(May 20, 2013 at 7:06 am)Muslim Scholar Wrote: Prophet Mohamed said
for every verse to be memorized the person will go a higher level in Paradise
While I can get behind the idea of multiple tiers in heaven (not everyone is the same amount of "good" just as not everyone is the same amount of "evil"), it seems odd to tie it to something so arbitrary. It also makes you wonder just how different these levels are. How many verses are there in the Koran? Around 6,236? So there are 6,236 levels in heaven?
Is there a discernible difference between level 5,540 and 5,541? Or 5,540 and 5,718? What level do you end up in if you memorized 2,340 of them but you mispronounced a word in three of them? What if you were a devout and faithful Muslim but never learned to read? Do you get stuck on level 1, while the person who wasn't nearly as devout gets to level 107 because he occasionally memorized a passage in spite of himself?
It makes Islam sound like an MMORPG.
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