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Why Should We Believe the Quran is Divine?

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    Man_of_Faith
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    Hello Osman,

    The 14 chapters with their so-called initials carry certain weight for me personally after I realized they actually hint a perceptive reader towards the fact that Arabic (and for that sake Semitic) letters carry an innate meaning and the one composing Quran was well aware of that fact while the amateurish interpreters throughout the centuries have not even been close to knowing why these mysterious letters introduce the chapters.

    But if one reads and understands Quran from the viewpoint of all those amateurish interpreters they will not even gain 1% of the scripture's total wisdom but rather a Pagan religion based on hardcore worship of an image called Allah while Allah means "who such is". Also the word Allah is a cryptic, esoteric word God basically uses to refer to someone "who lives" because "they are". It is based on a root-word that is Alif-Lam-Lam which the AL article is also based on but All - ah uses the full root with a third-person suffix and means "near to a kind or near to something (in features or quality)", which means Allah means "who is such as" with the third-person being the "who". The reason for this is the symbiotic coexistence in God that we are supposed to find and it should be understood in conjunction with the mysterious Messianic saying "I am in the Father and the Father in me" which basically teaches the same thing as what God spoke to Moses about "I am who am I" (see below). People seem perplexed to what this expression means and I am saying it out loud in text form here, but it is up to you to be able to accept it.

    For those willing to accept it, that stems from the narrative where Moses (Musa) gets in contact with God and God says "I am who am I". Allah is obviously the third-person version of this. That was a few thousand years ago and obviously ignorant wannabe interpreters have twisted its implication.

    There is nothing such as a god that is supposed to be pleased through Pagan means of satisfaction of a huge ego larger than the biggest mountain on Earth. The God that exists is a symbiotic phenomenon in absolute Oneness and the wise one finds a place under Its umbrella (I am talking in parables oftentimes). The fool thinks that there is an image to worship and that everything has to do with believing while it is rather a matter of realization.

    Be safe
    Amenuel

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      TheUnseenLight
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      You guys are making this harder then it actually is, there is in no way of convincing anyone the "Quran is Divine".

      Indeed, , you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He is most knowing of the guided.

      These "miracles" are completely objective to whether someone believes or disbelieves due to witnessing them. We see this clearly with the miracle that Musa demonstrated to the Children of Israel, parting the sea (personally my opinion, most amazing miracle in my book), and they STILL did not believe.

      Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I conferred on you and that I preferred you over all other beings. (247)

      Remember when We rescued you from the people of Pharaoh. They were inflicting an evil punishment on you-slaughtering your sons and letting your women live. In that there was a terrible trial for you from your Lord. (249)

      And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (250)

      Musa brought you the Clear Signs; then, after he left, you adopted the Calf and were wrongdoers. Remember when We made a covenant with you and lifted up the Mount above your heads "Take hold vigorously of what We have given you and listen." They said, "We hear and disobey." They were made to drink the Calf into their hearts because of their disbelief. Say, "If you are believers, what an evil thing your faith has made you do." (292-93)

      On the metaphysical level, we are only dependent on God making us believe or not. Therefore, our proof is that He caused us to believe that His scripture is divine. Therefore if we can say that "miracles" in itself is what convinces us, we are associating them to the One, God.

      Glory be to God, the Controller of of ALL things!

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        hawk99
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        So, my question now is - On what authority do we have
        that the Quran is divine and sent from the ruler of the universe and therefore
        serves as the basis and framework for what we should follow?

        Peace Osman

        Who is the "we"? confused

        God bless you

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          fye
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          .....
          i think it's good to believe in the quran because once again it's full of "miracles" (unexplained or investigated events and occurances)

          you should believe in the quran because it's true and teaches wisdom, like a physic book (which it is) and like a science book (which it is) and like a psychology book (which it is)

          i have a question for you osman, i'm glad you came to free-minds your lighting up the place lots of good post , but here's a question

          what is a miracle?

          and another question

          what is divine (being of a diety)?

          give me an answer based on your own understanding of a miracle i think miracles are just unexplained science like the creation of earth or the dead returning to life, even the soul is affected by chemicals so what is a miracle and what is or is not divine (of a diety)?

          sorry to post a question under a question post

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            Taro_Hiroshi
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            Peace everyone,

            If there are few or none contradictions in the Quran, then this might prove that the Quran is divine.

            Quran 482 Do they not reflect on the Quran? If it were from any other than God they would have found many contradictions in it.

            Personally, I have found no contradictions in the Quran.

            Has anyone found many contradictions in the Quran?

            Let me hear your thoughts.

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              hicham9
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              The Author of the 'Qurn' doesn't use synonyms (throughout the text)!
              Adamites cannot help but do when communicating (particularly in writing).

