Shocking Historical Precision of the Quran (2020-12-29) ​

0:00:05 egypt
0:00:06 land of the pyramids and pharaohs
0:00:09 one of the most studied and scrutinized
0:00:11 civilizations of the ancient world
0:00:13 and yet it remains veiled in mystery
0:00:17 in this video we are going to see that
0:00:19 the quran reveals secrets about egypt
0:00:21 that until recently were lost to mankind
0:00:29 pharaoh was a tyrant in egypt enslaving
0:00:32 and persecuting the children of israel
0:00:35 the quran states the following about the
0:00:37 death of pharaoh and his supporters
0:00:48 note the words heaven and earth wept not
0:00:50 for them
0:00:52 a recently unearthed pyramid text has
0:00:54 granted us new insights
0:00:55 into the meaning of this verse the
0:00:57 pyramid text reads
0:01:00 the sky weeps for you the earth weeps
0:01:02 for you
0:01:03 when you ascend to heaven as a star
0:01:06 here the pyramid text praises pharaoh
0:01:10 claiming that upon his death he will
0:01:12 ascend through the sky
0:01:13 and claim supremacy of the heavens by
0:01:15 becoming a star
0:01:17 we can see that the quran quotes the
0:01:20 pyramid text directly in its rebuttal of
0:01:22 egyptian adulations of pharaoh
0:01:24 what's amazing is that knowledge of the
0:01:27 ancient
0:01:27 egyptian language of hieroglyphics was
0:01:30 lost to mankind
0:01:31 at the time the quran was revealed it
0:01:33 wasn't until the discovery
0:01:35 of an artifact known as the rosetta
0:01:38 stone in the 18th century
0:01:40 over a thousand years after the
0:01:41 revelation of the quran
0:01:43 that mankind has been able to fully
0:01:45 decode the hieroglyphics
0:01:52 when you hear the word pharaoh what
0:01:54 comes into your mind
0:01:56 most people think of the supreme ruler
0:01:58 of egypt
0:01:59 this is correct but the word did not
0:02:01 always refer to the supreme ruler
0:02:04 ancient egyptian history is divided into
0:02:06 different periods
0:02:08 the word pharaoh egyptian pera
0:02:11 had different meanings depending on the
0:02:12 period of egyptian history
0:02:14 historically the word pharaoh only
0:02:17 started being used as a title for the
0:02:19 supreme ruler
0:02:20 much later in egyptian history during
0:02:23 the new kingdom period
0:02:25 before this the word meant great house
0:02:28 and was used to refer to the royal
0:02:30 palace
0:02:31 the encyclopedia britannica states
0:02:34 pharaoh
0:02:35 originally the royal palace in ancient
0:02:37 egypt
0:02:38 the word came to be used for the
0:02:40 egyptian king under the new kingdom
0:02:43 let's now analyze the quran's accounts
0:02:45 about egypt
0:02:47 in light of these historical facts like
0:02:49 the bible
0:02:50 the quran discusses the prophets joseph
0:02:53 and moses
0:02:54 who both spent time in egypt joseph is
0:02:57 dated by scholars
0:02:58 to either the middle kingdom or second
0:03:00 intermediate period
0:03:02 well before pharaoh meant ruler in the
0:03:05 story of joseph
0:03:06 the quran repeatedly uses the word king
0:03:09 to refer to the ruler of egypt
0:03:12 he is never once called pharaoh
0:03:15 moses is dated by scholars to the new
0:03:18 kingdom period
0:03:19 in the story of moses the quran
0:03:22 repeatedly calls the ruler pharaoh
0:03:24 he is never called king we can see
0:03:28 that the quran is accurate in its use of
0:03:31 language when it comes to describing the
0:03:33 leader of egypt
0:03:34 at different periods in its history how
0:03:37 could the author of the quran have known
0:03:39 this
0:03:40 the only source of information about
0:03:42 ancient egypt
0:03:43 that would have been readily available
0:03:45 are the bible-based stories
0:03:47 to claim that the quran copied from the
0:03:49 bible is problematic
0:03:51 because the bible uses the word pharaoh
0:03:53 to refer to the egyptian ruler in the
0:03:55 story of joseph
0:03:57 which is historically inaccurate the
0:04:00 quran
0:04:00 cannot have copied from the bible
0:04:02 because the quran corrects the bible
0:04:08 [Music]
0:04:11 the bible explicitly states that at the
0:04:13 time of the exodus
