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Subject : C212 Asian Literature
Reporter : LUCILLE GACUTAN ARAMBURO
Topic : The Literature of Arabia

The Quran (Koran)
*literally meaning the recitation
*the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from Allah.
*SURAS, quranic chapters
*AYAHS, quranic versesThe Quran (Koran)
*regarded by Muslim as the most important miracle of Muhammad, a proof of his prophethood,
the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with the messages revealed to Adam
and ended with Muhammad.
*regarded by Muslim as the only revealed book that has been protected by God from distortion
or corruption.
*a book of guidance, historical events, and emphasizes the moral significance of an event.

Significance of Koran:
* Muslims believe the Quran to be the book of divine guidance revealed from God to
Muhammad through the angel Gabriel and view the Quran as Gods final revelation to humanity.
* Muslims believe the Quran has solutions to all the problems of humanity irrespective of how
complex they may be and in what age they occur.

Quotes in the Koran:
* this books is not to be doubted. It is guide to the righteous who trust what has been revealed
to you.
-The Koran testifies of itself which proves nothing, the Bible are testified to by Old
Testament prophets, John the Baptist, and the twelve Apostles.
* They shall dwell in gardens, fruits to eat. Wedded to chaste spouses, they shall abide therein
forever.
- This Muslim concept of heaven is clearly manmade.

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Manmade concept of heaven
1. Imaginable to Arab males of 7
th
Century Arabia, garden fruits, wine and sex with many
women
2. Allah is not mentioned in the Muslim heaven
3. No stimulating benefits in the Muslim heaven such as when one give service to God,
serve others, only the satisfaction of selfish sensual desires.
* Have faith in my revelations which confirm your scriptures.
-the Koran does not confirm the Bible, but contradicts it on almost every page and on
every doctrine, such as Salvation, God, Christ, Heaven
* Woe to those that write the scriptures with their own hands and then declare, this is from
Allah.
-Koran is manmade, differs everywhere from the Bible in that:1) The Bible contains
prophesies that have come true 2) Christ is honored and glorified in every book of the
Bible
* Whoever is an enemy of Gabriel, (who by Allahs grace revealed to you the Koran), an enemy
of Allah .
-Michael stands for Israel, but Koran opposes Israel; Gabriels message in the Bible is
Christ Jesus, the Son of the Highest, the Son of God
* Women are your field: go, then, into your fields whence you please.
-Women are here compared to an impersonal field of dirt to be used for a mans own
benefit. The Bible gives much greater honour to wives: giving honour unto the wife, as
unto the weaker vessel, heirs together of the grace of life.
* Fight of the cause of Allah.
-These passage in the Koran portrays Allah declaring as evil-doer those who refused
to fight. This motivates Muslims to fight if they wish to please Allah.
* The shall be no compulsion in religion.
-This is contradicted by Sura 8:39: Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and
Allahs religion shall reign supreme.
*Convince non-Muslim that Islam is a peaceful religion
-This is contradicted by: True Muslims fight for Allah
* To give alms in private is better and will atone for some of your sins.
-This teaches the error that man can buy his way into heaven. Does a poor man go to
hell, while a rich man buys his way to heaven?
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* As for those needy men who, being wholly pre-occupied with fighting for the cause of Allah,
cannot travel the land in quest of trading venture, whatever alms you give are known to Allah.
-Here the Koran teaches that it is right to sponsor terrorism by paying those who fight
for Allah.

Quran is NOT:
* divinely ordained, those who do not speak Arabic would understand the Quran if it were
recited to them.
*eternal, it is manmade.

