scifes,
1) Can you post the name of the person (s) who wrote the Qur'an and the date it was finished? Thanks
ugh, i don't know what made me do it, but i searched it, thinking it may be something special or a "flaw" in islam, just to find it stated clearly in many many sites, even freaking arabic wikipedia, here are the friggin names you asked for:
some said thirteen some said more than twenty:
1-abo baker al-siddeq
2-omar ibnu alkhattab.
3-ali ibnu abi taleb.
4-othman ibnu affan.
5-abban ibn saeed ibnu alaas
6-obayy ibnu kaab.
7-zaid ibnu thabit
8-moath ibnu jabal.
9-arqam ibnu abi alarqam(name was abdu manaf)
10-thabit ibnu qays.
11-handala ibnu alrabee
12-khalid ibnu saeed ibnu alaas
13-khalid ibnu al waleed.
14-alzubayer ibnu al awaam.
15-abdullah ibnu saad ibnu abi sarh.
16-aamer ibnu fuhayrah.
17-abdullah ibnu arqam.
18-abdullah ibnu zaid ibnu abd rabbah.
19-al alaa ibnu al hadrami.
20-mohammad ibnu muslimah ibnu jurais.
21-moawiyah ibnu aby sufian.
22-al mugira ibnu shuba.this is a comprehensive list of the names..multiple sources have some of them, many say these are all of them..
now, you better do something impressive with those names, it wasn't easy looking for them and listing them all here
note that some other sits list the names of the "writets" who the prophet used in general, they read, wrote and translated everything the prophet needed from letters to kings of other empires to the quran...these names include the ones i listed but have some others..
not only is this some list..there are records of those people remembering the occasions of what and they wrote or translated, on what(not always paper)..you come along such stories seperatly while reading their biographies(that's how i come a cross it..first time i see the list..which i still think serves no purpose)
these are the links i found..would be a waste to find them all and just forget them..it isn't propaganda or preaching because they are in arabic(let on of you tell me arabic sites are less credible than english ones and i'll bite his head off.) i also want to keep them as a reference.
http://www.aklaam.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19648 a post in a forum with reference to the "al bidayah wa alnihayah"
http://www.islamweb.net.qa/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=A&Id=100265&Option=FatwaId
references as many arab books and encyclopedias..
http://www.upower.net/forum/t5603.html
a guy who's done some real research on a forum, two lists referenced to two books, writers of the prophet in general, "abstracts" of his letters to the king of Bahrain(not sure the same country as now, maybe means east of the peninsula), to hercul(or herculies, some roman king), to the king of what's now Ethiopia or Somalia, to the king of who lived in Egypt.. the content of the letters is obvious..
http://montada.rasoulallah.net/index.php?showtopic=16944
guy in forum, lists same list as mine with same refrence, then adds biography of each one.
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/Fatwa/ShowFatwa.php?lang=A&Id=69904&Option=FatwaId
same list, same reference.
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/كاتب_الوحي
arabic wikipedia
ALRIGHT, NOW WHAT?:frust:
2) Every solder in Greek, Roman, Chinese etc... armys carried honey to apply to sword cuts to prevent infection. It was a well known and commonly known fact that honey had antiseptic properties. These properties were known by people for about 2000 years before the birth of Mohammad. YET, here you are believing that it's a "miricle"... like I said, the Scientologist will save a seat for you at the table...
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