I am going to apostate
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Oh I am trying to read Quran everyday, but am I not reading the interpretation of Quran written by a man himself ?
Read only Quran.
Not interpretation. Not read false Bible (false Torah and Gospels.They are hadith boks).
Read only Quran please.
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Read only Quran.
Not interpretation. Not read false Bible (false Torah and Gospels.They are hadith boks).
Read only Quran please.
Huh ? What's the point of reading Quran if I'm not going to understand it ? I dont even know arabic ( i know how to read it but I don't understand it's meaning ) So i should just recite Quran without knowing what I am even reciting?
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Peace Anoushirvan.
You say ,quote
"It would be too long to explain why but in general, Qur'an was written because there was a revolution taking place in Middle East in the first half of the 7th CE, and favored by the weakening of the two great empires the Byzantium and Persia. This revolution originated from a Gnostic milieu, and had messianic grounds (in the ancient Jewish thought, when the biggest empires are fighting each others, this is the prelude to the world to come / hereafter, i.e. the coming of the messianic era).In this context, the author of Qur'an was a fierce opponent to the modalities of this revolution.
And because of this revolutionary context, the author of Qur'an is most particularly concerned with how to setup a correct ethics and laws (this is called the "din" in Qur'an), and that the direction ("huda" chosen by his opponents was, in his opinion, the wrong one.Outside this particular revolutionary context in Arabia in the 7th CE, Qur'an hardly makes sense for practice and trying to apply it anyway leads to the kind of troubles you are experiencing.
Nevertheless, and provided it is correctly understood, Qur'an still remains an interesting treatise on how the establishment of the laws in a religious context to be read like any other treatise on that subject of Ancient times."I have few questions for you if you do not mind
1- Who wrote(authored) Qoran and where exactly in the middle east? Please provide some kind of solid evidence ?
2- Give a brief history of the author who was a fierce opponent of the modality of this revolution?
3-Was Qoran then just for that era?
4- How can Qoran be correctly understood by everybody like you seem to suggest?
Thank you in advance.
GOD bless you.
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Peace Sania Haque.
Here is a list of the problems I had with Qoran that I am trying to solve for at least 10/11 years1-Why so many different interpretations? Where is the easy/straight forward interpretation that some of its verses talk about?
2- Why send Qoran in Arabic only when it is intended for all the world? Is that fair on the French,English...etc?
3-Why does GOD not send it to us straight to our brains/mind individually like the instinct of right and wrong?
4-How can GOD expect us to work with Him when we cannot see or communicate( I thought that was not possible) with Him?
5-Why am I drawn to this book when I try to read it? Why even bother with it if it is not making sense to me now?
6- Why am I frustrated with this book,I wish I never set eyes on it? Why waste my time and effort ,I have a life to lead and friends to keep?And the questions kept rolling every time I picked Qoran to have another browse
7-Why am I even bothering even picking it up when I still see no sense with the majority of its verses?After few weeks I am back to picking this book again,just to make sure a "eurika moment" appear or like I am developing a conscious towards "at least have another look"
Then my questions took a different approach and I started again
1-Who am I and why am I a human?
2- What am I suppose to do/my purpose and who put me here /created all this?
3- why this way?All I can say now is that the contents are now directing my curiosity and questions, I am hooked ,I have to study this book and try my best to really see what it is saying to me.
Yes, it felt like I am now becoming engaged in a long conversation with this book. That took a little more than two years. I felt like it was written for me to wrestle with it.
I came to a conclusion that I cannot leave it until I am satisfied and can prove that it is a lot of nonsense.
Or this book is really from outer space by another intelligence.Here are more questions for more choices with Qoran
1- Why believe Qoran is from GOD if you do not believe GOD?
2-Either believe or do not believe,but be true to yourself and use your GOD given faculties in your life to reflect on your choices and decisions with or without Qoran?
3-Why be afraid of GOD or sanctions from GOD if you cannot connect with GOD or His message?