              This is but one droplet ...
              within an ocean of signs.

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                Man_of_Faith
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                Peace everyone,

                If there are few or none contradictions in the Quran, then this might prove that the Quran is divine.

                Quran 482 Do they not reflect on the Quran? If it were from any other than God they would have found many contradictions in it.

                Personally, I have found no contradictions in the Quran.

                Has anyone found many contradictions in the Quran?

                Let me hear your thoughts.

                The whole traditional interpretation of Quran is a contradiction in itself ;D

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                  The whole traditional interpretation of Quran is a contradiction in itself ;D

                  Like the interpretation were you are told to beat your wife or have a sex slave. Today's translations of the Quran is heavily influenced by hadith books. Hadith followers have translated the Quran with the intention of trying to fit the Quran into the hadith book collection. The Arabic language is also heavily influenced by them.

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                    Man_of_Faith
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                    Like the interpretation were you are told to beat your wife or have a sex slave. Today's translations of the Quran is heavily influenced by hadith books. Hadith followers have translated the Quran with the intention of trying to fit the Quran into the hadith book collection. The Arabic language is also heavily influenced by them.

                    Bold and underlined That is still an understatement. ;D

                    But I agree yes

                    Be safe
                    Amenuel

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                      Just finished counting "yawm" myself to satisfy my curiosity. If there are any mistakes, please point them out.

                      http//corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=ywm

                      The triliteral root y ww mm ( &#1605 occurs 405 times in the Quran as the nominal yawm (&#1605.


                      365 singular

                      • 3 dual
                      • 27 plural
                      • 10 not counted (e.g. yawmikum)
                        = 405 total

                      Also not counted yawma-idhin
                      http//corpus.quran.com/search.jsp?q=lem%3Ayawoma}i*


