Qur’an is being read every time in every where Muslims live. Most of Muslims spend some of time to read Qur’an as a worship daily. Qur’an is being read in Salat without deductions. To see that you should live in an Islamic country. Of course there are many charming books but non of them can contest with Qur’an. Qur’an has been so charming from it was revealed and by the time Qur’an do not lose it. Many books may be popular for a period of time for some peoples. Qur’an ia always being read by Muslims every times.
This is an argument from popularity and it fails for two reasons. First, taste is highly subjective. Personally, I prefer to follow the rhetorical standard set by the Greeks and the Romans, because it works extremely well. In my opinion, the Qu’ran fails that standard. I can see why someone would say a beautiful book is inspired by God. However, if we grant this argument, we must also grant that if a book does not seem to be beautiful, it can’t have been inspired by God. To me, both positions sound like non-sequiturs.
Secondly, if the argument from popularity has any merit, then surely you’ll understand that the Bible is the true word of God and not the Qu’ran? Christians outnumber Muslims by hundreds of millions of people. So be careful if you wish to claim popularity as a standard for the divinity of books.
I do not claim that Muslims behave more moral than non-Muslims. Christians have moral laws and yet Hindus have moral laws. Unfortunately Muslims do not behave moraly exactly. Do Christians absolutely behave moraly according disciplines of Christianity? The point is that Qur’an teach moral.
Then I have misunderstood you. I thought you wanted the claim the Qu’ran was written by God because it teaches morality. The point I made was this: If Muslims do not behave more morally than non-Muslims, then either the Qu’ran is not the word of God or all other holy books are also the word of God - which contradicts the Qu’rans supposed uniqueness. This problem becomes even more complicated when Muslims don’t behave more morally than secular humanists. Does that mean God’s morality is on the same level as godless morality?
I also made the case that the Islamic world is now less moral than the partly Christian, partly secular West. For one thing, when was the last time you heard a secular humanist kill someone for his non-belief? Yet this is routine in the land of Mecca and Medina. Again, I’m not pointing to extremists here. Apostasy is punished almost everywhere in the Islamic world. It’s immoral if people can’t leave Islam to become a non-believer or a Christian.
You critics with circumstances of nowadays. Once Muslims had advanced in sciences more than others. Qur’an is not a scientific book. Qur’an is word of someone(God) who creates all laws which we call sciences. Qur’an talk about universe from stars to atoms very correctly. Qur’an answer the question that where everythings come from and where it go. Qur’an answer the all questions which the mind cannot solve by itself. Of course previous scriptures did a bit.
I agree that the Qu’ran is not a scientific book, yet it does make testable predictions that can be verified or falsified. I already mentioned embryology, geology and human origins. Science has solved questions on which the Qu’ran was just flatout wrong.
It is interesting that you mentioned atoms. The existence of atoms was already argued by Lucretius in the poem De Rerum Natura (on the nature of things), about 650 years before the Qu’ran. Lucretius took inspiration from Epicurus, Leucippus and Democritus. The last two philosophers lived a millenium before the Qu’ran. You can’t claim the Qu’ran is divine revelation when the atoms were being discussed a thousand years before the Qu’ran appeared.
Of course previous scriptures did a bit.
I want to emphasize this. The reason I quote the Greeks and Romans is precisely because their work was not regarded as scripture or as a religious text. And also because they predate Islam by centuries.
88- And you see the mountains, thinking them rigid, while they will pass as the passing of clouds. [It is] the work of Allah, who perfected all things. Indeed, He is Acquainted with that which you do. An-Naml (27)
That can be explained with Plate tectonics.
The context of chapter 27 makes clear that the author wrote about what happens on judgement day. Whoever wrote it certainly did not think his words reflected the actual geological situation at that point. And mountains are not the same as tectonic plates.
Qur’an say mountains are like pegs because mountains fix the crust of the earth from earthquakes. Pegs fix something to not move.
God create and act through some laws and peole call that actions of God as physical laws or Plate Tectonic Collisison!
Wait, you just wrote that the Qu’ran says continental drift is real. Now you write that the crust of the earth is fixed by mountains? Here are the facts:
Earthquakes and mountains are both the result of plate tectonics. You can google “earthquakes map” and you will find out that most earthquakes happen along fault lines. And no mountain can stop that. The largest mountains, the Himalaya mountain range, is the product of the Indian plate colliding with the eurasian plate. India is being dragged below Asia, which pushes ocean floor sediments wedged between the plates skyhigh. That’s also why you can find seashells on mountain tops.
Mountains are not fixed and they do not prevent earthquakes.
You are welcome here but you will receive push back when you want to praise a book that catholics do not believe in.
