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Verse 19:97 - Yusuf Ali: So have We made the (Qur'an) easy in thine own tongue, that with it thou mayest give Glad Tidings to the righteous, and warnings to people given to contention.
Verse 54:17 - Yusuf Ali: And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
Really? Then why all the confusion and debate? If 'God' had said, "So have I made the Qur'an a cryptogram understandable to only the most learned", it would explain why we are told time and again that the Qur'an must be interpreted for us and explained to us by Qur'anic scholars lest we take the wrong meaning. But, 'He' didn't. 'He' states pretty clearly that no further explanation is necessary given that 'He' has laid it all out in plain Arabic.
There is no logical reason for even a single tafsir to exist, yet we're up to our armpits in them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tafsir_works) From the link, "Tafsir is a body of commentary and explication, aimed at explaining the meanings of the Qur'an". If there's so much to explain, it means 'God' failed in his attempt to make the Qur'an easy, and believe me, there is no way in Hell any Muslim bent on screwing virgins for eternity would EVER suggest such a thing in so many words. Yet, just the existence of tafsirs DOES suggest it. Ahmed, you've got a lot of splaining to do.
Additional dig: The fact that the Qur'an has to be explained, and that so many excuses have to be invented to cover up contradictions and errors, only goes to prove that it was authored by a man, not a god.