When one reads the Quran one is struck by the preponderance of scriptures justifying animal sacrifices and stating that Allah favors humans above other creatures, and the reader is reminded that such a preponderance also exists in the Torah and in the New Testament.  One recognizes that one of the principles involved in telling a successful lie is to tell it often.  But the fact is that the revisers of scriptures are faced with an almost impossible task, and that is to erase all traces of the original teachings.  Those whom we now call orthodox Jews didn't even try to.  They instead assert what any truly logical person would call an absurdity, the notion that God changed his mind.  Thus, Genesis 1: 29-30 is clearly a vegetarian covenant and rabbinical Judaism itself admits that the original dietary covenant given by God was vegetarian.

   So too, faced with Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple, an act clearly against the animal sacrifices, and with the assertion clearly seen in "Epistle to the Hebrews," that Jesus' mission was to abolish the animal sacrifices, with numerous assertions that the original followers of Jesus were vegetarian, by such figures as Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, with Roman Chronicles showing the earliest Christians attacking the sacrifices (see documents relating to the times of Trajan and Decius, for example), and with the blatantly vegetarian "Book of Revelations," which directly refers to the Hindu tradition in numerous ways, such as using the Bindi, and describing the next coming of Jesus as the coming of Kalki, or Krishna on a white horse, and the final times as being a time of no sorrow or death, and therefore no animal sacrifices, the revisers of the New Testament simply revised the scriptures to say that Jesus said "all foods are clean," and to say that Peter, who is also documented as a vegetarian in the Clementine literature, said that he received a vision (in "Acts") stating that he should "rise and kill and eat," a rather brutal command to anyone but a carnivore, and also, that animals were irrational creatures of instinct meant to be killed and eaten.  Every true scholar of the New Testament, such as Boulder, knows that the command to rise and kill and eat is repeated 3 times in "Acts" and that it is a prime example of rhetorical overkill in order to counteract the original teachings of Jesus, which were vegetarian.

   So too, we have a similar situation in the Quran. Most of its surahs regarding diet condone the eating of flesh, but numerous surahs demonstrate that Muhammad, like every true teacher, demonstrated that vegetarianism, which was his own diet, was also the original diet taught in the Quran.  We see this quite clearly in The Cow.

  The Cow, the second and longest of the Surahs,  is described as the Koran in miniature.  The fact that the namesake of the Surah is the sacred animal of the Hindus should not be lost on the reader. It is one more indication of what the original Koran taught, the Koran that existed before those who had memorized the original Koran were killed and the wealthy Bakr, like a latter day Constantine, gathered together, and no doubt, had written, surahs which would support the institutions supporting the wealthy.  Muhammad and the Quran well understood that this had already occurred in the case of the Jews and Christians, and that it could happen again, as indeed it did.

2: 75: Have ye any hope that they will be true to you when a party of them used to listen to the Word of Allah, then used to change it, after they had understood it, knowingly?

2: 27  Those who break the covenant of All after ratifying it, and sever that which Allah order to be joined, and (who) make mischief in the earth: Those are they who are the losers.

The above surahs should be juxtaposed with Surah 6: Verse 38, which asserts the following important tenets:

      "There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you.  We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered.  Quran, Surah VI: 38

    When Allah says that "We have neglected nothing in the Book"  after mentioning the animals, the astute reader sees that here the voice of Allah is not exclusive. Allah the all-compassionate expresses  love towards all creatures, and none are left out: "we have neglected nothing."   All the other speciesist statements, stating that Allah favors humans above the rest of creation (like the scriptures of Gen. 1: 26-28), should be regarded as afterthought fabrications written by those who wish to establish a divine scriptural sanction for the shedding of blood.  And the above with

"Eat and drink of that which Allah hath provided, and do not act corruptly, making mischief in the earth." 2: 60

   The Fall of Adam and Eve is described in terms of the Fall as described in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, as doing the will of the fallen angels who taught humans that animal sacrifices, weapons, mining, cosmetics, and writing were all justifiable.  The deity of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch is obviously Shiva, lord of the seven heaven, whose attribute is the emanation of tongues of fire.  We see the affirmation of Allah as Shiva in the first Surah as well as in the second:

2: 29 He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth.  Then turned He to the heaven, and fashioned it as seven heavens.  And He is Knower of all things.

