Karen Armstrong’s books about different religions, including her highly acclaimed “A History of God,” have made her one of the most prominent authors on religious history. The London-based “On Faith” panelist also is the author of three television documentaries and took part in Bill Moyers’ television series “Genesis.” Since September 11, 2001, she has been a frequent contributor to conferences, panels, newspapers, periodicals and broadcast media on the subject of Islam. Comparative theology is a particular interest of the author, who entered a Roman Catholic convent in 1962 at age 17, but after seven years as a nun left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford University. Her books, which have been translated into 40 languages, also include “Through the Narrow Gate,” “Islam: A Short History,” “Buddha,” a spiritual memoir, “The Spiral Staircase,” and most recently “The Great Transformation.”
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Karen Armstrong
Prominent author on religious history
Karen Armstrong’s books about different religions, including her highly acclaimed “A History of God,” have made her one of the most prominent authors on religious history. The London-based “On Faith” panelist also is the author of three television documentaries and took part in Bill Moyers’ television series “Genesis.”
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This is a fabulous explanation of prayer. It's something I to have struggled with - what to say, how to not "ask" for something because I don't beleive God is dolling out prayer answers. What you've expressed here will help me the next time I pray.
Thank you for all your wonderful insights.
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Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
We don't pray to change god, or god's mind, or god's plans or actions, but to change ourselves. It's not god that causes or "allows" the evil and violence in the world; in a very real way it is me. (Of course I mean it is us.) The message of the prophets is that there is a way to change ourselves so that there will be established on this earth a true society of peace and justice, and we are destined to find that way.
We don't pray to change god, or god's mind, or god's plans or actions, but to change ourselves. It's not god that causes or "allows" the evil and violence in the world; in a very real way it is me. (Of course I mean it is us.) The message of the prophets is that there is a way to change ourselves so that there will be established on this earth a true society of peace and justice, and we are destined to find that way.
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2:228, And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them
2:230, So if a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), He cannot, after that, re-marry her until after she has married another husband and He has divorced her
2:282, and get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.
4:3, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.
4:11-12, Allah (thus) directs you as regards your Children’s (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females:
4:34, Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.
53:27, Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names
66:10, Allah sets forth, for an example to the Unbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut: they were (respectively) under two of our righteous servants, but they were false to their (husbands), and they profited nothing before Allah on their account, but were told: “Enter ye the Fire along with (others) that enter!”
Women rights as per Sahi Hadiths:
It is forbidden for a woman to be seen by any man except her husband when she is made up or well-dressed. (TR. P 430)
3. A woman is not a believer if she undertakes a journey which may last three days or longer, unless she is accompanied by her husband, son, father or brother. (TR. P 431 )
4. A woman must veil herself even in the presence of her husband's father, brother and other male relations. (TR. P 432)
5. She is forbidden to spend any money without the permission of her husband, and it includes giving food to the needy or feast to friends. (TR. P 265)
6. A wife is forbidden to perform extra prayers (NAFAL) or observe fasting (other than RAMADAN) without the permission of her husband. (TR. P 300)
7. If prostration were a legitimate act other than to God, woman should have prostrated to her husband. (TR. P 428)
8. If a man is in a mood to have sexual intercourse woman must come immediately even if she is baking bread at a communal oven. (TR. P 428) 9. The marriage of woman to her man is not substantive. It is precarious. For example if the father of the husband orders his son to divorce his wife, he must do so. (TR. P 440)
11. Majority of women would go to hell. (Muslim P 1431)
12. If a woman refuses to come to bed when invited by her husband, she becomes the target of the curses of angles. Exactly the same happens if she deserts her husband's bed. (Bokhari P 93)
13. The women who are ungrateful to their men, are the denizens of hell; it is an act of ingratitude for a woman to say: "I have never seen any good from you." (Bokhari P 96)
14. A woman in many ways is deprived of the possession of her own body. Even her milk belongs to her husband. (Bokhari P 27)
Below are comemnts by a reader of my article on Islamic mumbo-jumbo. This readers explain about all organized religions:
"I expose the falsehoods of all man made religions. These religions are just for business purpose. Arab religion is a derivative of Hindu religion. In Hindu religion the religious class is asking the masses to worship the stones. Shiv linga and parvati stones are the famous stones. Shiv linga is a male sexual organ and parvati is a female sexual organ. The Arabs have taken the parvati stone to mecca and calling it a holy stone came directly from paradise .How stupid and ignorant are the followers of this religion. The Hindus are spinning around the stone in India seven times clockwise and the stupid followers of Arab religions have just made one change....They made it to anticlockwise....What a great change .This parvati stone is a outstretched vagina, through which head of a baby is delivering out. The followers of Arab religions including the converts are saluting and surrendering their heads to this stone three or five times a day. They are kissing this stone (Parvati vagina and head of baby)during their very holy holy pilgrimage. If you will disclose to them this reality of worshiping the stone, they will desperately reply.. "no we are not worshiping stone, we are worshiping our god through this stone". What an intelligent answer . Stupid followers of a sadist god. He create them and asking them to raise their asses many times a day.
These poor followers are scarred of these gods. He has threatened them if they will not worship him, he will screw them in hereafter life. At other place this god has used another weapon "sex in the paradise",72 virgins for men. But no body ask this god,what about females, what they will get? I think Arab god is gay god, jealous of females .
You are bullying around as the expert in islamic history and by your chief shot you try to soft- sell Islam cleverly hiding actual cruel and intolerant teachings of Koran and islam.
Below I am giving you hundreds of hateful, oppressive and killing verses from the same Koran. All the Islamic terrorists are incited and emboldened by these verses from Koran. What you have to say about these verses below?
Quran’s Teachings:
(Compiled by: Dr. Ali Sina: 2001)
What is the inspiration behind the hate and violence in Islamic terrorism?
The following is the essence of the message of the Quran, the rest are fairy tales and stories by some hypocritical Muslims.
Quran Surah 2: The Cow
1. Don't bother to warn the disbelievers. Allah has blinded them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 6
2. Allah has sickened their hearts. A painful doom is theirs because they lie. 10
3. A fire has been prepared for the disbelievers, whose fuel is men and stones. 24
4. Disbelievers will be burned with fire. 39, 90
5. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 104
6. For unbelievers: ignominy in this world, an awful doom in the next. 114
7. Allah will leave the disbelievers alone for a while, but then he will compel them to the doom of Fire. 126
8. The doom of the disbelievers will not be lightened. 162
9. They will not emerge from the Fire. 167
10. Those who hide the Scripture will have their bellies eaten with fire. Theirs will be a painful doom. 174
11. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire! 175
12. Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kil them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 191
13. War is ordained by Allah. 216
14. Those who die in their disbelief will burn forever in the Fire. 217
15. Disbelievers worship false gods. The will burn forever in the Fire. 257
16. Allah does not guide disbelievers. 264
17. "Give us victory over the disbelieving folk." 286
Quran Surah 3: The Family Of 'Imran
1. Those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, theirs will be a heavy doom. 4
2. Those who disbelieve will be fuel for the Fire. 10
3. Those who disbelieve shall be overcome and gathered unto Hell. 12
4. Those who disbelieve, promise them a painful doom. 21
5. Theirs will be a painful doom. 77
6. All non-Muslims will be rejected by Allah after they die. 85
7. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. And they will have no helpers. 91
8. Disbelievers will have their faces blackened on the last day. They will face an awful doom. 105-6
9. Those who disbelieve will be burnt in the Fire. 116
10. The Fire is prepared for disbelievers. 131
11. We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Their habitation is the Fire 151
12. Theirs will be an awful doom. 176
13. Disbelievers do not harm Allah, but will have a painful doom. 177
14. Disbelievers will have a shamful doom. 178
15. Disbelievers will go to Hell. 196
Quran Surah 4: Women
1. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will be burnt with fire and suffer a painful doom. 14
2. For the disbelievers, We have prepared a painful doom. 18
3. For disbelievers, We prepare a shameful doom. 37
4. Hell is sufficient for their burning. 55
5. Unbelievers will be tormented forever with fire. When their skin is burned off, a fresh skin will be provided. 56
6. Allah will bestow a vast reward on those who fight in religious wars. 74
7. Believers fight for Allah; disbelievers fight for the devil. So fight the minions of the devil. 76
8. Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. 89
9. If the unbelievers do not offer you peace, kill them wherever you find them. Against such you are given clear warrant. 91 ( Offering peace in Islam means surrendering. All 67 out of 68 wars of Muhammad were offensive, not defensive. The one defensive war, 'ditch' was not fought. That is why the Islamic terrorism 'jihad' will continue until the West "offers peace". This was made clear by Bin Laden.)
