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Q: Why is there such a lack of scholarly higher criticism of Islam and the Quran?
With the truckloads of books dealing with early Christianity from a historical-critical perspective, maybe scholars are going easy on Islam. Why do you think this is or is not the case? I took for granted that much could be known about Muhammad and the origins of Islam, but further reading suggested this is very uncertain. However, unlike with Christianity, there seems to be little scholarly investigation to work with.

A: no this is not the case it is just islam with its book -which god promised to keep it never change by any human- is hard criticize the book or the Qur'aan itself still amazes scholars from everywhere.. alazhar university in egypt -which is the biggest islamic university in the islamic world- has scholars from multiple nationalities coming from everywhere from this world try to check how many miracles discovered till now in the Qur'aan http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/ anyone who succeeded to criticize did it on followers on false hadith anything but Qur'aan and authenticated hadith (words from the prophet) they cannot find anything negative the missing ring here is to publish the huge research efforts in the english language to let people know more about the real islam because the majority of muslims have the arabic language as their native language that's why there are a hell of misconceptions and nonsense about this great religion it is a way of life more than a religion .. a religion and prophet came as a mercy for all mankind where a muslim is considered a muslim when he doesn't harm anyone even by his mouth! muslims had different culture from the entire world after mohamed that's why you say further reading show things are uncertain they used to knew everything by heart, write it and transfer it as it is to next generations those guys were different let's see why they remembered everything clear and didn't miss with it they were muslims there were no option for committing sins even little ones they never drink ...and it is a long story and complicated one the earth has no generation like those guys.. i guess you are right about scholary higher studies but criticism no even if someone tried it they criticised it based on unsufficient knowledge because he should study a mix of other related sciences for example any scholar needs to study: - the arabic language - the arabic culture and history now and then - Qur'aan telawa (reading) and interpretation - Hadith (what told by the prophet) - and other i tried to search for comparative studies between islam and other religions i found some (some free and some are not) http://sfs.scnu.edu.cn/hhzhang/stugdn/euro-culture/03Europe/A%20Comparative%20Study%20of%20Christianity%20and%20Islam.doc http://www.irf.net/islam_hinduism.doc http://www.adishakti.org/pdf_files/islam_and_yoga_(sites.netscape.net).pdf http://www.onlineislamicstore.com/b4487.html (not free) http://store.alislam.org/chisamreacos.html (not free) A comparative study of Islam & other religions / by Syed Muzaffar-ud-Din Nadvi http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/81218 (not free) good luck

Q: I have doubts of Islam, but would like to memorize the Quran?
I have memorized about 4 chapters of the Quran as a teenager, when my faith was at its highest. Now I have doubts of Islam if it's true or not, due to some conflicts between the holy Quran and modern science ( I've noticed that even as a teen reading the Quran tens of times). But I still want to memorize the Quran for its sheer Beauty and music of the arabic language. Does this make any sense?

A: Yes, If you like.

Q: Can anybody give me a reference from the Quran or similar to show that Islam is against homosexuality?
I don't need a quotation, just a reference to go with the statement that Islam shares a general negative view on homosexuality or at least 'homosexual acts' with Christianity. I've already got the equivalent references to passegesin the Bible, so I need page number, title, edition etc of some kind of Muslim text.

A: "We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever) committed before you?" (The Noble Quran, 7:80) "For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women: Ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds." (The Noble Quran, 7:81) "(We also sent) Lut (as an apostle): behold, He said to his people, "Do ye do what is shameful though ye see (its iniquity)?" (The Noble Quran, 27:54) "Would ye really approach men in your lusts rather than women? Nay, ye are a people (grossly) ignorant!" (The Noble Quran, 27:55) "If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for God is Oft-returning, Most Merciful." (The Noble Quran, 4:16)

Q: How can Islam be a peaceful religion when Quran openly says nasty things about Jews and advocates killing them
Here are Quran and Hadith quotes: 5:60 Then say: "Should I inform you [People of the Book] of those, who will have even worse recompense from Allah than the transgressors? They are those whom Allah has cursed; who have been under His wrath; some of whom were turned into apes and swine; who worshipped the devil or idols; those are the people who are in a far worse plight and who have turned farthest away from the Right Way." (Maududi) The Jews are said to be turned into apes and swine for generally disbelieving in Allah’s revelations—in this case warning them for resenting Muhammad and his Quran Sahih Muslim: Book 41, Number 6985: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews. [End of hadith] Quran 5:51 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.

A: How can christianity be a peaceful religion when it actively promotes genocide, slavery, sexism and inequality?

