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The 21st surah, named "The Prophets," was revealed during Muhammad's waning days in Mecca. In earlier chapters we covered the heart of this surah. On this pass we will just pick up some of the remaining highlights. It opens immersed in the never-ending feud: Qur'an 21:2 "Never comes to them a renewed reminder from their Lord, but they listen to it in jest, playing in sport, their hearts toying with trifles. The wrongdoers conceal their private counsels, conferring in secret, 'He is just a man like yourselves - a mortal. Will you succumb to his witchcraft with your eyes open.' Say: 'My Lord is the One that hears and knows.' 'Nay.' they say, 'these are merely medleys of muddled dreams! He forged it! He is just a poet! Let him then bring us a miracle like the ones that were sent to (prophets) of old!'" This is the complete package. Muhammad's contemporaries ridiculed his Qur'anic revelations. They called him a counterfeiter, a witch, a muddled dreamer, and a mere poet. They said that he lacked any proof for his farfetched claims of divine selection and inspiration. And clearly, they knew him much better than we do today.

Qur'an 21:6 "Not one of the populations which We destroyed believed: will these believe? And We sent not before you but men, whom We revealed. Ask the keepers of the Reminder (Scriptures, the Torah and Gospel) if you do not know. Nor did We give them bodies that ate not food, nor were they immortals. Then We fulfilled to them the promise. So we saved them and whom We pleased, and We destroyed the disbelievers." The Islamic god just asked Muslims to check with the Jews if they were looking for answers.

Using a moron to argue with a village of illiterates, the ignorant deity said: Qur'an 21:10 "Verily, We have sent down for you a Book in which is your reminder. Have you then no sense?" Returning to his favorite theme: "How many towns have We utterly destroyed because of their wrongs, exchanging them for other people? When they (felt) Our Torment, behold, they (began to) fly. Fly not, but return to that which emasculated you so that you may be interrogated. They cried: 'Woe to us.' Their crying did not cease till We mowed them down as ashes silent and quenched." The Islamic god (a.k.a. Satan) is bragging about how many civilizations he destroyed. Demonstrating the godless mindset of a concentration camp warden he said he emasculated men, interrogating them, making them cry. Then he mowed them down, turning their bodies to ashes. It's little wonder Hitler based Mein Kampf on Islam.

The next passage takes us from demented to delusional. Qur'an 21:16 "Not for sport did We create the heavens, earth and all that is between! It wasn't a plaything. If it had been Our wish to take a pastime, to make a diversion or hobby (like a wife or a son), We surely could have made it Ourselves, in Our presence, if We would do." While this is weird, the last line is revealing. Yahweh is infinite; Allah is not. The heavens and earth are outside his presence.

Qur'an 21:18 "Nay, We fling the true against the false, and it knocks out its brains. [In a way, it's true. Hurl enough of this stuff at someone and they'll lose their mind.] Behold, it is vanished! Ah! woe be to you for that thing you ascribe. To Him belong all (creatures) in the heavens and earth: Those who are near Him are not too proud to serve, nor are they weary."

Moving ahead, we return to the never-ending argument. Qur'an 21:24 "Say, 'Bring your proof: this is the Reminder Book for those before me but most do not know and are adverse.'" Unable to read, neither god nor prophet knew that a recital was not a book and that their lecture was diametrically opposed to "The Book" they were referencing. As a result, they insisted the gods and books were the same. Qur'an 21:25 "Not a messenger did We send before you but We revealed to him: La ilaha illa Ana (No gods but I), so worship Me."

Incredibly, this assertion of a singular divinity is followed by: Qur'an 21:26 "And yet they say: 'Ar-Rahman has begotten a son.' Too exalted his He." Most translations, trying to hide their god's duplicity, mistranslate the passage: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten offspring." If Muslims have to deceive us to keep their god together, their god isn't in any better shape than the fractured rock they call his home.

This verse was the first of many to demean the Messiah. Yahshua (Jesus's real name), claimed to be God. Qur'an 21:29 "If any of them should say, 'I am an ilah (god) besides Him.' such a one We should reward with Hell." If Allah is right, the Messiah is burning in hell - which is indeed where the dark spirit would like to see him. But then again, since hell is separation from God, it wouldn't be hell any more.

It's time for the Islamic god, whatever his name might be, to prove his divinity. Qur'an 21:26 "Don't the unbelievers see that the heavens and earth were joined together in one piece before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe? And We have set on the earth mountains as stabilizers, lest the earth should convulse without them. And We have made therein broad highways for them to pass through, that they may be guided. We have made the heaven a roof well guarded. Yet they turn away from its Signs! All (the celestial bodies) swim along, on a course, floating." Celestial bodies swim, and mountains prevent earthquakes.

It's little wonder unbelievers were prone to ridicule. Qur'an 21:36 "When the disbelievers see you (Muhammad), they treat you with ridicule, choosing you out for mockery: 'Is this he who mentions your gods? Yet they disbelieve at the mention of Ar-Rahman." If Ar-Rahman were Allah, this conversation would be impossible, because Allah was a Meccan god. They believed in him, in his Ka'aba, and in his Black Stone. He was their meal ticket. However, since Ar-Rahman was a competitive idol, the god of the Yemeni Hanifs, the godly confusion was understandable. But while it made sense, it destroyed Islam's central claim, its only reason for being - "There is no ilah but Allah."