Quran arranged into topics:
* TERROR commanded by the Koran. We shall put terror in the hearts of the unbelievers,
their habitation is the fire.
-This permits Muslims to commit terror
* FIGHTING commanded in the Koran. Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it.
-This motivates Muslims to fight if they wish to please Allah. This portrays Allah as
evil-doers those who refuse to fight.
*DEATH to those leaving Islam. whoever of you recants and dies an unbeliever, shall be the
tenants of the Fire, wherein they shall abide forever
-Keeps Muslims trapped in Islam for fear of hell, fear of death is why few Muslim leaves
Islam, death to those who leave Islam
*CHRIST greater than Mohammed in Koran. Christ raised to life, sinless, did miracles,
Mohammed did not
-Christ Jesus gave evident signs/miracles, but Mohammed could not. Hence Jesus is
greater than Mohammed.
*ALLAHS nature. Allah we believe in you, forgive us our sins and keep us from the torment
of the Fire. Allah is supreme plotter-schemer
-This shows that no Muslim is sure of escaping hell and going to heaven. Allah offers no
salvation. This permits Muslims to plot & scheme treachery because they are just
following Allahs example.
*ALLAHS nature. Allah we believe in you, forgive us our sins and keep us from the torment
of the Fire. Allah is supreme plotter-schemer
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-This shows that no Muslim is sure of escaping hell and going to heaven. Allah offers no
salvation. This permits Muslims to plot & scheme treachery because they are just
following Allahs example.
*ALLAHS nature. Allah we believe in you, forgive us our sins and keep us from the torment
of the Fire. Allah is supreme plotter-schemer
-This shows that no Muslim is sure of escaping hell and going to heaven. Allah offers no
salvation. This permits Muslims to plot & scheme treachery because they are just
following Allahs example.
*Muslim practices. As for the man or woman who is guilty of theft, cut off their hands to
punish them for their crimes. Our God and your God is one
-This is absolutely FALSE. Allah and the God of the Bible have very different natures
and personalities. Allah is the MOON god in the 6
th
Century Arabia. Muslim do not
believe in the Bible.

Culture:
* patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share.
*peoples culture includes beliefs, rules of behavior, language, rituals, art, technology, style of
dress, ways of producing and cooking food, political and economic systems.

Islamic Culture:
* describes the practices of Islamic peoples.
*Arab, the early form of Islamic Culture
*Islam, the religion of Islamic peoples.

Characteristics of Islamic Culture:
* Strict monotheism, believe in divine guidance that came from Prophet Muhammad
*Egalitarian, tolerant & fraternal, all people are equal. Believe on the worth and value of all
human beings and all creation.
* dignifying and moralistic, places great emphasis on the dignity of human beings and their
morality, emphasize truthfulness, honesty, modesty, self confidence, self-reliance and
cleanliness, against extravagance, show off, extremism.
* Dynamic, progressive, world affirming and not world-denying or ascetic, emphasizes struggle,
change, social justice, removal of oppression and evil.
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Islam:
* originally referred to manliness or heroism or bravery in battle. It meant defiance of death,
heroism, to die in battle.
*slowly developed to mean submission to Allahs will, the name of religion of Mohammed
*A Muslim is a follower of the Islam religion, and follows the teachings of Koran.

Importance of Islam:
1. Islam and leaders vowed to destroy Israel. Islam believes that God gave the promised
land to the Arabs rather than to the Jews.
2. Islam wishes to take over the world. History shows that Muslim then persecute, torture
and murder Christians, Jews and all who resist Islam. All people under Muslim law lose
all personal freedom.
3. Terrorism is their method to gain control. Constant suicide bombing of civilians
traveling in Israel , Sept. 11 WTC attacks.
4. Ayatollah Khomeini has ordered Muslim women to have 16 children each, so they can
conquer the world by becoming majority in all countries.
5. Their influence will increase due to their oil control of most of the worlds oil reserves.

Goal of Islam:
1. The ultimate goal of Islam is to conquer the world and rule it by Islamic law.
2. They allow conversion to Islam by persuasion, by force, or by murdering opponents.
Topmost part is Jihad-Holy War

Life of Mohammed: praise one
1. Born in Mecca.
2. His parents died when he was young, at age six, he lived with his grandparents, then to a
rich uncle, then to a poor uncle.
3. In his childhood he began to experience spirit visitations. His mother, Aminah, often
claimed that she was visited by evil spirits or jinn. This occult association was inherited
by her son.

