Are there any pre-Islamic Syriac-Christian presence in Makkah and Madīnah, as Luxenberg attempts to demonstrate? No, absence of prevalent Syriac-Christian materials in Hijāz, let alone Makkah and Madīna.
And Luxenberg copes and says (paraphrasing), "Well, must be some kind of hybrid between Arabic and Syriac". No, “Arabic-Syriac” hybrid is not found anywhere from the 5th Century and onwards to the Islamic period.
And Luxenburg copes again and says, "Well, they just forgot Syriac and then leaped into Classical Arabic as we know it today". Do you know how ridiculous it sounds? How much cope does it require to say this? The Arabs, in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), forgot the Syriac language and leaped into Classical Arabic, which means the Arabs experienced a mass loss of memory that plagued them, like the same Saḥaba at the time would know the Syriac language, and then they forgot it, and somehow was reworded into Arabic? What kind of linguistic gymnastics is this?
You see, this "mixed language" appears to be little more than a convenient excuse for high-handed interpretation of the Qur'ānic text!
The Quran was revealed to the Prophet (ﷺ) in the 7th century in the Arabian Peninsula. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, on the other hand, is a non-canonical text that purports to tell the story of Jesus' childhood. It is believed to have been written in the 2nd century. The two texts are vastly different in content, style, and purpose. The Quran is considered to be the word of God as revealed to the Prophet (ﷺ) and contains teachings about the nature of God, morality, and guidance for living. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, on the other hand, is a narrative text that tells stories about Jesus as a child and is not considered to be scripture by any major religion.
Given that the Quran was written centuries after the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, 1400 years ago in Makkah and Medinah, while the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was not discovered until 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. The two texts were written in different locations, at different times, and were not known to each other, it is unlikely that the Quran was copied from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. At the time the Quran was written, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was not widely known or circulated before its discovery in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, and was not considered a religious text by any major religion and was not included in any canon of scripture.
The text was part of a collection of texts known as the Nag Hammadi library, which were discovered in a sealed jar in Upper Egypt. The texts are believed to have been buried in the 4th century and were not known to the wider public until their discovery in the 20th century. Given the fact that the Quran was written in the 7th century and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas was not known or widely circulated at that time, it would not have been possible for the Quran to have been influenced by or copied from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.
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