Koran 17:96

Say, “Sufficient is Allah as Witness between me and you. Indeed he is ever, concerning His servants, Acquainted and Seeing.”

Koran 17:96

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.

Notice that Muhammad is commanded to “Say,” yet, never does this. Worse, this message is entirely pointless, saying nothing to the anonymous “you”.

The Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 17:96, tries to spin this as a warning to people but fails to note that the “you” is not defined, and obviously it’s “Say” and a command to Muhammad, not to Muslims, which means it’s local to Muhammad’s time and place, his context.

The best replacement for this passage is: “”, the empty sentence.