Koran 23:76-83

23:76 And We had gripped them with suffering [as a warning], but they did not yield to their Lord, nor did they humbly supplicate, [and will continue thus] 77 Until when We have opened before them a door of severe punishment, immediately they will be therein in despair.

78 And it is He who produced for you hearing and vision and hearts; little are you grateful.

79 And it is He who has multiplied you throughout the earth, and to Him you will be gathered.

80 And it is He who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day.

Then will you not reason?

81 Rather, they say like what the former peoples said.

82 They said, “When we have died and become dust and bones, are we indeed to be resurrected? 83 We have been promised this, we and our forefathers, before; this is not but legends of the former peoples.”

Koran 23:76-83

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.

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.

My theory of the Quraysh suffering from famine seems confirmed by the scholars of Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 23:76, with:

Abu Sufyan came to the Messenger of Allah and said, “O Muhammad, I ask you by Allah and by the ties of kinship between us, we have been reduced to eating camel hair and blood.”

Then Allah revealed [Koran 23:76]

Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 23:76

Notice that Muhammad’s revelation comes AFTER its cause showing it’s false. To be a revelation, it requires the prophet to do it BEFORE the “cause”. Note that the Quraysh man, Abu Sufyan, already worshipped Allah as shown by his saying “by Allah” and was a relative. Yet, no sympathy for Muhammad’s relatives from Muhammad.

Note that Muhammad’s revelation starts with “And We”. In other words, Muhammad is reciting with the royal “We”, to make himself seem more powerful. Or it’s simply the demon speaking as “We”:

The scholars in Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 23:76 show badly that the event went like this:

Abu Sufyan came to the Messenger of Allah and said, “O Muhammad, I ask you by Allah and by the ties of kinship between us, we have been reduced to eating camel hair and blood.”

23:76 And We had gripped them with suffering [as a warning], but they did not yield to their Lord, nor did they humbly supplicate, [and will continue thus] 77 Until when We have opened before them a door of severe punishment, immediately they will be therein in despair.

And so on,…

Tafsir Ibn Kathir, 23:76

Thus, the phrase “their Lord” refers not to Allah but to Muhammad.

The phrase “Then will you not reason?” is a request to Muhammad’s visitor to reason, from the bad and repeated arguments from Muhammad earlier, which is pointless as the “punishment” has already happened (which was likely caused by the Muslims mass slaughter of the Quraysh cattle).

Verse 78, Muhammad lies stating that Allah produces “hearing and vision and hearts” – yet these are also in animals, including sacrificed cattle, which are worthless to any real god, and the animals never are “grateful”. Instead, it’s Muhammad who wants to be thanked, to be grateful, for nothing. Consider the many other humans in the past worshipping other gods, they’re never commanded to be grateful for their “hearing and vision and hearts”. This is Muhammad’s innovation.

Verse 79, Muhammad lies. It’s humans that reproduce, they do not come from Allah, and will never be “gathered” back to Allah, as this is from Preformationism, a Greek idea. And consider, Muhammad preaches bodily resurrection in an end time. So even if Islam is true, dead Muslims, dead Quraysh and dead Muhammad remain in their graves, to this day, 1400 years of no justice performed, 1400 years of delayed justice, justice delayed is no justice, thus Allah is false. For more, see What are we?

Verse 80, Allah doesn’t give life and doesn’t cause death. The Quraysh already knew this from their experience in sex, pregnancy and birth, life and death, in their herd animals and in their women, and from battles with other tribes, from animal sacrifices. Muhammad is unable to contradict what was common knowledge with his nonsense. And remember, the Quraysh gave him ample opportunity to resurrect dead people, and yet Muhammad didn’t even try, showing he knew Allah was false.

And of course, the alternation of the day and the night doesn’t apply in the Arctic and Antarctic circles in winter and summer, thus showing that Allah is limited to the temperate and tropics, which means Allah is limited and thus false. In short, the night is the Earth’s shadow upon the rotating Earth, as shadows are not caused by Allah. For more, see: Where are we?

Verses 81-83 refer to the Islamic bodily resurrection at the end times which will never happen. For more, see Moon Splitting?

Muhammad asks the listener to reason, and when we do, we discover Muhammad is false, which means Allah, Islam and the Koran are false.

Note the phrase: “this is not but legends of the former peoples.” This is a common criticism of Muhammad and his stories.

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