A Brief Study of the Koran

What is the Koran?

We believe that the Koran is light, guidance, the cure, a blessing, a letter from the Creator of the universe to his servants. The Koran is a book that can help us become real human beings and rise to divinity. It tells us all the truths about a meaningful man and a meaningful universe. It is a tongue that will never become silent, for man's serious questions on life will never end. This is not a book made up by limited human brains that may only account for one aspect and fail to consider the others over time. A book that says: 

و العصر ان الانسان لفي خسر الا الذين امنوا و عملوا الصالحات و تواصوا بالحق و تواصوا بالصبر

"By the time! Surely man is in the way of loss, save those who believe, and do righteous deeds, and counsel each other unto the truth, and counsel each other to be steadfast." (The Afternoon, 103)

and will never fall into decline or silence. Never! 

Any complete research on the humanities must begin with a study of the existing scientific and philosophical ideas; then, one can proceed to the concerned Koranic verse, and see how clearly the Koran has clarified the issue. "Profound feeling" and "logical reasoning," both vessels of recognition and cognition, will be saturated and satisfied.

Unfortunately, some readers of the Koran merely open the book and start reading a surah from beginning to end and even proceed to the next one without taking the concept inside each verse into careful consideration.

This kind of reading is unacceptable as a study of the Koran. In other words, Koran is not something whose words you merely see and utter. Each verse of the Koran is the ultimate sentence that cannot be fully understood unless you master everything about it previously.

The Koran is where God's signs can truly be seen; though people could not possibly see God when the holy Prophet was sent to them, God's words in the Koran made it possible for them to intuitively discover God through their innate God-seeking potentials. God's words in the Koran interpret so clearly how societies fall and decline that any wise person can see the order and harmony of the universe in them, and feel totally certain that this turning machine must have an operator. This holy book creates two books – one outside man's body, the other inside his existence – that are impeccable. It shows man and the universe "as they are" and "as they should be," and pictures the universe "as it can be used.

The truth the Koran reveals on "man as he should be" are the highest, utmost possible. Subsequently, the Koran presents the facts about "man as he is" and "the universe as it is" with absolutely perfect precision.

The Koran, the most fundamental reference in Islam, provides all the Islamic rules and decrees on moral ethics, ideology, law, individual and social duties that have also been pointed out in many of the Holy Prophet and the Imams' hadith.

"Islam" in the Koran means two things:

1-A general, divine religion, revealed to all prophets to guide mankind, presented to people by Abraham after Noah. Such a general context cannot be ignored or omitted, and it was not limited to a specific society or era, either. In several cases, the Koran refers to the Holy Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H.) as a follower of this religion.

2-Islam as a specific religion, the context of Abraham's religion plus some decrees and responsibilities which have not been deviated during time; in other religions, deviations and changes have taken place.

We will now discuss "The Three Religions as Seen in the Koran." From the three holy books – the Koran, the Bible and the Torah – we can prove that Abraham presented the general context of a divine religion which all followers of the three religions mentioned are to follow. 

Since Muslims believe that the Koran, which is free from any manipulation or modification, presents that general divine religion, scholars and researchers on all three religions can extract the points they have in common – which forms, in fact, Abraham's religion – and follow them. Also, those Christian and Jewish researchers and scholars who regard Mohammad as an honest human being, have to agree with Islamic scholars on this issue and find the general basics of Abraham's religion from the Koran.

Likewise, Mr. Hans Kung, the respectable German scholar, said while attending the seminar on "Prosperity and Happiness as Seen by Muslim and German Thinkers" held in Tehran: 

"Mohammad was a prophet, and God granted him revelations. Ultimately, however, meanings and concepts were revealed to him, so he was free to choose the words to express them by. The words themselves were not revealed to him."

 

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