4-- Why do salat if you do not know what it is or benefit from it? After all who are you fooling?
5- why follow any law if you do not agree with it or are not forced either by choice or system? I do not see GOD forcing anyone,nor do .I see GOD taking any choices from humans,but I see communities and human systems do that?I find it an individual task,journey that each has to take . Iman grows and with it our soul. GOD feeds the soul according to its limitation/capacity and choice to grow. Or GOD does not interfere at all if the soul takes that choice and stays undernourished.
I also find Qoran to be tailored for my limitation and I have no knowledge of where this limitation goes up to. Each one of us ,if they want to feed their soul,they will find that GOD has "catered"/"tailored" for their needs in the Message . "La Wukallifu ALLH Nafsan Illa Wusaaha".
Leave or take. Your choice.
GOD bless you.
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Read only Quran.
Not interpretation. Not read false Bible (false Torah and Gospels.They are hadith boks).
Read only Quran please.
Salam,
I think she is trying to say that when reading the translation of quran, she is reading the interpretaion of one man. I think she can't read and understand arabic,
and I feel the same, with translation we can have the understanding of his author in translations we have a few differences.
When saying "read only Quran please" are you talking about a translated one ? If she doesn't understand arabic how can she understand the verses in al quran ?
And even after learning arabic, she can encouter different meanings for one word and some meanings have probably changed with time.
And yes we can compare all the occurences of words in the Quran to set a meaning, I think.She said she is confused and fear to wrong herself reading quran (translations) that why she wonders if she can only believe in God without reading quran as she can't understand the arabic understood by the people to which the quran was sent at that time. Telll me if I am wrong, Sania Haque.
I experienced that, with fear and no confidence, it's difficult to move forward.
If everybody here understood the messages of God, they would agree. But it is not the case, and I think she fears to follow something wrong by misunderstanding al quran as she noticed here that people disagree.
The fear of hell prevents her from giving all up. However she is very confused and suffers to the extend of thinking to abandon. Aren't you Sania ?
May Allah guide us.
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Peace Fadiva/Sania Haque.
I will address this to both your query.
I understand what you are both saying,. I had the same issue when I started. Why Arabic and what about those that do not understand Arabic?All I could do at first is look at different translation and see if it makes sense to me.
Then I challenged GOD to guide me. Once I realised who GOD, I could not ignore the all powerful ,the ever living ,the all knowing.... I either had to take the journey on GOD s side with GOD s help or ditch the idea of struggling by myself.
Or is GOD not capable and sufficient for the servant?
Of course one has to be patient and tried for their honesty and true conviction. But GOD has promised help and support and GOD fulfills all the promises.I am not saying I understand all Qoran and I am where in the journey, I am saying this journey with GOD has to be taken by each individual and will be ongoing.
All I can do is give my own understanding and views but it needs to be checked and resonate or not. with others. That is fine we humans have different views/tastes and are at different parts of the journey.
Patience and perseverance and trust in GOD are key.
For the moment try different translations and compare where your understanding is and move according to your satisfaction and comfort.
Or take a different course in life without GOD or Qoran or anything that don t make sense to you. Be honest with yourself. Get to know yourself properly.
GOD bless you both.
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Peace Good logic,
I ask the God to forgive me, to guide me and help me to understand what is not totally clear about some practices. I hope and I trust and praise Allah.
I agree with you.
I can only advice Sania the same and of course to be patient.God bless you.
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Huh ? What's the point of reading Quran if I'm not going to understand it ? I dont even know arabic ( i know how to read it but I don't understand it's meaning ) So i should just recite Quran without knowing what I am even reciting?
You must read translations with "no interpretation". No human commentary...
Only translations...
