by Ibn Hisham to remove elements which the latter considered to be unreliable.
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Early Muslim sources including Sahih Muslim admit that large sections of the Qur'an were lost after Muhammad's death.
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Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and Ubayy ibn Ka'b (two of Muhammad's top four Qur'an teachers) disagreed on the number of surahs (chapters) in the Qur'an. Ibn Mas'ud posited 111 surahs, while Ibn Ka'b put forward 116. Today's Qur'an contains 114 surahs.
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Today's predominant version (qira'ah) of the Qur'an, called 'Hafs', was only elevated to that position in 1924. Other variants remain in use today, such as the 'Warsh' qira'ah in Morocco. Due to ambiguities in early Arabic script, each qira'ah differs from the others in pronunciation, grammar and a few small words.
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Despite claims by Islamophile Maurice Bucaille (1920-1998), the Qur'an does not, in fact, contain scientific miracles.
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The archaeological record in Mecca, Saudi Arabia is virtually non-existent before the 8th century (Muhammad died in the 7th century). Instead, nearly all the earliest mosques until 750 AD faced the city of Petra in Jordan.
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People have successfully written surahs like the Qur'an. When recited aloud, Muslims confused the new compositions with the Qur'an.
From all these facts, a case can be made that Islamic governments/authorities from the time of Muhammad until 2020 edited the Qur'an and rewrote parts of Islamic history to conceal key information from the average Muslim and the general public.
It's all a SHAM!