Reply #18: White raisins, actually.

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But it's not clearly a mistranslation; it's a error in exegesis.

The 'white raisin' claim is based on white raisins being a delicacy at the time the Qur'an was set to paper, and on the Arabic's word being of dicey meaning. But having been defined as 'virgin' in the centuries after Muhammed, to say the scholars was wrong would undermine so much of Islamic jurisprudence. Meanwhile, in Aramaic the word's meaning is supposedly clear.

But the Qur'an is perfect, criticism is banned (and frequently gets you expelled from a secular country, or simply killed). It didn't borrow words; any similarities between it and anything else is due to it. The scholars weren't *that* wrong.