0:04:14 the israelites men were vast in number
0:04:18 the israelites journeyed from ramesses
0:04:20 to sukhov
0:04:21 there were about six hundred thousand
0:04:24 men on foot
0:04:25 besides women and children if we factor
0:04:28 in
0:04:28 the women and children then the total
0:04:30 number of israelites would realistically
0:04:32 be in the millions
0:04:34 this claim of a vast nation is
0:04:36 problematic in light of other
0:04:38 information
0:04:39 that the bible provides firstly
0:04:42 pharaoh is said to have appointed two
0:04:44 midwives to deliver
0:04:46 and murder israelite babies
0:04:49 the king of egypt said to the hebrew
0:04:51 midwives whose names were shipra
0:04:53 and pua when you are helping the hebrew
0:04:55 women during childbirth on the delivery
0:04:57 stool
0:04:58 if you see that the baby is a boy kill
0:05:00 him
0:05:02 two midwives would only be sufficient
0:05:04 for such a task
0:05:06 if the israelites were small in number
0:05:08 and giving birth to a manageable
0:05:10 number of babies two midwives would not
0:05:13 be sufficient for a vast nation
0:05:15 of millions
0:05:16 [Music]
0:05:19 secondly the bible tells us that after
0:05:22 the exodus
0:05:23 god informed israel that they would not
0:05:25 be granted the land of their enemies
0:05:27 straight away
0:05:29 but i will not drive them out in a
0:05:31 single year
0:05:32 because the land would become desolate
0:05:34 and the wild animals
0:05:35 too numerous for you little by little i
0:05:38 will drive them out before you
0:05:40 until you have increased enough to take
0:05:42 possession of the land
0:05:44 note the reason for the israelites being
0:05:46 denied immediate possession of the land
0:05:48 it is said that wild animals will
0:05:51 overpower them
0:05:54 such a statement only makes sense if the
0:05:57 israelites were small in number
0:05:59 and not a vast nation of millions as the
0:06:01 bible claims
0:06:02 by contrast the quran states that the
0:06:05 israelites
0:06:06 were only a small band at the time of
0:06:18 moses
0:06:21 we can see that the quran fixes the
0:06:24 contradictions
0:06:25 that are present in the biblical
0:06:32 narrative
0:06:34 the quran states that the punishment of
0:06:37 crucifixion
0:06:38 was used in ancient egypt from the time
0:06:40 of moses
0:06:41 all the way back to the time of joseph
0:06:44 now the word crucifixion typically
0:06:46 brings to mind the roman cross
0:06:49 however in antiquity there were
0:06:51 different forms of crucifixion
0:06:53 professor of archaeology david chapman
0:06:56 wrote
0:06:57 in studying the ancient world the
0:06:59 scholar is wise
0:07:00 not to differentiate too rigidly the
0:07:03 categories of crucifixion
0:07:04 impalement and suspension hence any
0:07:07 study of crucifixion conceptions
0:07:09 in antiquity must grapple with the
0:07:12 broader context
0:07:13 of the wide variety of penal suspension
0:07:15 of human beings
0:07:17 the arabic words translated as crucified
0:07:20 in the quranic verses
0:07:21 all contain the root word solab
0:07:25 arabic dictionaries state that this root
0:07:27 carries a number of meanings
0:07:29 including to harden or stiffen and to
0:07:31 extract oily matter from bones
0:07:35 this word does not only mean death by
0:07:37 being hung
0:07:38 on a roman cross rather it indicates
0:07:42 any method of execution which makes the
0:07:44 body hardened or stiffened and results
0:07:46 in the leaking of bodily fluids
0:07:49 so impalement suspension and the roman
0:07:52 cross
0:07:53 are all included without making any
0:07:55 distinction
0:07:57 archaeological evidence shows that the
0:07:59 ancient egyptians
0:08:01 used to crucify people by impalement on
0:08:03 a stake
0:08:04 the following entry is taken from an
0:08:06 egyptian german dictionary of
0:08:08 hieroglyphics
0:08:10 not the hieroglyph which depicts an
0:08:12 impaled man
0:08:13 this is a punishment that was used
0:08:15 throughout the different periods of
0:08:17 ancient egypt
0:08:18 the abbot papyrus is dated to the new
0:08:21 kingdom period
