Has anybody who criticises Islam actually read the whole Quran?

Question

I mean the whole thing in a decent translation by a Muslim (e.g Yusuf Ali)- not just gone to an anti-islamic site and cut and pasted mistranslations. If so which translation? I cant fathom how anyone cannot read the whole Quran and not be awed but its incredible beauty even in English

Unless you have sat down and read the whole Quran you have not right to say you know or to criticise Islam

P.S If you cut and paste verses you have made my point for me. Thanking you in advance.

Answer 1

some but im not wasting time on it

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I do not believe than many of the criticizers of the Quran have bothered reading it. I understand your frustration.

Instead, they form their opinions on the religion based on a few fundamentalists who have chosen to twist the Quran to serve their own purpose. No religion stands up well when judged only by their more fanatical members. Look at how many different kinds of Christians there are. They cannot all agree to the same things or even get along for that matter. How are the Muslims supposed to be considered any different? Every Muslim is not the same. Every Christian is not the same. Every persons interpretation of the same book is different.

I am agnostic, but I spent several years in the Middle East. I agree that the Muslim religion, like many religions, has many very good aspects. People should broadened their understanding by actually doing a little research on non-biased sites or even picking up a book. There are many similarities between the origins of the Christian, Muslim and Jewish religion. It is sad that everyone leaps on the differences without at least acknowledging that there are many common themes and events.

And to all you "Good Christians" that are attacking the poster for posing a very legitimate question/observation, thank you for proving my point about fanatics.

Answer 3

It is not true period. Sur 9:30 says Christians claim Jesus is the son of allah, This is a lie, a Christian would never make such a claim. Jesus is the only begotten Son of the Father Yahweh the creator of heaven and earth. An unbiased study of Quaran shows that far from being a "miracle" the book is a hoax. Once Quaran is scrutinized with rational thinking, almost every sentence proves to be false. Quaran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities and grammatical errors. Could possibly the author of the Universe be as ignorant as he appears to be in Quaran?

Answer 4

you see no matter what good muslims say you will either get a cracvkpot muslim who perpetuates the sterotype of terrorists or crackpot so called christians who will pull verses to make their point. always remember that only the CREATOR makes muslims in whom HE chooses and btw way there are some mistakes in yusuf ali translations. but you won't get many positive answer to your question b/c all they do is bash muslims on YA especially in this catergory.


see my point was just made. in the end GOD will be the final judge. and the qu'ran was not written by the prphet muhammad it was revealed to him just tlike the gospels were revealed to jesus and the torah revealed to moses both the christians and the jews are people of the book. b/c god sent each book to a specific messenger. so we should be kind to one another. we can debate all we want on which faith is better or who has the true book. they all come from GOD but again man no matter what book in believes in is the one who has changed it's original meanings. i just say believe what you want. the media only shows the slanted version of the extremists just to instill fear and hatred in the masses. if all muslims are bad why is it that the bush family still has close ties to the saudi royal family. it's a/b the money people. those who have it and those who don't.

i don't have to defend islam,b/c bottom you're still going to believe what you want to a/b islaam.

Answer 5

I have sat down and tried to read the whole Qu'ran (in English, the recent OUP translation by M.A. Abdel Haleem, and also the older Penguin translation by N.J. Dawood, sorry, I'm not going to learn Arabic to read it) and I just get incredibly bored and impatient with it. I can read the Bible (or Tanakh or New Testament or whatever you want to call it) in various versions and still find it interesting, but the Qu'ran defeats me. I think that of all the major religious texts I've tried to read, it's one of the most boring and uninspiring ones. Only the Book of Mormon is more obviously the work of one man trying to convince himself that he's a prophet.

Sorry.

Answer 6

No one has to read any "holy" scripture all the way through to know it's bulls**t. The whole premise of an invisible super-being creating the universe is idiotic on its face, and no conclusions drawn from that can be trusted.

What can be trusted, though, is that the crazier followers of *any* religion will eventually commit atrocities "in the name of god" - as if their all-powerful creator needed to be protected from infidels!

Now go out and play in traffic, please. Or if you live in a Muslim country, just go out - sooner or later someone will blow you up.

Answer 7

People can be criticized for what they do as well as what they believe so when a group of people do violent things like abuse women or torture by beheading etc they can and should be criticized. And when they do what they do in the name of their religion then they are responsible for the criticism of their religion because they are showing by their actions what they believe about their religion When thousands scream for bloodshed and carry signs that say behead those who insult Islam then Islam is portrayed by them to be like that. I'm still waiting for the major Islamic teachers to all unite against every terrorist group and activity and to issue Fatwa's against every act of violence especially against women.

Answer 8

I do not need to read the Quran. It is wrong. The Bible I have read. They cannot both be right. Jesus did not say myself and Muhammad are the only two ways into heaven. So yes I can say the Quran is wrong, and false, and misledding milliions into hell, because it is. It does not matter how pretty the words sound when you speak or read it. So much better to mislead others.

Answer 9

Yusuf ali is not trustworthy. There is actually a book called mistakes of yusuf ali.

Answer 10

Isn't this a silly post. It is not fair to observe the behavior of adherents to Islam, but we must read their entire bible, in translation no less, before we are entitled to have an opinion. Aren't you the funny one.

Answer 11

Most likely no they haven't. What most people do is listen to talking points by Bill O'Reilly or Michael Savage and think they are clever or prove their own hate filled point. It is the same way the Bible is misquoted. People have an agenda to prove and instead of taking the time to find out if their point is valid, they'd rather hear a bunch of nonsense filled crap and use it to prove some idea. I've noticed this with just about anything having to do with religion and politics.