Islam's Allah & Muhammad declare that Jews regard Ezra as Son of God

The Ezra Deception. Why does Muhammad's god, Allah, declare "The Jews say Ezra is the son of Allah," (Quran 9:30), when the Jewish faith has NEVER asserted this?

2/21/2015

Besides what his allah said in Quran 9:30, Muhammad himself stated that on the Day of Resurrection, "the Jews would be summoned, and it would be said to them: What did you worship? They will say: We worshipped 'Uzair [Ezra], son of Allah. It would be said to them: You tell a lie; iAllah had never had a spouse or a son." (Sahih Muslim, book 1, Hadith 352).

Jews knowledgeable about their scriptures would tell you that in the Old Testament, in the 7th Chapter of Ezra, first verse, it is recorded that Ezra is the son of Seraiah [not God!].

Like Muslims, Jews believe that the god of the universe has no son: From the Jewish holy text Exodus Rabbah 29 we read about God: "I am the first, I have no father; I am the last, I have no brother. Beside Me there is no God; I have no son."

2 Comments

Herman

3/30/2015 09:40:38 am

Muhammad did not know Judaism well.

Herman

2/6/2019 10:26:14 am

Suppose for the sake of argument that a few Jews did in fact tell Muhammad that "Ezra is the Son of God." Then we could say that "Some Jews [or more precisely, "a few Jews"] say that Ezra is the Son of God." But we would only say something like "the Jews say that Ezra is the Son of God IF IT WERE AN ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLE OF JUDAISM.
A true, all-knowing God dictating his religious book, [for Muslims, the Quran] would either state "SOME Jews say that Ezra is the Son of God," or (more logically) not make any such reference regarding Ezra at all. AN ALL-KNOWING GOD WOULD KNOW WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND EXODUS RABBAH 29. Muhammad did not. Consequently, Muhammad thought he could proceed to make an extraordinary generalization based on the few Jews he encountered, and as a result, we get Quran 9:30, clearly a man-made verse.
The flaw in such a generalization can be made even more apparent to the vast majority of Muslims by asking them how they would react to a writer visiting Iran, speaking with some Muslims there, and then returning home to write a book in which is written, "Muslims say that temporary marriage is acceptable in Islam." Of course, the only ones saying such a thing would be the Shia Muslims of which Iran has plenty. But the Shia sect of Islam comprises only 10 to 15% of all Muslims. Most Muslims would quickly denounce temporary marriage. An all-knowing entity would of course know that they would. But our writer here, like Muhammad centuries ago, has made a serious mistake arising from a misplaced tendency to inappropriately generalize.

The Ezra Deception. Why does Muhammad's god, Allah, declare "The Jews say Ezra is the son of Allah," (Quran 9:30), when the Jewish faith has NEVER asserted this?

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