Does the Quran really say the Sun sets in a muddy spring?

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In this video I look at one of the biggest errors found in the Quran - a verse stating that the Sun sets here on Earth in a muddy spring. I look at common apologist arguments & show how they fail in their efforts to spin the blatant error. Please share this video far & wide. It will hopefully help intellectually honest Muslims to look further & question beliefs they were indoctrinated in since birth. Many thanks go to the incredible Sye Ten Atheist for helping animate some of the video to help me out. Please go over & subscribe to his channel if you haven't already. https://www.youtube.com/user/SyeTenAtheist You can follow me on my social media links: Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/themaskedarab Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/themaskedarab Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/+TheMaskedArab/ If you wish to support me and help me dedicate more time to this channel, my patreon link is: http://www.patreon.com/themaskedarab References / sources: Egyptian mythology on sun travelling on boat, setting on Earth, travelling through underworld: http://www.landofpyramids.org/sun-boat.htm Quranic verse (18:86) - Muhammad Pickthall translation: http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display.php?chapter=18&translator;=4#86 Islamic apologist websites trying to explain problem away: http://www.answering-christianity.com/sunrise_sunset.htm This site is perhaps the most absurd of the lot. They seem to make things up as they go along, changing the meaning of Arabic words entirely, going way off topic at times, shouting "miracle" every 10 seconds, they also claim people in East Asia have their particular eye structure because of the Sun over there being different somehow. It's quite a laughable page if you have the time to read it. http://www.speed-light.info/miracles_of_quran/Quran_18.86_sun_setting_muddy_spring_murky_water.htm This apologist argument doesn't bother trying to argue much, they just claim it's a mistranslation! A mistranslation that somehow all Arabs for 450 years after Mohamed also misunderstood in native Arabic! http://www.quran-errors.com/did-the-sun-set-in-a-muddy-spring-according-to-the-quran-1886-short.html This page outright lies to its readers in the hope they won't double check its claims. The dishonesty here is pretty astonishing and shameful. The page claims that early tafsirs backed the current position that it was only setting this way from DhulQarnayn's viewpoint, they then go on to ignore ALL tafsirs written in the first 450 years. They make a mention of a tafsir that was written between the 5th and 6th centuries of the Islamic calendar. They don't give you the date of the tafsir, its author died in 516 AH according to this page http://www.maktabah.org/en/item/968-tafsir-al-baghawi-- But they say this tafsir quotes somebody who lived hundreds of years before him, saying he also thought it wasn't literal and use the date of the time this alleged person lived instead of the date of the tafsir as they do for the others. Arabic version of this video where I don't use translations: https://youtu.be/mCGaN2QoI5U (Arabic) Tafsir of Tabari regarding verse 18:90 where the people near rising sun are described as "negroes": http://main.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo;=1&tSoraNo;=18&tAyahNo;=90&tDisplay;=yes&UserProfile;=0&LanguageId;=1 (Arabic) Tafsir of Ibn Kathir of same verse 18:90 where same description of "negroes" is used to describe people near rising sun: http://main.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=1&tTafsirNo;=7&tSoraNo;=18&tAyahNo;=90&tDisplay;=yes&UserProfile;=0&LanguageId;=1 Frying Pan Lake (Waimangu Cauldron) is the biggest hot spring in the entire world: http://www.lakescientist.com/frying-pan-lake-largest-hot-spring/ http://whenonearth.net/frying-pan-lake-worlds-largest-hot-spring/ Authentic hadith where Mohamed states that the Sun sets in a spring of warm water: https://www.facebook.com/themaskedarab/photos/a.386440718191877.1073741828.302586159910667/551965934972687/?type=3&theater; Authentic hadith telling us the Sun goes beneath God's throne every evening after setting, requesting permission to rise again, (indicating a flat Earth as the Sun is always above half the Earth's surface, not requiring permission to rise again every morning): http://www.sunnah.com/muslim/1/306 Brief biography of Tabari: http://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Tabari Tabari's first volume of his historical work from an Islamic perspective, the History of Prophets and Kings: Download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B76p5GnL05obSlI4YW51OE1LRm8/view?usp=sharing (Let me know if the link expires & I will re-upload) Pages 234-235 explain his understanding of the Sun rising & setting from & into muddy springs on the edges of Earth Tafsir website I use: http://main.altafsir.com/ YouTube limits how many characters go into the description box... Please chk link to my Facebook page for full page of sources for video: https://www.facebook.com/themaskedarab/posts/511489829020298