Category:The Koran

The Qur’ān القرآن al-ķur'ān, literally "the recitation"; also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Qur'an) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind and consider the text in its original Arabic to be the literal word of God,Qur'ān, Chapter 2, Verses 23-24 revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years Living Religions: An Encyclopaedia of the World's Faiths, Mary Pat Fisher, 1997, page 338, I.B. Tauris Publishers, [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/017.qmt.html#017.106 Qur'an, Chapter 17, Verse 106 and view the Qur'an as God's final revelation to humanity. Qur'an, Chapter 33, Verse 40 Watton, Victor, (1993), A student's approach to world religions:Islam, Hodder & Stoughton, pg 1. ISBN 0-340-58795-4

Muslims regard the Qur'ān as the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with those revealed to Adam regarded, in Islam, as the first prophet; and including the Suhuf-i-Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham), Qur'ān Chapter 87, Verses 18-19 the Tawrat (Torah), Qur'ān, Chapter 3, Verse 3 Qur'ān, Chapter 5, Verse 44 the Zabur (Psalms),Qur'ān, Chapter 4, Verse 163 Qur'ān, Chapter 17, Verse 55</ref> and the Injil (Gospel). Qur'ān, Chapter 5, Verse 46 Qur'ān, Chapter 5, Verse 110 Qur'ān, Chapter 57, Verse 27

The aforementioned books are recognized in the Qur'ān, Qur'ān, Chapter 3, Verse 84Quran, Chapter 4, Verse 136 and the Qur'anic text assumes familiarity. "The Qur'an assumes the reader to be familiar with the traditions of the ancestors since the age of the Patriarchs, not necessarily in the version of the "Children of Israel" as described in the Bible but also in the version of the "Children of Ismail" as it was alive orally, though interspersed with polytheist elements, at the time of Muhammad. The term Jahiliya (ignorance) used for the pre-Islamic time does not mean that the Arabs were not familiar with their traditional roots but that their knowledge of ethical and spiritual values had been lost." Exegesis of Bible and Qur'an, H. Krausen. http://www.geocities.com/athens/thebes/8206/hkrausen/exegesis.htm with many events from Jewish and Christian scriptures, retelling some of these events in distinctive ways, and referring obliquely to others. It rarely offers detailed accounts of historical events; the Qur'an's emphasis is typically on the moral significance of an event, rather than its narrative sequence. Details to historical events are contained within the Hadith of Muhammad and the narrations of Muhammad's Companions (Sahabah).

The Qur'anic text itself proclaims a divine protection of its message: Surely We have revealed the Reminder and We will most surely be its guardian. Qur'ān, Chapter 15, Verse 9 Qur'ān Chapter 5, Verse 46