Peace
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salam sania haque
hope you are well
please do NOT abandon the Quran ... it is the truth from The God
keep your faith please this is primordial ! if you have issues we are here to help
if you have any specific questions or issues you need help with please let us know issue by issue and The God willing we will help you
The God is the One who gives us knoweldge ask Him to please give you knowledge and help you (He even tells us in the Quran to ask Him for knowledge)
peace )
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Well... Hi yall. More or less I have gotten the same reply from everyone that it should be me who should be striving to get my own answers. I guess no one can tell us what's wrong or what's right except Allah. I am still not sure how i am going to progress but i think it would be unfair to me if I give up without trying. Some of yall are right that the path to Allah and his guidance wouldn't be easy, we have to overcome all hardships. I was scrolling through Instagram when I came across a verse from Quran that goes something like this " Do people think that they will be let go merely by saying “We believe,” and that they will not be tested " ( i dont know from which surah it is ) but this was so eye opening for me. I feel like this was my sign and push from my creator that I shouldn't give up without trying. I am still very much afraid but i dont wanna go down without giving it at least one shot. Thank yall for your kind words and pushing me towards the right path. I hope whatever Allah has planned for me it's in favour of me
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Salam Sania,
Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it.
It is for Us to gather it into its Quran.
Thus, when We read it, you shall follow such a Quran.
Then it is for Us to explain it.
Nay, but you love instant results,You are blessed to have realized the truth about sahih hadiths books early (I was much older than you when I realized it - I kind of envy you in this regard).
Just be patient and keep studying it. 10-20 years in the future you might realize that indeed Quran is descended in stages slowly and it is done this way for a reason sun
Wassalam,
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What is salat ?
Salam Sania,
Maybe as starting point, let's take a look at one verse in Quran that mentions salat.
And no bearer may carry the burden of another. And if one who is weighed down by his load calls on another to carry it, no part of it may be carried, even if it were a relative. You will only be able to warn those who are concerned towards their Lord while unseen, and they AQAMU SALAT. And whoever contributes, is contributing for himself. And to God is the final destiny.
In 3518, God mentions that those who can be warned are only those who are concerned with their Lord AND they maintain/keep up/establish/holding SALAT. So those who are not maintaining/keeping up/establishing/holding SALAT, giving warning to them does not have any effect at all.
Now let's look at people around us
- We can find people who were previously atheist who didn't believe in God and now become believers. So these people definitely can be warned that God exists and that we will be responsible for our deeds in this world. Since they can be warned, they must have done AQAMU SALAT.
- We can find people who were previously christians who worshiped Jesus and now become believers. So these people definitely can be warned that God cannot have son and Jesus is God's messenger (not God himself). Since they can be warned, they must have done AQAMU SALAT.
Did those people do what Sunnis are calling SALAT when they were still atheist and christian?
All right, I guess this is enough for starting point )
Wassalam,
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Salam Sania,
Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it.
It is for Us to gather it into its Quran.
Thus, when We read it, you shall follow such a Quran.
Then it is for Us to explain it.
Nay, but you love instant results,You are blessed to have realized the truth about sahih hadiths books early (I was much older than you when I realized it - I kind of envy you in this regard).
Just be patient and keep studying it. 10-20 years in the future you might realize that indeed Quran is descended in stages slowly and it is done this way for a reason sun
Wassalam,
I think all the credit goes to romance novels I was hooked, addicted and I just couldn't get rid of my reading addiction. It was my first step towards questioning the mullah. And well I was also exposed to all the things in those novels that the mainstream sectarian considered taboo and for few months i was disgusted too and then I started questioning why were they considered taboo. For many years i was searching up hadiths upon hadiths to study them and one thing was clear that hadiths came in pairs. For every hadith prohibiting something there was another hadith where the the Prophet/sahabas were being hypocrite and doing the same thing they prohibited. I never had problem rejecting the hadiths because it was my own fault that I never studied the Quran. If I had studied Quran from the starting i wouldn't have had wasted my time
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Salam Sania,
Maybe as starting point, let's take a look at one verse in Quran that mentions salat.
And no bearer may carry the burden of another. And if one who is weighed down by his load calls on another to carry it, no part of it may be carried, even if it were a relative. You will only be able to warn those who are concerned towards their Lord while unseen, and they AQAMU SALAT. And whoever contributes, is contributing for himself. And to God is the final destiny.
