Exposing Islam

🔥 Damned Either Way: The Quran’s No-Win Command to the People of the Book

🔍 Introduction

Islam claims to honor the Torah and the Gospel. In multiple verses, the Quran directly commands Jews and Christians to "judge by" or "stand upon" their scriptures — the very books revealed before Muhammad. Yet paradoxically, it also condemns those same scriptures and anyone who does not accept Muhammad and the Quran.

So here’s the trap: if Jews and Christians obey the Quran and stand on the Torah and Gospel, they are ipso facto rejecting Muhammad — and thus condemned. But if they don't stand on their scriptures and instead accept Islam, they are condemned by the Quran itself as disobedient.

That’s not guidance — that’s a theological ambush.

🧾 The Commands

Let’s look at what the Quran explicitly commands the People of the Book:

📖 Surah 5:43

"But how do they come to you for judgment while they have the Torah, in which is the judgment of Allah?"

📖 Surah 5:44

"Indeed, We sent down the Torah... and those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are disbelievers (kafirun).”

📖 Surah 5:46–47

"...We gave him the Gospel... Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. Whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed — those are the defiantly disobedient (fasiqun).”

📖 Surah 5:68

“Say: O People of the Book! You are on nothing until you uphold the Torah and the Gospel and what was revealed to you from your Lord...”

❗ But Here’s the Catch

If Jews and Christians truly do stand on the Torah and Gospel, what happens?

They must reject Muhammad, because:
- The Torah and Gospel do not teach that another prophet is to come after Jesus.
- They affirm doctrines Islam condemns: Christ’s sonship, deity, atonement, and crucifixion.
- The Gospel ends with the finality of Jesus (Hebrews 1:1–2; John 1:1; Revelation 22:18–19).

So obeying the Quran by standing on the previous scriptures automatically causes disobedience to the Quran itself — because doing so leads to rejecting Islam.

🚨 Formal Logical Contradiction

Let’s break it down as a syllogism.

Premises:

P1: The Quran commands the People of the Book to judge by the Torah and Gospel (5:44, 5:47).
P2: Judging by the Torah and Gospel leads to rejecting Muhammad and Islam.
P3: Rejecting Muhammad and the Quran is condemned as disbelief (3:85, 5:10).
P4: But not judging by the Torah and Gospel is also condemned (5:44–47).

Conclusion:

The People of the Book are condemned whether they obey or disobey the Quran’s command.

📌 This is a logical contradiction:

If you do A → condemned

If you don’t do A → condemned

Therefore, either the Quran is internally incoherent, or this system was never meant to be logical — it was built for submission, not consistency.

🔄 Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

Action	Outcome
Obey Quran, judge by Torah/Gospel	Must reject Muhammad → condemned as kafir
Reject Torah/Gospel, accept Quran	Disobey Quran's command → condemned as fasiq

There is no righteous path here for Jews and Christians. The Quran essentially says:

"Obey the scriptures — and be damned.
Disobey the scriptures — and be damned."

🧨 Why This Destroys the Islamic Claim of Clarity

Surah 5:15 claims:

"There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book..."

But how can the Quran claim to be clear and perfect if it creates a command that logically destroys anyone who obeys it?

This is the opposite of divine wisdom. It is not clarity — it is contradiction.

🧠 Final Thought

This is not just a theological issue. It’s a forensic problem. The Quran, by its own test in Surah 4:82 —

"Had it been from other than Allah, you would have found much contradiction therein."

— has failed its own test.

The command to the People of the Book is not a bridge. It’s a trapdoor — and the moment you step on it, it collapses beneath you.

🔚 Call to Action

If you're a truth-seeker, this should make you pause. A divine book should never require logical contortions or contradictions to defend itself. Truth is consistent. God is not the author of confusion.