(April 21, 2015 at 12:38 pm)Dystopia Wrote: We should never underestimate the power of books. Books are awesome, and full of underlying ideas and messages. Some of the worst people who walked the earth didn't kill anyone with their bare hands, they just gave lectures, speeches and wrote books (+ had a group of people to do the dirty work for them)
Yes, books are extremely powerful. The reason I created this topic was because I was annoyed that people have been saying that by saying ISIS follow the Quran properly we somehow give them credibility and undermine believers who don't support the actions of ISIS. The Tafsir (commentary) often agree with my face-value interpretation of the verse, but believers have tried to wriggle out of this by saying, for example, that you "need to consider the time period that people were writing in". People don't want to acknowledge what the Quran says and want to put their fingers in their ears and make the "la-la" sound.
