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>>18865602
Move on with the Muslims

Unironically the Quran.

Is the entire history of Western philosophy just cope? How long will they think that truth can be pilpuled too and discovered through their own mind alone?

The entire body of the Muslim Scholars of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah.

>>17720458
You romantics make me sick. You guys can’t understand pure, direct, personal guidance without drama and spectacles. The Quran appeals to the inner nature of all mankind and does not need to have Milton-esque poetics or hymns to fulfill that purpose as it is from Allah. It is superior because it is pure, unadulterated guidance that is clear and has guided billions of human beings in their day-to-day lives for more than a thousand years. The Bible, however, needed to mingle with Greek philosophy before it could be understood. The Quran needed no such help.

>>17601970
The thing is, is that the Koran is spiritually and philosophically inaccessible for the secular, non-Muslim reader. It places the reader in shackles, not giving them any room for wild interpretations or free thought concerning its narratives and messages. Whereas with the Bible, you have the entire western/European civilization on its shoulders, and you have free reign to interpret the text as you wish, with psychologists even studying it for behavioral science in recent decades. The Bible is the quintessential novel for anybody who wants to understand western thought and morality. Whereas with the Koran, you lose a lot of its narratives by simply translating it. And even if you understood the Arabic, you’d have to browse through multiple layers of exegesises or tafsir in Arabic to understand the Quran on a basic level.

They are just incomparable. Yeah, as a literary novel it doesn’t resonate, but that’s not its reason for being. It constantly tells the reader that it was sent only as a guidance specifically to people who believe, not to people who disbelieve. Once you agree with it on its most important concepts, you are able to further enjoy and appreciate many of its various natures and concepts. If you don’t, then you will be lost and bored as you go through it. That’s why the Koran says that Allah casts a veil on those who are in contact with the Quran and vehemently disbelieve in Him and His messenger.

The thing is, is that the Koran is spiritually and philosophically inaccessible for the secular, non-Muslim reader. It places the reader in shackles, not giving them any room for wild interpretations or free thought concerning its narratives and messages. Whereas with the Bible, you have the entire western/European civilization on its shoulders, and you have free reign to interpret the text as you wish, with psychologists even studying it for behavioral science in recent decades. The Bible is the quintessential novel for anybody who wants to understand western thought and morality. Whereas with the Koran, you lose a lot of its narratives by simply translating it. And even if you understood the Arabic, you’d have to browse through multiple layers of exegesises or tafsir in Arabic to understand the Quran on a basic level.

They are just incomparable. Yeah, as a literary novel it doesn’t resonate, but that’s not its reason for being. It constantly tells the reader that it was sent only as a guidance specifically to people who believe, not to people who disbelieve. Once you agree with it on its most important concepts, you are able to further enjoy and appreciate many of its various natures and concepts. If you don’t, then you will be lost and bored as you go through it. That’s why the Koran says that Allah casts a veil on those who are in contact with the Quran and vehemently disbelieve in Him and His messenger.