Jalal Abualrub
There is a most absurd claim by Jochen Katz with regards to the length of Allah’s Days. I wrote a book on this topic titled, “Length of a Day with Allah,” coming in print soon, Allah willing. Katz thrives on defaming Islam by explaining the Quran as his Evangelical heart desires, then, he posts his lies on his website claiming that this is what Islam propagates.
Here, Katz asks about the length of Allah’s days, is it 50,000 years or 1,000 years? We did give him the answer before, but he was still unsatisfied, and since he is utterly ignorant in Islam, he turned for help to his protégée and companion: Sam Shamoun. Shamoun is a very abusive character and spends his time defaming Islam by inventing lies and ‘sticking them’ to Islam.
In response to my response, Shamoun writes 29 pages of utter nonsense where he admits that the ayat Katz relied on to support his claim that there are different numbers for a day with Allah in the Quran, are in fact of three different contexts. Yet, he still insists that they are one and the same context. This is not surprising: Shamoun believes that 1+1+1=1. Therefore, his belief that three different contexts are actually about one and the same context shouldn’t come as a shock. The mind of the evangelist, it is a weird yet funny thing. After reading the long Shamounic article, we found nothing in it that responds to my specific challenge to Katz: If Allah contradicted Himself in the Quran with regards to the length of a day with Him, then Katz must bring two Quranic statements wherein Allah the Exalted says: “A day with Your Lord is…,” then Allah mentions two different numbers. Katz and Shamoun couldn’t find such statements.
Deviation as a Trademark
Instead of answering my challenge, Shamoun brings different days with creation yet still claims a contradiction in the Quran with regards to the length of a day with Allah. However, my challenge to Katz, which I repeat here, is: bring two ayat wherein are two different numbers both of which are described as being the length of a day with Allah. To answer my challenge, Shamoun babbles about different days in the Quran which are of different lengths as creation experiences them but fails to meet my challenge. To add misery to failure, Shamoun discounts ‘God’s’ ability to create days of different lengths that do not only vary in length as creation reckons time but are also felt differently by parts of the same creation, by the Creator’s Power.
The question is: why would Shamoun need 29 pages of babbling about different contexts, which he desperately tries to ‘glue’ together, to make them appear as if they are one and the same in context? It is because he couldn’t meet my simple challenge to him: bring two ayat (Quranic statements) describing a ‘Day with your Lord’ as … then the two ayat mention two different numbers. This is a simple challenge; a simple task. There is no need to bring different days with creation, because that wasn’t the topic of their original article or my challenge to them. Either, Shamoun and Katz bring two different numbers under title, “A Day with Your Lord,” or else, Shamoun and Katz prove that they lie.
Remember that their entire argument is about the length of Allah’s Days, not the length of creation days. So, when Shamoun collects Prophetic hadeeths and Quranic ayat about different days to creation, how can this possibly help their case against the Quran? How would listing the length of certain days to angels, to humans, and to other creations, be proof that the Quran contains a contradiction with regards to Allah’s days?
Humankind now knows of infinite number of lengths of days that exist in different parts of this massive universe, so why would it seem strange that Allah creates days of different lengths in this life and the Hereafter? Shamoun insists on defying logic. Led by his deep hatred of Islam, Shamoun invents dreadful lies about Islam, without thinking about what he writes before he writes it. Therefore, for those who urged me to respond to this latest nonsense by Shamoun I say this instead: The dispute is about the length of Allah’s Days. Let Shamoun bring two Quranic ayat with conflicting reports about the length of the same day ‘with Allah’ then I will respond to him. What he brought is a comparison between the length of Allah’s Days and the different lengths of creation’s days.