In 3518, God mentions that those who can be warned are only those who are concerned with their Lord AND they maintain/keep up/establish/holding SALAT. So those who are not maintaining/keeping up/establishing/holding SALAT, giving warning to them does not have any effect at all.
Now let's look at people around us
- We can find people who were previously atheist who didn't believe in God and now become believers. So these people definitely can be warned that God exists and that we will be responsible for our deeds in this world. Since they can be warned, they must have done AQAMU SALAT.
- We can find people who were previously christians who worshiped Jesus and now become believers. So these people definitely can be warned that God cannot have son and Jesus is God's messenger (not God himself). Since they can be warned, they must have done AQAMU SALAT.
Did those people do what Sunnis are calling SALAT when they were still atheist and christian?
All right, I guess this is enough for starting point
Wassalam,
As i said i have had heard both the arguments for salat and I feel like I am going to continue the ritual pray. At the end of the day, even if it's not mentioned in Quran, it is still invoking and glorifying Allah and there's no harm in it. The ritual prayers have been romanticised so much that the mainstream muslims believe it's like a direct connection between them and the God. Ngl I also used to feel like that and the fact that there's a probability that this ritual prayer is not Something Allah established makes me feel a little dejected. The idea that establishing ritual prayer is like conversing with God is very appealing. I am just very sad that tahajjud prayer is a lie ((((((((
Ohmygod tahajjud was such an assuring prayer tbh. And i used to pray it with so much faith and enthusiasm to get my duas fulfilled ( and they did come true ) Now when i pray it's not the same anymore. I feel there's a void and I am not able to pray with any faith anymore. I guess the the ritual prayer has lost its appeal since i have got to know that it could potentially be a lie -
I have few questions for you if you do not mind
Peace GL,
you have something in mind when you ask your questions, and I have something in mind when I read them, and both do not necessarily match.
So I will answer with what I have in mind.1- Who wrote(authored) Qoran and where exactly in the middle east? Please provide some kind of solid evidence ?
Who, personally, was the author of Qur'an, we, or at least I, don't know, since he did not chose to speak much of himself in Qur'an.
On the other hand, I believe that his ideas, expressed in Qur'an, are more important than who he was.Of course, the Islamic tradition has a lot of to say on him, but this was put in writing at least 150 years after the events, so it is a bit like historians of the 20th CE would write an account of Napoleon 1st from hearsay narrated by the great-great-...-great-grandsons of his acquaintances.
There could be some truth deeply buried inside this story but packaged and surrounded by a fictitious narrative.The earliest chronicles that we know are not Arabic but Armenian, Greek, Syriac, or Coptic, see http//www.christianorigins.com/islamrefs.html but the true reference is Robert Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw it, from which the chronicles of this website were extracted.
(Of course, for Robert Hoyland, what those ancient chroniclers saw was emerging Islam, and on this point, I don't agree. I don't necessarily interpret those texts the same way as R. Hoyland and others do).What is intriguing is that when those texts explicitly mention a person with the name "Muhammad", we can roughly classify those texts into one of those two categories those who saw Muhammad as a warlord, and those who saw him as a teacher of the divine Law and knowledgeable in the Scriptures (i.e. the Jewish Scriptures), but never both at the same time.
It looks like there could have been two different persons in the first half of the 7th CE, a successful Arab warlord, and a successful Arab teacher of the Scriptures, and both figures merged later as a kind of trade-off among various traditions.
Where Qur'an was written is not easy to determine, but it sounds that it was in Hijaz, as the Muslim tradition states.
My argument is based on linguistic evidences, it's really long to explain, but let's do it.As noted in this forum, e.g. by Dr. Ayman Mohamed and others, there exist some divergences between Qur'anic grammar and Classical Arabic grammar, e.g. verse 2177 sabirin instead of sabirun.
