Challenge to all rejectors of the Divinity of Al-Quraan : Moderated Debates
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Peace elke and arnoldyasin. Elke;Your experiences to do with iddat,reality etc...are similiar to my reasons for rejecting literalism,and for looking for the underlying morality beneath the texts...The real world requires real,practical answers,not antiquated meanings,and obselete traditions.... I know that i have gone one further than you,and actually question/reject large chunks of the quran....But that doesnt mean i cant take some benefit from reading this book,just like i can benefit from reading SOME parts of the bible....I respect your way of viewing the quran,a great deal....At least it means you have a 'humanistic' vision for society,and that you can interact civilly with others,whether they are 'muslim' or not...
In 25 years of reading, Enquirer has failed to showwhat 'underlying morality' beneath the texts is. There's a simple reason behind this He doesn't know it. Al-quraan defines for itself the benefits one acquires from obedience to its laws and condemns those who leave it (5/48 tells u to judge with al-kitaab bil haqq, not your delusions so how would Enquirer deal with that?). For those who have the opportunity to talk to Enquirer (before he declines and starts peddling his falsehood elsewhere yet again) do ask him these things.
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Peace,
enquirer, please point out any 'modern' interpretation i made? nikaa means contract/combining not directly marriage. The old interpretation is based on created tradition formed centuries after the Quran. So what are you directly refering to? I'm not into 'modern' interpretations, i'm into logic and what the arabic Quran really says. I NEVER try to re-interpretate the Quran or give 'new' meanings. A word can have such and such meaning, then i puzzle out how it fits best. This pure linguistic study. Has NOTHING to do with creating new meanings. As for the whipping, i'm still researching, but adultry/illicit sex is the main reason for aids, abondend baby's, sexual diseases, broken relationships, fatherless children. Compared to this, it makes the 'flogging' nothing. A quarter of the population is DYING because of zinaa, but people only look at the 'flogging', this is biased and ignorant. Parwez and Shabbir both have similar ideas on reading arabic, which has nothing to do with creating new meanings, but directly with the meaning of classic arabic, which is very very wide and deep, and uses a lot of symbolic language like we even do nowadays in english. That it doesn't coincide with 'traditional' thinking is because they have neglected and twisted the real meanings of the words. You have to only look at the verse that warns us for these fixed meanings that distort the message, verse 2530, the word mahjoor means 3 main things; desertion, avoiding and fixing/chaining/fettering, look how ONE word can make the understanding threefold
The prophet will say "O my Lord, my people have deserted this Reading, have treated it as something to be avoided and have fettered/ chained/fixed understandings (in the Reading)." (2530)
A horse or camel tied head to foot was called mahjoor, and the rope used for tying, al-hijaar(Taj). Making the animal immobile, as it stuck in its position, where the owners will leave it. The Quran today is thus fettered/chained by custom and tradition, fixed titles and meanings of words, hearsay reports compiled centuries later, and laws and by-laws enacted by men, each group having its own fiqah and shariah, which are held more sacrosanct and given predence over the Quran, and making thus the Quran fixed in meaning, where they want, and how they want. Making the versatile meanings immobile, freezing a certain meaning, and chaining the Quran with that meaning.Most people can't imagine the depths of the classic arabic. There is no need for symbolic interpretation, as in classic arabic, most words are metaphoricaly used in those times.
Peace
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Peace arnoldyasin. I appreciate your civil response... )
One thing is a little puzzling...In all the 1400 years that the quran has been read,studied and interpreted,are you saying shabbir,parweez and a handful of mutazalites/free-minds were the only people that interpreted the quran correctly?... o If this book is supposed to be a clear arabic message/guidance for all mankind,for all times and situations,how come its soo hard for people to apply/translate it...?
Peace all. ps;by implying only a few can correctly translate the quran,we potentially open the way for 'corrupt priesthood',dogma,theocracy,and oppression of the 'uneducated' masses by the clergy... (especially non-arabs... .) ....Does mankind want to go the way of the taliban,inqusition,crusader mentality,religious extremism,once again? o -
Enquirer, i reacted civilezed as i'm a grown human being with no care of how or what you believe. And have you read all the books of the last 1400 years? How do you know nobody read it like them? The dictionaries they all use, are almost as old as the Quran. It has to do with approach enquirer, 200 years after the revelation, they used certain rules how to read the Quran, so its meaning got stuck/fixed, the Quran was made mahjoor. Throughout history there were a lot of geniuses how approached the Quran just as we do now. But because only now it is easy to print and distribute views around the world, these views are known. For more then a thousand years, only a certain approach was tolerated, so only those views survived the times. It is the same with the Christian writings that were hidden in caves, because only one type of thinking was allowed on paper. Abu Hanifa died for his struggle for following the Quran alone, but we have not a single book or manuscript written by him, you think that is a coincidence? No of course not. Only the winners write down history.
And as for only a few can translate, this is not true, as anyone can buy the old dictionaries and research on the classic arabic and how interpretations can be distorted. Anybody with good motivation can do all the research themselves. You only need an open mind, torough research, understanding of how old understandings were formed by who and why and be ready to amazed.
Peace
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Peace arnoldyasin. If its easy to understand quran through good motivation,research,dictionaries etc...then why the monumental disagremenets between interpretations,and why the huge amounts of misunderstandings regarding the book?
