Muslims frequently claim that the Qur'an requires them to fight, but only in self defense. However, that is simply and demonstrably not true, as hostilities are also explicitly commanded against those who commit only belief-based 'offenses'.
Verse 2:217 provides us with a convenient list of...
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The first 86 surahs of the Qur'an were created/revealed during Islam's first 12 years in Mecca as Mohamed tried, largely in vain, to convince the Pagans that he was receiving revelations from the 'one true god' via the angel Jabreel (Gabriel). Not once in those surahs did Allah so much as hint...
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Could you please tell me what this means - 5:46, "We made Jesus, son of Mary, follow in the footsteps (of the earlier Prophets) and confirm what existed in the Torah in his time. We gave him the Gospel containing guidance and light, as a confirmation of the Torah and instruction and...
This is a summary of the Qur'an's treatment of Jews, also known as "Children of Israel", "those entrusted with the Torah", and (along with Christians) "People of the Book''. It will be presented in compilation order rather than chronologically with context provided as necessary. I will pick away...
@loverofhumanity made the following statements in post #2 of the thread 'Yusuf Ali or Pickthall':
- The Quran never teaches violence or harm but to do good not evil. So when I come across a translation not in that spirit I cross check it with other translations and inevitably discover something...
I've frequently been told that the bible and the Qur'an are basically the same; specifically that one's as bad as the other. Okay, let's compare. I know much more about the Qur'an than the bible, so there will be an understood "as far as I know" attached to all my claims about it and I will...
How much smoke does there have to be before people start looking for a fire? These are all Islamist attacks, so it should be safe to say that the perpetrators believe they're carrying out God's will. That is not to say automatically that they're interpreting God's instructions correctly, but is...
I would like some direction from the Muslims on this forum. I did a deep dive into the Qur'an on the issue of veiling, and came up with more questions than answers.
Verse 33:59 tells Muslim women to "draw over themselves their outer garments" so that they will be "known and not abused". This is...
Iran executes second man for alleged crime during nationwide protests
From the article, "Rahnavard had been convicted on the charge of "moharebeh," a Farsi word meaning "waging war against God." That charge has been levied against others in the decades since the revolution and carries the...
Verse 33:26 - "Pickthall: And He brought those of the People of the Scripture who supported them down from their strongholds, and cast panic into their hearts. Some ye slew, and ye made captive some."
What follows is 100% my opinion. I can't support it with documentation because history is...
Several posters in RF have repeated the oft-stated claim that the Qur'an only prescribes fighting in self defense. However, nobody has offered a plausible explanation for the creation of the Islamic Empire. So, yet again I ask what self defense imperative caused a Muslim army to be (for example)...
The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran and resulting demonstrations have people yet again debating what the Qur'an says about veiling. I had a closer look at two verses on the subject, and although a less ambiguous directive from Allah would have saved a lot of uncertainty, it looks to me as though...
Islamic regimes don't just make up laws. They follow that which either the Qur'an commands or Mohamed did and said. Verse 5:33 is the culprit in this case:
"Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption (fasad in Arabic)...
As you can see by the link, this story was carried by the Daily Mail in the U.K., but nowhere else that I can find other than in Christian blogs and publications. I fail to see how this is not worthy of mention elsewhere in the collective West. Persecution of religious and/or ethnic minorities...
Without doing a deep dive (or any depth of dive for that matter), can some please explain just when god created the sun according to Genesis? If he created light on the first day (and separated day from night), then how does it happen that he also seemed to do the very same thing on day three...
Anyone who has read my posts knows I believe that Mohamed authored the Qur'an on an ad hoc basis. Looking at his first attempts to convert the Jews of Yathrib can only be described as clumsy. His major blunder was to confuse the past with the present. Alternating between 2nd-person and...
Allah's failure to communicate wasn't complete. Afterall, the Qur'an contains 6,236 verses, so it stands to reason that some topics are adequately covered. For example, many hundreds of verses are dedicated to reiterating that unbelief is evil and those who practice it (i.e.: non-Muslims) are...
The following verses make it clear that Allah knows everything you think and do:
40:19 - "God knows the disloyalty of the eyes and what the hearts conceal".
3:29 - "Whether you hide what is in your hearts or manifest it, Allah knows it".
3:119 - "Allah knows well all the secrets of the heart"...