Among contemporary linguists, one of the those who are reference in Arabic is Kees Versteegh who wrote a book "Arabic Language" on the origins of the Arabic language (https//books.google.fr/books?id=RiarBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)
According to K. Versteegh, on the eve of Islam in the 7th CE, the Arabic language was roughly divided into two major families of dialects, the western dialects, and the eastern dialects.
Western dialects included the Old Hijazi dialect, spoken in Hijaz.
Eastern dialects were mainly spoken in Iraq.Veerstegh notes that Arab grammarians wrote a lot on the western variants of Arabic and less on eastern variants. He explains this by the fact that finally Classical Arabic was build on top of eastern talks, and therefore were less in the radar of grammarians.
According to Versteegh, Qur'an Arabic seems to have initially been the one of an eastern dialect that had to be adapted for writing by scribes of Hijaz. In support of this theory, Versteegh mentions that the glottal stop ('hamza', was natural in eastern dialects but absent from western dialects.
This theory, if correct, implies that the Qur'an messenger spoke an Arabic dialect containing a glottal stop, i.e. an eastern dialect. He couldn't originate from Mecca.
In fact, this problem arose for ancient Arab grammarians, who thought to solve this issue the following way it existed an Arabic language of prestige, the one of the classical poetry, a koiné (https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koin%C3%A9_language) close to Classical Arabic and including this famous glottal stop.
Then Qur'an would have been revealed in this koiné to put it at the same standard than classical poetry.But there is no historical trace of this so-called koiné before the 7th CE, and even this theory of the great classical pre-islamic poetry could be seriously challenged.
On this forum, Dr. Ayman Mohamed already expressed doubts about the existence of this classical pre-islamic poetry. At best it could have been folk songs.And on the other hand, the historian Fred Donner showed in his book Narrative of the Islamic Origins (https//books.google.fr/books/about/Narratives_of_Islamic_Origins.html?id=4GEMAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y) that Qur'an may very well have originated from Hijaz.
He shows that on certain occasions, hadithes use a different vocabulary from Qur'an. For instance to name a boat, Qur'an prefers the word "fulq" over "safina", whereas hadithes use the word "safina". There is even a hadith that explains that fulq means safina.Donner explains that the word "fulq" was sufficiently scarce in pre-islamic poetry to have been used only in Hijaz.
Qur'an mentions a lot of biblical figures like Noah, Moses, David or Solomon. On those figures, hadithes give a lot more details than Qur'an.
But Qur'an also mentions purely Arabic prophets, unknown from the biblical tradition Salih, Hud, Shuaib. In that case, hadithes are unable to really say more than Qur'an.By the way, all of this implies that hadithes did not originate from the same milieu, neither the same time, than Qur'an.
Based on this above, my personal conclusion is that unlike Versteegh's theory, Qur'an was written in Hijaz, by someone speaking Hijazi dialect, but its collection, shaping and review took place outside Hijaz..
This kind of conclusion is impossible within the framework of Islamic tradition and its traditional narrative, and it has far-reaching consequences, e.g. that Uthman's Qur'an is a myth.
As you can see, external considerations (early chronicles, J. Schacht on elaboration of Muslim jurisprudence, etc.), and internal linguistic considerations point to the same direction Qur'an actually was not the book of doctrine of the early Arab rulers, at least not until Abd al-Malik at the end of the 7th CE.
2- Give a brief history of the author who was a fierce opponent of the modality of this revolution?
Again, we don't know his personal history.
We can just know his ideas expressed in Qur'an.
As quoted, by Robert Hoyland in Seeing Islam as Others Saw It, the early chronicler Jacob of Edessa mentioned that the Arab kingdom was founded around 620/621 J.C. and that Arabs started to attack Palestine.
At that time, the Muhammad of the Sira did not even emigrate to Medina.Parvaneh Pourshariati, in Decline and Fall of the Sassanian Empire, showed that Arabs attacks on the Persian empire started much earlier than said by the Islamic tradition, around 627 or 628 J.C.
