Koran 37:123-132

37:123 And indeed, Elias was from among the messengers, 124 When he said to his people, “Will you not fear Allah? 125 Do you call upon Baʿl and leave the best of creators – 126 Allah, your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers?”

127 And they denied him, so indeed, they will be brought [for punishment], 128 Except the chosen servants of Allah.

129 And We left for him [favorable mention] among later generations: 130 “Peace upon Elias.”

131 Indeed, We thus reward the doers of good.

132 Indeed, he was of Our believing servants.

Koran 37:123-132

Muhammad spoke about Allah in the third person. This means this passage is not the perfect words of the perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah. Thus, Allah is false, imaginary, and fictional, which means Islamic doctrine and Islam are nonsensical 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.

Muhammad continues to get things and people mixed up. The “messenger” is a prophet, Elijah not “Elias”. He destroyed the cult devoted to Baal, not “Ba’l” and Elijah worshipped YHWH, not imaginary Allah, the idol of Muhammad. Muhammad omits the test that Elijah had the worshippers of Baal do, showing that Baal was an idol, a false god.

Here’s the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal in the Bible in NIV 1 Kings 18:16-40:

¹⁶ So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. ¹⁷ When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

¹⁸ “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. ¹⁹ Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

²⁰ So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. ²¹ Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”

But the people said nothing.

²² Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. ²³ Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. ²⁴ Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire—he is God.”

Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”

²⁵ Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.” ²⁶ So they took the bull given them and prepared it.

Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.

²⁷ At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” ²⁸ So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. ²⁹ Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.

³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. ³¹ Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.” ³² With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. ³³ He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”

³⁴ “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again.

“Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time. ³⁵ The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.

³⁶ At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. ³⁷ Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”

³⁸ Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

³⁹ When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!”

⁴⁰ Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.

NIV 1 Kings 18:16-40

Now for Muhammad’s account, the anonymous “They” are the Jews of Muhammad’s time, who tell Muhammad the summary of the above story with:

3:183 [They are] those who said, “Indeed, Allah God has taken our promise not to believe any messenger until he brings us an offering which fire [from heaven] will consume.”

Say, “There have already come to you messengers before me with clear proofs and [even] that of which you speak. So why did you kill them, if you should be truthful?”

Koran 3:183

Note that Muhammad is here complaining about the rightful executions of the false prophets of Baal by Elijah. Thus this shows that Muhammad is, like his fellow false prophets, a prophet not of God, but of Baal, which Muhammad tries to pass off as God, by referring to him as “Allah”. Thus Muhammad inadvertently reveals that Allah is a false god, and that Islamic doctrine and Islam are false.

Note that in Muhammad’s corrupted story, the “people” who choose to follow Baal and denied Elijah, are the priests of Baal. They were the ones who were executed long ago by the people who followed Elijah, the Israelites, which isn’t mentioned by Muhammad here. These are the people that Muhammad complained about Koran 37:123-132 above, showing that Muhammad is a priest of Baal, and Muhammad is also very confused.

Muhammad continues the worship of Baal in Koran, as I show in: Allah – Rain God?

Also note that this passage is similar to preceding stories, indicating that Muhammad or his scribes are copying/pasting from a template, and not from a real god.

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