Q: What are the best verses of the Quran that tell about the love and peace of Islam?
Who can give me the most love sharing, peace making verses of the Quran? The more the better!

A: "Ask pardon of your Lord and then turn unto Him (repentant). Lo! my Lord is Merciful, Loving. "(11:90) "Lo! those who believe and do good works, the Beneficent will appoint for them love. "(19:96) "This it is which Allah announceth unto His bondmen who believe and do good works. Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I ask of you no fee therefor, save loving kindness among kinsfolk. And whoso scoreth a good deed We add unto its good for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Responsive. "(42:23) "And of His signs is this: He created for you helpmeets from yourselves that ye might find rest in them, and He ordained between you love and mercy. Lo! herein indeed are portents for folk who reflect." (30:21) "And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them and made hard their hearts. They change words from their context and forget a part of that whereof they were admonished. Thou wilt not cease to discover treachery from all save a few of them. But bear with them and pardon them. Lo! Allah loveth the kindly." (5:13) "...Allah will bring a people whom He loveth and who love Him, humble toward believers, .." (5:54)

Q: Question regarding Islam/Quran...False Religion?
I've been reading a lot about the faith of Islam since it has been in the news a lot lately here in the US. I'm going to go ahead and say it...I am not a Muslim. However, I want to know and understand the faith, so that is why I am proposing these questions. There are so many questions I have about the Quran, but I'll start with this: the Quran teaches that the Bible/Torah is correct and not to dispute it. (Quran 5:68, 29:46). However, this cannot be, since the Quran contradicts the Jewish/Christian sources. Muslims get around this by saying that the Christians and Jews corrupted thier books. This is impossible, as you'll see below. Quote: "God said: 'O Jesus son of Mary, recall My blessings upon you and your mother that I supported you with the Holy Spirit ... and I taught you the Scripture and the wisdom, and the Torah, and the Injeel'" (Quran 5:110) Ok, this presents so many questions...Since Jesus taught the Injeel (Gospels) and the Torah, and Allah supported Jesus in his teachings, then Jesus and the scriptures must have been correct at the time (roughly 30 AD). Therefore, it must follow that up to that point, the Jewish and Christian Scriptures were 100% without flaw/corruption. Thus, the Tahrif, or fabrication by the Jews/Christians, occured between the death of Christ (33ish AD) and the birth of the Quran (7th century). No such evidence exists. There were tons of copies of the Jewish Scriptures scattered in tons of countries at the time of Jesus. For the Jews to have changed all of them, for no apparent reason, makes little sense and cannot be supported at all by any historical evidence. In fact, the dead sea scrolls that were recently discovered were written before Jesus was even on earth...they confirm the validity of the Jewish scriptures. Also, note that most of the changes are not even important theological issues...which further begs the question: why would Jews corrupt their books to change little, insignificant details that have no bearing on the faith? Later on in that passage, it becomes clear that Muhammed had a false view of what Christianity was. In 5:116, God says "O Jesus son of Mary, did you tell the people to take you and your mother as gods instead of God?" Clearly, Muhammed here is referring to the Christian view of the trinity. Except instead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Muhammed thought it was Jesus, Mary, and the Father. There is no historical evidence of there ever being a cult of any sorts that worshiped Mary as a God. (This is why to this day, Muslims have a misunderstanding of the Trinity in Christianity...many believe that Mary is worshiped as a God) There is so much evidence scattered throughout the Quran that strongly suggests that the Quran copied the Bible inaccurately, as if done orally years after hearing about the Bible (Muhammed didn't read/write). For instance, the Quran confused the sister of Moses (Miriam) with Mary, the mother of Jesus (In Hebrew, Miriam and Mary are the same names.). These two people lived 1,500 years apart. Sorry for the long post, and if it came off sounding harsh, I apologize...I don't want this to turn into a bashing of religions. I just want to know what your view on this is. In response to Roshni: With all due respect, I have heard from countless Muslims that Paul lived 300 years after Christ. This allegation alone is enough to make me stop reading the rest of your post. Paul lived within the time of Christ, and he met with Peter and other disciples. Hope you don't take it personally, just check the facts before arguing. Another question that arises: the above quote says that Jesus taught the Gospel (or Injeel, in arabic). How can Jesus teach the Gospel, which was written 50 years or so after His death? Could it be that Muhammed forgot this little detail 600 years later when the Qur'an was written? About the Bible's many translation: this is another baseless argument. They are all translated from Hebrew/Greek...if there's ever an issue, we go back to the original Finally, I see a lot of responses here that point to alleged flaws in Christianity. This is not the issue. The issue is Islam. Let's not get into how Jesus could have become man.

