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{{Quote|{{Quran-range|3|33|34}}|
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|3|33|34}}|
Lo! Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the Family of Abraham and the Family of 'Imran above (all His) creatures. They were descendants of each other. Allah is Hearer, Knower. }}
Lo! Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the Family of Abraham and the Family of 'Imran above (all His) creatures. They were descendants of each other. Allah is Hearer, Knower. }}
Four people or families cannot be descendants of each other. An ascendant has a descendant and vice versa. Adam cannot be anybodys descendant.
Four people or families cannot be descendants of each other. An ascendant has a descendant and vice versa. Adam cannot be anybody's descendant.


==Revelations for whom?==
==Revelations for whom?==
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"O ye Children of Adam! whenever there come to you messengers from amongst you, rehearsing My signs unto you,- those who are righteous and mend (their lives),- on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve."
"O ye Children of Adam! whenever there come to you messengers from amongst you, rehearsing My signs unto you,- those who are righteous and mend (their lives),- on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve."
==Allah's use of prepositions==
This is a subtle error but it shows that Allah is far from being an all-knowing god.
{{Quote|{{Quran|8|30}}|Remember how the Unbelievers plotted against you [Muhammad], to keep you in
bonds, '''or''' slay you, '''or''' get you out (of your home). They deceive, and Allah too deceives; but the best of deceivers is Allah.”}}
Allah should have used "and" instead of "or" if the Meccans really plotted such punishments for Muhammad. With the two uses of "or" it appears as if he is guessing what the Meccans had plotted.
==Change of the listener==
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|17|63|64}}|He said: Be gone! for whoever of them will follow you, then surely hell is your recompense, a full recompense.<br>And beguile whomsoever of them you can with your voice, and collect against them your forces riding and on foot, and share with them in wealth and children, and hold out promises to them; and the Shaitan makes not promises to them but to deceive.}}
The listener suddenly changes from Satan to probably his followers. The second "them" is unclear and disputed among classical Islamic scholars. This is also a possible taqiyya verse.


==Dhul Qarnin and the people who hardly understood words==
==Dhul Qarnin and the people who hardly understood words==
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==Freudian slips==
==Freudian slips==
First person/third person
===Confusion over the identity of the speaker===
===Confusion over the identity of the speaker===


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