Muslims will claim that the Qu'ran (Or Koran as an alternative way of spelling) is the perfect word of Allah and that it is eternal, and is written in Heaven. However, an honest reading of the Koran would reveal that the God of Islam is only the speaker some of the time, the text has two genres within it. Sometimes it is the God of Islam and sometimes it is another speaking about the God of Islam, below there are two examples.
Example 1) The God of Islam is speaking: "This day I have perfected your religion for you, and have filled up the measure of My favors upon you; it is my pleasure that Islam be your religion; but whoso without willful leanings to wrong shall be forced by hunger to transgress, to him verily will God be indulgent, merciful."-Sura 5, a'yat 5?
Another is speaking: "And if two men commit the same crime, then punish them both; but if they turn and amend, then let them be: For God is He who turneth, merciful!
With God Himself will repentance of those who have done evil ignorantly, and then turn speederly unto Him, be accepted. These! God will turn unto them: for God is He who turneth, merciful!"- 4:20-21.
And yet these are supossingly the very words of Allah Himself. He doesn't say "I am He who turneth" or "With us will repentance be accepted" The way this is written it seems like a mere person is simply writing about GOD, it doesn't appear GOD is speaking at all.
Example 2) The God of Islam is speaking: "And they who have fled their country and quitted their homes and suffered in My cause, and have fought and fallen, I will blot out their sins from them, I will bring them into the gardens beneath which the streams do flow." 3:194.
Another is speaking about the God of Islam (Just a few a'yats later): "Among the people of the Book are those that believe in God, and it what He has sent down to you, and in what He hath sent down to them, humbling themselves before God. They barter not the signs of God for a mean price"- 3:198.
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