Essay: The Quran and Issues with Sura 17

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The Quran explains

‘If ye did well, ye did well for yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against yourselves. So when the second of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power.’(Al Isrâ’ Surah 17)

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Essay: King Solomon

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The biblical King Solomon, known for his wisdom, wealth and writings became ruler of consolidated Israel in approximately 967 B.C.E. His kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the north to Egypt in the south (Myers,2006). His crowning achievement was the building of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the biblical books of Kings I and Chronicles II.

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Essay: Historical Fact on Religious Pluralism

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In addition to recognizing that these prophets were inspired by the same God, it also refers to many stories of these prophets as parables of various virtues and the stories of their people as representative of various sins and very frequently examples of disobedience. The following verse describes the story of Mary(mother of Jesus), and although there might be differences in biblical and Koranic accounts they are very similar and the Koran treats her with the same reverence and respect as the Christians accord her.

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Essay: Koran Discussing Relations between Men and Women

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When the Koran discusses relations between men and women there seems to be an edge given to men. ‘Men are the protectors and maintainers of women Because God had given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women Are obedient and guard in (the husband’s) absence what God would have them guard.’(Sura Al-Nisaa Verse no 34).

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Essay: Treatment of prophets in Koran

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One of the key factors to understand and know in regard to this topic is that the Koran recognizes both these religions as part of a line of religions of which the final one was Islam[1]. This means that Muslims are asked to recognize the prophets of Judaism and Christianity as messengers of God and to respect them as such. This important stricture has been repeated many times in the Koran. For example;

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Essay: Analysis of the Sura 17 in Quran

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This Sura is complex and beautiful in many ways and a major source of guidance for Muslims then (at the time in which the Sura was written) and now.

Firstly, as this paper mentions earlier, the Sura deals with many practical aspects of life. The Sura basically exhorts its followers to be generous kind and intelligent in their charity. It is trying to encourage a nature which is sympathetic and sensitive to the plight of those around him/her, but seeks practically to alleviate their condition. It asks its follower’s.

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Essay: Monotheism in Religion

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The relevance of these verses of our topic is that because the concept of monotheism is so key to the Koran any kind of religious pluralism would only be acceptable to the Koran if the other religion being considered would stress thus equally on monotheism. Presumably as the previous part of the essay indicates to us that Koran accepts that Islam is the last in a line of religions of which Judaism and Christianity are part it would appear that the Koran would recognize monotheism as being an important part of these religions too. However this is where the difference emerges. Despite all of this the Koran identifies key differences between the three religions. As far as Christianity is concerned the Koran interprets trinity as a variation on the concept of monotheism and thereby making this religion unacceptable. The Koran says in reference to this.

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