Yeah, hasantas, I don’t think you get what we’re saying.
What we’re saying is that Mohammed lived in a culture where he was exposed to Christianity and Judaism, and not even you seem to dispute that.
We are also saying that Mohammed would almost certainly have been exposed to the oral poetry of the culture in which he lived, and it is odd if he wasn’t, not only, but especially, because the Qu’ran is of that genre.
We are also saying that the religious and poetic literacy of common people who cannot read is often much higher than people think.
We aren’t saying it was made up because of this.
What I am saying is that, with what we know, it seems odd that some but not all Muslims claim that the Qu’ran had no influences.
God could have dictated the Qu’ran, choosing the person (Mohammed) to whom he would dictate it, because he was at least vaguely familiar with the story’s characters and major actions through exposure to Judaism and Christianity, so that this person could feasibly be expected to remember the details.
God may have wanted him to have been exposed to Christianity and Judaism, so that he could better, as you say, “correct their faults.”
Also, God may have chosen that form of oral poetry so popular in Mohammed’s time, *so that *Mohammed would be familiar with its style and *know how to use it *as a memory tool, which it has built-in.
Why does this cause so much concern? Why is it so important that the Qu’ran be totally otherworldly to some Muslims, when it, you know, any reader would say that it is clearly influenced by Earthly things contemporary to the time and place where the author lived, which could have been put there by God anyway?
Islam is not consist or compound of Judaism and Christianity. Islam and Qur’an are distinct and different even though there should be familiars with them.
The miracles of Moses were kinds of magic because the magic was popular resort. And God gave Moses miracles through His stick(baton) but miracles of Moses were greater than magic so magicians could understand that it was not magic.
During Jesus times medical sciences were popular so the miracles of Jesus were kinds of medical but miracles were marvelous.
And during Muhammad times the poetry was popular.
Qur’an is not a poem but it is prose poem which is miraculous because nobody could/can compete. If it was kind of human made then someone other would could make out such thing. But nobody could do that and they tried to remove it by wars. If it had been possible to compete with Qur’an through poetry so pagans would do that and refute Qur’an.
So it was not a situation to be exposed by custom or Judaism or Christianity.
Qur’an have many variety knowledges just as astronomy, georaphy, physics, chemical, religious, morality, literature, social etc. Qur’an is at top point of every sciences. Qur’an points black holes, the orbits of stars, plates of earth, anatomy, etc. And also Qur’an hold knowledges of engineer which describe not only material universes but also the world beyond matter just like Hell and Heavens and Sidra and Arsh-i A’zam etc. All these knowledges exist in Qur’an as shortly.
Qur’an is a religious book for Muslims or who believe in which teach worship and mentioning and thinking of Allah and rules of Sharia etc.
And Qur’an is moral book by which millions of Avliyas reach the most high morality.
Qur’an is a wisdom book by which millions of scholars of Kalam who improve upon philosophers.
I can go more but that is enough I think.
Now you claim that Muhammad who could not read and write had learnt all those knowledges while He was in desert!
Did anybody have such knowledges during that times?
