RE: Time to embrace Islam!
December 10, 2019 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2019 at 4:04 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(December 10, 2019 at 3:53 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: You are reading translations of the Qur'an people. The literary challenge concerns the original text and unless you learn Arabic there is absolutely no way - nor any right - for you to make judgments.
Orientalist (non Muslim) literature is a good starting point to have an informed opinion about the Qur'an literary content.
Let's pick a random quote : Fitzgerald Arbuthnot - eminent orientalist - says "...and though several attempts have been made to produce a work equal to it as far elegant writing is concerned, none has succeeded". Put that against random guy who a translation of thhe Koran on his shelf and read about it a couple of times then decided it was poorly worded. Gosh
That's me out, then. I have no desire to learn Arabic. As for my rights, I judge the Quran to be no better (and no worse) than any other holy book. It's really not for you to determine what rights I do or do not have.
And for what it's worth, I strongly suspect that the 'You can't understand the Quran unless you read it in Arabic' argument is just so much rubbish, a convenient way for Muslims to get the rest of us to accept that the Quran really doesn't mean what it says. If the argument were valid, then Christians would be required to read the NT in Koine Greek and Aramaic, and the OT in Hebrew.
It's not on, mate. You're not fooling anyone.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson