You're going to hell if you __________ (10 Viewers)

Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
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Turk is right though that nothing in the Qur'an was proven to be 100% wrong, without any doubts left.
But it takes one concentrated reading of the Qur'an to find some irregularities, or some things that seem iregular at first glance. I'm sure these questions have been asked and answered, and even if doubts were left after the answers, still nobody managed to prove that some thing in the Qur'an is completely wrong. (which is much easier to do with the Bible).

But what i mind a little is how all the muslims behave like the courtiers in "The emperor's new clothes" when they talk about the Qur'an, and as Turk said, most of them also don't know the answers.
 
Jan 7, 2004
29,704
but do we have those clear, concise and reasonable grounds for choosing what to believe and what not? furthermore, can religion benefit from going through the close scrutiny that is left to science and technology?
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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but do we have those clear, concise and reasonable grounds for choosing what to believe and what not? furthermore, can religion benefit from going through the close scrutiny that is left to science and technology?
I haven't really explored this yet, but shooting from the hip I would say we don't even realize what the justification is for many of our beliefs.

Yes, it can. Religions evolve, the most successful ones. So if you do a close audit of religion and throw out the prehistoric stuff (painful as that may be) you're gonna be left with a set of ideas that are reasonable. And this does tend to happen, but slowly.
 

Il Re

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Jan 13, 2005
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what i want to know is why in the quraan sometimes ideas seem to contradict each other, i get annoyed that quotes are misinterpreted and sometimes some of the bad quotes you hear in the media are not even real, i always check them with my copy, but some i foudn were, on one hand the quraan tells us to be peaceful, kind, and to love our neighbours etc yet there are verses such as these

Surah 9 verse 29

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religeon of truth, from among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

i mean, it comes to interpretation right? does or doesn't this verse in effect say fight non-muslims?

i asked a knowledgablet muslim in regard to this verse and his answer was "this was directed at the people of the prophets time who had to defend themselves"

i was very unsatisfied by his answer, it just says fight, it doesn't say defend.....

anyone able to enlighten me?
 

Martin

Senior Member
Dec 31, 2000
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so how do you explain that most religions today are a resuscitation of older stories, myths of barbaric belief systems
Well, I think those older stories were yet more barbaric and what you find today is more civilized. Ie. some skin has been shed.

But when you say "how do you explain" you make me a little nervous, I did not promise to explain. :D
 
Jan 7, 2004
29,704
what i want to know is why in the quraan sometimes ideas seem to contradict each other, i get annoyed that quotes are misinterpreted and sometimes some of the bad quotes you hear in the media are not even real, i always check them with my copy, but some i foudn were, on one hand the quraan tells us to be peaceful, kind, and to love our neighbours etc yet there are verses such as these

Surah 9 verse 29

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religeon of truth, from among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

i mean, it comes to interpretation right? does or doesn't this verse in effect say fight non-muslims?

i asked a knowledgablet muslim in regard to this verse and his answer was "this was directed at the people of the prophets time who had to defend themselves"

i was very unsatisfied by his answer, it just says fight, it doesn't say defend.....

anyone able to enlighten me?
because if you choose to believe that it does in fact NOT apply then you are left with the question "what else does not apply?" and if it does apply than it can be used as a justification for any war, anything really
 

BlanquiNegro

Senior Member
Mar 28, 2006
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I read a Bosnian translation and for the parts i found more interesting i also checked an English translation.
I obviously can't read it in Arabic.
The language of the Quran is the Arabic as you know
When we talk about the miracles in Quran then we are talking about different types of them
The scientific is one of them
but in that Sura the miracle is not a scientific one but its the language
The literary disablement
That time, the Arabs were known to be a very Eloquent in the language, the Arabic one of course
and also they were known to be a very Eloquent poets
they have accused Prophet Mohammed of being just an extraordinary poet and what he is saying is not but words of a poet
This sura consists of 3 Ayats
قال تعالى:
انا اعطيناك الكوثر
فصلي لربك وانحر
ان شانئك هو الابتر
and without the need of knowing the Arabic language you can see that the three ayas ended with the same letter and this is one of the most important thing in arabic poems
This sura sounds like a poem but its not because Arabic poems that time were known to be consisted of 2,4,6,8..... divisions
but in this sura its only 3 divisions so it can not be considered as a poem
this is one thing

second interesting thing about this sura is the number of the letters in each ayah
counting the number of the letters in each one and the repeated ones to be counted once only is like this:
ا- ن- ع- ط- ي- ك- ل- و- ث- ر
ف- ص- ل- ر- ب- ك- و- ا- ن- ح
ا- ن- ش- ك- هـ- و- ل- ب- ت- ر
So we have 10 letters in each ayah
and the number of the letters used only once in this sura is 10 as well
ع- ط- ي- ث- ف- ص- ح- ش- هـ- ت

now lets go back to your post
Ok, i think i can argue with this but i won't for the time being.

