Every Muslim know at least few chapters of Quran in memory as it’s a must to recite Quran in daily prayers. Millions Muslims memorised the whole Quran .
Belief,
true belief, can come only from understanding, and memorization
does not in itself constitute understanding, nor is a text’s capability to be memorized, whether by one person or 1.3 billion,
proof of anything other than the fact that it can be memorized.
“No other world religion makes this claim [that truth comes in only one language] about itself or its holy texts. While the Bible is distributed pretty much as is by various Christian groups, for example, it is rare to find a Qur’an that does not include voluminous and highly subjective footnoted commentary deemed necessary to explain away the straightforward interpretation of politically-incorrect passages.
“An additional problem for the apologists is that they want to have it both ways. On the one hand they declare that (for some strange reason) Allah’s perfect religion and perfect book cannot be understood by most of humanity without a battery of intercessors and interpreters. Then they turn around and blame the reality of Islamic terrorism on this same ‘necessary’ chain of intermediaries by claiming that the Osama bin Ladens of the world have simply gotten bad clerical advice, causing them to ‘misunderstand’ the true meaning of the Religion of Peace (in the most catastrophic and tragic way imaginable).
“Of course, another irony here is that, as a Saudi, the Qur’an-toting Osama bin Laden is a native Arabic speaker – as are most of the leaders and foot soldiers in his al-Qaeda brotherhood of devout Muslims. In fact, many critics of Islam are Arabic speakers as well.
“At this point there is only one avenue of escape open to the beleaguered apologist – the weak claim that the Qur’an can be understood only in Classical Arabic, an obscure Quraish dialect which has not been commonly used in over a thousand years and is known only by a few hundred people alive today (generally Wahabbi scholars, who are – ironically enough – accused of taking the Qur’an ‘literally’).
“Although it is hardly plausible that the differences between classical and modern Arabic are such that peace and tolerance can be confused with terrorism, even if this were true it merely begs the question all the more. Why would such a ‘perfect book’ be virtually impossible for the rest of us to learn – and susceptible to such horrible ‘misinterpretation’ on an on-going basis?
“Really, it isn’t hard to see through this childish game, particularly since the rules are applied only to detractors and not to advocates. Apologists never claim that Arabic is a barrier to understanding Islam when it comes to lauding the religion, no matter how less knowledgeable those offering praise are than the critics.
“Obviously, the real reason for this illogical myth is that, for the first time, the information age is making the full history and texts of the Islamic religion available to a broader audience, and it is highly embarrassing to both Muslim scholars and their faithful flock. Pretending that different meanings exist in Arabic is a way of finding solace and saving face.”
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