This Is Islam Uncovered

🪧 Why Allah Swears by Created Things — And What That Tells You

When the Almighty Sounds Like a Poet Trying to Fill a Verse Count

🧭 Introduction: The Problem No One Talks About

The Qur’an constantly begins passages with dramatic oaths:

“By the fig and the olive…” (95:1)
“By the dawn…” (89:1)
“By the stars…” (81:15)
“By the sky and the night-comer…” (86:1)
“By the horses that run…” (100:1)
“By the Mount…” (52:1)
“By the sun and its brightness…” (91:1)

You’d expect these flourishes from a poet.
But from the creator of the universe?

Why is an all-powerful, self-sufficient God swearing oaths at all —
Let alone by figs, stars, animals, and time itself?

That’s not omnipotence.
That’s literary filler wrapped in misplaced drama.

📜 The Qur’an’s Pattern: Oath after Oath after Oath

In total, the Qur’an contains over 100 oaths by created things.

Here’s a sample of what Allah swears by:

Natural objects: sun, moon, stars, mountains, winds, oceans
Times: dawn, night, afternoon, time itself
Animals: horses, bees, ants
Human objects: the pen, the city
Plants/Fruits: fig, olive
Human faculties: soul, self, sight, speech

The list reads more like a poet’s brainstorming session than divine communication.

🧠 Let’s Break It Down Logically

🔹 Premise 1:

God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and needs no external validation.

🔹 Premise 2:

Oaths are used by humans to appeal to higher authority or convince others of truth.

🔹 Premise 3:

The Qur’an shows Allah swearing by created things — repeatedly.

✅ Conclusion:

Allah behaves like a human author trying to convince a skeptical audience,
not an omniscient being revealing eternal truth.

That’s not divinity —
That’s desperation wrapped in poetic convention.

🚨 The Theological Problem

In every religious tradition, when humans swear, they swear by something greater than themselves.

So why does Allah:

Swear by His own creations?
Use oaths to add emphasis or persuasion?
Rely on literary devices at all?

A being who created time and space doesn’t need:

Metaphor,
Hyperbole,
Or rhetorical padding.

These oaths expose the Qur’an as a human-authored literary composition,
Not the words of an all-powerful deity.

🛑 Muslim Rebuttals — and Why They Fail

❌ “Allah swears by His creation to show its importance.”

A god doesn't need to swear at all.
He speaks — and it is. Emphasis is for doubtful listeners, not divine speech.

❌ “These oaths are signs for reflection.”

Then they’re teaching tools, not oaths — but the Qur’an explicitly frames them as swearing.

The grammar is qasam — oath statements.
Not metaphors. Not illustrations. Literal swearing.

❌ “God can swear by whatever He wants.”

Then He’s doing something He told humans not to do —
Muhammad said: “Do not swear by anything except Allah.”

So Allah does what humans are forbidden to do? That’s hypocrisy, not holiness.

📉 What This All Tells You

These oaths reflect pre-Islamic poetic norms — not divine speech.
They reveal a Qur’an written to perform, not to reveal.
They’re tools of human persuasion — not divine authority.

Because let’s be honest:

If Allah needs to say:
“By the fig… I swear I’m telling the truth…”
Then the audience wasn’t convinced by the truth alone.

And a real god wouldn’t need to convince anyone —
Truth stands on its own.

💬 Mic-Drop Closer

“A real God commands.
The god of the Qur’an swears —
by fruit, animals, stars, and time —
like a poet trying to win a poetry contest in 7th-century Arabia.

That’s not revelation.
That’s rhetoric.”