10. Those who oppose the messenger and become unbelievers will go to hell. 115
11. Those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe and disbelieve again will never be forgiven by Allah. 137
12. For the hypocrites there will be a painful doom. 138
13. Allah will gather hypocrites and disbelievers into hell. 140
14. The hypocrites will be in the lowest part of hell and no one will help them there. 145
15. You must believe everything Allah and his messengers tell you. Those who don't are disbelievers and will face a painful doom. 150-151
16. For the disbelievers, Allah has prepared a painful doom. 161
17. God will guide disbelievers down a road that leads to everlasting hell. 168-169
Quran Surah 5: The Table Spread
1. Those who deny Islam will be losers in the Hereafter. 5
2. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of Hell. 10
3. Those who make war with Allah and his messenger will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. That is how they will be treated in this world, and in the next they will have an awful doom. 33 (Anyone who resist Islam is deemed to be making war with Allah)
4. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. 36
5. Disbelievers will want to come out of the Fire, but will not. Their will be a lasting doom. 37
6. Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, and tooth for tooth. Non-muslims are wrong doers. 45
7. Christians will be burned in the Fire. 72
8. Christians are wrong about the Trinity. For that they will have a painful doom. 73
9. Disbelievers will be owners of hell-fire. 86
Quran Surah 6: The Cattle
1. Many generations have been destroyed by Allah. 6
2. Allah will torment those how deny his revelations. 49
3. Those who disbelieve will be forced to drink boiling water, and will face a painful doom. 70
4. When nonbelievers die, the angels will deliver to them doom and degradation. 93
5. Allah chooses to lead some astray, and he lays ignominy on those who disbelieve. 125
6. Allah will send everyone the Fire, except those he chooses to deliver. 128
Quran Surah 7: The Heights
1. How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them. 4-5
2. Allah has made devils the protecting friends of disbeliveers. 27
3. Disbelievers choose devils as protecting friends and believe they are rightly guided. 30
4. Only believers go to heaven. 32
5. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire. 36
6. Entire nations have entered the Fire. Some get a double torment. 38
7. Disbelievers will be excluded from heaven. Theirs will be a bed of hell. 40-41
8. Those in the Fire will cry out to those in heaven, saying: "Pour water on us." But Allah has forbidden that to disbelievers. 50
9. Those who deny Muhammad's revelation are evil. 177
Quran Surah 8: The Spoils of War
1. Allah will throw fear into the hearts of the disbelievers, and smite their necks and fingers. 12
2. Disbelievers will be tormented in the Fire. 14
3. When you fight with disbelievers, do not retreat. Those who do will go to hell. 15-16
4. Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve. 35
5. Those who disbelieve will be gathered into hell. 36
6. The angels smite the face and backs of disbelievers, saying: "Taste the punishment of burning!" 50
7. The worst beasts in Allah's sight are the disbelievers. 55
8. Exhort the believers to fight. They will win easily, because disbelievers are without intelligence. 65
9. A prophet may not take captives until he has made a slaughter in the land. 67
Surah 9: Repentance
1. Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to those who disbelieve. 3
2. Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. 5
3. Don't let idolaters tend the sanctuaries. Their works are in vain and they will be burned in the Fire. 17
4. Give tiding of a painful doom to Christians and Jews. 34
5. If you refuse to fight, Allah will afflict you with a painful doom. 39
6. Disbelievers go to hell. 49
7. Those who vex the Prophet, for them there is a painful doom. 60
8. Those who oppose Allah and His messenger will burn in the fire of hell. 63
9. Allah promises hypocrites and disbelievers the fire of hell. Allah curses them. They will have a lasting torment. 68
10. Fight the disbelievers and hypocrites. Be harsh with them. They are all going to hell anyway. 73
11. Allah will afflict disbelievers with a painful doom in this world and the Hereafter. 74
12. For disbelievers there will be a painful doom. 90
13. Don't pray for idolaters (not even for your family) after it is clear they are people of hell-fire. 113
14. Fight disbelievers who are near you, and let them see the harshness in you. 123
Quran Surah 10: Jonah
1. Disbelievers will have a boiling drink and a painful doom. 4
2. Those who neglect Allah's revelations will make their home in the Fire. 7-8
3. Allah has destoyed entire generations. 13
4. Those who disbelieved will face a dreadful doom. 70
5. Allah drowned those who disbelieved his revelations. 73
6. Moses asked Allah to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they would not believe until they saw the painful doom. 88
Quran Surah 11: Hud
1. Disbelievers wil1 end up in the Fire. 17
2. Those who oppose Islam and disbelieve in the Hereafter are guilty of the greatest wrong. 18-19
3. Those in the Fire will suffer as long as the heavens and earth endure. 106-7
4. Allah will fill hell with humans and jinn. 119
Quran Surah 13: The Thunder
1. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire 5
2. Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers. 14
3. Those who do not answer Allah's call will go to hell. 18
4. Disbelievers will be tormented in this life, and suffer even more pain in the Hereafter. 33-34
5. The reward for disbelievers is the Fire. 35
Quran Surah 14: Abraham
1. Woe unto the disbelievers. Theirs will be an awful doom. 2
2. Allah sends some people astray. 4
3. Those who are in hell will be forced to drink festering water which they can hardly swallow. They will want to die, but they will not be able to. Theirs is a harsh doom. 16-17
4. Allah sends wrong-doers astray. He does whatever he likes. 27
5. Those in hell will be chained together. Their clothing will be made of pitch and fire will cover their faces. 49-50
Quran Surah 15: The Rock
1. Let the disbelievers enjoy life and let false hope beguile them. They will come to know! 2-3
2. Iblis will lead humans astray. Only perfect Muslims will be safe from him. The rest will go to hell. 39-43
3. Allah's doom is a dolorous doom. 50
Quran Surah 16: The Bee
1. Allah could have led everyone to the truth, but he chose not to. 9
2. Those who don't believe in the Hearafter are proud. 22
3. Disbelievers are evil and will dwell in hell forever. 27-29
4. Disbelievers are liars. 39
5. Allah will add doom to doom for those who disbelieve. 88
6. Those who oppose Islam will face an awful doom. 94
Quran Surah 17: The Children of Israel
1. Allah made hell to be a dungeon for disbelievers. 8
2. Allah has prepared a painful doom for those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 10
3. Allah destroyed entire towns. 16
4. How many generations Allah has destroyed since Noah! 17
5. Allah intends to burn people in hell. 18
6. Allah makes it so that unbelievers cannot understand. 45-46
7. Allah will destroy every town before the Day of Resurrection. 58
8. Allah will send disbelievers astray. Then he'll burn them in hell, increasing the flames from time to time. 97-98
Quran Surah 18: The Cave
1. Allah has prepared a Fire for the disbelievers. When they want a shower, Allah will give them a shower of molten lead to burn their faces. 29
2. Those who are condemned to the Fire know they will have no way to escape. 53
3. The worst wrong is to forget Allah's revelations. Allah covers their hearts and makes them deaf so that they will never believe the truth. 57
4. There is an appointed time in which the doomed will find no escape. 58
