Dear fellow humans!
If you have a lot of time to waste, or if you are compelled to read the Quran, then at least read it in a language that you can understand.
Here are some comments by a few ex-Muslims. They read the Quran when they were believing Muslims, and they came up to this conclusion:
(1)
Holy smokes that is the most cultist gibberish I have ever read.
“God is so great and he will punish the fools that deny it” “God has given signs and they deny. There is a severe punishment for them”, “God is the most almighty and people who deny his greatness are losers. There is a harsh punishment waiting them”
It’s just the same stuff from the first page to the last. Why do Muslims use “produce something like it” as an argument on why the Quran is from God? There was absolutely nothing profound in the book.
It amazes me how people are so indoctrinated and brainwashed that they actually believe the texts in this book are so amazing and special.
(2)
Yeah, it's uninspiring, boring, repetitive, incoherent and reads like a school kid's attempt at trying to sound profound and intellectual.
There's nothing uniquely divine or inspiring from it, it's just banal threats and copying of older stories.
(3)
The Koran is a hot mess of a litany of threats of believe or burn, believe or burn, believe or burn, look at the camel as a sign of Allah, believe or burn, believe or burn. Truth needs no threats to back it up. Only falsehoods require such threats.
Koran 88:17:
Do they not ever reflect on camels—how they were ˹masterfully˺ created;
How is pointing out the camel in any way shape or form a sign of Allah alone? Just this argument being made should disqualify Allah as a god. Even the most brain dead deity wouldn't make such asinine claims that could also be made by thousands of other gods that humans have cooked up over the years. Seeing a camel is no more a sign of Allah than it is a sign of Odin, Zeus or Jupiter.
It beggars belief that there are people who go around claiming that the Koran is some sort of miracle that is "proof" of Allah. If anything it is proof of how gullible human beings can be in believing something only due to threats of eternal hell.
(4)
The Quran is a huge book, but it is filled only with boasting about powers of Allah and old stories, and nothing is present in it which could be practically beneficial to humankind. Human needs laws, but there is hardly 1% Sharia rulings present in it. Human Rights are the most important issue, but they are almost non-existent in it.
Muslims claim that Allah wanted to abolish slavery gradually. But it didn't happen and numbers of slaves gradually only increased throughout the Islamic history. If there were thousands of slaves during Muhammad era, then it increased to several hundred thousands during the era of so-called first 4 rightly guided Caliphs, and then to millions in the later coming caliphates. The Bazaars of Slavery in Islamic States were the BIGGEST in that era.
There is absolutely no hint present in the Quran that later coming Muslims should abolish slavery. The only verses in the Quran regarding slavery is this that Muslim men are allowed to sleep with slave women. Rest of the Quran is filled with boasting about powers of Allah, and how he will punish those who don't believe in him, and old fantasy stories.
Please also read our article: Ridiculous level of Incoherence in Quran
Hassan Radwan