Are there errors in the Koran?

Answer 1

Answer: none.

by the way, I stumbled on this question while looking at something else and found this answer here (which is totally wrong and I refute it in bold. Anyone can copy the sura numbers and do a search of the quran to verify if they are truly interested):

Yes, there are a number of errors and contraditions in the Qur'an

1. Internal contradictions

- Allah does not forgive shirk (Surah 4:48), Allah does forgive shirk (4:153)

in 4:48 tells that those who take idols beside him will not be FORGIVEN while in 4:153 he mentions how he PARDONED the israelites when moses left them and they worshiped the golden calf. To forgive is to no longer hold a grudge, or not be angry or to be pleased again with someone after they wrong you. To pardon someone does not mean you forgive them, it only means they will receive no punishment for their sin since they repented or have received punishment enough for it.

Anyone who takes idols beside god (shirk) but repents, will be pardoned by god, but must live everyday asking for god's forgiveness and seeks god's pleasure for angering him.

2. Historical errors

- The Qur'an places Samaritans in a time period of Moses before Samaritans existed as a people. Yet the term 'Samaritan' was not coined until 722 B.C., which is several hundred years after Moses.

the Quran does not place the Samaritans of 722 B.C. (the ethnoreligous group) to the time of Moses. It does though mention a man from Samria (the ancient city) four times, he is mentioned as with the tribes through the exodus and behind the whole golden calf story. The quran describes him as an Jew and Israelite from Samaria (ergo a Samaritan) not a Samaritan in terms of the ethno religious group of 722BC. The name "Samaria" derives from an ancient city of the same name, which was located near the south of Samaria, and was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. According to Kings 1 16:24, it is derived from the individual [or clan] Shemer, from whom Omri purchased the site.

- According to the Qur'an, no-one bore the name of Yahya before John the Baptist (sura 19:7). Yet, we find that name mentioned in the Old Testament (2 Kings 25:23) implying that it was a well known name hundreds of years before the writing of the Qur'an.

2 Kings 25:23 mentions the name Jonathan (Yohana) and not Yehya. In Arabic John the babtist is called Yohanna EL Mimidan, but the quranic verse gives his name not as Yohanna, but Yehya, a name not given to anyone before him. He is never called even today in Arabic as Yehya El Mimadan (Yehya the Baptist), he is either named The Prophet Yehya (El Nabi Yehya) or when in the context of his Baptising is called Yohanna El Mimidan (John the Baptist) he is never called El Nabi Yohanna (the Prophet John). There is a difference between his called name (John, Yohanna) and his true name (Yehya) which god gave him. Consider Baptism today, given names and christian names, and it actually makes sense for this prophet in particular to have two names, a common one (John, Yohanna) and a holy one (Yehya).

3. Scientific errors and absurdities

- Sura 86:5-7 tells us that man is created from a gushing fluid that issues from between the loins and the ribs. Therefore, in this sura we find that the semen which creates a child originates from the back or kidney of the male and not the testicles.

It needs to be read in Arabic to understand the words, and also the context is important, but anyway, here are a translation of the verses mentioned only

86:5 (Asad) LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:

86:6 (Asad) he has been created out of a seminal fluid

86:7 (Asad) issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].

4. Mathematical errors

- The inheritance law in Sura 4:11-12 and 4:176 add up to over 100% of the estate being distributed.

The verses are too long to cite here, but anyone who reads them can do the math. The idea is that some relations will always get a certain fraction (if they are alive at the time of the bequeather's death) while the sons and daughters get fractions of what's left. So some relatives get a fraction, then others get a fraction of the REMAINDER. So I have a right to a half and my brother a half, that makes a 100% of what's left over after our mother takes her sixth... it's really simple

6. Grammatical errors

- Sura 2:177, the word Sabireen should be Sabiroon it is a human plural, it should remain in the masculine plural form.

:-) I like this one since it seems it does not stem from an all out lie, but from ignorance!

sabireen or sabiroon are both masculine since it is verbal (action) plural ; i.e. like "liars" or "deceivers" and not nounal plural like "idiots" or "boxes". In the case of verbal plurals, based on verbs, the ee or oo depends on the dialectal requirement of the sentence like in the verse:

3:17 Those who show patience, Firmness and self-control; who are true (in word and deed); who worship devoutly; who spend (in the way of God; and who pray for forgiveness in the early hours of the morning.

Al sabireen WA al ssadiqeen WA al qaniteen WA al munfiqeen WA al mustaghfireen bi al ashar

Or sura 7:160, the phrase "We divided them into twelve tribes," is written in the feminine plural: Uthnati Ashrat Asbaataan. however, it should be written in the masculine plural form: Uthaiy Ashara Sibtaan, as all human plurals are automatically male in Arabic.

:-) another absurd one: what is Sibataan? I do not know!

A "Sibat" is a grandson, another more modernly or commonly used Arabic word for "Sibat" is "Hafeedd" , also grandson.

The plural of Sibat is Asbaat, just like the plural of Hafeedd is Ahfaadd.. you cant even say Hifddaan or Sibtaan, they're meaningless or sound like Arabic cockney, if you know what I mean - they don't exist grammatically

the plural of ElSibat is El Asbaat... for this last one I almost feel like I shouldn't refute it because it is so absurd?!

anyhow, there you go, some people just want to write anything (for what reason?)

there are no contradictions in the quran, though many have tried to find any, in 1500 years no one has found any