5. Allah has destroyed many towns. 59
6. On a certain day, Allah will present hell, in plain view, to the disbelievers. 100
7. Allah will welcome the disbelievers into hell. 102
8. Hell is the reward for disbelievers because they made a jest of Allah's revelations and messengers. 106
Quran Surah 19: Mary
1. Allah will pluck out from every sect those who should burn in hell. 69-70
2. Allah will record what disbelievers say and then prolong their torment. 77-79
3. Allah has sent the devils on the disbelievers to confuse them. 83
4. Allah has destroyed many generations. 98
Quran Surah 20: Ta Ha
1. Those who do not believe Allah's revelations will face doom in the Hereafter. 127
2. Allah has destroyed many generations. 128
Quran Surah 21: The Prophets
1. Allah destroyed entire towns, yet the people still disbelieved. 6
2. The people cried out for mercy, but Allah killed them anyway. 15
3. Disbelievers will not be able to put out the fire on their faces and backs. They will be stupefied and no one will help them. 39-40
4. Allah gave judgment and knowledge to Lot . He was a righteous man. (Genesis 19:7-38) 75
5. Every person alive at the time of the flood was evil. So Allah drowned them all. 77
6. The disbelievers will stare in terror at what Allah has in store for them. 97-99
Surah 22: The Pilgrimage
1. The devil will guide some to the punishment of the Flame. 3-4
2. Those who turn from the way of Allah will face ignominy in this world and burning in the next. 9
3. Whoever thinks that Allah will not give Muhammad victory should go hang himself. 15
4. Disbelievers will wear garments of fire, boiling fluid will be poured on their heads, their bellies and skin will be melted, they will be tormented with iron hooks, and when they try to escape they will be driven back with the taunt: Taste the doom of burning. 19-22
5. Allah will provide the disbelievers with a painful doom. 25
6. How many towns Allah has destroyed! 45
7. Those who disregard Allah's revelations are the owners of the Fire. 51
8. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will have a shameful doom. 57
9. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will burn in the Fire. 72
Quran Surah 23: The Believers
1. Allah told Noah not to bother pleading for the people he was about to drown. 27
2. Those who don't believe in the Hereafter will receive extreme punishment from Allah. 74-77
3. When fire burns their faces, they will be glum. 104
4. Disbelievers will not be successful. 117
Surah 24: The Light
1. Scourge adulterers and adulteresses with 100 stripes. Do not show them any pity. Have a party of believers watch the punishment. 2
2. Only adulterers can marry adulteresses. Believers are not to marry them. 3
3. Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. 26
4. Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 31
5. Disbelievers are miscreants. 55
6. Disbelievers will never escape the Fire that will be their home. 57
7. It's okay for believers to own slaves. 58
8. The only true believers are those who believe in Allah and his messenger. 62
Quran Surah 25: The Criterion
1. Those who deny the coming of the Hour will be chained together and burned with fire. They will pray for their own destruction. 11-13
2. Allah will force the evil-doers to taste great torment. 19
3. It will be a hard day for disbelievers and wrong-doers. They will gnaw on their hands and wish they had chosen Islam. 26-27
4. Those who deny Muhammad's revelations will be destroyed. 36
5. Allah drowned everyone in the flood of Noah, and has prepared a painful doom for evil-doers. 37
Quran Surah 26: The Poets
1. Allah destroyed the people in Lot 's town with a dreadful rain. 172-3
2. Many will not believe until they see the painful doom. 201
3. Those who believe in another god are doomed. 213
Quran Surah 27: The Ant
1. Allah leads those who do not believe in the Hereafter astray by making things work out OK in this life, so that he can torment them forever in the next. They will get the worst punishment and will be the greatest losers. 4-5
2. "Allah destroyed them and their people, every one." 51
3. But he "saved those who believed." 53
4. Allah sent a dreadful rain on "those who stayed behind." 58
5. Whoever does something wrong will be thrown into the Fire. 90
Quran Surah 28: The Narrative
1. Allah has completely destroyed many communities. 58
2. Allah will taunt Christians on the day of their doom, saying: Where are My partners whom ye imagined? 62-64
3. Allah caused the earth to swallow Korah. 79-81
4. Never help disbelievers. 86 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)
Quran Surah 29: The Spider
1. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah have no hope of mercy. For such there is a painful doom. 23
2. Only wrong-doers deny the revelations of Allah. 49
3. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah are the losers. 52
4. The doom of hell will come upon disbelievers suddenly, when they least expect it. 53-55
Quran Surah 30: The Romans
1. Allah will tear Christians apart for ascribing partners to him. 13-14
2. Disbelievers will be brought to doom. 16
3. It's OK to own slaves. 28
4. Allah does not love disbelievers. 45
5. Allah seals the heart of disbelievers. (And then he burns them in the Fire.) 59
Quran Surah 31: Luqman
1. Those who mislead others from Allah's way and mock Islam will have a painful doom. 6-7
2. Allah will give disbelievers a little comfort for a little while, and then he'll torment them forever with a heavy doom. 23-24
Quran Surah 32: The Prostration
1. Allah will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together. 13
2. Allah: Taste the doom of immortality because of what ye used to do. 14
3. Those who used to deny the Fire will be tormented in it forever. 20
4. The worst thing you can do is to deny the revelations of Allah. 22
Quran Surah 33: The Clans
1. Don't obey disbelievers. 1 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)
2. Allah makes the deeds of unbelievers fruitless. 19
3. Allah cast panic into the hearts of the disbelievers. He killed some, and enslaved others. 25-26
4. Allah gave Zeyd’s wife, his own daughter in law to Muhammad in marriage. This was so that all Muslims would know that it's OK to marry your adopted son's ex-wife. 37
5. Ignore disbelievers and their poisonous talk. 48
6. It's OK to own slaves. 50
7. Allah says it is lawful for Muhammad to marry any women he wants. 50-51
8. It's OK to own slaves. 55
9. Those who malign Allah, Muhammad, and Muslims will be cursed by Allah in this life and with doom in the Hereafter. 57
10. Those who oppose Islam will be slain with a fierce slaughter. 60-61
11. Allah has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for them a flaming fire, wherein they will abide forever. 64-65
12. The disbelievers will be burned in the Fire with a double torment. 66-68
Quran Surah 34: Saba
1. Those who challenge the revelations of Muhammad will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve in the Hereafter will be tormented. 8
3. But some of the jinn Allah burned with flaming Fire. 12
4. Those who strive against Allah's revelations will be brought to the doom. 38
5. Those who worshipped the jinn will taste the doom of the Fire. 41
6. Allah hates those who ignore his messengers. 45
7. Those who are cast into hell be terrified when they see that they have no escape. Then they will believe. But it will be too late. 51-52
Quran Surah 35: The Angels
1. Those who disbelieve will have an awful doom. 7
2. Allah sends whoever he wants astray. 8
3. Allah hates disbelievers. 26
4. Disbelievers will burn forever in the fire of hell. Allah will keep them alive so that he can torture them forever. When they repent and ask for mercy, he will ignore them. 36-7
5. He who disbelieves, his disbelief will be on his own head. 39
6. Allah has blinded the disbelievers so that they cannot see the truth. So it don't bother warning them.
7.