0:08:22 it mentions an oath that includes
0:08:25 impalement
0:08:26 he took an oath on pain of being beaten
0:08:28 and of being impaled
0:08:30 the earliest evidence for crucifixion by
0:08:33 impalement
0:08:34 is papyrus bulac 18 which is dated to
0:08:37 the early second
0:08:38 intermediate period it states a
0:08:41 bloodbath had occurred with wood
0:08:43 the comrade was put on the stake
0:08:46 we can see that crucifixion by
0:08:47 impalement on a stake
0:08:49 was carried out during the new kingdom
0:08:51 period and at least as far back as the
0:08:53 second
0:08:54 intermediate period these time periods
0:08:56 cover both moses and joseph
0:08:58 which shows that the quran is
0:09:00 historically accurate
0:09:02 as well as mentioning crucifixion the
0:09:04 quran also narrates the following threat
0:09:07 of mutilation
0:09:08 made by the pharaoh of moses
0:09:21 historically we know that capital
0:09:23 punishment in ancient egypt became more
0:09:25 severe
0:09:26 with the advent of the new kingdom
0:09:28 period which is the time of moses
0:09:30 in fact the specific punishment of
0:09:33 mutilation
0:09:34 is primarily associated with the new
0:09:36 kingdom period
0:09:37 for example the turin judicial papyrus
0:09:40 records
0:09:41 persons to whom was done punishment by
0:09:44 severing their nose and ears
0:09:46 on account of them ignoring the good
0:09:47 instruction said to them
0:09:50 these details about crucifixion and
0:09:52 mutilation are missing in the bible
0:09:55 there is a jewish commentary the midrash
0:09:57 shemot rabbah
0:09:59 which mentions pharaoh threatening moses
0:10:01 with burning and crucifixion
0:10:03 but this is a much later work that was
0:10:05 composed centuries after the quran was
0:10:07 revealed
0:10:12 [Music]
0:10:15 neither the bible nor quran identifies
0:10:17 the pharaoh of moses by name
0:10:20 we can use the details provided in the
0:10:22 scriptures
0:10:23 to try to identify the pharaoh
0:10:26 both scriptures speak of the israelites
0:10:28 being taken into slavery
0:10:30 before the birth of moses the use of
0:10:32 semites for slave labor occurred only
0:10:35 during the new kingdom period
0:10:37 so we can place moses somewhere in the
0:10:40 new kingdom period
0:10:42 this gives us a list of 33 possible
0:10:44 pharaohs
0:10:47 both scriptures also speak of an exodus
0:10:49 of the israelites out of egypt
0:10:51 the moneptustele is an important
0:10:54 artifact
0:10:54 that contains the first explicit
0:10:56 reference to israel in the
0:10:58 archaeological record
0:10:59 it is dated to around 1208 bce
0:11:03 it discusses the land of canaan and
0:11:05 mentions the israelites in relation to
0:11:07 kanan
0:11:08 indicating that the exodus had already
0:11:11 taken place by this date
0:11:13 the artifact is contemporaneous to the
0:11:15 pharaoh minepta
0:11:17 this means that the exodus had to take
0:11:19 place before manipta
0:11:21 since monepta was alive and in power
0:11:24 after the exodus and not drowned in the
0:11:26 sea
0:11:27 this establishes an upper boundary in
0:11:29 the timeline of the pharaohs
0:11:31 from the point of view of both the bible
0:11:33 and quran we are now left with
0:11:35 18 pharaohs as candidates who may have
0:11:38 ruled during the time of moses
0:11:40 let's now delve deeper into the biblical
0:11:42 narrative
0:11:43 the bible claims that there were two
0:11:46 different pharaohs who were in power
0:11:48 the first died while moses was in hiding
0:11:51 in midian
0:11:52 when pharaoh heard of this he tried to
0:11:55 kill moses
0:11:56 but moses fled from pharaoh and went to
0:11:58 live in midian
0:12:00 during that long period the king of
0:12:02 egypt died
0:12:03 the new pharaoh continued his
0:12:05 predecessor's persecution of the
0:12:07 israelites
0:12:08 and it was the second pharaoh who was
0:12:10 later drowned when moses crossed the sea
0:12:13 the bible gives us a timeline for these
0:12:16 events
0:12:17 the burning bush encounter with god took
0:12:19 place when moses was 80 years old
0:12:22 so from his birth to the exodus there
0:12:24 was a span of at least
