spectr17
09-15-2001, 05:54 PM
Wallace posted this on another forum to help understand the Koran.
Other websites to read up on the Koran are
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dbates/koran.htm
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/koran.html
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Since I doubt many of you have the Koran at home I thought you might want to see a little of the Moslem religion. I believe you would find it slightly different than the Bible in talking about "God’s Love". Here are only a few excerpts. It would be good if we all could read their "Bible".
I am not trying to down their religion, but I think in order to understand them we should know where they are coming from. Ask yourself: Are they really such compassionate people?--Wallace
5: 52. O ye who believe ! take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of each other. And whoso among you takes them for friends is indeed one of them. Verily ALLAH guides not the unjust people.
4: 90. They wish that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you may become alike. Take not, therefore, friends from among them, until they emigrate in the way of ALLAH. And if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and take no friend nor helper from among them;
2: 95. Say `If the abode of the Hereafter with ALLAH is solely for you to the exclusion of all other people, then wish for death if you are truthful.'
2: 99. `Whoever is an enemy to ALLAH, and HIS angels, and HIS Messengers, and Gabriel, and Michael, then surely, ALLAH is an enemy to such disbelievers.'
2:121. And the Jews will never be pleased with thee, nor the Christians, unless thou followest their creed. Say `Surely ALLAH's guidance alone is the true guidance,' And if thou follow their evil desires after the knowledge has come to thee, thou shalt have from ALLAH, no friend nor helper.
3: 13. Say to those who disbelieve, `You shall be overcome and be gathered unto Hell; and an evil place of rest it is.'
3:152. And WE shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved because they associate partners with ALLAH, for which HE has sent down no authority. Their abode is the Fire; and evil is the habitation of the wrongdoers.
4: 19. There is no acceptance of repentance for those who continue to do evil until, when death faces one of them, he says, I do indeed repent now; nor for those who die disbelievers. It is these for whom WE have prepared a painful punishment.
4: 77. Those who believe fight in the cause of ALLAH, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of the Evil One. Fight ye therefore, against the friends of Satan; surely Satan's strategy is weak.
6:158. Or lest you should say, `Had the Book been sent down to us, we should surely have been better guided than they.' There has now come to you a clear evidence from your Lord and a guidance and a mercy. Who, then, is more unjust than he who rejects the Signs of ALLAH and turns away from them ? WE will requite those who turns away from OUR Signs with an evil punishment because of their turning away.
8: 15. That is your punishment, taste it then; and remember that for disbelievers there is the punishment of the Fire.
8: 16. O ye who believe ! when you meet those who disbelieve, advancing in force, turn not your backs to them.
9: 30. And the Jews say, `Ezra is the son of ALLAH,' and the Christians say, `the Messiah is the son of ALLAH;' that is what they say with their mouths. They only imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before them. ALLAH's curse be on them ! How they are turned away.
Other websites to read up on the Koran are
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/koran.htm
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dbates/koran.htm
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/koran.html
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Since I doubt many of you have the Koran at home I thought you might want to see a little of the Moslem religion. I believe you would find it slightly different than the Bible in talking about "God’s Love". Here are only a few excerpts. It would be good if we all could read their "Bible".
I am not trying to down their religion, but I think in order to understand them we should know where they are coming from. Ask yourself: Are they really such compassionate people?--Wallace
5: 52. O ye who believe ! take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends of each other. And whoso among you takes them for friends is indeed one of them. Verily ALLAH guides not the unjust people.
4: 90. They wish that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you may become alike. Take not, therefore, friends from among them, until they emigrate in the way of ALLAH. And if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and take no friend nor helper from among them;
2: 95. Say `If the abode of the Hereafter with ALLAH is solely for you to the exclusion of all other people, then wish for death if you are truthful.'
2: 99. `Whoever is an enemy to ALLAH, and HIS angels, and HIS Messengers, and Gabriel, and Michael, then surely, ALLAH is an enemy to such disbelievers.'
2:121. And the Jews will never be pleased with thee, nor the Christians, unless thou followest their creed. Say `Surely ALLAH's guidance alone is the true guidance,' And if thou follow their evil desires after the knowledge has come to thee, thou shalt have from ALLAH, no friend nor helper.
3: 13. Say to those who disbelieve, `You shall be overcome and be gathered unto Hell; and an evil place of rest it is.'
3:152. And WE shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved because they associate partners with ALLAH, for which HE has sent down no authority. Their abode is the Fire; and evil is the habitation of the wrongdoers.
4: 19. There is no acceptance of repentance for those who continue to do evil until, when death faces one of them, he says, I do indeed repent now; nor for those who die disbelievers. It is these for whom WE have prepared a painful punishment.
4: 77. Those who believe fight in the cause of ALLAH, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of the Evil One. Fight ye therefore, against the friends of Satan; surely Satan's strategy is weak.
6:158. Or lest you should say, `Had the Book been sent down to us, we should surely have been better guided than they.' There has now come to you a clear evidence from your Lord and a guidance and a mercy. Who, then, is more unjust than he who rejects the Signs of ALLAH and turns away from them ? WE will requite those who turns away from OUR Signs with an evil punishment because of their turning away.
8: 15. That is your punishment, taste it then; and remember that for disbelievers there is the punishment of the Fire.
8: 16. O ye who believe ! when you meet those who disbelieve, advancing in force, turn not your backs to them.
9: 30. And the Jews say, `Ezra is the son of ALLAH,' and the Christians say, `the Messiah is the son of ALLAH;' that is what they say with their mouths. They only imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before them. ALLAH's curse be on them ! How they are turned away.