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A Missing Verse From The Quran?!

Have you ever heard of Surat Al-Muslimoon?

Our Friday prayer Imam told us this Friday about how people are trying to change the Quran, and about his findings on the Internet. He found very strange 'verses' from the Quran, that were obviously not from it. He read to us Surat Al-Muslimoon (Verse of the Muslims), and warned us that new comers to Islam would really think this was a missing verse and believe these lies.

And so I went home, got on the computer, and ran a search on Google for "سورة المسلمون". I found it, our Imam was telling the truth. The Google search also found a member in a forum that actually believes this verse is a missing one from the Quran. Here is the verse, what do you think of this gibberish?

(1) الصم (2) قُل يا أَيُها الْمُسلِمُونَ إنَكُم لفي ضَلالٍ بَعِيد (3) إنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِاللّهِ ومسيحهِ لَهُمْ فِي الآَخِرَةِ نَارُ جَهَنّمَ وعَذَابٌ شَدِيدٌ (4) وجوهٌ يومئذٍ صاغرةٌ مكفهرةٌ تلتمسُ عفوَ اللهِ واللهُ يفعلُ ما يريد (5) يومَ يقولُ الرحمنُ يا عبادي قد أنعمتُ على الذينَ من قبلِكم بالهدى منزّلاً في التوراةِ والإنجيل (6) فما كان لكم أن تكفروا بما أنزلتُ وتضلوا سَوَاء السبيل (7) قالوا ربنا ما ضَلَلْنا أنفُسنا بل أضلنا مَنْ ادّعى أنه من المرسلين (8) وإذ قالَ اللهُ يا محمد أغويتَ عبادي وجعلتهُم من الكافرين (9) قالَ ربِّي إنما أغوانيَ الشيطانُ إنهُ كانَ لبني آدمَ أعظمَ المفسدين (10) ربي اعْفُ عني واغفرْ لي واقبلني معَ التائبين (11) إني بمسيحِكَ لَمُؤمنٌ وإني لَهُ لَساجدٌ مع الساجدين (12) ويغفرُ اللهُ للذين تابوا مِمَّن أغواهُمُ الإنسانُ ويبعثُ بمحمدٍ إذ كانَ للشيطانِ نصيراً إلى جهنّم وبئسَ المصير (13) وإذ قضى اللهُ أمراً فإنه أعلمُ بما يقضي وقضى وهو على كلِّ شيءٍ قدير.

[Source] - Sidenote: I only pasted this verse for you to see it straight from here, not that I actually believe this stupidity. Please do not misunderstand.

Thank you, Google Analytics

Well, according to my friend Google, I have quite alot of visitors, but only around 1 in 10 visitors choose to comment.

I have had exactly 111 new visitors, only 62 of them chose to come back once more. These people were mostly from Jordan (well, duh) - 97. Second up was the US with 55 guests, most from California.

The average time spent on my site was 12 minutes, 55 seconds. This was mostly contributed from Jordanians with a spent time of 16 minutes, 33 seconds.

For those of you who do not know what the "bounce rate" is, it is the amount/percentage of visitors that have came to your site, stayed on the page, then went to a different site. In other words, these are the people that have only read your blog, and haven't cared to go and comment or see the comments.

Anyway, the bounce rate was quite high on most days (grr). Now the interesting part is the traffic sources. Direct sources are the ones that have came straight from typing your link in the address bar, or clicking on a favourite - which means constant visitors.

Direct sources came second place at 41. Now for the great surprise - most of my traffic has come from Qwaider Planet (48). The other minorites come from other blogs (when I comment), including And Far Way, My Treasure, Jameed, and some others.

So let me take this moment to thank all the people who have commented (those 1 in 10 people), as well as Qwaider for adding me, and Bilal for leading me to Google Analytics. And for those wierd people, here are some trivial facts about the visitors.

• 107 visitors used Firefox and 64 used IE. Very good guys, I'm impressed.
• 69 visitors had Orange as thier ISP, where as only 11 had Batelco.
• 11 people had used dial-up to view my website?! People still use dail-up?!
• 2 people have a Mac, while someone had Linux and someone even had FreeBSD.