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The Germans know who, why & what the Qur'an's all about!

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PfanderFilms

apologetics

November 25, 2021
The Germans now know quite a bit about the Proto-Qur'an (that from which the Qur'an was derived), because they have looked at the Aramaic antecedents to the Qur'an and found from where it was primarily borrowed. In this video Thomas explains who the Qur'an was originally primarily about when it was previously written in Syro-Aramaic, and it should come as no surprise that most of the numerous titles in that original Qur'an referred to Jesus. He also pointed to the many outside influences, which came not only from Christian sources, but from Jewish, Persian, Buddhist, and especially Gnostic sources. As to its purposes, it was written primarily as a commentary on the Old Testament Aramaic Peshitta, and the New Testament Aramaic Diattesseron (created by Tatian in 140 AD). Even the word 'Islam' in Aramaic meant "in accordance with scripture", proving that was why the Qur'an was written. Thomas also explains what the mysterious 'letters' at the beginning of the Suras mean, something Muslim scholars have never understood for the past 1400 years, primarily because none of them would have known Aramaic, nor even considered that may be the Qur'an's source. In Aramaic these letters were used as keys to refer to the different Psalms of David, so that the readers could know from which Psalm the liturgy of that text was being borrowed. Even the word 'Qur'an' is derived from the Aramaic word 'Qeryan-a' which was the word for Lectionnary, a book used in the church for selected liturgical scriptures, as well as homilies about those scriptures, usually read during a Sunday church service. Ironically Surah 12:1-2 in the Qur'an mentions that the Qur'an is really a lectionary, while Surah 3:7 delineates for the reader which were the canonical scriptures and that which was an apocryphal writing, which in the original Aramaic would have been a caution to those who were reading these lectionaries. The contents of this video are pieced together from many different sources. Most of them only exist in the German language. 1) A lot comes from Karl-Heinz Ohlig‘s article called “Von Bagdad nach Merw” which was published in the book “Vom Koran zum Islam” 2) The Buddhist parallels come from Markus Groß’ article called “Buddhistische Einflüsse im frühen Islam“ published in “Schlaglichter: Die beiden ersten islamischen Jahrhunderte” 3) The Persian influences come from Ignaz Goldziher’s paper which was first published in French called “Islamisme et Parsisme” an English version of which is in the Book “Early Islam: A Critical Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources” 4) The Koran being a Christian lectionary is discussed in Christoph Luxenberg’s book which exists in English: “The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran” © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2021 (57,670) Music: "Travels" by Aleksound, from filmmusic-io