Islam true religion?

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Before you go perhaps you would like to explain why you and your modern Islamic apologists think your interpretation of the flood account in the Quran as a local event is better than that of Abd Allah ibn Abbas who considered it a global event? After all he was your prophet’s own cousin and is revered among Muslims as an expert in Tafsir and an authority on Islamic Sunnah.

According to Ibn Humayd- Salamah- Ibn Isahq- al-Hassan b. Dinar- Ali b. Zayd- Yusuf b. Mihran- Ibn Abbas: I [Yusuf b. Mihran] heard him [Ibn Abbas] say: ... The water increased wildly, and, as is assumed by the people of the Torah, rose fifteen cubits over the mountain tops. All creatures on the face the earth, every inspirited being or tree, disappeared. No creature remained except Noah and those with him in the boat, as well as Og b. Anak, as is assumed by the people of the Book. The time between God's sending the Flood and the receding of the water in six months and ten nights. (History of al-Tabari [State University of New York Press; Albany, NY 1989], pp. 360-361)

Hmm interesting question. I haven't read this before but from what I hear, there are other scholars which think differently about it. It's normal for one scholar to make a decision but doesn't mean we muslims should confirm what he says.

Here is my hypothesis. When the Quran was recorded the account of the flood was considered to be a global event by Muslims the same as it was by Jews and Christians. This interpretation was universally accepted in the Islamic community for centuries. Then when advances in scientific knowledge made it apparent that there was no global flood Islamic apologists were forced to come up with a different interpretation of the flood account in order that their infallible book not be wrong. It is called revisionist history. It is intellectually dishonest. It is however a good way to avoid the cognitive dissonance associated with having errors in your infallible dogma.