Koran 2:142-143

2:142 The foolish among the people will say, “What has turned them away from their qiblah, which they used to face?”

Say, “To Allah belongs the east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a straight path.”

143 And thus we have made you a just community that you will be witnesses over the people and the Messenger will be a witness over you.

And We did not make the qiblah which you used to face except that We might make evident who would follow the Messenger from who would turn back on his heels.

And indeed, it is difficult except for those whom Allah has guided.

And never would Allah have caused you to lose your faith.

Indeed Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful.

Koran 2:142-143

Muhammad, in his Koran, addresses a sentence, verse, or passage to “Anonymous They”, with “they”, “them”, “he”, “your”, “the people”, and so on, without naming them. For more, read Anonymous They.

Muhammad includes the imperfect words of imperfect others, an interlocutor who is only in Muhammad’s mind, instead of the perfect words of the perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah. This means that Muhammad’s recitation, Muhammad’s Koran, is not from Allah, which means Allah, Muhammad, Islamic doctrine, Islam, and Koran are incoherent and false.

Muhammad Allah commands Muhammad to: “Say” or “Recite”. This means that this passage is addressed to Muhammad, not to all people. Thus, this passage can’t be in the perfect words of the perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah. As it is addressed to Muhammad, in his time and place, his context, this also means that this passage is locked to Muhammad’s context and can’t be in the context-free, perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah with all its perfect words. Thus, this passage is part of Muhammad’s recitation, Muhammad’s Koran, which means Islamic doctrine and Islam are incoherent and false, meaning Allah is incoherent, imaginary, fictional, and false.

Muhammad commits shirk with: “We”, “Us” or “Our”, placing Allah as a companion to himself, showing that Allah is incoherent, imaginary, and fictional, and so Islam is incoherent with monotheism, thus Islam is contradictory and false.

Note the invented quote by Muhammad in the perfect words of the perfect god, Allah: “What has turned them away from their qiblah, which they used to face?” The rest of the passage is intended for Muhammad’s Muslim bandits, who are obviously confused by Muhammad’s change in prayer direction from “Jerusalem” in the “west” to Mecca in the “east”. Jerusalem is northwest of Mecca and Mecca is southeast of Jerusalem. Check it out with Google Maps, if you’re not sure. For the Kaaba in Mecca to be east of Jerusalem, the Kaaba has to be near the end of the Persian Gulf, perhaps in Kuwait.

Notice Muhammad’s claim that the East and the West belong to Allah when these are imaginary points on the horizon. If Allah owns everything, then simply say Allah owns everything or All, like “Allah owns all.” And of course, if Allah guides who he wills, then Islam and Koran are redundant nonsense of no use to anyone if Allah guides.

Worse, note: “To Allah belongs the east and the west.”. Later in the Koran, Muhammad asserts that Allah is Lord of the TWO Easts and the TWO Wests:

[He is] Lord of the two sunrises and Lord of the two sunsets.

“Saheeh International”, Koran 55:17

Note the problem with the “Saheeh International” translation which doesn’t understand there are 365 sunrises and 365 sunsets each year (except for leap years) unless one lives in the ISS or travels by jet.

Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests.

“Fadel Soliman, Bridges’ translation”, Koran 55:17

How many Easts and Wests are there? Obviously, either zero (at the poles or away from Earth) or infinity (between the poles). Not just one or two each, as Muhammad ignorantly thought and said.

Allah is perfect and doesn’t change his perfect word. Yet, here’s Muhammad changing Allah’s perfect word and worse, getting the direction of prayer messed up. This lack of divine knowledge shows Allah is Muhammad’s puppet, used to frighten Muslim bandits.

Why do the Jews face East when praying? Which direction do the Orthodox pray? In evangelic Christian prayer, any direction is sufficient as long as prayer is in private or community, and not in public.

For more about Islamic prayer direction, read Islam Qiblas.

A simple tool like the smartphone with a map app would have solved Muhammad’s direction problems. But, Muhammad didn’t have a smartphone! Indeed, Muhammad had an imaginary god unable to give him directions, let alone correct directions. Thus the best replacement for this passage is: “”, the empty sentence.