0:12:26 80 years during which two pharaohs ruled
0:12:29 egypt
0:12:30 now there is a big problem if we compare
0:12:33 this biblical narrative
0:12:34 to the timeline of the pharaohs we've
0:12:37 seen that the bible claims
0:12:38 exactly two pharaohs ruled during the 80
0:12:41 year period
0:12:42 from the birth of moses to the exodus
0:12:46 if we consider the number of years that
0:12:48 each of the pharaohs ruled
0:12:50 we can see that there is no 80 year
0:12:52 period
0:12:53 during which only two pharaohs ruled any
0:12:56 given
0:12:57 80-year period will give you at least
0:12:59 three pharaohs in power
0:13:01 we can see that the biblical narrative
0:13:03 contradicts the historical evidence
0:13:05 let's now compare the quranic narrative
0:13:08 unlike the bible the quran depicts a
0:13:11 single pharaoh
0:13:12 reigning from the birth of moses all the
0:13:14 way up to the exodus
0:13:15 the quran informs us that moses fled to
0:13:18 midian
0:13:19 when he reached the age of maturity the
0:13:22 quran defines the age of maturity
0:13:24 as 40 years old the quran also
0:13:27 informs us that during his time in
0:13:29 midian
0:13:30 moses spent eight to ten years in the
0:13:33 service of his father-in-law
0:13:35 before returning to egypt to face
0:13:37 pharaoh
0:13:38 this means that moses was at least 48
0:13:41 years of
0:13:42 age when the exodus happened the only
0:13:45 pharaoh during the new kingdom period
0:13:47 who had such a lengthy reign as an
0:13:49 absolute ruler
0:13:50 was ramesses ii who ruled for 66 years
0:13:55 the quranic account is perfectly in line
0:13:58 with historical evidence
0:14:00 and fixes the chronological issues that
0:14:02 are present in the biblical narrative
0:14:09 [Music]
0:14:11 let's now compare the life and religion
0:14:13 of ramacist ii
0:14:15 to the claims that the quran makes about
0:14:17 the pharaoh of moses
0:14:26 this claim that the pharaoh of moses was
0:14:29 extravagant
0:14:30 has been proven by archaeological
0:14:32 discoveries which show that ramesses ii
0:14:35 was the grandest of the pharaohs the
0:14:37 archaeologist
0:14:38 peter clayton wrote his genuine building
0:14:41 achievements are on a herculean scale
0:14:43 the archaeologist eric uphill wrote the
0:14:46 palace of ramesses
0:14:47 was probably the vastest and most costly
0:14:50 royal residence
0:14:52 ever erected by the hand of man the
0:14:54 egyptologist
0:14:55 kenneth kitchen wrote certainly in his
0:14:58 building works for the gods
0:15:00 ramesses ii surpassed not only the 18th
0:15:03 dynasty
0:15:03 but every other period in egyptian
0:15:05 history with regards to the religion of
0:15:08 the pharaoh of moses
0:15:09 the quran makes the following claim
0:15:19 the quran states that the pharaoh of
0:15:21 moses was arrogant
0:15:23 exalting himself to the position of god
0:15:26 modern archaeological discoveries have
0:15:28 proven this to be true
0:15:30 ramesses ii built the great temple at
0:15:33 abu simbel
0:15:34 to honor himself its entrance is flanked
0:15:37 by four colossal statues of ramesis the
0:15:40 second
0:15:40 which dwarf the statue of ra harakhti
0:15:44 god of the horizon located above it this
0:15:47 temple also contains an image of
0:15:49 ramacist ii
0:15:50 making a sacrifice to his divine self
0:15:59 the quran makes the following claim
0:16:01 about the pharaoh of moses
0:16:03 who god drowned in the sea
0:16:12 we can see that the quran explicitly
0:16:14 states that the pharaoh's body will be
0:16:16 preserved as a sign for future
0:16:18 generations
0:16:20 note that the quran never makes such a
0:16:22 statement about any of the other
0:16:24 destroyed nations that it discusses
0:16:26 typically stating that their abandoned
0:16:28 buildings and ruins
0:16:30 have been made signs for later
0:16:31 generations
0:16:33 this claim about a body being preserved
0:16:35 is unique to the pharaoh of moses
0:16:38 the body of ramacist ii was discovered
0:16:40 by archaeologists
0:16:41 in the year 1881 ce the mummy
0:16:45 has been on display in the cairo museum
0:16:48 and over the last century
