2007-09-14 18:45:22 · 8 answers · asked by Neophyte 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you want to take bits and pieces of the Quran, then yes it is full of contradictions.
HOWEVER, the Quran is meant to be read ALL. When you do that, it will clarify what you thought were contradictions.
For example,
Allah prohibited alcohol in stages. So, in one part of the Quran, it says, "Don't go to prayer when you are drunk" Does this sound like prohibiting alcohol?? NO.
In another part, it says "Alcohol is completely prohibited"
Some, bring the first part of Quran I mentioned above and say "See we can drink, but we cannot be drunk when we go to prayer, so it is ok to drink when all our daily prayers are over."
Thats an example of people who take bits and pieces of Quran.
Does the example show you how Quran is supposed to be read??
2007-09-14 18:57:01 · answer #1 · answered by Ahmed A 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ignorants cannot be convinced no matter what amount of proof is shown to them. Quran is a word of Allah and is being guarded by Him. No question of contradictions. If enemies of Islam try to prove it, then they are wasting their time.
2007-09-15 02:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by feroz k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quran is words of God in his own grand and exalted sentences. There is no chance of contradiction. These days I see many people claiming and showing contradictions but only to the people who do not know Quran. THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION IN QURAN. I CHALLENGE ALL HUMANITY TO PROVE ANY OF THEIR REMARK ABOUT PRESENCE OF CONTRADICTION.
2007-09-15 02:00:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
non-what so ever
if u want to know the truth read it youreslf.
just like the bible and torah are so intelectual and has many reasons, the quran does.
2007-09-15 01:53:41 · answer #4 · answered by My point exactly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Quran says the water goes below the water...obviously now we know it does not go below the water...
2007-09-15 01:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes it does, yet it dismisses them by reason of the principle of 'abrogation'.
NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION?
Perhaps the most obvious example of discrepancy in the Quran is in the matter of compulsion in religion. Note the following forbidding compulsion: “Let there be no compulsion in religion.” “Thy duty is only preaching.” “We have not made thee keeper over [the Unbelievers].” “What! wilt thou compel men to become believers? No soul can believe but by the permission of God.” “Thy duty is to make (The Message) reach them: It is our part to call them to account.” “Obey not the Infidels and Hypocrites—yet abstain from injuring them.” “Summon thou to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and with kindly warning: dispute with them in the kindest manner.” (Sura 2:256; 13:40, Ali; Sura 3:19; 6:106, 107; 10:99, 100; 16:126; 33:44, 47, Rodwell) Surely the foregoing are unequivocal and in harmony with the principles of justice.
But how can we harmonize the foregoing with the following texts commanding the use of force in religion? “Fight for the cause of God against those who fight against you: Kill them wherever ye find them . . . Fight therefore against them until there be no more civil discord, and the only worship be that of God.” “I will cast a dread into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every finger-tip.” “Believers, wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous.” “And when the sacred months are passed, kill those that join other gods with God wherever ye find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay in wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is Gracious.”—Sura 2:186-190, 212, 213; 8:12; 9:5, 124; 47:4, Rodwell.
Indicative of the kind of reasoning used by Muslim commentators in endeavoring to harmonize these texts is that of Râzî’s comment on one of the foregoing: “‘Abstain from injuring them’—that is, leave it to God to punish them, either at your hands or by hell fire.”
2007-09-15 01:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is the word of God that was available to Joseph Smith and Muhammad...What would it matter if there are contradictions if it is not the word of God?
Deut.13: 1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
A prophet of God must be in agreement with the words of the prophets and the known word of God.
1John 2: 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Anyone who claims to be a prophet of God must agree Jesus is the Christ the Son of God who is our savior.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist
Gal. 1: 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
If an angel or a man preach a different gospel he is not of God.
2007-09-15 01:53:53 · answer #7 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just a little one..
No forced conversion turns into kill every unbeliever that won't convert.
2007-09-15 02:10:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