Koran 48:16-17

48:16 Say to those who remained behind of the Bedouins, “You will be called to [face] a people of great military might; you may fight them, or they will submit. So if you obey, Allah will give you a good reward; but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.”

17 There is not upon the blind any guilt or upon the lame any guilt or upon the ill any guilt [for remaining behind].

And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger – He will admit him to gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoever turns away – He will punish him with a painful punishment.

Koran 48:16-17

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 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.

Notice that verses 16-17 obviously should go with the previous verse 15, like this:

48:15 Those who remained behind will say when you set out toward the war booty to take it, “Let us follow you.”

They wish to change the words of Allah.

Say, “Never will you follow us. Thus did Allah say before.”

So they will say, “Rather, you envy us.”

But [in fact] they were not understanding except a little.

16 Say to those who remained behind of the Bedouins, “You will be called to [face] a people of great military might; you may fight them, or they will submit. So if you obey, Allah will give you a good reward;

but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.”

17 There is not upon the blind any guilt or upon the lame any guilt or upon the ill any guilt [for remaining behind]. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger – He will admit him to gardens beneath which rivers flow; but whoever turns away – He will punish him with a painful punishment.

Koran 48:15-17

Notice the corrupt repetition with corrupt variation in the passage:

1. He will punish you with a painful punishment.
2. He will punish him with a painful punishment.

Notice Muhammad’s delusional understanding of cause and effect. Muhammad makes these promises from Allah:

So if you obey, Allah will give you a good reward;

but if you turn away as you turned away before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.”

Yet, the “good reward” here is clearly the war booty (verse 15), which does NOT come from Allah, but from the hard work of innocent people. The “painful punishment” is the usual result of a lost battle, mass slaughter. Obviously, none of these come from Allah. This is merely Muhammad offering carrots and threatening sticks.

Recall that there are other passages about war, earlier in the Koran, allowing those who are unfit for war to stay behind. Obviously, this is Muhammad corruptly repeating with corrupt variation, contradicting the nature of the oneness of Allah. For more, see: Koran 4:95-96.

Notice the third person in “And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger”, along with the demand for obedience to TWO people, Allah and “His Messenger”. Islamic doctrine says that Allah is one, yet here, someone else says that Muslims must obey “Allah and His Messenger”. Who is that someone else? Obviously not Allah. This then contradicts Islamic doctrine that it’s Allah’s words that are in Muhammad’s Koran.

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