Zooming out to see the hidden parts in this tight spot 1Surely, you would have noticed by now, that The Karaites polemics echoes directly or in innuendo most of the 8 arguments you cited in your letter.
The only snag is that while all the Karaites arguments concerning the Bible and the pseudo oral Torah of the Pharisees in their five points are historically sound and correct, those of their clones in Islam, the "MQ's", and specially those points dealing with Islamic tradition, that is; Hadith, starting from point (4) onward, are false, ignoramus, and with no textual foundation to support them, as I will prove later!
Closing inSo, let me now; for the sake of clarifying the innuendos and shades between your arguments and those of the Karaites, draw a comparison between the two”, as a résumé for this "Tight Spot 1", and also in order to entice you to meditate upon this type of religious borrowing, which has nothing of an accident!
Your argumentsKaraites arguments | 1 | The Qur'an is a complete book | Not addressed directly by the Karaites but understood by them to hold true for the Bible too, (even if the Qu’ran affirms that the Bible suffered from corruption, Loss, fudging, etc., all of which were proven right by recent biblical criticism, and accepted officially as a fact of life, by the Roman Catholic Church in Vatican II in 1965) | | 2 | The Qur'an is perfect | Same remark as above | | 3 | The Qur'an is detailed, and when God says He detailed His book it means FULLY detailed | Same remark as above | | 4 | God does not need any addition to His book. God teaches us in the Qur’an that He does not run out of words and that if He so willed He could have given us hundreds, thousands or millions of books besides the Qur’an.
Since the Qur'an is complete, perfect and fully detailed, God did not give us any more books.
| - The Oral Law is not mentioned even once in the entire Tanakh[9] (Hebrew Bible)
- When God told Moses to come up to Mount Sinai to receive the tablets He said: "Come up to me into the mountain, and be there: and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written;" (Ex 24,12).
- The Tanakh reports; that the written Torah was both lost and completely forgotten for over 50 years and only rediscovered by the Temple priests.
It is inconceivable that an Oral Law could have been remembered when even the written Law was forgotten.
| | 5 | God calls His book, the Qur’an, the BEST HADITH.
HE called on His true believers to accept no other hadiths as a source of this perfect religion.
| This item Echoes (1) and (2) Karaites. | | 6 | God calls on His true believers to make sure not to fall in the trap of idol-worship: by following the words of the scholars instead of the words of God. | - The words of the Mishnah and Talmud are clearly the words of men living in the 2nd-5th centuries CE and;
- The Rabbis claim that the "Oral Law" is the official interpretation of the Torah given on Mount Sinai.
Yet if one actually looks at the Mishnah and Talmud they are full of the opinions of Rabbis who disagree with each other on almost every issue. The Rabbis explain that whenever there are such disagreements, "both opinions are the words of the living God". Karaites maintain that it is unreasonable to believe that God would contradict Himself.
| | 7 | God calls those who prohibit what He did not prohibit, aggressors, liars and idol-worshipers.
Idol-worship is the only unforgivable sin, if maintained till death.
| This item Echoes (4) and (5) Karaites. | | 8 | Muhammad is represented only by the Qur'an. The Prophet Muhammad was the last Prophet and a messenger of God (See Qur'an 33:40). He was not the messenger of God because of who he (Muhammad) was, but because he was given the Qur'an (the message) to deliver to the world. The religion of Islam is a religion of God, not about Muhammad, who was blessed by God with the delivery of the message of the Qur'an. He did not have an agenda of his own. His job was to deliver to the world what God was giving him, the Qur'an.
Muhammad cannot prohibit things, or make lawful things on his own. When he tried to do that God admonished him publicly.
| A sneaky devious way of getting rid of the "clarifications": "tibiane" (تبيان) of the prophet, as we will prove later in this reply. |
Footnotes:
[1] The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan 37) [Aboth rabbi nathan 1953; p. 154], translated by Judah Goldin, New Haven, Yale University Press.
[2] Notice this ignorant conception of the deity
[3] Tanakh; an acronym for the three sections of the Hebrew Bible:[ (Ta) = Torah (Law), (Na) = Nevi'im (Prophets) and (K) = Ketuvim Kedoshim (Holy Writings).
[4] See; Salmon Ben Jeroham {canto I; 8-10) in NEMOY 1952; "Karaite Anthology; Excerpt from the early literature", pp; 72-73}, translated by Leon Nemoy, New Haven, Yale University Press.
[5] "idem" (canto I, 18—22) [NEMOYY (32:7—73)
[6] The Rabbis declared the "Oral Law" should not be committed to writing, but only memorized.
[7] "idem" ( canto 3,2), p; 79 &n bsp;
[8] See for more historical details; A. Guttmann, 'Hillelites ;- Shammaites - A Clarification', HUCA 28 (1957) 115-26; I. Konovitz, Beth Shammai - Beth Hillel: Collected Sayings (Hebr.), Jerusalem 1965.
[9] Tanakh; an acronym for the three sections of the Hebrew Bible:[ (Ta) = Torah (Law), (Na) = Nevi'im (Prophets) and (K) = Ketuvim Kedoshim (Holy Writings).
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