Quran Surah 36: Ya Sin
8. They will go to hell anyway. 8-10
9. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 31
10. If Allah feels like it, he will drown everyone. 43
11. Allah will burn the disbelievers in hell. 63-4
Quran Surah 37: Those Who Set The Ranks
1. Those who refuse to believe in Muhammad's revelations will face a painful doom. 31-38
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree with the heads of devils, and then drink boiling water. After that they return to hell. 62-68
3. Allah drowned everyone except Noah and his family in the flood. 82
4. Allah tells Abraham in a dream to sacrifice his son. (But is the son Ishmael or Isaac?) 102
5. Allah killed everyone in Sodom except for Lot and his family. 136
6. No one is against Allah, except those who burn in hell. 162-3
Quran Surah 38: Sad
1. Allah has destroyed many generations. 3
2. Those who doubt will soon taste Allah's doom. 8
3. Those who deny the messengers deserve doom. 14
4. Those who wander from the way of Allah will have an awful doom. 26
5. Those who disbelieve will burn in the Fire. 27
6. The transgressors will roast in the Fire and be forced to drink boiling liquids followed by ice cold drinks. 55-9
7. Iblis asks Allah to let him hang around and mislead humans. Allah allows him to do so, and Iblis leads all humans to hell except for the single-minded slaves. Allah agrees, and plans to fill hell with Iblis and his followers. 79-85
Quran Surah 39: The Troops
1. Tell the disbelievers to enjoy themselves now, because later they will be owners of the Fire. 8
2. The losers will be those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. They will be surrounded by fire. 15-16
3. No one will be able to help those that Allah torments in the Fire. 19
4. Woe unto those who forget Allah. They are in plain error. 22
5. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 23
6. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie against Allah. The home of disbelievers is hell. 32
7. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 36
8. Surrender to Allah before he sends the doom upon you suddenly. 54-55
9. Those who lie about Allah will be sent to hell and will have their faces blackened. 60
10. Losers are those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah. 63
11. Those ascribe a partner to Allah (like the Christians) will be among the losers. 65
12. Those who disbelieve will be driven into hell. 71-72
Quran Surah 40: The Believer
1. Allah sent an awful punishment at the time of Noah. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 6
3. Allah greatly abhors those who disbelieve. 10
4. When the doom comes, the hearts of the doomed will choke in their throats, and no one will help them. 18
5. Those who ignore Allah's "clear proofs" will be seized and punished severely. 22
6. Those that Allah sends astray will have no helper or guide. 33
7. Allah deceives those who doubt. 34
8. The prodigals will be owners of the Fire. 43
9. The doomed will be exposed to the Fire morning and evening. 46
10. Those in hell will beg to be relieved from the Fire's torment for just a day. But the prayer of a disbeliever is in vain. 49-50
11. Those who bicker about Allah's revelations are filled with pride. 56
12. Those who scorn Allah will go to hell. 60
13. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are perverted. 63
14. Those who deny the Scripture and Allah's messengers will be dragged through boiling water and thrust into the Fire. 70-72
15. Allah will taunt the Christians in hell, saying: Where are all my partners that you used to believe in? 73
16. Thus does Allah send astray the disbelievers (in his guidance). 74
17. Those who scorn will go to hell. 76
18. When they see Allah's doom they will believe in Allah. But their faith will not save them. The disbelievers will be ruined. 84-85
Quran Surah 41: Fusilat
1. Woe unto the idolaters who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 6
2. Allah will make life miserable for those who deny his revelations and then he will torment them forever in the Hereafter. And they will not be helped. 15-16
3. The enemies of Allah will be gathered into the Fire where their skin, ears, and eyes will testify against them. 19-20
4. Allah will make those who disbelieve taste an awful doom. Their immortal home will be the Fire, since they denied Allah's revelations. 27-28
5. Those who disbelieve will taste hard punishment. 50
Quran Surah 42: The Counsel
1. While some lounge in the Garden, others will roast in the Flame. 7
2. Those who argue about Allah will have his wrath upon them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 16
3. Allah sometimes kills people for misbehaving. 34
4. Allah sends some people astray and then punishes them for it by burning them in the Fire. 44-46
5. Allah makes some people barren. (Whenever he feels like it.) 50
Quran Surah 43: Ornaments of God
1. When the Egyptians angered Allah, he drowned them all. 55
2. Those who argue and do wrong will have a painful doom that will come upon them suddenly. 65-66
3. The guilty are tormented forever in hell. Allah will not relax their punishment. 74-75
Quran Surah 44: Smoke
1. Those in torment will claim to believe and ask Allah for relief. But he will refuse since they will return to their disbelief. 11-16
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree like molten brass that burns their bellies. Then boiling water will be poured on their heads. 43-48
Quran Surah 45: Crouching
1. Those who hear and reject Allah's revelations are sinful liars. Give them tidings of a painful doom. 7-8
2. Those who joke about Allah's revelations will go to hell. Theirs will be an awful doom. 9-10
3. Those who disbelieve in Allah's revelations will have a painful doom of wrath. 11
4. Allah sends some people astray, making it impossible for them to hear or see. 23
5. Those who disbelieve are guilty folk. 31
Quran Surah 46: The Wind-Curved Sandals
1. Disbelievers will be rewarded with the ignominious doom of the Fire. 20
2. The guilty will face a wind with a painful torment. 25
3. Allah has destroyed entire towns. 27
4. Allah will taunt the disbelievers that he torments in the fire, saying: "Taste the doom for that ye disbelieved." 34
Quran Surah 47: Muhammad
1. Allah makes the works of disbelievers vain. 1
2. Those who disbelieve follow falsehood. 3
3. Smite the necks of the disbelievers whenever you fight against them. Those who die fighting for Allah will be rewarded. 4
4. Allah will damn the disbelievers and make all their actions fruitless. 8-9
5. Disbelievers may eat and be happy now, but the Fire will be their final home. 12
6. Those in the Garden will drink delicious wine, while those in the Fire will drink boiling water that will tear apart their intestines. 15
7. Allah curses people by making them deaf and blind. 23
8. Angels will gather them together and smite their faces and backs. 27
9. Allah will make the actions those who disbelieve fruitless. 32
10. Those who disbelieve will never be pardoned by Allah. 34-35
Quran Surah 48: Victory
1. Those who think an evil thought concerning Allah will be cursed and sent to hell by him. 6
2. Allah has prepared a flame for the disbelievers. 13
3. If you refuse to fight for Allah, he will punish you with a painful doom. 16-17
4. But if you're willing to fight for Allah, he will provide you with lots of booty. 19-20
5. Allah punished those who disbelieved with a painful punishment. 25
6. Those with Muhammad are ruthless toward disbelievers and merciful toward themselves. 29
Quran Surah 49: The Private Apartments
1. Do not lift your voice when in Muhammad's presence. Those who subdue their voices are righteous and will receive an immense reward from Allah. 1-3
Quran Surah 50: Oaf
1. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 36
Quran Surah 51: The Winnowing Winds
1. Accursed are the conjecturers who ask: When is the Day of Judgment? It is the day they will be tormented by the Fire. 10-14
2. Woe to the disbelievers. 60
Quran Surah 52: The Mount
1. Those who deny the existence of hell will be thrust into its Fire. 11-16
2. Those who disbelieve are trapped. 42
Quran Surah 54: The Moon
1. Allah sent a storm of stones on Lot's folk, killing all but Lot 's family. 34
2. The suffering in hell will be more wretched and bitter than anything experienced on earth. 46-48
3. Allah destroyed many people, but does anyone remember anymore? 51
Quran Surah 55: The Beneficent
1. The guilty deny hell. But after they die they go circling between it and fierce, boiling water. 43-44
Quran Surah 56: The Event
1. But those on his left hand will face scorching wind, scalding water, and black smoke. 42-43
2. Those who deny Allah and the Hereafter will eat from the Zaqqum tree and drink boiling water. 51-54
3. Allah will welcome the rejecters and erring with boiling water and a roasting in the hell fire. 92-94
Quran Surah 57: Iron
1. The home of disbelievers is the Fire, a hapless journey's end. 15
2. Those who disbelieve and deny Allah's revelations are the owners of the fire. 19
Quran Surah 58: She That Disputeth
1. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 4
2. For disbelievers is a shameful doom. 5
3. Don't make friends with Allah's enemies. For those who do so, Allah has prepared a dreadful doom. 14-15
4. Those who turn others away from the way of Allah will have a shameful doom. They are rightful owners of the Fire. 16-17
5. Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the lowest. 20
6. On the Last Day good Muslims will not love their non-Muslim friends and family members, not even their fathers, sons, or brothers (or their mothers, daughters, or sisters). 22
Quran Surah 59: Exile