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4. Early Muslim tradition records, that when Mohammed was about to receive a revelation
from Allah, he would often fall on the ground, his body would jerk uncontrollably, his
eyes would roll backward, and he would perspire profusely. These effects are very
similar to an epileptic fit or to demon possession. Never did a Bible prophet of God give
a revelation in such a trancelike violent manner.
5. Most of Mohammeds early pagan religious upbringing was transferred into Islam and
did not come from new revelation from Allah as Islam claims.
6. Mohammed is regarded as the perfect example for all Muslims to follow, such as
Mohammed murdered his enemies, stole whatever he wanted, took many wives/slave-
girls as he wanted , so can Muslims.
7. Mohammeds greatest weakness was women, he had 16 wives and 6 concubines. In his
50s Mohammed wanted to marry his friends Abu-Bakars 6-year-old daughter. When
Abu-Bakar resisted the idea, Mohammed claimed it was the will of Allah, so he got his
way and married the 6-year old girl. In the West this behavior is pedophilia and child
abuse, one of the most despised crimes.
8. Mohammed marry his adopted sons wife, his son being happily married, protested.
Mohammed claimed that it was Allahs will so son & his wife had to divorce for
Mohammed to marry his sons wife.
9. Mohammed went with a beautiful slave girl, Maria the Coptic.
10. He has full license to marry or have sex with any woman - as a one-night-stand.
11. Mohammed allowed temporary marriage. A Muslim man may marry temporarily a
Western woman. This will enable him to bring his own wife/s and children from
overseas. Muslim are allowed to lie to their wives, they can easily tell any woman that
they are not married. The Western woman who married a Muslim man, unaware of his
wives overseas. The Muslim man then arranges with the immigration to bring his wives
and children from overseas into the Western country.
12. When he is in the western country, he may divorce his western wife or just keep her,
make her live separately so he can collect large weekly payments from social security of
his Western wife, as well as family allowance for a total of 20 children. The Muslim man
can live comfortably on western government handout without having to go to work. He
can assure himself of place in paradise for contributing to holy war against the West and
in spreading Islam. It is attractive to men to have four (4) or more wives, but the
downside is that often the wives have terrible fights with each other, and family life
becomes a nightmare.



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MUSLIMS beliefs:
1. Belief in Allah to be the only God. He is known in the Quran as being unknowable,
impersonal, distant, unloving, not holy, unpredictable, the author of both good and evil,
not a moral being, but of absolute power.
2. Angels
3. Quran is Gods message and the Hadith are authoritative.
4. Main prophet: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed
5. Predestination: Everything that happens, both good and evil is predestinated by Allahs
will. They see Allah as the author of evil.
6. Day of Judgment, good deeds are weighed against bad deeds to determine entry into
heaven. All first go to hell. Nobody, no even Mohammed, is sure of going to heaven.

Religious duties of Islam:
1. Reciting the creed of Islam
2. Prescribed prayers five (5) times a day
3. Observing the month of fasting each day, called Ramadan
4. Giving money to the poor. This has created a class of professional beggars and has
discouraged the provision of care for the needy.
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca, Mohammed's birthplace.
6. Involvement in Holy War, against other religion. Muslims view Christian as blasphemers
for proclaiming Christ as the Son of God.

Values compared:

Christian Values: Jesus Christ
1. Christian believe that Christ Jesus has
power to raised people from the dead:
Lazarus, Jairuz daughter, including
you and me.
2. Healed all sickness: blind, paralyzed,
dumb, maimed, lame, withered hand,
hunchback, replaced a severed ear,
and all that touch him were made
whole.
Islam Values: Mohammed

could not raise any dead person,
Could heal any sickness
was a sinner, murderer, womanizer,
and pedophile.
His teachings are repetitive, hate
filled, many threats of hell, fanciful
(turning people to apes), violent,
inciting to war, contradictory,
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3. Had power over nature: stilled storms
and waves, multiplied loaves and 2
fishes to feed 5,000, walked on the
water, cast our demons out insane,
was sinless.
4. Gave superior teachings
5. Won people by love, truth, miracles
6. Preach peace and love your enemies
7. Commanded Christians to love one
another
12. Never took other mens wives for
himself, never killed or robed anyone
13. Elevated, honoured and defended
women
14. Forbade violence, has personal
relationship with Christians, changing
them to be loving, kind, peaceful
people.


fatalistic, anti-Christ and
discriminating against women
Won people by the sword, violence,
threats and terror
Preached fighting's as obligatory,
making war with unbelievers
Command Muslims to fight
Christians, Jews: take neither Jew nor
Christian for your friend
Took off his adopted sons wife, his
friends 6-year old daughter, slave-girl
and other mens wife as his wives.
Ordered his men to kill thousands of
men, steal their possessions, and take
their wives, daughters and slave girls.
Commanded violence, whoever
fights for the cause of Allah, we shall
richly reward him, true believer fight
for the cause of Allah
Has no relationship with Muslims. No
Muslims knows Mohammed or Allah
personally.



References:
1. Answers by Keith piper
2. Islams contribution to World Civilization by Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, gainpeace.com
3. Islam vs. Christianity by Dr. Jobe Martin, www.biblicaldiscipleship.org