McCulloch wrote:CONVERTED TO ISLAM wrote:quraan is written by allah but other books written by person so you have to read it to make sure
mar wrote:Well i am sure the quran is much unique from among all the other books. [...] the quran has never been changed. The quran was and is as god says himself in the quran that the quran is copyrighted. So there are millions of copys in the world in many translation--but all the same thing. Ones in english, urdu, arabic, chinese, brail... and so on. So which one shall you read? The one that says Quran or koran or coran on the cover. And as the biggining chapter introduces the author (god). You can order many free ones from islam tomorow, or even better go to your local mosque.[...]
So I went to the quran. I read it and I felt closer to god in my whole life. I actually cryed. And now i am closer to god then ever.
I have been invited to read the Qu'ran. It has been claimed that it has the answers to the questions, How can I know if God exists? and How can I know what God wants of me? It has been implied that the divine truth of the Quran is self-evident.
For Debate: If you have read the Qu'ran or part of it, is its divine origin self-evident? Does it make a convincing argument for the existence of God?
Or is the Koran merely a 'borrowing' from Judaism and Christianity? Is it a coincidence that the same angel (Gabriel) revealed to Mary her 'state' and to Mohammad the 'word of god'? After the initial 'revelation', the Prophet confided in his wife Khadijah who took him to see her cousin - Waraqa ibn Naufal - a scholar who allegedly knew the scriptures of the Jews and the Christians. It was this man who supposedly determined that the divine envoy who had once visited Moses had come now to Mount Hira.
Could it have been that the Arabs of the time felt wounded that they had been left out of history? God had appeared to Christians and Jews but had sent no prophet and no scripture in their own language. Perhaps they felt that the time for a local revelation was long overdue. The history of the Prophet and his musings, like the OT, quickly becomes an account of vicious quarres between warring tribes in which the finger of god supposedly settles and determines the outcome. Just like the bloody history of Cannan and Sinai, unattested as they are by independent evidence, these parochial battles have held millions hostage ever since due to their supposedly god-provided outcomes.
The Prophet died in 632. No history was written until 120 years later and even this is not attested to until Ibn Hisham who dies in 834. There is no clear evidence as to how or when the Koran as we know it became 'standardized'. Some hold that this task was performed independently by Zaid Ibn Thabit soon after the prophets demise. Others attribute the task to Caliph Uthman who asked Thabit to perform the role that Irenaeus had earlier carried out for the christian bible. Thabit determined which tests were sacred and 'inerrant' and which merely stories - destroying the latter. Given that Arabic itself was not standardized until the latter part of the 9th century it is likely that different versions and interpretations of Thabit's 'final version' were circulated. For example the Arabic words written of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are different from any version that appears in the Koran.
The Koran, like the Jewish and Christian texts, is the work of man. And like the texts from which it is derived this work of man is responsible for the subjugation of much of humanity to superstition.