0:16:49 it has been seen by millions of tourists
0:16:51 from all over the world
0:16:53 in the following documentary sir tony
0:16:55 robinson states
0:16:56 that ramesses ii is one of the few
0:17:00 pharaohs whose body has survived largely
0:17:02 intact
0:17:04 just across the river from luxor lies
0:17:07 the famous valley of the kings
0:17:09 where ramesses himself was buried
0:17:13 his mummy was discovered in 1881
0:17:18 one of the few pharaohs whose body has
0:17:21 survived largely intact
0:17:24 historically priests had concealed his
0:17:27 body in a secret location
0:17:29 in the year 1000 bce because of a
0:17:32 problem
0:17:32 with grave robbers nothing was known
0:17:35 about his mummy
0:17:36 in the intervening period of almost 3
0:17:39 000 years
0:17:40 at the time the quran was revealed the
0:17:42 whereabouts
0:17:43 and fate of pharaoh's body was unknown
0:17:46 during the 3000 year period
0:17:48 in which the body was hidden it could
0:17:50 easily have been damaged or stolen
0:17:53 it may have even remained lost forever
0:17:55 locked away in its secret location
0:17:57 never to be rediscovered if you think
0:18:00 about it
0:18:01 these statements in the quran are not
0:18:03 only historically accurate
0:18:04 but also represent quite a bold prophecy
0:18:10 [Music]
0:18:13 the bible informs us about a series of
0:18:15 plagues
0:18:16 that god brought upon egypt the book of
0:18:19 exodus informs us
0:18:20 that the first six of these plagues are
0:18:22 as follows
0:18:24 first the nile was turned into blood
0:18:27 second masses of frogs third
0:18:30 swarms of mosquitoes fourth
0:18:34 swarms of flies fifth
0:18:37 the death of livestock sixth
0:18:40 boils on people and animals now at first
0:18:43 glance
0:18:44 this series of plagues in the biblical
0:18:46 narrative may seem random and unrelated
0:18:49 however the quran sheds light on these
0:18:51 events the quran states the following
0:18:53 about the divine punishments against
0:18:55 egypt
0:19:01 [Music]
0:19:10 notice the first punishment mentioned by
0:19:12 the quran a flood
0:19:14 this is an important detail that is not
0:19:16 found in the bible
0:19:18 this punishment of a flood actually
0:19:20 explains the six
0:19:21 seemingly random and unrelated plagues
0:19:24 in the biblical narrative
0:19:26 a flood would result in high
0:19:28 concentrations of red earth
0:19:30 entering the nile river and causing a
0:19:32 bloodlike colour
0:19:34 killing fish and making the water
0:19:36 undrinkable
0:19:37 as described in the biblical narrative
0:19:40 this phenomenon
0:19:41 is attested to historically as recorded
0:19:44 by a middle kingdom egyptian sage
0:19:48 see the river is blood one shrinks from
0:19:51 other people
0:19:52 and thirsts for water the rest of the
0:19:55 biblical plagues
0:19:56 are also easily explained as a
0:19:58 consequence of the flood
0:20:00 frogs mentioned in plague number two are
0:20:03 known to fill the land
0:20:04 after nile floods the death of the frogs
0:20:07 recorded in the biblical narrative can
0:20:09 be caused by contamination of anthrax
0:20:12 that was carried over from the rotting
0:20:13 fish mosquitoes
0:20:15 mentioned in plague number three
0:20:17 proliferate after nile floods
0:20:19 as the pools of water left over from the
0:20:22 flooding
0:20:22 would have allowed them to overbreed
0:20:25 swarms of flies
0:20:26 mentioned in plague number four will be
0:20:28 brought about by the massive death of
0:20:30 frogs on the land
0:20:31 the death of pasturing livestock
0:20:34 mentioned in plague number five
0:20:35 can be explained by anthrax as brought
0:20:38 on the land by the frogs
0:20:40 the boils on humans and cattle mentioned
0:20:43 in plague number six
0:20:44 may have been caused by bites the stable
0:20:47 fly in particular
0:20:48 is infamous for its vicious biting of
0:20:49 mammals
0:20:52 we can see that the quran's mention of a
0:20:54 flood
0:20:55 easily explains the biblical plagues
0:20:58 which are not random
0:20:59 as initially appears to be the case but
0:21:01 in fact a series of interrelated events
