The Quran’s Mistaken Claim Against the Jews

Gottlieb — Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur (1878)

Muslims claim the Quran is the literal word of God. It uses the most precise, accurate language possible. Yet it describes the Jews as calling Uzair the son of Allah. Is this a mistake? Is this the best way that Allah could have conveyed this? Did the author of the Quran not know future generations would be confused by this verse?

Many Muslims claim Surah Lahab is a miracle:

Perished be the two hands of Aby-Lahab and he is already perished
His wealth and what he earned availed him not.
Now he enters into a blazing fire.
And his wife too, carrier of firewood.
There is a rope of palm fiber in her neck.
(Surah 111)

This verse was revealed to attack the uncle of Prophet Muhammad who used to argue against his nephew Muhammad. Muslims say all Abu Lahab had to do was convert to Islam to disprove it. This is an example of how the Quran is supposed to be timeless and eternally true. Even though this doesn’t account for the possibility of Quranic Abrogations which occur regularly in the life of Muhammad, this is an argument Muslims use that we will now apply to another verse in the Quran.