A: Amen! They wont accept this obvious flaw with their religion. Believe me I have tried they will go to great lengths not to accept this truth. Even saying they were corrupted changed back and corrupted again...The Qu'ran clearly teaches these are the true words of Allah that can not be changed..6:115..this does not help even Allah himself saying his word can not be changed..They twist this to mean the Qu'ran can not be changed....even then you say if for four thousand years Allah could not keep is word how can he now keep his word? The answer... he promises to keep his word in the Qu'ran....If his written word is not good ...how can a promise within his written word be good? They refuse the truth. Good Luck and God Bless! ps I fthe word of God was corrupt at the time of Muhamamd according to scripture he could not be a prophet of God how could he know God? Through Gabriel? How could he confirm what Gabriel said was true? No word fo God to depend on? Moses said a prophet of God must agree with the other prophets of God and with the word of God... Muhammad did not follow this rule and could not have folllowed this rule according to Muslims. Edit to Sala If Moses Spoke directly to God even according to the Qu'ran and Muhammad spoke to Gabriel how is the Bible man's interpretation of the word of God and the Qu'ran the word of God? Edit to Roshni...simply because Muhammad refered to a man as a prophet did not make this man a prophet. A couple of rules for those who prophess to be prophets of God, they have to agree with the other prophets of God and the word of God....How can you say Muhamamd was a prophet of God if the word of God and the words of the prophets are coruupt? Roshni...Where are you getting your Ideas about the Bible? the word of God is exatly the same as it was prior to the Qu'ran. We have an intact copy of Isaiah from 250 BC..this is 250 years before Chrsit and 850 years before Muhamamd. Jesus agreed with Isaiah 53.. All of of the Questions regarding Jesus being God and the Son of God which is the Son of Father Son and Holy Spirit..Is answered in the Bible by all of the prophets who foretold of his coming..We hardly have space for me to write the entire Bible for you but it is the same scriptures that were avaialbale to Jesus that he did agree with and the same ones avaialable to Muhamamd that he claimed ot agree with then denied the trinity and deity of Chrsit as if he didnt know what was in the Bible. Isaiah 53 explains that the Messiah the one who was born of a virgin the one clled God with...would be a savior for his people and atone for sin...Jesus agreed with this scripture. If Jesus quotes Isaiah 53 and says he must fufill it then why is Muhamamd teraching Chrsit did nto aotne for sin? Isaiah said he would 800 years before Chrsit then Chrsit agreed... Why then 600 years after chrsit was crucified Muhamamd comes saying he is a prophet of God and that Chrsit did nto atoine for sin? Were all of God's prophets including Jesus liars and only Muhammad true...Or are all the prophets before Muhamamd correct and Muhamamd was not a prophet of God? If all of the prophets were wrong and corrupt whay didnt Muhammad say so? whay doid he teach that he was veriffying the word that was before him and then teach different? Could it be he did not understand the word fo God? This is obvious. Roshni you asked why God came as a man? We can see from the true word of God and the fiorst scriptures God gave to man Moses. Adam was warned by God not to eat of a tree known as the knowledge of good and evil...this tree represents God's rihgteous law,,,God told Adam in the day he ate of it he would surely die? It represents mans fall from the glory of God....the true God not the Allah of Islam but the real God si total righteousness absolutely perfect...when man failed to be perfect it meant death to man...Sin equals death and eternal seperation from a rihgteous God...God does not overlook sin he never did and he never will...God could not simply ignore man's sin...God knew man could not be perfect before he created him...It was not God's plan ot join man in his sin but to bring man to God's righteouness...This paln was to come to the world as amn because it was man who sinned...to overcome temptation and to remain perfect...Your Qu'ran agrees that Chrsit alone was wihtout sin...It is as the true word of God says because only a perfect man could pay the penalty of sin for man....Jesus overcame mans temtations and remained perfect for a good reason He is God who came to the world to overcome sin and death for all of those who accept his atonement..through this atonement man is brought to God's righteouness,....Now by faith we say we are made new...we have not literally died and been born again but that we have we have by faith. Roshni dont you understand that if Jesus was not God there is not salvation because God si rightoeus and perfect eh does not pretend we are perfect or that sin is good no sinnners inherit God's heave none...If we are not made new we perish in our sin and are eternally seperated form a rihgteous God....he made a way for you and this way is Jesus he is the only way without Jesus we are all sinners and we are not going to be joined to aperfect God but we will die in our sins ...Sin equals death but eternal life is throrugh Jesus Chrsit our lord.