0:21:10 the quran mentions the following
0:21:12 incident about joseph while he was in
0:21:14 egypt
0:21:26 here the quran states that joseph was
0:21:28 sold for a poultry price
0:21:31 the arabic phrase used is
0:21:35 which contains the words dirham and ma
0:21:38 dude
0:21:39 dirham means a unit of silver coinage or
0:21:42 weight
0:21:43 ma dude means countable or limited in
0:21:46 number
0:21:47 so the quran is making the claim that
0:21:49 joseph was sold
0:21:51 for a small amount of countable silver
0:21:54 there is plenty of historical evidence
0:21:56 that standardized units of silver were
0:21:58 used in transactions in
0:22:00 ancient egypt small pieces of silver
0:22:03 known as shati were used in trade
0:22:06 the tomb of nyanknom and konam hotep
0:22:09 is dated to the old kingdom period it
0:22:12 contains a scene
0:22:13 of a busy open-air market with goods for
0:22:16 sale
0:22:16 cubits of cloth for example are said to
0:22:19 be sold
0:22:20 for six chatty the ringed mathematical
0:22:23 papyrus
0:22:24 is dated to the second intermediate
0:22:26 period it discusses
0:22:28 the relative values of gold silver and
0:22:31 lead
0:22:31 in terms of shatty small silver bars
0:22:35 bearing the name of pharaoh tutankhamun
0:22:37 have been dated to the new kingdom
0:22:39 period
0:22:40 they are inscribed with a hieroglyphic
0:22:42 which states
0:22:44 tutankhamun ruler of heliopolis in upper
0:22:47 egypt
0:22:48 until recently historians believed
0:22:51 that the minting of precious metals was
0:22:54 a later greek invention
0:22:56 these recent egyptian archaeological
0:22:58 discoveries
0:22:59 have forced historians to completely
0:23:01 revise
0:23:02 their understanding of coinage in the
0:23:04 ancient world
0:23:06 how is it possible that such knowledge
0:23:08 was revealed in the quran
0:23:10 nearly one and a half thousand years ago
0:23:12 the bible mentions that joseph was sold
0:23:15 for 20 of silver however this sale
0:23:18 is said to have taken place with some
0:23:20 arabs outside egypt
0:23:22 by contrast the quran states that the
0:23:25 sale took place
0:23:26 inside egypt so the bible could not have
0:23:30 been used as a source by the quran
0:23:33 it is in fact the bible that contains
0:23:35 historical errors when it comes to
0:23:37 coinage
0:23:38 for example the bible makes the claim
0:23:40 that a gold coin
0:23:42 known as the darrick was used at the
0:23:44 time of king david
0:23:46 they gave toward the work on the temple
0:23:48 of god five thousand talents
0:23:50 and ten thousand derek's of gold
0:23:53 as historians point out that derek is
0:23:56 named
0:23:56 after the persian leader darius the
0:23:59 great who lived hundreds of years after
0:24:01 king david
0:24:02 the jewish encyclopedia acknowledges
0:24:05 this error
0:24:06 a notable instance of anachronism occurs
0:24:09 in first chronicles
0:24:10 29 7. gold daryks
0:24:13 coins which were not struck before the
0:24:15 time of king darius the first
0:24:17 i.e more than 400 years after david
0:24:25 [Music]
0:24:28 the quran narrates the following
0:24:29 conversation between the pharaoh of
0:24:31 moses
0:24:32 and an individual referred to as hamad
0:24:57 to build a tower that would allow him to
0:24:59 reach the heavens
0:25:01 it's important to understand that
0:25:03 pharaoh's intention
0:25:04 was not to literally scale a tower to
0:25:07 reach the sky
0:25:09 rather it's a reference to the egyptian
0:25:11 belief
0:25:12 that after death the pharaoh would
0:25:14 ascend from earth to heaven
0:25:16 taking his place among the gods as we
0:25:19 covered earlier
0:25:20 the author of the quran had an awareness
0:25:22 of ancient pyramid texts
0:25:24 that detailed such beliefs egyptian
0:25:26 monuments
0:25:27 housed the bodies of dead pharaohs these
0:25:30 monuments
0:25:31 acted as a bridge between this world and
0:25:33 the next
0:25:35 they were filled with religious writings
0:25:37 that served as instructions
0:25:39 to help the dead pharaoh ascend to the
0:25:41 heavens hence
0:25:42 the person in charge of constructing
