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Ali Erbaş slams Deniz Göktaş's Quran remarks as a sign of indecency
Head of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş strongly reacted to comedian Deniz Göktaş's remarks in a stand-up show comparing the Quran to a 'novel series'. Erbaş described the words as 'a sign of indecency'.
Head of Religious Affairs Ali Erbaş reacted with a written statement to the remarks made by comedian Deniz Göktaş about the Quran during a stand-up show. Erbaş criticized Göktaş for comparing the chronological flow of holy books to a 'novel series', and the revelation of the Quran and its status as the 'final book' to a human author's 'hastily made literary decision'.
In his statement, Erbaş said, "This shallow and indecent approach clearly shows how far removed it is from the miraculous characteristics of the Quran, such as its divine revelation, textual preservation, and the impossibility of producing anything like it."
'Imagining God as a human figure'
Evaluating Göktaş's on-stage remark, "If a new idea came to mind, we said 'final book'," Erbaş stated that this expression meant imagining God as a human figure bound by time, prone to forgetting or changing His mind. Erbaş said, "This is a primitive anthropomorphic fallacy, unaware that He is exalted above time and space."
Emphasizing that the Quran is not a product of Prophet Muhammad's personal thoughts or historical accumulation, Erbaş referred to verses 44-46 of Surah Al-Haqqah, recalling the words: "If he (the Prophet) had made up some words against Us, We would certainly have seized him by the right hand, then We would have cut off his aorta."
'The Quran does not need new ideas'
Erbaş said that the Quran's text not needing new ideas in its temporal flow is an indication that the religion has been perfected and universal principles have been completed. He quoted verse 3 of Surah Al-Ma'idah: "This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion."
Touching on the literary miracle of the Quran, Erbaş recalled the challenge in verse 88 of Surah Al-Isra: "Say: If mankind and the jinn gathered together to produce the like of this Quran, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they helped one another." Erbaş noted that this challenge was reduced first to the entire text, then to ten surahs, and finally to a single surah, pointing to verses 23-24 of Surah Al-Baqarah.
'Even the Meccan polytheists did not do this'
Erbaş emphasized that trying to trivialize an inimitable miracle as 'the final book of a series' is a great ignorance and immorality. He said, "Even the polytheists of Mecca did not do this. Even though they did not believe, they at least said, 'This cannot be the word of man.'"
The Head of Religious Affairs stated that caricaturing the Quran, which shapes the lives of billions, with the consumerist language of popular culture is an intellectual shallowness, and said, "True humor should nourish societal flaws with wit; trying to mask ignorance by attacking the sacred is merely a sign of artistic exhaustion and indecency."
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