I just wanted to ask this.... (let me find an english translation first)......

Ok, here it is:

Q10: 37 And this Qur'an is not such as could ever be invented in despite of Allah; but it is a confirmation of that which was before it and an exposition of that which is decreed for mankind - Therein is no doubt - from the Lord of the Worlds.

If i understand correctly, it's said here that the Qur'an isn't invented, and there is no doubt it's from God.

So now we have a challenge and the non-believers are asked to produce an alternative qur'an:
Q52: 33,34 “Or do they say, ‘He has invented it?’ Nay, but they do not believe. Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly.”

But previously the non-believers were asked to produce only 10 suras
Q11:13,14 “Or do they say, ‘He has forged it’? Say: ‘Then bring you ten suras the like of it, forged; and call upon whom you are able, apart from God, if you speak truly.’

And little before that they were asked to produce only one similar sura to prove that they can do better
Q10:38 " Or they say : He has forged it ? Say: Then bring a sura like it, and call (for help) besides Allah, if you are truthful".


What i wondered is if you think that a man can not produce even a sura like sura 108 which contains 25 words and goes like this :
Q108:1 Yes, We have given you Abundance;

Q108:2 So pray to your Lord, and sacrifice.

Q108: 3 Yes, it is the insulter (and not you) who is without posterity.

At first Allah "God" dares all the human and jinn to bring a book like Quran
then he made it easier for them and asked for 10 sura of it
and finally asked them to get just one
And the sura we are talking about is one of them
actually its the shortest one and consists of 42 Arabic letters only

along with other Arabic grammar-related things which i can't explain in Arabic because of the language barriers , you know

But if there is one of the Arabic members in this forum willing to translate it to English
i will write it in Arabic for you
 

Snoop

Sabet is a nasty virgin
Oct 2, 2001
28,186
Turk is right though that nothing in the Qur'an was proven to be 100% wrong, without any doubts left.
But it takes one concentrated reading of the Qur'an to find some irregularities, or some things that seem iregular at first glance. I'm sure these questions have been asked and answered, and even if doubts were left after the answers, still nobody managed to prove that some thing in the Qur'an is completely wrong. (which is much easier to do with the Bible).

But what i mind a little is how all the muslims behave like the courtiers in "The emperor's new clothes" when they talk about the Qur'an, and as Turk said, most of them also don't know the answers.
You have something romantic with Turk, you always agree with him :D

what about this? what Il Re posted already.

Surah 9 verse 29

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by allah and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religeon of truth, from among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."\



There are many suras or whatever they are called in Quran that are so wrong, I have seen some of them that were enough for me to judge the religion, I might say it is much worse than Bible. You guys keep saying there are a lot of wrong things in bible, I disagree with you here, I am talking about the new testament, it is much peaceful and much better philosophically than Quraan.

No one should get offended from what I said now, I am just comparing the two, and I don't support any of them in any way..
 

rounder

Blindman
Jun 13, 2007
7,233
Turk is right though that nothing in the Qur'an was proven to be 100% wrong, without any doubts left.
But it takes one concentrated reading of the Qur'an to find some irregularities, or some things that seem iregular at first glance. I'm sure these questions have been asked and answered, and even if doubts were left after the answers, still nobody managed to prove that some thing in the Qur'an is completely wrong. (which is much easier to do with the Bible).

But what i mind a little is how all the muslims behave like the courtiers in "The emperor's new clothes" when they talk about the Qur'an, and as Turk said, most of them also don't know the answers.
This may be true regarding Genesis for it can easilly be proven wrong, that is ofcourse if you take it literally. Personally, I believe it carries a symbolic meaning rather than a literal one. Other than Gensis, I cannot think of too many inaccuracies in the bible.
 

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