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Title: The Qur'an Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali ISBN: 1879402297 Publisher: Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, Informative, Necessary to know WHY!
Comment: After the constant ruckus with terrorist I decided to read the Qur'an for the simple reason that Sun Tzu taught in his Art of War writings...that we should "know our enemy," So I jumped into Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translation of the Qur'an...
I realized after reading other introductory books that it is likely that Islam would not consider any English translation of the Qur'an a true indication of its original meaning. But it is close and the best we mere mortals can do. After reading this version of the Qur'an, it is clear that the whole world is to come under the purview of God or Allah! In Islamic terminology God is simply called Allah.
I also believe that the Qur'an actually charges Muslims to fight against any and all who pervert their religion from within, such as Osama Bin Laden and the terrorist of 9-11. Muslims who believe otherwise have been misdirected and mislead due to ignorance, illiteracy and oppressive leadership.
Yes, the Qur'an teaches not to trust the West but it also condemns without question the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden. As Bernard Lewis says, "there is no precedent or authority in Islam" for 9-11.
I have been fascinated by the similarities in all religions and I am also equally distressed at the conflicts that develop between various sects, denominations and major beliefs systems in the world. They are all basically saying the same thing. It just gets said in different ways and from a slightly different perspective. Then some jerk says, "my way is the only way and all hell breaks loose."
Even though they are all trying to achieve the same thing, "oneness with, mercy from...and communion with God." No matter what a religion calls its Deity, the bottom line is that they are all referring to God. Islam and other religions are no different. Allah is God, Jehovah is God, Jesus is God, the great "I Am" is God and on and on...
In reading this version of the Qur'an as translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. I noticed that you wind up with religious rhetoric similar in speech to almost all other religions. Be good, do no harm, but stand up for your belief, and practice brotherly love, relief and truth in all things.
Do all that you have promised to do, and do not encroach upon another person or their property. The same basic principles exist in them all. Here are ten common founding principles:
1. GOD IS, WAS and always WILL BE
2. God had a hand in creating all things
3. God controls all things to a certain degree and sent messengers to guide and change us for the better.
4. God has rules and requires obedience
5. Human beings are unable to control their worst desires, and like water, will seek the lowest most base activities possible without God's influence
6. God judges all, the good and the bad
7. God will ultimately reward the good and punish the wicked
8. God will forgive a repentant soul, but not a lying hypocrite
9. We should remain faithful, punish deviance, and provide brotherly love, relief and truth to those who follow his teachings and/or repent.
10.To sum this all up in all religions "It is best for mankind to believe in and obey God and his messengers and do not turn away from him." All religions that seek God carry these basic tenants, all of them.
I have not found one that says you cannot have civilization, industry and modernization or that you cannot have healthy and wholesome, movies, parks and skyscrapers, freedoms, liberties and comfort.
They do say...do not become deviant, greedy or corrupt, gluttonous, decadent, murderous, materialistic, hedonistic, or licentious. In short restraint is the better path and liberal excessiveness and progressive physical self-gratification as practiced today in many quarters in the West, with their sinful nature, is evil and wrong...
An interesting and informative read, I highly recommend...
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a Muslim, but certainly an admirer of the Qur'an
Comment: I am, as my title says, not a Muslim. Actually, I am a Wiccan. But I find in the Qur'an, more so than in any other holy script, a call for us to care for ourselves and others equally.
Many believe that the Qur'an is the source of the hatred that some Muslims have for the West. I do not feel this is true. The text calls, not for the (lesser) ... (holy war) on the Western world, as it is currently being practiced by some misguided folks, but to cleanse one's own heart of hatred and impurity first. ...
Every passage I have read calls for love. Love of Allah, and love of your fellow man. How can people turn such a loving book into their (proclaimed) guidebook for hatred? There are things I will never understand. That, perhaps, is first amongst them.
Again I say, I am not a Muslim; I am a Witch. But nonetheless, I think, were the Qur'an practiced as the law of our land, this would be a great nation....
Rating: 3
Summary: The best book in the world?
Comment: If you're considering purchase of this book, you are either 1)a Muslim, 2)someone who wants to understand a perceived enemy, or 3)just curious. Well, here it is, the Qur'an: what Muslims will tell you is the best, truest, most lyrical, most inspiring book in the world. It is, we are told by Muslims and by the Qur'an itself, so good that it is an an absolute miracle, and that no person or spiritual entity [Angel or Jinn (Jinn are spirit beings created from a smokeless flame of fire)] could produce even one chapter that was as good as the Qur'an. There are some problems that non-Muslims will have with this claim. For example, one of the chapters (Surah 72) consists (except for the intro sentence) entirely of a conversation among Jinn, the inclusion of which disproves the Qur'an's claim with its own words. Also, the Qur'an thinks the Christian Trinity is made up of Father, Son and Mary. The Qur'an has a Samaritan help Aaron make his golden calf (while Moses is getting the 10 Commandments) 800 years before Samaria even existed. The Qur'an talks about Jesus, but while he is called the Messiah, the Qur'an strips him of his crucifixion and resurrection, and Mohammed declared on several occasions that believing in Jesus divinity is the greatest possible sin.
I gave it 3 stars because it is what it is, which should account for something, I guess.
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