                      SINGULAR x 365

                      1. 14
                      2. 28
                      3. 248
                      4. 262
                      5. 285
                      6. 2113
                      7. 2123
                      8. 2126
                      9. 2174
                      10. 2177
                      11. 2212
                      12. 2228
                      13. 2232
                      14. 2249
                      15. 2254
                      16. 2259
                      17. 2259
                      18. 2264
                      19. 2281
                      20. 39
                      21. 325
                      22. 330
                      23. 355
                      24. 377
                      25. 3106
                      26. 3114
                      27. 3155
                      28. 3161
                      29. 3166
                      30. 3180
                      31. 3185
                      32. 3194
                      33. 438
                      34. 439
                      35. 459
                      36. 487
                      37. 4109
                      38. 4136
                      39. 4141
                      40. 4159
                      41. 4162
                      42. 53
                      43. 53
                      44. 55
                      45. 514
                      46. 536
                      47. 564
                      48. 569
                      49. 5109
                      50. 5119
                      51. 612
                      52. 615
                      53. 622
                      54. 673
                      55. 673
                      56. 693
                      57. 6128
                      58. 6141
                      59. 6158
                      60. 714
                      61. 732
                      62. 751
                      63. 753
                      64. 759
                      65. 7163
                      66. 7163
                      67. 7167
                      68. 7172
                      69. 841
                      70. 841
                      71. 848
                      72. 93
                      73. 918
                      74. 919
                      75. 925
                      76. 929
                      77. 935
                      78. 936
                      79. 944
                      80. 945
                      81. 977
                      82. 999
                      83. 9108
                      84. 1015
                      85. 1028
                      86. 1045
                      87. 1060
                      88. 1092
                      89. 1093
                      90. 113
                      91. 118
                      92. 1126
                      93. 1143
                      94. 1160
                      95. 1177
                      96. 1184
                      97. 1198
                      98. 1199
                      99. 11103
                      100. 11103
                      101. 11105
                      102. 1254
                      103. 1292
                      104. 1418
                      105. 1431
                      106. 1441
                      107. 1442
                      108. 1444
                      109. 1448
                      110. 1535
                      111. 1536
                      112. 1538
                      113. 1625
                      114. 1627
                      115. 1627
                      116. 1663
                      117. 1680
                      118. 1680
                      119. 1684
                      120. 1689
                      121. 1692
                      122. 16111
                      123. 16124
                      124. 1713
                      125. 1714
                      126. 1752
                      127. 1758
                      128. 1762
                      129. 1771
                      130. 1797
                      131. 1819
                      132. 1819
                      133. 1847
                      134. 1852
                      135. 18105
                      136. 1915
                      137. 1915
                      138. 1915
                      139. 1926
                      140. 1933
                      141. 1933
                      142. 1933
                      143. 1937
                      144. 1938
                      145. 1938
                      146. 1939
                      147. 1985
                      148. 1995
                      149. 2059
                      150. 2064
                      151. 20100
                      152. 20101
                      153. 20102
                      154. 20104
                      155. 20124
                      156. 20126
                      157. 2147
                      158. 21104
                      159. 222
                      160. 229
                      161. 2217
                      162. 2247
                      163. 2255
                      164. 2269
                      165. 2316
                      166. 2365
                      167. 23100
                      168. 23111
                      169. 23113
                      170. 23113
                      171. 242
                      172. 2424
                      173. 2437
                      174. 2464
                      175. 2514
                      176. 2517
                      177. 2522
                      178. 2525
                      179. 2526
                      180. 2527
                      181. 2569
                      182. 2638
                      183. 2682
                      184. 2687
                      185. 2688
                      186. 26135
                      187. 26155
                      188. 26156
                      189. 26189
                      190. 26189
                      191. 2783
                      192. 2787
                      193. 2841
                      194. 2842
                      195. 2861
                      196. 2862
                      197. 2865
                      198. 2871
                      199. 2872
                      200. 2874
                      201. 2913
                      202. 2925
                      203. 2936
                      204. 2955
                      205. 3012
                      206. 3014
                      207. 3043
                      208. 3055
                      209. 3056
                      210. 3056
                      211. 3133
                      212. 325
                      213. 3225
                      214. 3229
                      215. 3321
                      216. 3344
                      217. 3366
                      218. 3430
                      219. 3440
                      220. 3442
                      221. 3514
                      222. 3654
                      223. 3655
                      224. 3659
                      225. 3664
                      226. 3665
                      227. 3720
                      228. 3721
                      229. 3726
                      230. 37144
                      231. 3816
                      232. 3826
                      233. 3853
                      234. 3878
                      235. 3879
                      236. 3881
                      237. 3913
                      238. 3915
                      239. 3924
                      240. 3931
                      241. 3947
                      242. 3960
                      243. 3967
                      244. 4015
                      245. 4016
                      246. 4016
                      247. 4017
                      248. 4017
                      249. 4018
                      250. 4027
                      251. 4029
                      252. 4030
                      253. 4032
                      254. 4033
                      255. 4046
                      256. 4049
                      257. 4051
                      258. 4052
                      259. 4119
                      260. 4140
                      261. 4147
                      262. 427
                      263. 4245
                      264. 4247
                      265. 4339
                      266. 4365
                      267. 4368
                      268. 4410
                      269. 4416
                      270. 4440
                      271. 4441
                      272. 4517
                      273. 4526
                      274. 4527
                      275. 4528
                      276. 4534
                      277. 4535
                      278. 465
                      279. 4620
                      280. 4620
                      281. 4621
                      282. 4634
                      283. 4635
                      284. 5020
                      285. 5022
                      286. 5030
                      287. 5034
                      288. 5041
                      289. 5042
                      290. 5042
                      291. 5044
                      292. 5112
                      293. 5113
                      294. 529
                      295. 5213
                      296. 5246
                      297. 546
                      298. 548
                      299. 5419
                      300. 5448
                      301. 5529
                      302. 5650
                      303. 5656
                      304. 5712
                      305. 5712
                      306. 5713
                      307. 5715
                      308. 586
                      309. 587
                      310. 5818
                      311. 5822
                      312. 603
                      313. 606
                      314. 629
                      315. 649
                      316. 649
                      317. 649
                      318. 652
                      319. 667
                      320. 668
                      321. 6824
                      322. 6839
                      323. 6842
                      324. 6935
                      325. 704
                      326. 708
                      327. 7026
                      328. 7043
                      329. 7044
                      330. 7314
                      331. 7317
                      332. 749
                      333. 7446
                      334. 751
                      335. 756
                      336. 767
                      337. 7610
                      338. 7611
                      339. 7627
                      340. 7712
                      341. 7713
                      342. 7714
                      343. 7735
                      344. 7738
                      345. 7817
                      346. 7818
                      347. 7838
                      348. 7839
                      349. 7840
                      350. 796
                      351. 7935
                      352. 7946
                      353. 8034
                      354. 8215
                      355. 8217
                      356. 8218
                      357. 8219
                      358. 835
                      359. 836
                      360. 8311
                      361. 8334
                      362. 852
                      363. 869
                      364. 9014
                      365. 1014

                      DUAL x 3

                      1. 2203, yawmayn
                      2. 419, yawmayn
                      3. 4112, yawmayn

