How do I start an Islam essay about The Koran when the topic is sooo boring?

Question

this essay is for my 9 Global class and it doesn't interst me, and it has to be 3 pages long, I don't know what to do

Answer 1

Your starting point will depend on what message you want to give out to the readers. Do you want to present it as " a good holy book" or " an evil book". If it is the first one then look at its history. How it was written? Until it was written how people communicated the messages among them. Why people memorized the entire book, and still do? Who decided to write it down? and so on.
If latter, then you could focus on some stuff in Koran, say related to women covering etc. or cihad (holy war)
Read up on it and decide which direction to go.
Or to make it more interesting, pick some messages from the book and try to find different interpretations of it. But this is more difficult to write. Good luck!

Answer 2

Hmm... you need to write an essay about the Koran? Let me try to give you some points.

First of all, you need to be neutral on the matter, whether you're a believer in the Koran or not. Don't make assumptions of the Koran from what you heard or what you read about it.

Ok, to start, you can talk about what "Koran" means. In Arabic, it literally means "the recitation" or "the one that is recited". This is comparable to the Bible meaning "the book". Please note that in the original form, the Koran is something that early Muslims memorize and recite, not read from a book. That is why Muslims call it "the one that is recited" and not "the book".

Next, the Koran was given to the Prophet Muhammad piece-by-piece, not a whole bulk at once. When a verse or a chapter was revealed to the Prophet, it was most likely God's comment on what has happened at the time. For example, a verse on respecting parents would be revealed when someone had been disrespectful to his parents, and a verse on treating prisoners well would be revealed before a battle was fought. When the Prophet received these verses, he would immediately recite it to whoever was near him, and everyone would memorize the verse.

The Koran is also a whole book of peotry, where each verse would have the highest form of Arabic literature. In fact, many Arab poets would take the Koranic literature as their model. There is also a verse in the Koran saying something to this effect: "Even if they gather all the wise-men and every poet, and produce a literature so well done, it will not compare to the poetic nature of the Koran."

About a few months before the Prophet passed away, the angel Gabriel gave the last piece of the Koran from God to the Prophet, which read: "This day I have perfected your religion for you, and completed My favour unto you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion."

After the Prophet died, there were many Hafiz's (those who memorized the whole Koran). The Caliph Abu Bakr thought that it was time to compile the Koran into a book. So he sent a committee to gather the Word of God from people, and to confirm what they have compiled from others (even though the members of the committee themselves are Hafiz's).

In the time of the second Caliph, Caliph Umar, many people were reciting the Koran in their own Arabic dialects, and Umar decreed that the Koran must be read as it was revealed to the Prophet (the Quraish dialect, the dialect that the Prophet spoke) and cannot be otherwise. He asked everyone to hand in the copy of the Koran which was not written in Quraishi Arabic, and burnt them. When Muslim scholars were asked at the time about Umar's action to burn the non-standard Koran, all of them answered: "I would have done it the same way."

During the reign of the third Caliph, Caliph Uthman, the Muslim Empire was the largest empire the world had seen, and there was a need to produce the Koran more. Therefore Uthman ordered that the first Koran, the one assembled by Abu Bakr, was to be made into a few copies, and one was sent to Egypt, one to Persia, and one to Damascus. The Governors of these territories where then ordered to make copies of these copies to be distributed to the Muslim people.

As a result of standardization of the early Muslims, each and every copy of the Koran in the world today, from Malaysia to Morocco, and from America to Argentina, is the same and exact copy of the first copy compiled by Abu Bakr, 1400 years ago. Every non-Arab reads the Koran in Arabic, whether he is a Chinese, a White, an Indian, an African, a Latino, or even an Eskimo. And true to its original nature, Muslims try hard to memorize at least a few parts of the Koran, if not all. It is estimated today by the scholar Yusuf Estes that there are 9 million Hafiz's in the world --- 9 million people who have learned the 114 chapters of the Koran by heart.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

“You should pray, you should fast. You should ask God for guidance, you should ask God for help. . . . Continue to recite the [Koran]. Purify your heart and clean it from all earthly matters.” So read the hand-written instructions to the hijackers who carried out their suicide missions by flying into the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. Their task was perceived as a religious one. The instructions continued: “The time of fun and waste has gone. The time of judgment has arrived. . . . You will be entering paradise. You will be entering the happiest life, everlasting life.”

These instructions demonstrate how—for the writer and for the hijackers themselves—the suicide mission was seen as a religious one. The first four pages of the hijackers’ instructions recalled incidents in Islamic history, particularly incidents of Muhammad triumphing against adversaries. On the fifth and last page, guidance was given about what to do on entering the plane. The hijacker was asked to pray, “Oh Allah, open all doors for me. Oh Allah who answers prayers and answers those who ask you, I am asking for your help. Allah, I trust in you. Allah, I lay myself in your hands. . . . There is no God but Allah, I being a sinner. We are of Allah and to Allah we return.”

Answer 4

well I don't know how to help other than perhaps you might consider being a little controversial? This article is about the Koran being reported to the German police ..... http://viking-observer.blogspot.com/2006/03/koran-reported-to-german-police.html

Answer 5

write about the koran and muslims today.. then you can write about current events which are much more interesting then the history of the koran

Answer 6

You can start with an introduction saying what is Islam and how it has evolved. You can mention it has like 1.4 or is it 1.6 billion followers thats what like 27% of the worlds population. Use wiki as a resource.

Answer 7

"This is a work of fiction, about a boring bunch of crap, on which a false relgion is based..."

Answer 8

wo r u series about that??
anyway just try to ask a "source" about any information