At that time, the Muhammad of the Sira was in difficulty in Medina. What were those Arabs doing to attack Persia instead of helping their Prophet in Medina ?Around, 620 or 621 J.C. a group of Arabs started founding a kingdom. Later Arabic papyrii of the 7th CE refer to the "era of the Arabs" (and not "hijra", and the origin date of their calendar is around 620 / 621.
Shortly after that they started attacking their neighbours.Now, put this in perspective to what I explained above, that Qur'an was not the book of doctrine of those Arabs.
What can you start to see ?
Does Qur'an mention this strong event (the foundation of an Arab kingdom) ?
If it doesn't, how could it remain silent on this event ?And if it does, then how does it speak of it ?
This is where you need to learn how to decode the "language" of Qur'an and this is where learning the ancient Jewish "language" of the Scriptures is the key (and here, I don't mean Hebrew here but the metaphors and concepts of the ancient Jewish thought).
On those times, the clash of the two biggest empires of the world, Byzantium and Persia and their collapsing was seen as the coming of the end of times, and the foundation of a new kingdom as a new creation.
Read for example the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel on the take of Jerusalem in 614 J.C. by the Persians (https//pages.uncc.edu/john-reeves/research-projects/trajectories-in-near-eastern-apocalyptic/sefer-zerubbabel/).Then this new kingdom certainly needed to setup laws and justice.
This is exactly how you have to read, e.g., surah 2 in Qur'an. The story of Adam in verse 230 is not the story of the creation of mankind per se. It is the metaphor of the creation of a new kingdom on Earth.
Then the story is followed by that of Moses, struggling to establish divine laws for his restive people.And so on.
Fassad, i.e. "spreading corruption", has nothing to do with a question of morals.
In the ancient Jewish thought, advent of the world to come could only happen at the height of the ordeal (i.e. fitna in Qur'an).A drift or aberration of this idea is that if the world to come is delayed, it could be possible to hasten its coming by spreading chaos so that to be sure we are at the height of the ordeal.
Nowadays, some Islamic terrorist movements like ISIS or al-Qaida are exactly doing this trying to help the advent of the world to come by spreading chaos.
So it was likely the same in the 7th CE. Some people certainly wanted to add chaos to chaoss in the context of collapsing empires so that the new kingdom of God could come.
And it is exactly that idea that the messenger blames in Qur'an.
For instance, in verse 251, it is question of the people of Moses taking the "calf", al-3ijla.
The purpose is to make hear the verb 3ajila which means to be impatient, in the context trying to hasten the world to come.3-Was Qoran then just for that era?
Yes and no.
In the mindset of the author of Qur'an, the new creation to come was to be forever ("khalid", until it ended and a new creation was to take place instead, e.g. 21104, 2919, etc.
So basically, Qur'an was meant for the new creation to come of his era.Nowadays, the world has so much changed that legal provisions in Qur'an are completely outdated.
4- How can Qoran be correctly understood by everybody like you seem to suggest?
In the context of the 7th CE, its meaning was certainly obvious, and this explained it widely spread even though it was not imposed by the rulers.
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Thank you Anoushirvan for your detailed answers and your big effort to reply to my questions.
I can see that you have done a lot of reading of historical documents.
I have read some of these documents and I sense that we can be going back and forth to establish "the evidence" of their truthfulness. So either we take, leave them or stay with a certain doubt.
Please forgive me if I do not deal with any of them,since readers can look at them and make up their mind.I wanted to know specifically if there was evidence from your stand point on who wrote Qoran, you say, quote
"Who, personally, was the author of Qur'an, we, or at least I, don't know, since he did not chose to speak much of himself in Qur'an.
no the other hand, I believe that his ideas, expressed in Qur'an, are more important than who he was."I differ here with you because the author of Qoran has said a lot about himself. like
God has revealed herein the best Hadith; a book that is consistent, and points out both ways (to Heaven and Hell). The skins of those who reverence their Lord cringe therefrom, then their skins and their hearts soften up for God's message. Such is God's guidance; He bestows it upon whoever wills (to be guided). As for those sent astray by God, nothing can guide them.