1. Allah cast fear into the hearts of the disbelieving People of the Scripture. Their home in the Hereafter will be the Fire. 2-3
2. The disbelieving people of the Scripture are liars. 11
3. The devil and disbelievers will be in the Fire. 16-17
4. The owners of the Garden and the owners of the Fire are not equal. 20
Quran Surah 60: She That is to be Examined
1. Don't be friends with disbelievers. They are your (and Allah's) enemy. 1
2. Don't be friends with those who have warred against you because of religion. Whoever makes friends with them is a wrong-doer. 9
3. Don't be friends with those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. They are Allah's enemies. 13
Quran Surah 61: The Ranks
1. Allah loves those who fight for him. 4
2. Allah leads some people astray. 5
3. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie about Allah. 7
Quran Surah 62: The Congregation
1. A hypocritical Jew looks like an ass carrying books. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are ugly. 5
Quran Surah 63: The Hypocrites
1. Allah seals the hearts of those who believe and then disbelieve so that they can understand nothing. 3
2. Disbelievers are perverted. They are the enemy, confounded by Allah. 4
3. Don't bother to ask Allah to forgive the disbelievers. He will never forgive them. 6
Quran Surah 64: Mutual Disillusion
1. Those who disbelieve will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 10
Quran Surah 66: Banning
1. Muhammad's wives need to be careful. If they criticize their husband, Allah will replace them with better ones. 5
2. The fuel of the Fire is men and stones. 6
3. Be stern with disbelievers. They are going to Hell anyway. 9
4. The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 10
Quran Surah67: The Sovereignty
1. Disbelievers will go to hell where they will hear its roaring and boiling. 6-7
2. Who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom? (Nobody) 28
Quran Surah 69: The Reality
1. Those who do not believe in Allah will be chained up and cast into hell-fire where they will eat filth. 30-35
Quran Surah 71: Noah
1. Those that Allah drowned in Noah's flood were then tortured forever in the Fire. 25
2. Noah asked Allah to drown all the disbelievers. 26
Quran Surah 72: The Jinn
1. The fires of hell will be fueled with the bodies of idolators and unbelievers. They will experience an ever-greater torment. 15-17
2. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will dwell forever in the fire of hell. 23
Quran Surah 73: The Enshrouded One
1. Allah will take care of the deniers. He will tie them up, burn them in a raging fire, and feed them food that chokes them. 11-13
Quran Surah 74: The Cloaked One
1. The last day will be a day of anguish for disbelievers. 9-10
2. Those who are stubborn to Allah's revelations will face a fearful doom. 16-17
3. The fire of hell shrivels humans and spares nothing. 27-29
4. Allah has appointed angels to tend the Fire and has prepared stumbling blocks for those who disbelieve. He sends some people (whoever he wants) astray. 31
5. Allah is the font of fear. 56
Quran Surah 76: "Time" or "Man"
1. Allah has prepared chains, manacles, and a raging fire for the disbelievers. 4
2. Don't obey disbelievers. 24
Quran Surah 77: The Emissaries
1. Allah destroyed "the former folk." 16
2. Woe unto the repudiators on that day! 19, 24, 28, 34, 40, 45, 49
Quran Surah 79: "Those Who Drag Forth"
Those who rebel will go to hell. 37-39
Quran Surah 80: "He Frowned"
1. Disbelievers are wicked people. On the last day they will be in darkness and have dust on their faces. 40-42
Quran Surah 82: The Cleaving
1. The wicked will burn in hell forever. 82
Quran Surah 84: The Sundering
1. Some folks will be thrown into a scorching fire. 11-12
2. Disbelievers will be given a painful doom. 22-24
Quran Surah 87: The Most High
1. Those who are flung into the great Fire will neither live nor die. 12-13
Quran Surah 88: The Overwhelming
1. On that day many will be sad and weary. Scorched by the fire, drinking boiling water, with only bitter thorn-fruit to eat. 2-7
2. Allah will punish disbelievers with the direst punishment. 23-24
Quran Surah 89: The Dawn
1. Allah poured on them the disaster of His punishment. 13
Quran Surah 90: The City
1. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will have the Fire placed over them like an awning. 19-20
Quran Surah92: The Night
1. Those who deny Allah's revelations must endure the flaming fire. 14-16
I admire your books as they speak I think, with a very profound understanding of God/The Absolute in religion.
I like one key Buddhist prayer which enjoins us all to wish that all beings may be free of suffering and pain and be happy and at peace. Since so many in the world are touched profoundly by suffering, surely one of the best ways to enter into a concious awareness of the Absolute is by having compassion for others and other beings, whatever one's faith or lack thereof.
Dear Karen,
I am praying for you.
In the Orthodox Church, prayer is considered to be the human respond to an invitation from God for a love conversation. A pure prayer doesn’t involve a request of favors by human but rather it is dialog between two lovers.
The Bible says in John 3:16: “For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
Love is the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to humanity. There is no other road to God except through His love.
Love
Salah
Islam as a believe system is "Adab" or "attitude" of "'Abd" in the front of Unknowability about Absolut Reality Itself or we labeled as "Allah". For Allah itself, Shalat (prayer), or "dua" or others ritual is not important. To "proof" that "we or everything" are 'Abd Allah' and "Believe" that Allah, YHWH or whatever you call it is "Exist" with "All Possible Expression" we need to be "Aslim and Islam" and doing Shalat or dua or other activities (not only ritual but daily activities) on the coridor of Islam as believe system. Coridor of believe in Islam is Shirathaal Mustaqiim. Shirathaal Mustaqiim is Knowledge (actually KNOW-L-EDGE is MONK-L-Edge, Monk on the edge of Maia Reality and Absolute reality) about “me and You and You and me” (‘abd Allh). Implementation of Knowledge according “me as a Moslem” is Tauhid Base Society or Knowledge Base Society or as a member of knowledable communitty. Practical aspects of Know-L-Edge in Islam as Tauhid Base Society, as Ukhuwah Islamiyah, as Ummah, as Rahmaatan Lil aalamin etc…etc are syahadah, shalat, zakat, ramadhan, and the last but "not must" is Hajj as finishing point that we are really 'Abd Allah and believe “True Knowledge about Allah(Tauhid or Shibghatallahi in Qur'an, see QS 2:138)”. (Beside those 5 Pillar Of Islam as al-Mukminun and then to be a Mukmin need also to believe on 6 pillar of Iman. In this case, I define a Mukmin is a person who pray, dua, and doing other life activies within coridor of Islam and believe that the method to pray or to do something according Islam is the optimal method.)
If you, as a religions Researcher still have questions like this :
“If God knows everything and is, as the Qur’an says, closer to me than my jugular vein, why did he need to hear my requests?
Why should God answer my prayers, when he so clearly fails to heed the prayers of many hopeless people throughout the world?
Or others similar questions .
I think, until now you did not know anything about religions as a reality and as a part of our civilization (and of couse as a one of economic megamachine in the World beside science and technology), you didn’t know about Knowledge of The God or Monoteism Religions or the path to be know the Face of The God. In my view you still look like "blind LITERATUR TAILOR", a Homer like story teller with a thousand assumptions and references, and all your books still did not reach truly and really understanding about Religion , or a TRUE KNOWLEDGE of The Truth, or Knowledge Of The God or everything you call it.
That my comments, I'm very sorry for my bad English. I’m not native English writer or speaker. I’am Indonesian.
Thx. Atmonadi
(pls note that the opini of Islam as belive system in this comment is on my view as Muslim. So, don't look to any islamic literatur except on Qur'an, may be you cant found it).
Islam as a believe system is "Adab" or "attitude" of "'Abd" in the front of Unknowability about Absolut Reality Itself or we labeled as "Allah". For Allah itself, Shalat (prayer), or "dua" or others ritual is not important. To "proof" that "we or everything" are 'Abd Allah' and "Believe" that Allah, YHWH or whatever you call it is "Exist" with "All Possible Expression" we need to be "Aslim and Islam" and doing Shalat or dua or other activities (not only ritual but daily activities) on the coridor of Islam as believe system. Coridor of believe in Islam is Shirathaal Mustaqiim. Shirathaal Mustaqiim is Knowledge (actually KNOW-L-EDGE is MONK-L-Edge, Monk on the edge of Maia Reality and Absolute reality) about “me and You and You and me” (‘abd Allh). Implementation of Knowledge according “me as a Moslem” is Tauhid Base Society or Knowledge Base Society or as a member of knowledable communitty. Practical aspects of Know-L-Edge in Islam as Tauhid Base Society, as Ukhuwah Islamiyah, as Ummah, as Rahmaatan Lil aalamin etc…etc are syahadah, shalat, zakat, ramadhan, and the last but "not must" is Hajj as finishing point that we are really 'Abd Allah and believe “True Knowledge about Allah(Tauhid or Shibghatallahi in Qur'an, see QS 2:138)”. (Beside those 5 Pillar Of Islam as al-Mukminun and then to be a Mukmin need also to believe on 6 pillar of Iman. In this case, I define a Mukmin is a person who pray, dua, and doing other life activies within coridor of Islam and believe that the method to pray or to do something according Islam is the optimal method.)
