🧠 Top Dawah Evasions to Quranic Contradictions — And Why They Fail

They promised no contradictions. Now they promise excuses.

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📘 Introduction

When faced with Qur’anic contradictions, Muslim apologists don’t admit defeat — they deflect.
Here are the 7 most common tactics used to dodge contradictions in the Quran, and why every one of them collapses under scrutiny.

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🛑 Evasion 1: “You’re Taking It Out of Context”

🗣️ Claim:

“You need to read the verse before and after — you’re cherry-picking!”

💥 Why It Fails:

• The contradictions are internal, not interpretive.

• No amount of surrounding verses makes 6 ≠ 8 days, or Jesus both crucified and not crucified.

• Context can clarify, but it can’t reverse a claim.

📌 Reality: When two verses directly conflict — adding context doesn’t solve the contradiction. It just delays it.

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🛑 Evasion 2: “You Need to Know Classical Arabic”

🗣️ Claim:

“The meanings are lost in translation — the contradiction disappears in Arabic.”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Arabic doesn’t change the math (6 vs 8 days), the biology (semen from ribs), or the timeline (creation order).

• Tafsirs written by native Arabic-speaking scholars acknowledge these contradictions (e.g., al-Tabari, al-Jalalayn).

📌 Reality: Most Islamic scholars agree on what the Arabic says — and still contradict each other.

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🛑 Evasion 3: “It’s Not a Contradiction, It’s a Paradox”

🗣️ Claim:

“It only seems like a contradiction, but deeper reflection shows harmony.”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Paradoxes require a higher unifying explanation — not two mutually exclusive claims.

• Saying Jesus was not killed in 4:157 but was taken in death in 3:55 is not a mystery — it’s a textual inconsistency.

• The Quran claims to be “clear, explained in detail” (41:3, 12:2), not mysterious.

📌 Reality: You can’t defend contradictions in a book that claims to be fully detailed and without confusion.

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🛑 Evasion 4: “Scholars Disagree, So It’s Not Settled”

🗣️ Claim:

“There are different opinions on this among the scholars — so it’s not a contradiction.”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Multiple interpretations don’t erase contradictions — they prove the text is unclear.

• If scholars can’t agree on basic doctrines like Jesus’ death, creation order, or free will, then the Quran fails its own clarity test (12:2, 41:3).

📌 Reality: Disagreement isn’t a defense — it’s an indictment of the text.

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🛑 Evasion 5: “Those Verses Were Abrogated”

🗣️ Claim:

“One verse replaces another — it’s called ‘naskh’ (abrogation).”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Abrogation admits that Allah revealed contradictions, then replaced them — which still violates Surah 4:82.

• It raises a bigger problem: How can an eternal book be edited?

• Muslims can’t agree which verses are abrogated — some say 2:256 (“no compulsion”) is valid, others say it's cancelled by 9:5.

📌 Reality: Abrogation solves nothing — it confirms the contradiction, then claims it was intentional.

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🛑 Evasion 6: “You’re Misunderstanding the Metaphor”

🗣️ Claim:

“It’s metaphorical, not literal — that’s why it sounds contradictory.”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Many contradictions are factual, not poetic — e.g., sperm’s origin, days of creation, historical events.

• The Quran doesn’t present those verses as metaphors — it speaks as fact and history.

• And again, how do you metaphorically miscount the days of creation?

📌 Reality: When a book says something literal and it’s wrong, that’s not metaphor — that’s error.

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🛑 Evasion 7: “You Can’t Understand Without a Scholar”

🗣️ Claim:

“Only scholars can interpret these verses correctly. You need years of study.”

💥 Why It Fails:

• Then the Quran isn’t clear.

• Then it contradicts itself (41:3, 12:2, 16:89: “explained in detail”).

• Every contradiction shows that even scholars disagree with each other — proving no consensus, no clarity, and no divine origin.

📌 Reality: If Allah’s final message needs thousands of pages of explanation, it isn’t clear — it’s broken.

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✅ Final Verdict

Evasion	Fails Because...
“Context!”	Contradictions remain, context or not
“Arabic!”	Native Arabic speakers still disagree
“It’s a paradox!”	It’s not — it’s incoherent
“Scholars disagree!”	That’s a problem, not a defense
“Abrogation!”	Proves contradiction, then tries to delete it
“It’s a metaphor!”	Wrong genre — these are claims of fact
“Ask a scholar!”	Then the Quran isn’t clear — and it lies about being so

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🔥 Closing Statement

“If it had been from other than Allah, you would have found many contradictions in it.” — Surah 4:82

We found them.
And when you show them, Dawah changes the subject.

Not because the contradictions aren’t real —

But because they can’t be resolved.