Hello,

I am an agnostic who live in a Muslim country and just found out about two great people writers : Theodor Nöldeke and Christoph Luxenberg, during my reading i found out about the "claim" of one of the Koran verse (Al-Qadr) is entirely taken from an old Assyrian poem about Christmas and am very curious about this and want to know if any of you have something that can confirm it, here is the verse in English **as explained by Muslims "expert" ** :

We sent down the Quran in the Night of Destiny.

And how could you know the Night of Destiny? (in arabic the expression "ma-adrak" litteraly mean you don't know, but the purpose is to glorify that thing)

The night of destiny is better than a thousand months of worshiping.

Gabriel and the angels come down with the Lord permission and all his command.

It is a peaceful night until the appearance of dawn.

And here is an English version that i translated without any ideological interpretation :

We sent it/him down on the night of destiny

(yes, the verse literally said "it" or "him" because in arabic there is no difference unless you get the entire contest, but the point here is that there is no mention at all to Koran, holy book, papers or whatever)

And how could you know the night of destiny ?

The Night of destiny is better than a thousand months.

The spirit and the angels come down with the Lord permission and all his command

(also it literally said "spirit" no Gabriel or anything that refers to "him")

It is a peaceful night until the appearance of dawn.

And honestly it kinda make sense when you think of it from a Christian perspective, it really look like a happy poem about the "birth of Jesus".

So, can any of you please back this story ?

PS: no, am not trying to make any religion look better than the other, i don't care about them all, am just curious about this.

Thank you