If you, as a religions Researcher still have questions like this :
“If God knows everything and is, as the Qur’an says, closer to me than my jugular vein, why did he need to hear my requests?
Why should God answer my prayers, when he so clearly fails to heed the prayers of many hopeless people throughout the world?
Or others similar questions .
I think, until now you did not know anything about religions as a reality and as a part of our civilization (and of couse as a one of economic megamachine in the World beside science and technology), you didn’t know about Knowledge of The God or Monoteism Religions or the path to be know the Face of The God. In my view you still look like "blind LITERATUR TAILOR", a Homer like story teller with a thousand assumptions and references, and all your books still did not reach truly and really understanding about Religion , or a TRUE KNOWLEDGE of The Truth, or Knowledge Of The God or everything you call it.
That my comments, I'm very sorry for my bad English. I’m not native English writer or speaker. I’am Indonesian.
Thx. Atmonadi
(pls note that the opini of Islam as belive system in this comment is on my view as Muslim. So, don't look to any islamic literatur except on Qur'an, may be you cant found it).
Ms. Karen Armstrong:
I am looking for the possibility of your reviewing my book The Quran & Modern Science.
It is a small book but loaded with interesting analysis. Please respond to my email if you decide to review or edit this book.
Ms. Karen Armstrong:
I am looking for the possibility of your reviewing my book The Quran & Modern Science.
It is a small book but loaded with interesting analysis. Please respond to my email if you decide to review or edit this book.
You are a third rate thinker, a fictional historian, and a poorly developed human being. That you pass for someone with influence is so sad I weep for us all. But I weep mostly for you. Please, do not write or speak in public about Buddha. Please?
Yes, Quran gives me a touching feeling, a very touching that I even feel the sharp sword touch my neck.
If you see this verse as a non muslim:
9:5 And so, when the sacred months are over [6] , slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, [7] and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place [8] ! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace.
Whatevery you write, think or say against Islam, its prophet and Quran, you can not change the fact that Quran, a random part from it, even its translation, creates a touching feeling in you and you just tend to listen to it and can not stop yourself from listening to it. I am so sure that the same effect has occured in your hearts and because of those interesting feelings, which make your soul and hearts soften, you get
convinced and affected and got frightened of that it would harm your faith in Christanity, Judaism or what you believe. That is why you started reading a lot about Islam, its prophet and the biggest miracle Quran, to find a cure to demolish the "satanic" and "magical" feelings in your souls created by Quran, to convince yourself that it could not be true.. Sorry, your soul, subconcious already confessed to itself that Islam and Quran is the right path to God (Allah, or whatever you call the only One Creator) and completes some bricks, which you always thought and realized to be missing until now..
What is admitted by your hearts, is not admitetd your brains.. With time, you will overcome it hopefully, as many did. Or you will live teh fight between your heart and brain forever and die in a sad manner.
That is why you are attacing Islam, its prophet and Quran by using so called hadiths (always not possible to prove to be true %100) and by reflecting some verses as samples of violence. (If there is a battle, or risk for battle, it is a human right to fight back. It is a very basic the strategy in military or business to be proactive, to decrease the risk factors.
That is one of the reasons why the Crusaders also attacked Muslims.)
I just laugh at the bad descriptions and swears
for Muhammed (SAV) (in fact all 1,2 billion muslims in his name). It reflects your desperate situation.
What we suffer and have suffered until now, is the results of that the muslims really got far away from the real message, we just heard it but not listened to it and did not live. I am a little pessimistic about the future for the current muslim population because we are still missing (forgot to read and see it) the real message. However, our trasure the Quran is there, and what we should do is just to hug it and feel it in our hearts again. I hope we do it.
However, after i read the messages here, i am more optimistic for the western countries, which contain people seeking real faith and solid belief and read Quran for this. In the next years , hopefully, there will be more and more muslims in western countries and that will add
power to Islam and its message.
Your interpretation of Islam misleads people who lack knowledge of Islam and approach Islam from your rose-tinted perspective, determined to fit the history into a worldview of tolerance, multiculturalism, pluralism and cultural relativism.
Sir Winston Churchill identified two of the greatest threats to your freedom today - Nazism and communism, although the appeasers of his time called him a fool. He was right on both occasions, and is considered one of the greatest leaders of all time by the British and Americans. He worked in Muslim countries prior to becoming Prime Minster. He won a Nobel prize for his literary scholarship. This great man identified Islam as an ideology more dangerous than the ideology of Nazism.
What you need to understand is that Muhammad's ideology is the exact opposite of your own, and Muhammad's ideology requires the complete destruction of all other belief systems, just as Nazism requires the destruction of all other belief systems.
Somehow I doubt that your knowledge, wisdom, education, scholarship or track record is in anyway comparable to that of Sir Winston Churchill. Unlike you, Churchill wasn't blinded to reality by his own ideology.
The sad truth is as Churchill understood it. Muhammad was a gangster godfather type character who ordered the assassination of anyone who spoke out against him, who kept slaves for his own pleasure, who kept a harem of wives for his own pleasure, who encouraged his men to rape female captives in order to bring shame on his enemies, who had sex with children for his own pleasure, who had people tortured to death by cutting off their limbs and then holding heated nails in front of their eyes until they went blind, and then left them in this condition in the heat of the sun and refused them water when they pleaded as they died.
Only the most foolish person would attempt to defend the ideology and belief system of such a man when people are being murdered all around the world by people who study the life of this killer, dress like him, follow his ideology and use his terror tactics to strike terror into the hearts of today’s unbelievers.
"Remember your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.’" (8:12)
"Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah. Whatever you spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid to you and you shall not be treated unjustly." (8:60)
"When We decide to destroy a population, We send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then We destroy them utterly." (17:16)
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM:
"After the fall of Khartoum and the retreat of the British armies the Mahdi became the absolute master of the Soudan (Sudan). Whatever pleasures he desired he could command, and, following the example of the founder of the Mohammedan faith, he indulged in what would seem to Western minds gross excesses. He established an extensive harem for his own peculiar use, and immured (imprisoned) therein the fairest captives of the war. The conduct of the ruler was imitated by his subjects."
"the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund (declining), Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome." [Churchill understood that only superior technology had protected Europe from Islam. In the past 50 years, ignorant politicians who’d never studied Islam then opened up our defences and invited Islam into the West with open arms, bypassing that technology]
"the Mein Kampf of war" [Referring to the Qur’an. Churchill considered that the teachings of the Qur’an represented a form of Nazism, yet today’s politicians, in their wisdom, consider that a combination of appeasement, lying to the public about Islam being a “religion of peace”, and criminalizing the truth is the most effective way to prevent genocide in the future. Based on his statements concerning both Islam and appeasement, I do not believe that Sir Winston Churchill would ever have supported such a dangerously misguided strategy]
"All the warlike operations of Mohammedan peoples are characterised by fanaticism"
"What the horn is to the rhinoceros, what the sting is to the wasp, the Mohammedan faith was to the Arabs" [Churchill believed that the Islamic faith was itself a formidable weapon of war]
"degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity." [Churchill saw that followers of the prophet engaged little 9 year old girls in sexual relationships, as they sort to emulate his ‘perfect example’]
Your understanding of Islam is completely and utterly wrong. Please listen to people who have much deeper knowledge and understanding of Islam, such as Ali Sina (an apostate), and please remember two words, the next time you are tempted to appease Islam again: "Winston Churchill."
