;D Yeah, I'm slow alright. Frankly, well, this is hard to say, but I couldn't be sure how real this site was. I mean, who expects anyone to say they believe Quran, but don't rely on Hadith? That surprised me, even though I, too, believe the Quran can be read and understood, at some level, without hadith. ?This is the book, in it is guidance for sure without doubt, to those who fear Allah?. (22) - ?They are invited to the book of Allah to settle their dispute?. (323) - ?A book revealed unto you, so that your heart be not in any difficulty on that account, with it you may warn and teach the believers?. (72) - ?Lo! this Qur?an guides to that which is most upright?. (179) - ?These are the verses of the book that make things clear?. (262). Quran and Tafsir is a good combination.
Personally, our own tafsir is what matters the most. Other peoples tafsirs I consider at the best interesting and at the worst irrelevant and/or damaging.
Then I've read posts terribly condemning Quran-only. And I'm afraid I'll say something that will make me look just as ignorant as I really am about the Quran, that I'll be ostracized. I have not read it very many times, and I don't know enough Arabic yet,
though I can recite short surahs in Arabic. sun
We are always going to be ignorant of something or the other, we go through stages. It's best to know ourselves and what's important, to keep our fears of being ridiculed and/or ostracization lower in the priority list in the context of the bigger picture. So what if someone calls you something, makes you look stupid or whatever, if it's true we can work on it, it's not bad to be honest, to know our boundaries and whether we can create newer ones...it's not as if we are experts on things from the get go, we earn our way to a better understanding...and if it's not true, it's irrelevant.
I don't have a compilation like you described, but I have books like "World Scriptures" which gives passages from scriptures of different religions, arranged topically. I have not read that for a few years, though. I suppose one thing keeping me from an all-inclusive compilation is the sheer magnitude of such a thing. "World Scriptures" leaves more out than it includes, and that's over 800 pages. I don't have that much time!
Thanks for the reference, sounds interesting. I know right, it is a massive undertaking to have a comprehensive list on the subject.
Sometimes I'll jot down a reference to the Qur'an in the margins of a book. Or a reference to the Bible in the margins of an English-language tafsir. Tafsir do that themselves.
Yeah, was looking for a more personal list giving a priority to clear cut similarities in different 'religions' (maybe even cultural similarities, particularly religiously derived) preferably arranged in a time line...if you or anyone else comes across something like that, lmk.