{"id":89307,"date":"2025-06-12T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=89307"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:56:21","slug":"a-quranic-contradiction-in-a-single-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/a-quranic-contradiction-in-a-single-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Qur&#8217;anic Contradiction in a single verse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qur&#8217;an claims that if it were not from God, there would be many contradictions in it. However, there is one Qur&#8217;anic verse which presents an inherent contradiction! In <a href=\"https:\/\/quran.com\/12\/1\">chapter 12, verse 1<\/a>, the Qur&#8217;an says the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quran.com\/12\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QuranContradiction-1024x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QuranContradiction-1024x397.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QuranContradiction-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QuranContradiction-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QuranContradiction.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Qur&#8217;an is a &#8220;clear Book&#8221;, what does &#8220;Alif-Lam-Ra&#8221; mean? The &#8220;clear Book&#8221; doesn&#8217;t tell you, doesn&#8217;t even give you a hint!  Not only that, if you explore the issue, you find there isn&#8217;t even anything close to a consensus among Islamic exegetes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qur&#8217;an claims that if it were not from God, there would be many contradictions in it. However, there is one Qur&#8217;anic verse which presents an inherent contradiction! In chapter 12, verse 1, the Qur&#8217;an says the following: If the Qur&#8217;an is a &#8220;clear Book&#8221;, what does &#8220;Alif-Lam-Ra&#8221; mean? The &#8220;clear Book&#8221; doesn&#8217;t tell you, doesn&#8217;t even give you a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2969,29],"class_list":["post-89307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-featured","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89310,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307\/revisions\/89310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}