Are they true stories or bed time fairy tales stories?
2007-09-07 17:03:13 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's all nonsense
2007-09-07 17:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by Jack 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
At the beginning, let me say that I am not a Muslim, nor am I inclined to become one. However, since you asked about the Qur'an, let me say that two things stand out about this interesting book:
a) Jews, Christians and Muslims all claim a revealed text as the basis for their religion, but the Qur'an is the only book which actually reads like a revealed text: its literary form is an exhortation to believers, as if God were speaking directly to them. the Bible, on the other hand, is a melange of different literary forms: history (both semi-mythological and more standard historical narrative), prophecy, poetry, wisdom literature. So much of it has one scratching one's head, asking "In what way is this supposed to be a revelation?"
b) You asked about whether the Qur'an is composed of ""true stories" or "bed time fairy tales." The fact is that the Qur'an has relatively few stories at all. Most of the book is declarations about the necessity of belief, the consequences of non-belief and the basic guidelines of how believers should live. There are some narratives, but they tend to be less miraculous (and track the Old Testament to a large degree)
All in all, a person who reads the Old and New Testament of the Bible and the Qur'an will be hard put to find one book substantially more or less objectionable than the other, from a literary point of view. As for theology - well, that's up to you.
2007-09-08 00:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by Yupon Bachi-Bazouk 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
ANY book That Has The Author Springing From Earth Into Heaven On His Horse And Returning To This Fair Planet is On My Short List Of ....
" DO NOT READ"..
2007-09-08 02:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by conundrum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Quran was written by men who were passing down the oral dictates of one other man. Again....this book was penned by man not God. Many passages of the Bible and the Quran are beautiful and positive but these books were all written by human beings who were capable of making major mistakes in their religious fervor.....Peace and Blessings!
2007-09-08 00:12:32 · answer #4 · answered by Native Spirit 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe it to be a work of fiction...designed to deceive and distract people from the love and mercy of the one true God. It rejects the divine nature of Jesus, Son of God and Savior. It declares the Holy Bible to be corrupt and attempts to place itself above it. It declares unholy war on both Jews and Christians. It encourages hatred, violence, intolerance, deception and deceit.
You asked what I think. I answered.
2007-09-08 02:02:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of them, at least, are definitely rewritten stories from the Bible, with an Arab slant. If Muhammed's followers had read the Bible first, Islam would probably have died a quick death.
2007-09-08 00:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by babbie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Quran is another collection of mythology but do not feel bad so is the bible.
2007-09-08 00:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like the Bible, it's a bunch of bullcrap written a long time ago, before modern science, by suspicious, supersticious people.
2007-09-08 00:13:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Quran is the scythe of Satan, and the Muslims are wheat standing in the field.
2007-09-08 00:13:21 · answer #9 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's a book of fiction that should be treated as such.
It's also a book that incites violence and as such deserves no respect.
2007-09-08 00:07:30 · answer #10 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's no more or less valid than any other book man has written to try to explain the inexplicable (Bible, Torah etc...).
2007-09-08 00:08:34 · answer #11 · answered by redphish 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