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In Bible versus Quran: Ezekiel has never eaten anything unclean
In the Bible, the Lord God suggests an interesting recipe for making bread and to eat it while lying on one side for 390 days.
The Lord God has commanded Ezekiel to bake the bread using human stool for fuel, then God changed it and said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement.
Herein, we have two types of organic fuel for making bread.
Then the Lord God said: “I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days (390) of your siege.”
N.B.: if someone is lying and cannot turn from one side to the other for 390 days, he would eventually have a huge fatal bed sore.
Then the Lord God gives the following orders:
Eat bread during the 390 days you lie on your side
Eat bread that weighs twenty shekels of a day
Drink water by measure, sixth part of a hin, from time to time
Eat a barley cake that is made on human dung
The children of Israel shall eat their defiled (unclean) bread among the nations (Gentiles), where the Lord God will drive them.
N.B.: A hin is a unit of liquid measure used by the ancient Hebrews; it is about five and half liters.
Then Ezekiel said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Then the Lord God said, “Very well, Lo, I have given you cow’s dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith.
Moreover, the Lord God said to Ezekiel, “Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of food (bread) in Jerusalem. The people shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. I will do this so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and look at one another in dismay. And have been consumed in their iniquity and rot away because of their sin.
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I wonder what the wisdom of these Biblical teachings is.
Why the Lord God love recommends making bread on stool of man or even cow?
On the other hand, there is nothing like that present therein in the Entire Quran.
Also, Ezekiel is not mentioned in the Quran.
Moreover, the Quran recommends eating healthy good lawful food and forbids over-eating (verses 2:172 and 7:31).
The meaning of verse 2:172,
O believer! Eat of the good and healthy things, that are lawful, wherewith Allah has provided you, and give thanks to Allah for it and for what He has made lawful for you, if you really worship Allah.
The meaning of verse 7:31
O Children of Adam! Don your adornment at every place of worship and eat and drink what you want, but do not be excessive, prodigal or wasteful; Allah truly does not love those who are excessive, prodigal or wasteful.
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The Bible,
Ezekiel 4:8-17 (English Standard Version)
8And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
9″And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. 10And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 11And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. 12And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” 13And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” 14Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.” 15Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 16Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
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The Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation
Verse 2:172,
O ye who believe! Eat of the good things that we have provided for you, and be grateful to Allah, if it is him ye worship.
Verse 7:31
O children of Adam! Wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess, for Allah loveth not the wasters.
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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?
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About the Author:
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head (ex-) of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, EgyptPresident of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt), Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. MedicineMember of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published 5 Books and some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses and111 Master Degree theses.
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In the Quran: What an excellent servant was King Solomon
The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (3)
This is the third article of the series: “The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”.
Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.
In language, the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the alien woman or the exotic woman or the outsider woman. However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the non-Israelite woman.
Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreigner or stranger women.
This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreigner.
Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.
Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version)…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…
According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord God had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, He followed the goddess of the Sidonians, and the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord God; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.
King Solomon built a high place for the detestable god of Moab, and for the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
The Lord God became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord who had appeared to him twice. Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. So the Lord God said to Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.
Herein, there are some questions:
1) How come that King Solomon had 1000 women. In an old interpretation, it is said that he used to sleep with all of them every night!
2) How come that the Prophet Wise King Solomon did evil, did not follow his Lord, built high places for other gods so that God became angry with him?
On the other hand, the Quran (Verse 38:30) says that Allah bestowed on David, Solomon, his son. What an excellent servant! That is, Solomon. Truly he was a penitent soul, always returning [to Allah] with glorification and remembrance at all times. He was ever turning in repentance (towards Allah) he is ever betaking himself to Allah and engaged in His obedience.
Herein there are two important ethical issues.
1) If the Quran is Anti-Israelite, and since King Solomon is an Israelite king, then the Quran would have exaggerated all the negative attributes of him and would say, this is the behavior of the Israelite kings! But, the truth is the truth.
2) According to the Islamic teachings (Quran and Hadith), anyone says or believes that King Solomon (or any other Prophet) did evil, did not follow his Lord, built high places for other gods etc. is categorized as disbeliever and he or she will dwell in the Eternal Hell in the Afterlife.
For more details, you can read on the net my series of 25 articles about King Solomon in the Quran; just type on Google search: “Not in Bible But in Quran” + King Solomon + my name.
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The Bible
1 Kings 11:1-11 (American Standard Version)
1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
2 of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,
10 and had commanded him concerning this thing that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah commanded.
11 Wherefore Jehovah said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
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The Quran
Verse 38:30 (Pickthal Translation):
And we bestowed on David, Solomon. How excellent a slave! Lo! He was ever turning in repentance (toward Allah).
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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil,
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head (ex-) of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt
President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt), Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. Medicine
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published 5 Books and some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses and111 Master Degree theses.
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