Koran Curious - A Guide for Infidels and Believers by C.J. Werleman
Authors: C.J. Werleman
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submits the following instructions to ensure the survival of the Muslim community there:
1. The Community should work diligently and with utmost zeal to propagate its ideology, so as to recruit as many people as possible.
2. Work hard to prove to non-Muslims their respective religion is wrong
3. The Community should tend assistance to its weakest i.e. orphans and homeless
4. The Community must be ready and willing to suppress and defeat any external enemy who come armed with a different ideology
5. The Community should eradicate evil vices such as gambling, alcohol, and unscrupulous business practices.
VERSES 1 - 20
These introductory verses proclaim the Koran to be the Book of Guidance. Further, it stipulates the articles of faith: belief in Allah, prophethood, and Life-after-death. Muhammad also groups mankind into three categories: Believers, disbelievers, and hypocrites. Specific verses include:
[2:2] This scripture is infallible; a beacon for the righteous;
[2:6] As for those who disbelieve, it is the same for them; whether you warn them, or not warn them, they cannot believe.
[2:7] GOD seals their minds and their hearing, and their eyes are veiled. They have incurred severe retribution.
VERSES 21 – 29
These nine verses concern themselves with submission; the submission to Allah, and for those who submit, they will be rewarded in Paradise.
[2:21] O people, worship only your Lord - the One who created you and those before you - that you may be saved.
[2:24] If you cannot do this - and you can never do this - then beware of the Hellfire, whose fuel is people and rocks; it awaits the disbelievers.
VERSES 30 – 39
Muhammad revises the biblical story of Adam’s fall from grace; of his life in Eden; and of his succumbing to Satan. The prophet narrates the Genesis mythology for the purpose of demonstrating bad stuff happens when Muslims stray from God.
[2:35] We said, “O Adam, live with your wife in Paradise, and eat there from generously, as you please, but do not approach this tree, lest you sin.”
VERSES 40 - 120
Muhammad addresses the Jews (“Children of Israel”) of Medina throughout the following eighty verses. He is highly critical of the fact he believes they’ve deviated from the original scriptures i.e. the commandments delivered to them by their prophet Moses. He criticizes them for worshipping the Golden Calf and uses this to illustrate their turning away from God.
Interestingly, he references Israel’s covenant with God, and believes it is the Muslim’s duty to honor it:
[2:40] O Children of Israel, remember My favor, which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your part of the covenant, that I fulfill My part of the covenant, and reverence Me.
[2:41] You shall believe in what I have revealed herein, confirming what you have; do not be the first to reject it. Do not trade away My revelations for a cheap price, and observe Me.
[2:63] We made a covenant with you, as we raised Mount Sinai above you: “You shall uphold what we have given you strongly, and remember its contents, that you may be saved.”
[2:64] But you turned away thereafter, and if it were not for GOD’s grace towards you and His mercy, you would have been doomed.
[2:65] You have known about those among you who desecrated the Sabbath. We said to them, “Be you as despicable as apes.”
The historical context of the above verse refers to the establishment of the Muslim community in Medina. As we know, Muhammad saw himself as a kind of reformer of both Judaism and Christianity. He saw himself as a then modern day Moses, but with the specific objective of bringing the Arabs to God. But the Jews never accepted him as anything other than a quasi cult leader. Now, in the above verses, was he calling all Jews “apes”? No, he wasn’t. He was specifically referring to the Jewish clan of Medina, who had joined forces with the Meccans to annihilate him in the Siege
1. The Community should work diligently and with utmost zeal to propagate its ideology, so as to recruit as many people as possible.
2. Work hard to prove to non-Muslims their respective religion is wrong
3. The Community should tend assistance to its weakest i.e. orphans and homeless
4. The Community must be ready and willing to suppress and defeat any external enemy who come armed with a different ideology
5. The Community should eradicate evil vices such as gambling, alcohol, and unscrupulous business practices.
VERSES 1 - 20
These introductory verses proclaim the Koran to be the Book of Guidance. Further, it stipulates the articles of faith: belief in Allah, prophethood, and Life-after-death. Muhammad also groups mankind into three categories: Believers, disbelievers, and hypocrites. Specific verses include:
[2:2] This scripture is infallible; a beacon for the righteous;
[2:6] As for those who disbelieve, it is the same for them; whether you warn them, or not warn them, they cannot believe.
[2:7] GOD seals their minds and their hearing, and their eyes are veiled. They have incurred severe retribution.
VERSES 21 – 29
These nine verses concern themselves with submission; the submission to Allah, and for those who submit, they will be rewarded in Paradise.
[2:21] O people, worship only your Lord - the One who created you and those before you - that you may be saved.
[2:24] If you cannot do this - and you can never do this - then beware of the Hellfire, whose fuel is people and rocks; it awaits the disbelievers.
VERSES 30 – 39
Muhammad revises the biblical story of Adam’s fall from grace; of his life in Eden; and of his succumbing to Satan. The prophet narrates the Genesis mythology for the purpose of demonstrating bad stuff happens when Muslims stray from God.
[2:35] We said, “O Adam, live with your wife in Paradise, and eat there from generously, as you please, but do not approach this tree, lest you sin.”
VERSES 40 - 120
Muhammad addresses the Jews (“Children of Israel”) of Medina throughout the following eighty verses. He is highly critical of the fact he believes they’ve deviated from the original scriptures i.e. the commandments delivered to them by their prophet Moses. He criticizes them for worshipping the Golden Calf and uses this to illustrate their turning away from God.
Interestingly, he references Israel’s covenant with God, and believes it is the Muslim’s duty to honor it:
[2:40] O Children of Israel, remember My favor, which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your part of the covenant, that I fulfill My part of the covenant, and reverence Me.
[2:41] You shall believe in what I have revealed herein, confirming what you have; do not be the first to reject it. Do not trade away My revelations for a cheap price, and observe Me.
[2:63] We made a covenant with you, as we raised Mount Sinai above you: “You shall uphold what we have given you strongly, and remember its contents, that you may be saved.”
[2:64] But you turned away thereafter, and if it were not for GOD’s grace towards you and His mercy, you would have been doomed.
[2:65] You have known about those among you who desecrated the Sabbath. We said to them, “Be you as despicable as apes.”
The historical context of the above verse refers to the establishment of the Muslim community in Medina. As we know, Muhammad saw himself as a kind of reformer of both Judaism and Christianity. He saw himself as a then modern day Moses, but with the specific objective of bringing the Arabs to God. But the Jews never accepted him as anything other than a quasi cult leader. Now, in the above verses, was he calling all Jews “apes”? No, he wasn’t. He was specifically referring to the Jewish clan of Medina, who had joined forces with the Meccans to annihilate him in the Siege
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