The Quran is the main text of Islam and one of
the three sources from which Sharia law is cast.
The Quran (also spelled Koran or Qur'an ) was
dictated by Muhammad over a 23-year period
and compiled after he died. The Quran consists
of 114 surah which are ordered primarily
according to their length, starting with the
longest.

Are there any errors in the Quran?

The Quran has errors (see below).
Some of the
errors in Quran are self-contradictions that
Naskh tries to bridge. But Quran also has
historical and archaeological errors, as well as
errors in mathematics and logic.
For example,
the Quran states that one night, Allah took
Muhammad to "al-Aqsa" mosque in Jerusalem:

"Exalted is He who took His Servant by night
from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa,
whose surroundings We have blessed, to
show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the
Hearing, the Seeing." - Quran 17:1


The Muslim army conquered Jerusalem in 637
AD and al-Aqsa mosque was completed in 705
AD. The problem with the above claim in the
Quran is that Muhammad died in 632 AD, which
was 5 years before the Muslim army took
Jerusalem and 73 years before al-Aqsa mosque
was built.

Or consider Quran 20:92-95, which claims that
Moses confronted "Aaron" and a "Samaritan"
for having made the golden calf for the
Israelites while he (Moses) was on Mount Sinai:
"[Moses] said, "O Aaron, what prevented you,
when you saw them going astray, from
following me? Then have you disobeyed my
order?" [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother,
do not seize [me] by my beard or by my
head. Indeed, I feared that you would say,
'You caused division among the Children of
Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my
word.'" [Moses] said, "And what is your case,
O Samaritan?" - Quran 20:92-95
Assyria conquered the Jewish northern kingdom
in 722 BC, exiled its upper class and brought in
conquered people from other lands, who
intermarried with the lower class Jews who had
been allowed to stay. Their offspring were called
"Samaritans" because they occupied the region
of "Samaria," which was named after its original
owner, "Shemer" (see 1 Kings 16:24 in the
Bible). The Jews despised the Samaritans both
for being a mixed race and for setting up their
own temple to compete against the temple in
Jerusalem.
But the golden calf incident near Mount Sinai
mentioned in Quran 20:92-95 above took place
in 1446 BC, which was 725 years before the first
Samaritan was born in 721 BC.
It gets worse. Here is what the Quran says
about Mary, the mother of Jesus:
"Then she brought [ Jesus] to her people,
carrying him. They said, "O Mary, you have
certainly done a thing unprecedented. O
sister of Aaron, your father was not a man of
evil, nor was your mother unchaste." - Qur'an
19:27-28
"And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who
guarded her chastity, and We breathed into
(her body) of our spirit; and she believed in
the words of her Lord and of His revelations,
and was of the devoutly obedient." - Qur'an
66:12
There are a number of "Mary" - also spelled
"Maria" or "Miriam" in English - in the Bible. One
of them is the mother of Jesus:
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows:
after His mother Mary was betrothed to
Joseph, before they came together, she was
found with child of the Holy Spirit." - Matthew
1:18
But the Mary who is the "daughter of
Imran" (spelled "Amran" in the Bible) and the
"sister of Aaron" was the sister of Moses who
lived in the 15th century BC:
"The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the
daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in
Egypt; and to Amram she bore Aaron and
Moses and their sister Miriam." - Numbers
26:59
Therefore, unless Mary was 1,500 years old
when she bore Jesus (see how old was Mary
when she had Jesus? ) - indeed, unless Joseph
married a 1,500 year old virgin - Muhammad
mistook two different women in the Bible as the
same Mary.
Why does the Qur'an contain such glaring
errors?
The proximate reason is that Muhammad was
illiterate and therefore could not read the Bible
for himself. He had only a vague and often
incorrect knowledge of it from what others read
to him.
The ultimate reason, of course, is that
Muhammad was a false prophet (see
Muhammad False Prophet ) who did not speak
for God and who tried to cover up this and
other glaring errors in the Qur'an that he
authored with Naskh . (As to why the Qur'an
has so many self-contradictions, see "There is
No Compulsion in Religion .")


SOURCE: billionbibles.org