During the reign of the Prophet in the city/state of Medina early 7th century, every one was a full citizen with full civic and religious rights: the new Muslims, Christians, the Jews and the Pagans of Arabia. The Quran states unequivocally that " No Compulsion in Religion.")The Prophet who had just established the first Islamic city/state in Medina, had signed a treaty with-among others-the Jewish tribe of Banu Qorizah-to defend the new state and where the treaty stipulated that the members of this tribe being citizens of the new Islamic city-state agreed never to ally themselves with the enemies of the infant Islamic state nor to carry arms against it in exchange for granting them-the Jewish tribe- the aforementioned full citizenship rights including guarantying their protection and security. However the Jewish tribe conspired with enemies of the Islamic state and committed treason, treachery and violated the treaty. The Islamic state, lead by the Prophet defatted the aggressors on the battlefield; thereafter the Prophet and the leaders of the Jewish tribe mutually agreed to appointing an acceptable and neutral arbitrator/Judge to rule on the violation of the treaty which the Jewish tribe violated and the Judge ruled that the Jewish tribe was guilty of both joint military aggression with the enemies of the infant state as well as treason as they were citizen of Islamic state. The judge ordered the death penalty to be carried out against the treacherous members of the tribe who committed treason and aggression-as any state would do in self-defense. The numbers of those deserving the death penalty is exaggerated by Jewish sources as usual.
Victoria,
You're starting to think wrong then. All you have to do is to read the tafsirs to get the historical context and then work it out for yourself.
I was always told that 9:5 and 9:29 were revealed in times of war when the Muslims were being attacked or the pagans were treacherous to them by breaking the treaties. That was what I was told for a long time, and this is what I see is still being propagated to people like you.
This is not the only evidence since other tafsirs also say this.
However, it is common knowledge that Muhammad conquered Mecca in Ramadan 8AH. Thus, 9:5 and 9:29 cannot be revealed before the conquest of Mecca but after.
If you read the sira and hadiths, you'd know that by 9AH the entire Arabian peninsula had fallen sway to the Muslims. There was no more wars. Muhammad had won. There were no pagan opposition left. For Westerners read Mubarakpuri's Ar-Raheem al-Makhtum or Haykal's history of Muhammad.
By 9AH Muhammad had felt confident enough to take his war-mongering outside Arabia - i.e. to Tabuk in Syria (deep in Byzantine terrority).
So in this context if you read 9:1-4 you'd see it is Muhammad who 'abrogated' or 'cancelled' all the treaties he had with the remaining pagans and then let loose his men to hunt them down and kill them if they don't convert to Islam or if they're people of the book to pay jizyah with humiliation.
The treaty of Hudaibiyya which is often trumpeted as the context was long past and broken by Muhammad when he conquered Mecca.
So please don't fall for the line that surah 9 was revealed in the context of war when the Muslims were on the defensive. The history does not support this but the entirely opposite case.
ahmed- im starting to think youre getting this from a website- provide the text with your knowledge of history as i find your contention historically innaccurate-
Victoria wrote:
even ahmed can tell you that the ayats (verses) youre referring to about violence toward non-believers are those who were actively engage in treachery against the muslim community at that time-
Ahmed replies:
Not true. If one examines the historical context of Surah 9 one is left in no doubt that violence towards non-believers had nothing to do with the treachery by non-Muslims against Muslims but the other way round.
I know it is an oft-repeated mantra that the violent verses in the Quran were only in the context of war or treachery against the Muslims. However, the historical context is against this belief. If anything Muhammad was the treacherous one while the non-Muslims were the honorable party.
Evidence for Ahmed's bold assertion?
The timing of the revelation of 9:5 and 9:29 and the sahih hadiths in which Muhammad told his followers to apply 9:29 outside Arabia.
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This is a fabulous explanation of prayer. It's something I to have struggled with - what to say, how to not "ask" for something because I don't beleive God is dolling out prayer answers. What you've expressed here will help me the next time I pray.
Thank you for all your wonderful insights.
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June 17, 2008 10:40 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on June 17, 2008 22:40
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
February 2, 2008 3:06 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 2, 2008 03:06
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
February 2, 2008 3:06 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 2, 2008 03:06
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
February 2, 2008 3:06 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 2, 2008 03:06
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
February 2, 2008 3:06 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 2, 2008 03:06
Hello Karen:
Your insights are helpful and very worthwhile.
That's why I need to talk with you about the extreme political and physical brutality of the Archbishpos and the Roman emperors of the first 7 centuries of the Christian era.
These brutalities are totally inconsistent with the concept of a loving God.
I may have an explanation of this problem, but I need to talk it over with a theological authority.
A second problem is why the Church has remained totally silent about this problem. In the 6 parishes of my 84 years, not one has ever mentioned it. I discovered it by reading Gibbon in my mid fifties.
Have you any comments on these two problems?
Harry E. Thayer, oldsboy@sbcglobal.net
February 2, 2008 3:06 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 2, 2008 03:06
We don't pray to change god, or god's mind, or god's plans or actions, but to change ourselves. It's not god that causes or "allows" the evil and violence in the world; in a very real way it is me. (Of course I mean it is us.) The message of the prophets is that there is a way to change ourselves so that there will be established on this earth a true society of peace and justice, and we are destined to find that way.
December 4, 2007 7:35 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on December 4, 2007 19:35
We don't pray to change god, or god's mind, or god's plans or actions, but to change ourselves. It's not god that causes or "allows" the evil and violence in the world; in a very real way it is me. (Of course I mean it is us.) The message of the prophets is that there is a way to change ourselves so that there will be established on this earth a true society of peace and justice, and we are destined to find that way.
December 4, 2007 7:35 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on December 4, 2007 19:35
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October 26, 2007 4:52 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on October 26, 2007 16:52
truly wonderful, karen speaks at peak of her knowledge and approach .
October 13, 2007 1:56 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on October 13, 2007 13:56
Women rights in Islam as per Quran:
2:228, And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them
2:230, So if a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), He cannot, after that, re-marry her until after she has married another husband and He has divorced her
2:282, and get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.
4:3, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice.
4:11-12, Allah (thus) directs you as regards your Children’s (Inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females:
4:34, Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.
53:27, Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names
66:10, Allah sets forth, for an example to the Unbelievers, the wife of Noah and the wife of Lut: they were (respectively) under two of our righteous servants, but they were false to their (husbands), and they profited nothing before Allah on their account, but were told: “Enter ye the Fire along with (others) that enter!”
Women rights as per Sahi Hadiths:
It is forbidden for a woman to be seen by any man except her husband when she is made up or well-dressed. (TR. P 430)
3. A woman is not a believer if she undertakes a journey which may last three days or longer, unless she is accompanied by her husband, son, father or brother. (TR. P 431 )
4. A woman must veil herself even in the presence of her husband's father, brother and other male relations. (TR. P 432)
5. She is forbidden to spend any money without the permission of her husband, and it includes giving food to the needy or feast to friends. (TR. P 265)
6. A wife is forbidden to perform extra prayers (NAFAL) or observe fasting (other than RAMADAN) without the permission of her husband. (TR. P 300)
7. If prostration were a legitimate act other than to God, woman should have prostrated to her husband. (TR. P 428)
8. If a man is in a mood to have sexual intercourse woman must come immediately even if she is baking bread at a communal oven. (TR. P 428) 9. The marriage of woman to her man is not substantive. It is precarious. For example if the father of the husband orders his son to divorce his wife, he must do so. (TR. P 440)
11. Majority of women would go to hell. (Muslim P 1431)
12. If a woman refuses to come to bed when invited by her husband, she becomes the target of the curses of angles. Exactly the same happens if she deserts her husband's bed. (Bokhari P 93)
13. The women who are ungrateful to their men, are the denizens of hell; it is an act of ingratitude for a woman to say: "I have never seen any good from you." (Bokhari P 96)
14. A woman in many ways is deprived of the possession of her own body. Even her milk belongs to her husband. (Bokhari P 27)
SKM
September 9, 2007 2:49 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on September 9, 2007 14:49
Below are comemnts by a reader of my article on Islamic mumbo-jumbo. This readers explain about all organized religions:
"I expose the falsehoods of all man made religions. These religions are just for business purpose. Arab religion is a derivative of Hindu religion. In Hindu religion the religious class is asking the masses to worship the stones. Shiv linga and parvati stones are the famous stones. Shiv linga is a male sexual organ and parvati is a female sexual organ. The Arabs have taken the parvati stone to mecca and calling it a holy stone came directly from paradise .How stupid and ignorant are the followers of this religion. The Hindus are spinning around the stone in India seven times clockwise and the stupid followers of Arab religions have just made one change....They made it to anticlockwise....What a great change .This parvati stone is a outstretched vagina, through which head of a baby is delivering out. The followers of Arab religions including the converts are saluting and surrendering their heads to this stone three or five times a day. They are kissing this stone (Parvati vagina and head of baby)during their very holy holy pilgrimage. If you will disclose to them this reality of worshiping the stone, they will desperately reply.. "no we are not worshiping stone, we are worshiping our god through this stone". What an intelligent answer . Stupid followers of a sadist god. He create them and asking them to raise their asses many times a day.