The next verse returns to pain and punishment, because there is an Ilah and he is not Allah. Qur'an 21:37 "Man is created of haste: I will show you My Signs; then you will not ask Me to hasten them! They say: 'When will this (come to pass) if you are telling the truth.' If only the unbelievers knew (when) they will not be able to ward off the fire from their faces, nor from their backs! Nay, it will come to them all of a sudden and stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it or avert it."

Punishment over, Ar-Rahman explains that all of his prophets were as bad as Muhammad. Qur'an 21:41 "Mocked were messengers before you, but their scoffers were hemmed in by what they mocked. Say: 'Who can protect you from (the wrath of) Ar-Rahman.' Yet they turn away from the mention of their Lord. Have they alihah (gods) who can defend them against Us (from Our Torment)?" A Meccan would never have turned away from Allah. Yet all should run from this spirit lest they become its prey.

Qur'an 21:44 "Do they see Us advancing, gradually reducing the land (in their control), curtailing its borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome." Sounds like Ar-Rahman is promoting an Islamic land grab.

In the next thirty verses, Muhammad recreates Abraham in his image. Then he moves on to Isaac, Lot, Noah, David, Solomon, Job, Ishmael, Jonah, Zachariah, and John. We learn that Mary was a virgin whose chastity was preserved by Allah so that he could breathe his spirit into her, producing a token for mankind.

That brings us to: Qur'an 21:98 "Verily you (unbelievers), and that which you worship besides Allah, are (but) faggots for the Hell Fire! And come to it you will! There, sobbing and groaning will be your lot. You will not hear (anything else)."

The surah's final verses tell us that the "good reward for those pre-ordained by Us" will be to "safely avoid the mighty terror." The Devil says, "The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll, We shall revert it to nothing." And: "We prescribed the Book of Psalms."

In a surah insightfully named "The Prophets," we find this jewel: Qur'an 21:92 "Verily, this Brotherhood of Islam is a single Religion, and I am your Lord: therefore worship Me. But (later generations) broke into fragments as regards to their religion, one from another." This generation of Muslims has spent more time fighting amongst themselves than attacking infidels. But the Bible (and through it the Qur'an), predicts that this will soon change... "(Yet) they will all return to Us [to make war on Israel]. Therefore whoever shall do good [fighting] deeds as a believer, there shall be no denying of his exertion, and surely We will write (it) down for him (in his book of deeds)."

Then speaking of the Jews: "But there is a ban on any population which We have destroyed: that they shall not return until Gog and Magog are let loose (from their barrier) and they swoop down, swarming from every hill, letting loose and breaking forth from every elevated place. Then will the true promise of Doom draw nigh. Behold, the disbelieving Infidels will be terrorized, staring in horror. 'Woe to us! Alas! We made a state heedless of this. We did wrong!'" Wise and cunning as ever, the Jews who sold Muhammad his scripture, infused it with an admonition: "Do not build a state without heeding this warning." But this is exactly what Israel has done.

Yet fourteen hundred years ago, Yathrib Jews hooked Muhammad. He took the bait and swam with it, not knowing that he was being used to predict his own demise. Qur'an 21:98 "Verily you (disbelieving Infidels), and the gods that you worship besides Allah, are the fuel for Hell, faggots for the fire! Certainly you will enter it! Had their (idols) been (real) alihah (gods), they would have kept them out of Hell. Therein, sobbing will be your lot. Breathing with deep sighs, roaring. You will hear nothing but wailing and groaning." He calls this : 021:103 "The Greatest Terror," "The Supreme Horror," "The Fearful Event. The angels will meet them. 'This is the Day [of Doom] which you were promised. The Day that We shall roll up the world like a scroll; a promise (binding on Us); surely We will bring it about." Amongst all of this hate speech, there is a problem. Allah is allegedly talking to disbelieving infidels, but they, according to Muhammad, were never to see this book. So why are these threats here? What purpose do they serve?

Dumb to the bitter end, Muhammad ends "his" prophecy by confirming that the source of his inspiration was the Bible, although he got the section wrong: Qur'an 21:105 "Certainly, We wrote this prophecy before in the Scripture (given to Moses). The Message: 'My righteous slaves shall inherit the earth.'" The Gog prophecy is in Ezekiel, not the Torah. And Muslims will never inherit the earth - although they will die trying. The Iranian Ayatollah, Gog, will bring a "Day of Doom."

As you read this next verse, remember that the words and phrases inside parenthesis are not mine. They were added by translators so we might understand what Allah was saying. Qur'an 21:106 "Verily in this (Qur'an) is a Message, a plain statement for folks who worship Allah (and for those who act practically on the Sunnah - legal ways of the Prophet). And We sent you (Muhammad) not but as a mercy for mankind and jinn [demons]. Say: (Muhammad) 'It is revealed to me that your Ilah (God) is only one Ilah (God). Will you submit to His Will (and become Muslims)? But if they (disbelievers, Christians, and Jews) turn away (from Islam) say: 'I give notice (of war) to be known to all. But I know not whether the (torment which you are) promised and threatened is nigh or far." It is nigh.