                      PLURAL x 27

                      1. 280, ayyaamaa
                      2. 2184, ayyaamaa
                      3. 2184, ayyaam
                      4. 2185, ayyaam
                      5. 2196, ayyaam
                      6. 2203, ayyaam
                      7. 324, ayyaamaa
                      8. 341, ayyaam
                      9. 3140, al-ayyaam
                      10. 589, ayyaam
                      11. 754, ayyaam
                      12. 103, ayyaam
                      13. 10102, ayyaam
                      14. 117, ayyaam
                      15. 1165, ayyaam
                      16. 145, bi-ayyaam
                      17. 2228, ayyaam
                      18. 2559, ayyaam
                      19. 324, ayyaam
                      20. 3418, ayyaamaa
                      21. 4110, ayyaam
                      22. 4116, ayyaam
                      23. 4514, ayyaam
                      24. 5038, ayyaam
                      25. 574, ayyaam
                      26. 697, ayyaam
                      27. 6924, al-ayyaam

                      NOT COUNTED x 10

                      1. 6130, yawmikum
                      2. 751, yawmihim
                      3. 21103, yawmukum
                      4. 3214, yawmikum
                      5. 3971, yawmikum
                      6. 4383, yawmahum
                      7. 4534, yawmikum
                      8. 5160, yawmihim
                      9. 5245, yawmahum
                      10. 7042, yawmahum
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                        GODsubmitter
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                        Excellent thread!
                        thank you all

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                          Osman
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                          Peace Osman

                          Who is the "we"? confused

                          God bless you

                          The 'we' is, 'we' as a community of people who take the Qur'an as a perfect and divinely created text, and use this text as the foundation for our world view and philosophy/religion, whatever you call it.

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                            hawk99
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                            The 'we' is, 'we' as a community of people who take the Qur'an as a perfect and
                            divinely created text, and use this text as the foundation for our world view and
                            philosophy/religion, whatever you call it.

                            Thank you Osman, you do see "we" can mean the human race which
                            includes believers, kafirs, hypocrites, tyrants, agnostics, atheists etc.,
                            so if the question is why should believers believe that the Quran is
                            divine I would say that the juncture where our will and the will of the
                            creator intersect is the reason we believe the Quran is divinely inspired.

                            And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him
                            believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve." Indeed, We have prepared
                            for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call
                            for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds
                            faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place.

                            So whoever Allah wants to guide - He expands his breast to Islam;
                            and whoever He wants to misguide - He makes his breast tight and constricted
                            as though he were climbing into the sky. Thus does Allah place defilement
                            upon those who do not believe.

                            May God bless you

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                              Man_of_Faith
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                              who take the Qur'an as a perfect and divinely created text

                              I do that too, but the interpretations I know are not divinely blessed... hypno

                              Be safe
                              Amenuel

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                                Osman
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                                I do that too, but the interpretations I know are not divinely blessed... hypno

                                What do you mean Amenuel?o

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                                  Man_of_Faith
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                                  What do you mean Amenuel?

                                  I mean that the Arabic that Quran stands for is very very very very very very very very very very very very different from the one that people know here and now nope

                                  Be safe
                                  Amenuel

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                                    fye
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                                    I mean that the Arabic that Quran stands for is very very very very very very very very very very very very different from the one that people know here and now nope

                                    Be safe
                                    Amenuel

                                    arabic is a language... then what is the quran? your very confusing how is the interpetations that much different you have to translate the parables the read does the translating and understanding for himself?
                                    also is everyone speaking the same arabic why does one word have so many interpretation when entering into english this is also about other post.

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                                      Man_of_Faith
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                                      arabic is a language... then what is the quran? your very confusing how is the interpetations that much different you have to translate the parables the read does the translating and understanding for himself?
                                      also is everyone speaking the same arabic why does one word have so many interpretation when entering into english this is also about other post.

                                      Quran is a very misinterpreted scripture given birth to a fabricated language by its interpreters. I do not know what else to write.

                                      Be safe Amenuel

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                                        so...

                                        I do realize that in asia and the middle-east there are a lot of Arabic words that have carried different meanings like a funny one is "falah" (prosperity) which from going to a masjid or two I've heard means falah (male reproductive organ) lol.

                                        but makes it so misinterpreted?

                                        are you saying as in people don't grasp the old "Arabian knights" Arabic to English with the similtudes and such, or is it not one of those foundation languages like latin and such?

                                        I also remember you posted about the kaba and said people were worshipping it?
                                        i'm a bit out of the loop but you have a opinion or experience with modern islam that you have not shared or I haven't heard.

                                        can you explain your views on islam, mainly just the things you disapprove of because those are the most important ones, and what is your view of the modern muslim,
                                        I personally think they are just people with a book and no messenger but can you explain where your statements and ideas come from they are interesting but then you just cut them down without explaining any of them...it's a forum board speak freely man, it's like leaving a huge blank in the point you were going to make

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                                          Osman
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                                          I mean that the Arabic that Quran stands for is very very very very very very very very very very very very different from the one that people know here and now nope

                                          Please Man of Faith,

                                          How do you mean? confused

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