Answering Islam

 Part 2: The True State Of The Qur'an

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CHAPTER XI (cont'd):

"ONCE UPON A TIME" - Mr. Deedat Exchanges Old Last Testament For New Last Testament And Some NOs For YESs.

While Mr. Deedat writes stories about the Gospel translations saying they have a Once Upon a Time" introduction and there is no autographed copy of each Gospel, we wonder who signed [Allah he claims] each of the copies of the Quran which Mr. Deedat is busy selling for they differ drastically over what they contain on this crucial NO / YES issue!! 

In his IPCI (Islamic Vision) bookshop in Smallheath, Birmingham, UK, he sells all the varying Arabic texts which we have been examining [the Turkish and Iranian excepted]. And, until approximately 1994, he sold a slightly adjusted version of the Indian Arabic text as contained in the Quran published under the name Islamic Propagation Centre International. That text seemed to have lost its appeal to Mr. Deedat who in 1994 began selling instead the quite polluted version of the 1924 Egyptian Arabic EDITION as printed in the 1975 Islamic Foundation UK text. Of course Mr. Deedat, as mentioned earlier in CHAPTER VII under the heading "The Final Outwitting A New Medinan Text or "Now You See Them Now You Dont", also faithfully sells the false Mushaf al-Madinah. 

What is most amazing, even by Mr. Deedats standards, is that each one of them is printed alongside the A. Yusuf Ali English Translation and Notes!! Even the text and footnote layout are exactly the same page for page in some of these! What an outwitting4! Since we have already shown scans of the content of the other texts we will content ourselves with comparing scans of the IPCI and 1975 Islamic Foundation texts only - "TAKE YOUR OWN QURAN AND COMPARE!!" 

Q3:158, 159:
Mr. Deedats old IPCI text [the upper scan at right] differs in Q3:158 from his later text, the 1975 Islamic Foundation corrected text in that the discarded IPCI text has an extra alif exactly where we found a NO/YES problem! The text of Q3:159 in Mr. Deedats IPCI version shows a space in which it "Once upon a time" may have had the extra alif which other Pakistani texts possess. 

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Q3:166:
As with M. Alis Arabic version, Mr. Deedats old text has the extra alif in Q3:166 giving NO instead of YES. If we could see AN ORIGINAL we might tell whether Mr. Deedats Old Last Testament or his New Last Testament was his truth! 

Q9:47:
Again the extra alif is present in Mr Deedats old text in complete agreement with ibn Khaldun, but in complete disagreement with his modern version of the Quran which omits it. 

Q27:21: 
Here is the text which ibn Khaldun admitted the scholars couldnt agree on whether to translate NO or YES. The NO is retained. 

Q37:68:
Mr Deedats Old Last Testament contained NO, his New Last Testament contains YES. 

Q59:13:
Mr. Deedats Old Last Testament shows a gap where the alif might have been erased. M. Ali Indian text [second scan] and our other Indian text [lower scan] both show the extra alif. 

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