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RECONCILIATION.
European writers may be classified under the following heads:
(1) its errors, such as the denial of the death of Jesus on the cross, and the description of Isaac as the brother of Jacob, whereas, according to the Bible, Issac was the son of Jacob (Cf. Sura Hud with Genesis, XXV. 19-26);
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(2) its childish fables;
(3) its false geography;
(4) its dishonouring representations, in some respects, of God;
(5) its fatalism;
(6) its religious intolerance;
(7) its perpetuation of slavery;
(8) its harsh punishment of theft and other kinds of offences;
(9) its sanctioning of polygamy and unbounded license with regard to female slaves, as well as the unlimited and unrestricted power of divorce;
(10) its contradictions; and (11) its mythology.
To these may be added another and a more serious objection on account of the doctrine of animal sacrifice, which, as we have seen in an earlier chapter, is certainly opposed to the true spirit of religion.
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Besides the above, the point which is most frequently and hotly debated with reference to the Qur'an is the nature of its source. Muslims, naturally, claim it to be a revealed scripture, and base their claim on the peculiar style of its composition. This claim, in a way, originated with the Prophet
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