It seems that Mary the Theotokos is confused with Moses’s sister Miriam whose name is identical with Mary’s in Arabic. See Qur’an 19:27-35 and Qur’an 3:35-45.
Not only that but I have also found that in the Qur’an, Mary is thought to be the third person in the Trinity instead of the Holy Spirit. See Qur’an 5:116-117 and Qur’an 4:171.
Interestingly, the Qur’an seems to have no idea what Jews and Christians considered a prophet to be. It seems to think that there was a single book called the Injil (Gospel) revealed to Jesus just as the Qur’an is said to be revealed to Muhammad when Christians don’t believe in this at all, instead there are the four gospels which are nothing like the Qur’an since the gospels are biographies of Jesus which make absolutley no mention or hint at Jesus receiving any kind of “book” from God. See Qur’an 19:30, Qur’an 5:46-68, and Qur’an 7:157.
Again, the Qur’an seems to believe David also received a book, the Zabur (Psalms), even though once again the Psalms are nothing like the Qur’an but are songs composed by David as well as others like the sons of Korah, Ethan, Heman, Asaph, Solomon, Moses, and many are completely anonymous. See Qur’an 4:163, Qur’an 17:55, and Qur’an Qur’an 21:105.
And again it says the same thing with the Torah being a book revealed to Moses although this is slightly more complicated. Jews and Christians generally agree that Moses (and partially Joshua in the last verses of the Torah) wrote the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Something like the 10 commandments and the laws and customs were directly revealed to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai but ultimately it was humans who wrote the Torah. There is also the issue of the Oral Torah which Jews consider to be as equally binding with the written Torah; the Oral Torah is really just the unwritten portion of the Torah in Judaism. Though of course Christians generally see the Torah as no longer binding (not that it was ever binding on gentiles) and the idea of there being an Oral Torah in Christianity is questionable at best. See Qur’an 5:44-45 and Qur’an 5:110.
So it seems that the Qur’an doesn’t actually understand the Judeo-Christian idea of what a prophet actually is. The Qur’an calls figures like Adam a prophet (Qur’an 3:33). It’s funny because the Qur’an never actually says the Jewish and Christian scriptures are corrupt, it actually affirms them (Qur’an 5:46)! Never does it even condemn St. Paul or any of his works though Muslims generally believe it was St. Paul who corrupted Jesus’s message and created Christianity. We know that it was only later Muslims exegetes who came up with this notion, in fact early Muslim exegetes believed Paul was a true disciple of God (see Al-Qurtubi for example). Only when Muslims began having access to the Bible did they see how much it contradicted the Qur’an, and around the times when ahadith and sunnah were being written down (about 150-200 years after Muhammad’s death) it started to become incorporated into Islamic orthodoxy yet even then and now there are sectarian disputes in the Islamic world.
The fact of the matter is that the Qur’an is not divine. It is the product of Muhammad’s mentally ill mind. After reading it completely most of it seems like the incoherent ramblings of a man who was very frustrated. Allah is really just an extension of Muhammad’s ego. It’s possible he was delusional or perhaps epilepsy but likely a lot of anxiety. I have even listened to the Arabic Qur’an which many Muslims argue is the “true” Qur’an. I hear nothing remarkable. Some sets of verses in some chapters have a distinctive rhyming pattern to them but its really unremarkable and indeed linguistically it is not much different from pre-Islamic poetry (there is also some evidence of Syriac/Aramaic liturgical language as well), that is why Muhammad was accused of being a poet by the people of Mecca. See Qur’an 37:36, Qur’an 21:5, and Qur’an 52:30.
“And let the People of the Injil (Gospel) judge by what Allah (God) has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah (God) has revealed – then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.” – Qur’an 5:37
Ok Qur’an, I accept your challenge. . . .
If you think that was inflammatory, you should read what the Fathers wrote concerning the Jews or heretics. Wanna see what St. John of Damascus says about Islam?
http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_islam.aspx
there is another mistake about a samaritan leading the isrealities in to sin via the golden calph
even though sameria would not be founded until the 9th century BC y King Omri and didnt become a seperate group after the exile of the Northern kingdom of Israel and the resettlement of the area under king Sargon II in after 722 B.C
i dont i guess they where timelords