2: 30  And when they Lord said unto the angles: Lo! I am about to place a viceroy in the earth, they said: Wilt Thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee: He said: Surely I know that which ye know not.

2: 34  And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis.  He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever.

2: 35  And We said: O Adam! Dwell thou and they wife in the Garden, and eat ye freely (of the fruits) thereof where ye will; but come not nigh this tree lest ye become wrongdoers.

    Muhammad seals his connection with the vegetarian Jewish prophets denouncing animal sacrifices and describing the final days as a time when all animals will live peacefully together, and both animals and humans will be at peace by using the refrain: "There shall no fear come upon them; neither shall they grieve."  This refrain is used throughout the     Koran, just as the phrase, "and none shall make them afraid," is used throughout the late Jewish vegetarian prophets.  Zephaniah, Isaias, Ezekiel, and Micah all use the same refrain: "And none shall make them afraid." The web page on this site dealing with chapter 10 of the Book of Job traces the use of this phrase in Zephaniah, Isaias, Ezekiel and Micah.  A separate page will delineate the use of the phrase throughout the Koran.
 

    The Cow also quite astutely refers to the incident of the quails. The commentary on the quails that remains in the Koran is quite accurate and can be compared with the discussion of the Israelites and the Quails found elsewhere in this study.

2: 57: "And We caused the white cloud to overshadow you and sent down on you the manna and the quails, (saying): Eat of the good things wherewith We have provided you--We wronged them not, but they did wrong themselves."

   Every close reader of the scriptures describing the Israelites craving flesh, and becoming diseased when they finally eat the quail which arrive in their camp, knows that the incident is a remnant of the original Vegetarian Torah, which was true to the original and only true dietary covenant of Genesis 1: 29-30.  In other words, those of the Israelites who were depraved, craved flesh.  Those who craved flesh craved it precisely because they had been eating vegetation.  In passages which are quite obviously a remainder of the original Vegetarian Torah, God very sarcastically tells those who crave flesh that He will give them all the flesh they desire to eat.  And when these depraved Israelites finally do get flesh, the quails, they become diseased. Instant karma. Those who kill other creatures kill themselves, generally speaking more slowly than the diseased Israelites who had eaten the quail, although more and more in our time, we are seeing quick deaths associated with flesh eating occuring more frequently.
 

    Muhammad and the Quran recognize, in the spirit of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, that Allah destroys those who do not honor his covenant of peace, and instead make mischief, shed blood, that is, sacrifice animals.  But this is not the only scripture in The Cow which affirms vegetarianism.  The Cow itself has numerous scriptures confirming that the diet of Muhammad, which even those of the Sunni tradition states was vegetarian, was also the diet of the original followers of the Quran and Muhammad.
 

2: 62  Lo! those who believe (in that which is revealed unto thee, Muhammad), and those who are Jews, and Christians, and Sabeans--whoever believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right--surely their reward is with their Lord, and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve."

The above surah may be also juxtaposed with the following description of the "people of the Book" in surah 3, a surah in which it is said that Muhammad was neither Jew nor Christian, yet, interestingly, does not say that Muhammad was not a Sabean.  The revisers of the Quran under Bakr probably thought that it would be too great a lie to deny that Muhammad, who was known for spending time in wilderness Sabean communities, was not Sabean in his basic beliefs regarding diet.

  "No: Abraham in truth was not a Jew, neither a Christian; but he was a Muslim and one pure of faith; certainly he was never of the idolators." (III - The House of Imran: 60)

    When the above facts are juxtaposed with the fact that the sacred stone in the Kabah is a Shiva lingam, that Muhammad's name means the great pillar (of Shiva, or Allah), that Muhammad himself was vegetarian, that Surah 6: 38 asserts the family of creation, that parts of The Cow forbid the shedding of blood, then it is only the deluded cholesterol addict, or profit mongering traffickers of animal foods, who will assert that the Quran, as it now stands, is the perfect word of God. The orthodox Quran, like the orthodox Torah and New Testament, is, it is very easy to see, also a rewritten document.  Muhammad knew clearly that the revision of his teachings could and probably would happen, since he and the followers of his message, unlike Jesus and his followers as presented in the New Testament, did not see the Last Days as imminent.