0:25:44 such a monument for pharaoh
0:25:46 would not only need to be skilled in
0:25:48 architecture
0:25:49 but also highly knowledgeable in
0:25:51 religion they build a priest of sorts
0:25:54 let's now turn to history to see if we
0:25:56 can identify
0:25:57 an individual known as harman who was
0:26:00 both a builder
0:26:01 and a priest earlier we concluded that
0:26:03 ramesses ii
0:26:05 was the pharaoh at the time of moses so
0:26:07 we will focus on this time period
0:26:10 a block statue in the egyptian museum of
0:26:13 munich
0:26:14 contains a biographical account of the
0:26:16 life of a high priest named
0:26:18 bakken hansu in his own words he states
0:26:22 i am one truly reliable useful to his
0:26:25 lord
0:26:26 who performs beneficent deeds within his
0:26:28 temple
0:26:29 i being principal chief of works in the
0:26:32 estate of armon
0:26:34 i erected obelisks of granite stone
0:26:36 whose tops reached to the sky
0:26:39 here back in hon soo tells us that he
0:26:42 served the pharaoh in two ways
0:26:44 first by performing rituals in the
0:26:46 temple and second
0:26:47 as chief architect in fact
0:26:50 bakken honsu was an architect
0:26:53 extraordinaire
0:26:54 being one of the greatest in all of
0:26:56 ancient egypt
0:26:58 he is responsible for constructing the
0:27:00 temple of amun
0:27:01 at karnak a monument that remains one of
0:27:04 the largest religious structures
0:27:06 ever created by man with regards to the
0:27:09 priesthood
0:27:10 bakken hansu informs us that he had a
0:27:12 very long and illustrious career
0:27:15 i was a third prophet of our moon for 15
0:27:18 years
0:27:19 i was a second prophet of amon for 12
0:27:22 years
0:27:22 he appointed me high priest of amon for
0:27:25 27 years
0:27:27 here back in khon su is stating that he
0:27:30 served the god amon
0:27:31 throughout his priestly career amun is
0:27:34 the name
0:27:34 of an egyptian deity who rose to
0:27:36 prominence during the new kingdom period
0:27:39 by the time bakken hansu died he had
0:27:42 been a priest
0:27:43 for many decades having served ramesses
0:27:46 ii
0:27:46 as high priest throughout his reign both
0:27:49 ramesses ii
0:27:50 and back in hansu were contemporaries
0:27:53 who died around the same time
0:27:55 what about the quran's mention of harman
0:27:58 how does it relate to back in hansu
0:28:00 back referred to himself by the title
0:28:04 high priest of amun the actual phrase in
0:28:07 the hieroglyphics
0:28:08 is
0:28:13 the word harm literally means servant
0:28:16 and amana is how you articulate the name
0:28:18 of the god amun
0:28:20 in egyptian back in honsu was harm amana
0:28:24 meaning servant of amun the quran's
0:28:27 mention of harman
0:28:29 may be simply an arabised version of the
0:28:31 egyptian
0:28:32 hamamana let's now summarize the main
0:28:36 points about bakken hansu
0:28:38 he was a senior ranking figure under
0:28:40 pharaoh ramesses ii
0:28:42 acting as both high priest and chief
0:28:44 architect he served in the temple of the
0:28:47 god amun
0:28:48 and thus had the title hamamana it is
0:28:51 clear that all of the historical
0:28:53 evidence fits
0:28:54 perfectly with the quranic
0:28:57 now it's important to point out that the
0:28:59 bible also mentions
0:29:01 ahaman but the resemblance is only in
0:29:04 name
0:29:04 the biblical harmon served under a
0:29:07 persian king
0:29:08 and bears no relation to the quranic
0:29:10 harman of egypt
0:29:12 yet again these are details that are
0:29:15 completely missing in the biblical
0:29:17 narrative
0:29:22 in this video we have seen that the
0:29:24 quran has a remarkable insight
0:29:26 into many facets of ancient egypt
0:29:29 revealing long lost knowledge
0:29:31 while also correcting the bible claims
0:29:34 that the author of the quran
0:29:35 copied from the bible are clearly
0:29:37 rubbished in light of such facts
0:29:40 the quran boldly declares its origins
0:29:51 to learn more about the miracles of the
0:29:53 quran please download your free copy of
0:29:55 the book
0:29:56 the eternal challenge at the link below