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Peace
I'd like to make an association between a math class and clarity of the reading.
The teacher gives a problem to the class. None will know it's meaning until the end of the class when they have experience in the system to be taught there. People will come up with different answers initially, but is the problem really unclear?
Joe
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Because people are still shaking of 1000 years of lies and misunderstandings...and not all are ready to do that or acknowledge that. They claim Quran alone, but their subconciousness is completly filled by misguided information. And the Quran take lifetimes to be studied...........
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Salaam enquirer
I know that i have gone one further than you,and actually question/reject large chunks of the quran
I think it will be sensible for you to give example(s) of the bits you reject one by one so a logical discussion can take place.
As for your opinion that there different interpertation of the Quran over the last 1400 yrs. That might actually what was intended. There are issues which can be interperted only in a certain way but others do allow flexibility to accomodate human evolution. Simple example is the word Riba. It has always been interperted as meaning interest. However my understanding of the word from those arabic speaking is that it means unfair or unjust advantage. Now as a society, person etc you can decide whether interest in the modern world equates with Riba. However if you go back into not too distant past then interest many poor had to pay on borrowed goods or money was so crippling thay it virtually left them in slavery for all their life. In this situation you would interpert Riba as meaning interest would you not? I hope you have understood my point.
Dear Elke.
You have first decide on what you consider to be zina. let us assume it means adultery you then as a individual decide if it is a good or bad thing (sorry for such oversimplification). I dont know many who consider it to be a good thing. If you accept that its effect on society are detrimental to the well being of that society then you have accepted the Quranic principles and all then we are quibbling about is the extent of the punishment, hardly a point that the Quran in this is not valid.
On the otherhand if you consider adultery to be no big deal and dont consider it to have any relevant efect on any given society and most agree with you then you can have a society where liberal sex(for the sake of not using more offensive language ) is practiced you will soon see the results.
regards
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peace arnoldayasin and nabi. I respect your answer...However,if the quran takes 'lifetimes' to understand,then how can it be useful in this life? (or what does a person do in the meantime,while studying quran,to guide himself?)
Nabi; Are you saying that we will understand the quran fully when we implement a quranic system,or when we die,or when we verify it in a real-life experience,or something else?...
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enquirer, your 'study life through experience' also takes a lifetime to study, why bother then?
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Because people are still shaking of 1000 years of lies and misunderstandings...and not all are ready to do that or acknowledge that. They claim Quran alone, but their subconciousness is completly filled by misguided information. And the Quran take lifetimes to be studied...........
why don't you prove to me these 1000 years of lies?
I need solid proofs bro not a couple of corrupted hadith
salam
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Peace still-learning and arnoldyasin. Still-learning; Your analysis of 'riba' is excellent,and one that i can agree with...
On the question of which bits i 'reject',this will be clarified in the moderated debate,and i will discuss some of these with you from tommorow,time permitting....
Peace all. ps;I think you have misunderstood elke....I will try to answer the 'zina' question tommorow,as well... Pps; Arnoldayasin;because the 'lifetime study' allows me to make judgements that are practically relevant to situations that actually occur,...just by using rational thinking and moral experience...Many of the necessary general morals are learnt very quickly,easily,and with only a little pondering....As opposed to years of research on the quran... -
This is the same with the Quran, God will enhance our understanding when needed...And AB, there are to many books on hadith that show the difference of religious issues and history. Only the history can be taken, and still they may not be used for understanding the Quran as it is based on classic arabic language, not on arabic history.
But there is enough info out there to study...Here read this then
http//www.tolueislam.com/Parwez/mh/mh.htmPeace
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Peace arnoldyasin. I agree,you possibly can get good results from the quran....However,the quran/book is only as good as the reader...
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This is the same with the Quran, God will enhance our understanding when needed...And AB, there are to many books on hadith that show the difference of religious issues and history. Only the history can be taken, and still they may not be used for understanding the Quran as it is based on classic arabic language, not on arabic history.
But there is enough info out there to study...Here read this then
http//www.tolueislam.com/Parwez/mh/mh.htmPeace
Bro
please don't url me some lengthy repetitive argument that are possibly copied from the Dajjal RK master degree in deception
I need you to explain to me using the Quran and the hadith and your own words that the last 1000 years in the history of Islam were clear cut lies, thank you
cheers
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Peace,
That is a post the size of three books...........so sorry AB but find out for yourself. I have no time or intrest in posting when you don't even take the effort to check out a good and honest book about hadith. You are not gonna accept my views either.
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Peace,
That is a post the size of three books...........so sorry AB but find out for yourself. I have no time or intrest in posting when you don't even take the effort to check out a good and honest book about hadith. You are not gonna accept my views either.
don't get me wrong bro
i read all these sorts of things more than once, i'm talking to you here and trying to understand your claim that the last 1000 years in Islam were clear cut lies, if you can't prove it then donlt claim as such bro
thanks
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I can prove it, but i don't have the time or urge to write it all down...
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I can prove it, but i don't have the time or urge to write it all down...
how about a moderated debate between me and you?,
do you think I have time?
well I' gettin ready to go overseas in 5 days, i was actualy going to do it with you when I come back 14 days after
salam