(Color Code: Islamic text is Green; Jewish:
Blue; New Testament: Red)
1.) Allah gave different instructions
to Moses, than those of Yahweh: *
"And remember Moses prayed
for water for his people; We said: 'Strike the rock with thy staff.
Then gushed therefrom twelve springs."'
(Quran:002.060)
This
conflicts with the Old Testament teaching where God instructed
Moses to "Speak" to the rock - not strike it:
"And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying, take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together,
thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their
eyes; and it shall give forth his water..." (Numbers 20: 7-12)
The
Fact is, Moses struck the rock with his staff and water did gush forth!
However,
because he had disobeyed God by not speaking to the rock as
instructed,
Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land. This is a noteworthy
discrepancy whereby only one account can be the correct one. Either
God's instructions to Moses were to "strike" the rock or they were
to "speak" to the rock.
* Note: Qur'an 002.060 concurs with
Exodus 17:6 where God asked Moses to strike the rock the first time.
However, the Qur'an fails to mention the second event and resulting
failure of Moses to obey God as mentioned in Numbers 20:7-12. By not
providing the account of the second incident, the Qur'an is misleading
as it fails to give an accurate report of the complete instructions
that God had given during the time of Moses' leadership.