This Quran could not possibly be authored by other than God. It confirms all previous messages, and provides a fully detailed scripture. It is infallible, for it comes from the Lord of the universe.
The word of your Lord is complete, in truth and justice. Nothing shall abrogate His words. He is the Hearer, the Omniscient.
A.L.R. This is a scripture whose verses have been perfected, then elucidated.* It comes from a Most Wise, Most Cognizant.
This is the absolute truth.
Then you say,quote
"Again, we don't know his personal history.It seems that if we do not know much we can only be making assumption.
For me I have solid proof that Qoran is authored by GOD.. I have my proof.
Thank you for your honesty .
GOD bless you.
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Salaam, Sania,
Be honest with yourself and trust yourself in the first place. Sel analyse yourself why you feel this or that way so that you do not make mistakes as your basic stand and then bear well in mind and have always present these two ayas
39.18
..who listen to all that is said, and follow the best of it it is they whom God has graced with His guidance, and it is they who are endowed with insight!
39.44
And ere that suffering comes upon you of a sudden, without your being aware , follow the most goodly that has been revealed unto you by your Sustainer,You do not have to find anything in the Qur'an ans straightforward know what it means and feel it is a failure if you do not get anything out of it. We all have a life whichusually lasts more than one second, or more than a year or more than a decade or more than many decades. If we started knowing evrything and have nothing to find out, we would not be the creaure God intended us to be. Patience is, to me, the most islamic virtue. Patience, no resignation, pursue even when one feels discouraged. It always brings great compensation. Dos nto matter if you find very little "best" to start with. Trust your own criteria. You may be wrong, but one is always coherent with oneself. At some point you will make sense. Be patient in the first place with yourself. You hav all the time in the world to work out. God knows that, God likes that, God wants it that way. And even if you are wrong in something, or in a lot, you have to start somewhere, and that womewhere is excatly where you are the time.
TAKE IT EASY. tRUST YOURSELF, GOD IS TRUST.
The fact that you are in such a quandary is a good omen. Do not exchange that need for meaning for easy world "certified" certainty. Nobody can give you that, because it is something you have to find in yourself, but you will not getting without trust and patience .
Salaam
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Patience is, to me, the most islamic virtue. Patience, no resignation, pursue even when one feels discouraged. It always brings great compensation.
peace huruf, yes evident in one of the shortest chapters.
1030 بسم bismi/in name الله l-lahi/the god الرحمن l-rahmani/the almighty الرحيم l-rahimi/the merciful
1031 والعصر wal-asri/and/by the epoch
1032 ان inna/indeed الانسن l-insana/the humankind لفي lafi/surely in خسر khusrin/loss
1033 الا illa/except الذين alladhina/the ones امنوا amanu/believes they of وعملوا waamilu/and work they of الصلحت l-salihati/the righteous وتوصوا watawasaw/and exhort they of بالحق bil-haqi/in the truth وتوصوا watawasaw/and exhort they of بالصبر bil-sabri/in the patience -
peace huruf, yes evident in one of the shortest chapters.
1030 بسم bismi/in name الله l-lahi/the god الرحمن l-rahmani/the almighty الرحيم l-rahimi/the merciful
1031 والعصر wal-asri/and/by the epoch
1032 ان inna/indeed الانسن l-insana/the humankind لفي lafi/surely in خسر khusrin/loss
1033 الا illa/except الذين alladhina/the ones امنوا amanu/believes they of وعملوا waamilu/and work they of الصلحت l-salihati/the righteous وتوصوا watawasaw/and exhort they of بالحق bil-haqi/in the truth وتوصوا watawasaw/and exhort they of بالصبر bil-sabri/in the patienceThank you for bringing up this sura. It is indeed uplinfting and comforting.
Salaam
