[Assam] Do people in Assam take any Holy book as from GOD without reservations? The HOLINESS of one BOOK is being put under very revealing scholarly scrutiny in the article pasted here. Another follows.

Sat Sep 1 06:11:08 CDT 2007

Allahabad tense after 'desecration' of holy book Saturday, 01 September ,
2007, 09:23

http://samachar.com/showurl.php?rurl=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14520238

*Allahabad:* Tension prevailed in several parts of the city following
reports of alleged desecration of a holy book, prompting authorities to
impose curfew in the affected areas.

Trouble began late Friday when a mob attacked the Kareli Police Station
alleging that copy of a holy book was found desecrated inside a place of
worship, police said, adding that the rumours soon spread to other areas
evoking similar outbursts.

Police resorted to *lathi* charge and fired in the air to quell the mob even
as curfew was imposed in Kareli, Shahganj, Khuldabad, Kotwali and some parts
of Dhoomanganj police station area to prevent further unrest, Divisional
Commissioner P K Jha told *PTI*.

At least 14 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence which
left at least three police personnel injured, Inspector General of Police,
Allahabad zone, A K D Dwivedi said.

Educational institutions across the city have been ordered closed for the
day as a preventive measure, Jha added.

Heavy deployment of police as well as the Rapid Action Force has been made
in the affected areas where the situation was tense but under control, he
added.

Here is the pasted  article>

*Quran- Word of God or Muhammad ?*

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/quran_word.htm

Mukto-mona (*Collection*)

Dear Readers,  have you noticed there are many verses in Quran which uses
Muhammad's word directly ? If we read those verses, we clearly understand
that those were Muhammad's own word, not Allah's.

Well, according to the Muslims the Quran contains the words of God. Quran is
to be read as if God Himself had spoken these words stated in it. It is
important to emphasize this point because if Quran is the word of God then
it should not contain any errors and it should hold true for all times.
However, such is not the case.

*Dear Readers,* *we will see how some of the verses in the Quran itself show
clearly that these words were obviously spoken by Muhammad and Not God.*

*The Opening Sura Fatihah:
(Quran 1:1-7)*
In the name of the Merciful and Compassionate God.
Praise belongs to God,
The Lord of the worlds, the merciful, the
compassionate, the ruler of the day of
the day of judgment! Thee we serve and Thee
we ask for aid. *Guide us in the right path*,
the path of those Thou art gracious to;
not to those Thou art wroth with, nor of
those who err.

Someone need not be a rocket-scientist to comprehend that these words are
clearly addressed to God, in the form of a prayer. *They are Muhammad's
words of praise to God ("Guide us in the right path,..." ~ 001.006), asking
for God's help and guidance.* Some Muslim compilers conveniently add the
imperative "say" in the English translation of the Quran at the beginning of
the sura to remove this difficulty. *This imperative form of the word "say"
occurs at least 350 times in the Quran,* and its obvious that this word has,
in fact, been inserted by later compilers of the Quran to remove countless
similarly embarrassing difficulties. *Thus, we have direct evidence that the
Quran starts out with the words of Muhammad.*

*(Quran 113:1)
*I take refuge with the Lord of the Dawn.

*One can clearly see, its Muhammad and NOT GOD HIMSELF who is seeking refuge
in God.*

*
(Quran 6:104)*
Now have come to you, from your Lord, proofs
(To open your eyes): If any will see, it will
be for (the good of) his own soul; If any will
be blind, it will be to his own (harm):* I am not
(here) To watch over your doings.*

In this verse the speaker of the line *"I am not to watch over your doings"*-
*is clearly Muhammad*. In fact *Dawood* in his translation adds a footnote
that the "I" refers to Muhammad here. And in previous verse *(Quran
6:103)*it is stated - 'No
mortal eyes can see Him, though He sees all eyes. He is benignant all
knowing'. R. Bell said in his "A commentary on the Quran (Manchester,
England: Victoria university of Manchester, 1991) vol. 1. p. 201 '-  *The
end of the verse shows that Phrophet is speaking his own words*'.

*(Quran 27:91)*
For me, I have been commanded to serve the
Lord of this city, Him Who has sanctified it
and to whom (Belong) all things; and *I am
commanded to be of those who bow in Islam to
Allah's Will*

Again, the *speaker here is clearly Muhammad who is trying to justify
killing of innocent Meccans* who were not willing to follow Muhammad's
Islamic version of God. Dawood and Pickthall both interpolate "say" at the
beginning of the sentence which is lacking in the original Arabic version of
the sura.

*(Quran 81:15)*
So verily *I call to witness the planets* - that recede...

Again, here it is *Muhammad and NOT God who is swearing *by the turning
planets.

*(Quran 84:16-19)*
*I swear by the afterglow of sunset*, and by the night, and by the moon when
she is at the full.

Once again it is Muhammad and NOT God. *He is unable to disguise his pagan
heritage*. (Omnipotent Allah should not swear, right?) *Muhammad  swears
again in the name of the Sun and Moon, both of which were considered as holy
deities by pre-Islamic Arabs. *(Dear Readers, have you noticed that YUSUFALI
cleverly escaped the word "swear" while making the translation, but PICKTHAL
and SHAKIR used it).

*(Quran 6:114)*
Should I seek other judge than God, when
it is He who has sent down to you, the
distinguishing book (Quran)?

Any sane person can comprehend that those words are not spoken by God but
Mohammed himself. *Yusuf Ali in his translation adds at the beginning of the
sentence "say", which is not there in the original Arabic* and he does so
without comment or footnote.

Do we need to give any other further evidence that Quran actually contains
the words of Muhammad, not Allah ! Interested readers, may also check sura
19:9, 19:64, 37:164-166, 51:50, 53:2, 70:40-41, 86:17 to understand that
those can be uttered by anybody but Allah.

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