Koran 23:18-22

23:18 And We have sent down rain from the sky in a measured amount and settled it in the earth.

And indeed, We are Able to take it away.

19 And We brought forth for you thereby gardens of palm trees and grapevines in which for you are abundant fruits and from which you eat.

20 And [We brought forth] a tree issuing from Mount Sinai which produces oil and food for those who eat.

21 And indeed, for you in livestock is a lesson.

We give you drink from that which is in their bellies, and for you in them are numerous benefits, and from them you eat.

22 And upon them and on ships you are carried.

Koran 23:18-22

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.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar rain map

Verse 18 is another example of Allah as Baal, the rain god. For more, see Allah – Rain god? This verse is immediately contradicted by every flood on Earth:

A flood running through a city

A flood running through a city immediately shows that Allah or “We” cannot take away the flood waters.

Muhammad continues to lie, calling the efforts of the human ancestors of the Quraysh (gardens), the work of imaginary Allah in verses 19-20.

Vineyards, not gardens

Verse 20 seems to refer to the olive tree, which Muhammad seems unable to name. I expect better from a real prophet.

Olive tree plantation.
Olives and olive oil.

We can even make light from olive oil – Muhammad forgets to mention this benefit here:

Making an olive oil lamp

Muhammad mentions olive oil lamps elsewhere in his recitation, his Koran, as an example of the light of Allah.

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.

Koran 24:35

I’m a bit surprised that Muhammad forgot to mention lighting olive oil as a benefit from Allah. I guess Muhammad simply forgot it. Or perhaps it was something he was unfamiliar with or too poor to have?

Lightbulbs are cheap and numerous.

Verse 21 refers to cattle, one of the many verses of Muhammad in the Koran praising cattle, who are associated with Sin, the cattle and moon god of Ur, who flows into Allah. For more, see: Allah – Cattle God?

Calf drinking cow’s milk from cow’s teat and udder

Muhammad continues to make mistakes:

And indeed, for you in livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from that which is in their bellies, and for you in them are numerous benefits, and from them you eat.

Koran 23:21

It’s “cows” not “livestock”, “milk” not “drink”, “udders” not “bellies”, and of course, Allah does none of this. The lesson here is that Muhammad lies.

We co-opt the cow to produce milk, which only a few humans can drink into adulthood. The ability to digest milk into adulthood is an evolved trait in humans, which comes from co-evolving with domesticated cattle. Muhammad was unaware that we humans are mammals like cows are mammals, and like dolphins and whales are mammals – most likely he was unaware of breastfeeding, as this was probably private in Quraysh culture.

Human babies drink human milk through the mother’s teat and breast (comparable to udder in cows)

Muhammad lies in verse 22: “And upon them and on ships you are carried.” The “them” refers to the cattle from earlier and is another reference to Sin. The “ships” are being blown by Baal, the wind/rain god.

Boat sailing with the wind, steered by human effort

We don’t need wind any more to propel our ships and submarines:

Nuclear submarine, aircraft carrier and carrier aircraft – Modern Western naval forces

It’s human skill that uses wind to produce movement in boats and kite surfing:

Man kite surfing at sea and in the air.
Passenger jets are being boarded by people.

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

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