You i do believe that if a person say I believe in the teaching of Allah through Muhammed and they follow the Qur'an, you are an muslim. ( praying also)
So the teaching in the Qur'an is for those who can ve called Muslims, but as you are aware of i see, is that the Jewish and Christian teachings are also seen as true teaching from God. Atleast that is how i understand it now. Maybe in time my understanding will change a little.
But the teaching in Qur'an it self and the different rules only apply to muslims, not to Christian or Jewish
umm a thought just hit me when i writing this answer.....
Could it be that Torah and bible is the old teaching and Qur'an is the new teaching ment for all Muslims, Christians and Jews
i must study more....
I think that view is likely mostly, if not entirely, compatible with the statements made inside the Qur'an, but the Qur'an says some things which take issue to both Jews and Christians.
Mainly, the Qur'an claims that Allah is responsible for the creation of the Jewish way and the Christian way, but did not authorize or officially tell the Jews to follow all the traditions that they believe in and hold to or the Christians.
So the Qur'an's Allah takes credit for literally everything in existence, good or bad, but seems to make a distinction between what is "officially authorized as a commandment or law from God" and what is not really such (even though it takes credit for even the handiwork and inventions of human beings, whether good or evil, or leading to their doom or not). This view is actually not too different from views presented in the Bible itself, where the Biblical God claims that "I put the lies into the mouths of your prophets" and other things, like who is good or bad, kills or doesn't, and who, etc.
The Qur'an claims that the Jews and the Christians were both given a correct and good message, law, and method, one that is generally believed to be identical or very close at least to that of the Muslim way found in the Qur'an, but that the Jews twisted and corrupted the message and distorted it through generations of scribal tom-foolery and manipulation (as it seems to state in the Bible as well in Jeremiah 9:9). The Qur'an says that the Christians are also very close to the Muslims in their religion, but that there are many of them (or most now) who exaggerate by stating that Jesus is God or God's Begotten Son and that Mary is the Mother of God and things like that. The Qur'an says that all these religious groups and religions are acceptable so long as they are basically monotheistic, good, and worship God alone and do not exaggerate or say these things which are considered blasphemous or false. It claims the Jewish traditions were made up by the Jewish people and were not things that they were told by God that they had to do, and that Jesus was sent to correct them regarding this but they attempted to kill him, and that the Christians thereafter made exaggerations that he was God and divine and all that which is a terrible blasphemy in the view of the Qur'an.
The Qur'an seems to suggest that a person who is a good Jew or a good Christian is automatically a Muslim or following Islam if they worship God alone and do good (but very few even seem to worship in the Ancient fashion that was more common and popular in the past, which is now mostly only practiced by Muslims), but if they slander the prophets (as the Bible seems full of things which can be considered very slanderous stories about the Prophets which the Qur'an seems to deny were ever real or true and omits entirely, while calling the Jews fabricators and the books somewhat fabrications) or make exaggerations (like the Christians and their Trinity), then they are not doing good but are harming themselves and others and their future state of being (since it is suggested that they will be be penalized for these sorts of misdeeds).
So the Qur'an, as you will read it, seems to give a message that Allah has throughout history given all humans the correct teaching and message for them and their cultures which resembled Islam in the Qur'an and the Qur'anic teaching supposedly.
These were each corrupted, and the people were eventually destroyed.
The Jews and the Christians were also given the correct message, which they each distorted and corrupted.
The Qur'an came to correct all these people and provide the message one last time in a way that will make it available until the Judgment Day.
The Qur'an also predicts that some of the Muslims will be diverted by fabrications and convincing discourses and stories which will confuse and lead a portion of them away from the Qur'an and its message, and that this is Allah's will, since Allah is doing all this manipulating and sorting out who ends up where and what.
None of this is left to Chance, unless Chance is another word for God's Determination/Decision.
So that the girl and Islam came into your life, is according to the Qur'an, God's test (like a chemical test which brings out or makes manifest results, not a test to see, but a test which generates results or makes manifest one's true colors), and no one has actual control on what ends up being their mind's decision or conclusion, and God might just as easily turn a person from Islam (which it claims would be to the immediate and/or eventual detriment of the person).
The Qur'an suggests that when the message of the Qur'an reaches a Jew or a Christian, and they reject it, it may well be that they were tested, and it may well be that it was demonstrated that they are somehow against the Qur'an and its message, but it also may be that they are permitted to continue their practices and succeed through them, one can not know for certain what their true fate will be, even though the Qur'an heavily suggests that they will most likely be destroyed repeatedly in hell forever and that only evil people are made to reject the Qur'an and its message.
As you read through it though, see what message and ideas appear to come out and pop out more strongly to you. The Qur'an is a very unique book and experience with the way it is written, and it almost seems to speak to the person reading it, and gives the feeling or impression to some that God is actually talking to the person. Some people even open it up randomly anywhere and it seems to answer their questions almost magically.