Q: to muslims. from this verse in the Quran, who is Allah willed to show Him Islam?
from this verse, no one will believe unless with a premission from Allah. but who are those that allah will accept them in Islam? Quran ch6 [111] And even if We had sent down unto them angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together all things before their very eyes, they would not have believed, unless Allâh willed, but most of them behave ignorantly.

A: what kind of nonsense is this?

Q: is the Islam against the state of Israel but why did Quran mention Israel and Moses?
is the Quran against judaism? why? when judaism and islam are similars.. they follow rites and holidays very similar.. and believe in One God and many muslims look jewish..

A: Yes, it has been mentioned that the Jews would one day return to the land where they originated, because God is All-Knowing, He knows things even before they happen, and He knows the Jews better than the Jews themselves because they are His creation. He knows that they are the most arrogant people in this world. That's why as punishment, they were driven out and scattered all over the planet. But He also knew that they will all come together one day that's why He mentioned it, but that does not mean that it's okay. As Muslims, we were also instructed to fight and defend ourselves, our property, our families, our rights from our enemies - with our hands, our mouths, and the least, our hearts. If you were in the shoes of the Palestinians, would you allow your land to be taken when you have rightfully and legally acquired it? If someone oppresses you, will you just allow it? And say love thy enemy? Please give me a break. If you are honest to yourself, you will do as the Palestinians do.

Q: Why does Islam's Quran give rise to so many violent interpretations?
Every religious text must be interpreted by a humans. If God exists and there is an afterlife, only then can anyone be sure if he wrote any of the books and what his meaning was in the book. Every religion has violent followers but not every religion has people who do violence from an interpretative belief that their religion requires them to do violence. Today only Islam has example of people murdering as a direct consequence of a violent interrpretation of the Quran. We are all familiar with terrorist claims of authority to murder from various citations in the Quran but it you can also see the clear linkage by noting how much violence muslims do while yelling praises to their God (Alluah Akbar!!! booom).

A: Because they like blowing up and pi$$ing up the world for the rest of us normal people... GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY AND SORT OUT YOUR PROBLEMS THERE!

Q: What are some good basic books on Islam (in addition to the Quran)??
I would like to learn more about Islam, and was wondering what books (in English) everyone here can recommend.

A: Here are some good books on Islam. Read them, and if you really do not find them useful, write to me and I shall refund you their cost. 1. Muhammad - By Martin Lings 2 Introduction to Islam By Dr. Hamidullah 3. Towards understanding Islam By Maududi 4 Road to Mecca By Muhammad Asad 5 Islam is rising in the west By M.Haleem The last one is available in Pakistan. If you care to send your mailing address, I can forward it to you. May Allah help and guide you. Javed Kaleem

Q: How can you say Islam is a peaceful religion when the Quran tells its readers....?
Things like.... You can do business with a non-muslim, but if they do not convert while doing business with you, kill them. Sounds real peaceful to me. I don't claim to be of a peaceful faith. But everyone is screaming that Islam is such a peaceful religion. No it's not. If you knew anything, Jesus condemned the stoning of an adultric woman when he sai, Let those who are without sin cast the first stone.

A: You cannot reason with the tribal culture mindset of Islam. They are an all for one and one for all mentality that does want to understand our western rational and reasonable thought process. When the crusades ended, we moved on and progressed. Islam stayed the same. We will have to beat them down with a big stick for them to get the picture. Too bad our Marxist leader does not understand that.

Q: Is This Teaching of Quran (The Holy Book Of Islam) describes the qualities of One and true God is True?
Say:He is God,the One and Only,God the Eternal,Absolute,He begetteth not,nor is He Begotten,And there is none like unto Him. Please give me your informative thoughts Thank you!

A: Just think for yourself : Does this sound like words written by a human?

Q: Who told you, that you have to defend Islam and the Prophet SAW or the Quran?
Are you trying to tell me and the rest of the human race that we need you instead of Allah SWT to defend what he made?

A: Allah(S.W.T).. Gives me & everyone here hand,legs,brain,heart & etc.. what do you think it is used for..?

Q: Could the open interpretation of the Quran be the inherent flaw of Islam?
I'm culturally Catholic but I happen to sympathize with the Islamist cause in that they preserve the self-conscious/awareness (of the three major religions) in the strictest sense. It's just that, along with every major religous text, Islam establishes itself (evident from history) on it's malleability of the original text (even though the original text happens to be misinterpreted itself; only Muhammad would know the true meanings behind his OWN transcriptions). ...interpretation;but more so and meaning more with Islam ...

A: Interpretation is always the problem with any faith