In my last article “Quran- The word of God” we saw that there are many verses in Quran, which has human origins, or are written by the self-proclaimed Prophet of Islam himself. We also discussed how Allah challenges Non-Believers to find errors and discrepancies in Quran. In this article I’ll try to give at least one irrefutable evidence from Quran, which proves that Quran has error, discrepancies, and its author was too weak in general science to be the Lord of this Universe.

Famous Indian Televangelist Zakir Naik have tried his best to answer this particular question which we are about to discuss with his silly and illogical arguments, and other Islamic scholars have written lengthy articles to defend this unscientific statement of Allah mentioned in Quran, but they have failed miserably. This devastating error in Holy Book of Islam is that, as per the lord of Muslims, ‘Allah’, our Sun Sets In Some Dirty Muddy Pool or River? I mean, will any sane person ever believe such book to be a word of God? Now I will present the evidences from canonical Islamic scriptures to prove that indeed in reality Allah, or the author of Quran believed that Sun sets somewhere in Western part of this earth in some Muddy (Murky) pool, river or pond. Let’s begin by reading the verse from Quran 18:86, which says:

Until, when he reached the setting place of the sun, he found it setting in a spring of black muddy (or hot) water. And he found near it a people. We (Allah) said (by inspiration): “O Dhul-Qarnain! Either you punish them, or treat them with kindness.”

I don’t intent to hurt feelings of Muslims, but is Allah even Junior School pass? We all know for sure that Sun is much, much bigger than earth and it is also millions of KM away from earth, so how can we expect the sun to set in black muddy water. Muslim scholars defend this error by claiming that it appeared to ‘Dhul- Qarnain’ that sun is setting in the muddy water. No issue I have done my home work, let’s read what one of the earliest Tafsir, by the companion of Prophet Muhammad writes about this verse.

Tafsir Ibn Abbas [18:86]: 
(Till, when he reached the setting place of the sun) where the sun sets, (he found it setting in a muddy spring) a blackened, muddy and stinking spring; it is also said that this means: a hot spring, (and found a people thereabout) these people were disbelievers: (We said: O Dhu’l-Qarnayn!) We inspired him (Either punish) either kill them until they accept to believe that there is no deity except Allah (or show them kindness) or you pardon them and let them be.

It is not difficult to understand the verse, it simply says that as per Allah, when Dhul-Qarnain (Alexander The Great) reached the setting place of sun, he found it setting in muddy and stinking spring or pond as per some translation. When the Arabs asked Muhammad, about the rising place of sun, then his friend and partner Allah again revealed few verses to help the Prophet of Islam. Allah said in Quran 18:89-90, which says:

Quran 18:89: Then he followed another way

Quran 18:90: Until, when he came to the rising place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We (Allah) had provided no shelter against the sun.

Here we find, that as per Allah Dhul-Qarnain traveled another way, which must be most probably east to find from where sun rises, and astonishingly he found the sun rising on people who were unbelievers and had no shelter. This explanation is sufficient  for rationals and open-minded people to prove that Allah didn’t knew simple science and Quran has errors, but not for Muslim readers and blind believers, who copy-paste lies of Islamic scholars to defend Quranic errors its insufficient.