These poor followers are scarred of these gods. He has threatened them if they will not worship him, he will screw them in hereafter life. At other place this god has used another weapon "sex in the paradise",72 virgins for men. But no body ask this god,what about females, what they will get? I think Arab god is gay god, jealous of females .
Yousef Tabish "
Posted by SKM
September 8, 2007 8:25 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on September 8, 2007 20:25
To: Karen Armstrong.
You are bullying around as the expert in islamic history and by your chief shot you try to soft- sell Islam cleverly hiding actual cruel and intolerant teachings of Koran and islam.
Below I am giving you hundreds of hateful, oppressive and killing verses from the same Koran. All the Islamic terrorists are incited and emboldened by these verses from Koran. What you have to say about these verses below?
Quran’s Teachings:
(Compiled by: Dr. Ali Sina: 2001)
What is the inspiration behind the hate and violence in Islamic terrorism?
The following is the essence of the message of the Quran, the rest are fairy tales and stories by some hypocritical Muslims.
Quran Surah 2: The Cow
1. Don't bother to warn the disbelievers. Allah has blinded them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 6
2. Allah has sickened their hearts. A painful doom is theirs because they lie. 10
3. A fire has been prepared for the disbelievers, whose fuel is men and stones. 24
4. Disbelievers will be burned with fire. 39, 90
5. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 104
6. For unbelievers: ignominy in this world, an awful doom in the next. 114
7. Allah will leave the disbelievers alone for a while, but then he will compel them to the doom of Fire. 126
8. The doom of the disbelievers will not be lightened. 162
9. They will not emerge from the Fire. 167
10. Those who hide the Scripture will have their bellies eaten with fire. Theirs will be a painful doom. 174
11. How constant are they in their strife to reach the Fire! 175
12. Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kil them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 191
13. War is ordained by Allah. 216
14. Those who die in their disbelief will burn forever in the Fire. 217
15. Disbelievers worship false gods. The will burn forever in the Fire. 257
16. Allah does not guide disbelievers. 264
17. "Give us victory over the disbelieving folk." 286
Quran Surah 3: The Family Of 'Imran
1. Those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, theirs will be a heavy doom. 4
2. Those who disbelieve will be fuel for the Fire. 10
3. Those who disbelieve shall be overcome and gathered unto Hell. 12
4. Those who disbelieve, promise them a painful doom. 21
5. Theirs will be a painful doom. 77
6. All non-Muslims will be rejected by Allah after they die. 85
7. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. And they will have no helpers. 91
8. Disbelievers will have their faces blackened on the last day. They will face an awful doom. 105-6
9. Those who disbelieve will be burnt in the Fire. 116
10. The Fire is prepared for disbelievers. 131
11. We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Their habitation is the Fire 151
12. Theirs will be an awful doom. 176
13. Disbelievers do not harm Allah, but will have a painful doom. 177
14. Disbelievers will have a shamful doom. 178
15. Disbelievers will go to Hell. 196
Quran Surah 4: Women
1. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will be burnt with fire and suffer a painful doom. 14
2. For the disbelievers, We have prepared a painful doom. 18
3. For disbelievers, We prepare a shameful doom. 37
4. Hell is sufficient for their burning. 55
5. Unbelievers will be tormented forever with fire. When their skin is burned off, a fresh skin will be provided. 56
6. Allah will bestow a vast reward on those who fight in religious wars. 74
7. Believers fight for Allah; disbelievers fight for the devil. So fight the minions of the devil. 76
8. Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. 89
9. If the unbelievers do not offer you peace, kill them wherever you find them. Against such you are given clear warrant. 91 ( Offering peace in Islam means surrendering. All 67 out of 68 wars of Muhammad were offensive, not defensive. The one defensive war, 'ditch' was not fought. That is why the Islamic terrorism 'jihad' will continue until the West "offers peace". This was made clear by Bin Laden.)
10. Those who oppose the messenger and become unbelievers will go to hell. 115
11. Those who believe, then disbelieve, then believe and disbelieve again will never be forgiven by Allah. 137
12. For the hypocrites there will be a painful doom. 138
13. Allah will gather hypocrites and disbelievers into hell. 140
14. The hypocrites will be in the lowest part of hell and no one will help them there. 145
15. You must believe everything Allah and his messengers tell you. Those who don't are disbelievers and will face a painful doom. 150-151
16. For the disbelievers, Allah has prepared a painful doom. 161
17. God will guide disbelievers down a road that leads to everlasting hell. 168-169
Quran Surah 5: The Table Spread
1. Those who deny Islam will be losers in the Hereafter. 5
2. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of Hell. 10
3. Those who make war with Allah and his messenger will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. That is how they will be treated in this world, and in the next they will have an awful doom. 33 (Anyone who resist Islam is deemed to be making war with Allah)
4. Disbelievers will have a painful doom. 36
5. Disbelievers will want to come out of the Fire, but will not. Their will be a lasting doom. 37
6. Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, and tooth for tooth. Non-muslims are wrong doers. 45
7. Christians will be burned in the Fire. 72
8. Christians are wrong about the Trinity. For that they will have a painful doom. 73
9. Disbelievers will be owners of hell-fire. 86
Quran Surah 6: The Cattle
1. Many generations have been destroyed by Allah. 6
2. Allah will torment those how deny his revelations. 49
3. Those who disbelieve will be forced to drink boiling water, and will face a painful doom. 70
4. When nonbelievers die, the angels will deliver to them doom and degradation. 93
5. Allah chooses to lead some astray, and he lays ignominy on those who disbelieve. 125
6. Allah will send everyone the Fire, except those he chooses to deliver. 128
Quran Surah 7: The Heights
1. How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them. 4-5
2. Allah has made devils the protecting friends of disbeliveers. 27
3. Disbelievers choose devils as protecting friends and believe they are rightly guided. 30
4. Only believers go to heaven. 32
5. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire. 36
6. Entire nations have entered the Fire. Some get a double torment. 38
7. Disbelievers will be excluded from heaven. Theirs will be a bed of hell. 40-41
8. Those in the Fire will cry out to those in heaven, saying: "Pour water on us." But Allah has forbidden that to disbelievers. 50
9. Those who deny Muhammad's revelation are evil. 177
Quran Surah 8: The Spoils of War
1. Allah will throw fear into the hearts of the disbelievers, and smite their necks and fingers. 12
2. Disbelievers will be tormented in the Fire. 14
3. When you fight with disbelievers, do not retreat. Those who do will go to hell. 15-16
4. Taste of the doom because ye disbelieve. 35
5. Those who disbelieve will be gathered into hell. 36
6. The angels smite the face and backs of disbelievers, saying: "Taste the punishment of burning!" 50
7. The worst beasts in Allah's sight are the disbelievers. 55
8. Exhort the believers to fight. They will win easily, because disbelievers are without intelligence. 65
9. A prophet may not take captives until he has made a slaughter in the land. 67
Surah 9: Repentance
1. Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful doom to those who disbelieve. 3
2. Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. 5
3. Don't let idolaters tend the sanctuaries. Their works are in vain and they will be burned in the Fire. 17
4. Give tiding of a painful doom to Christians and Jews. 34
5. If you refuse to fight, Allah will afflict you with a painful doom. 39
6. Disbelievers go to hell. 49
7. Those who vex the Prophet, for them there is a painful doom. 60
8. Those who oppose Allah and His messenger will burn in the fire of hell. 63
9. Allah promises hypocrites and disbelievers the fire of hell. Allah curses them. They will have a lasting torment. 68
10. Fight the disbelievers and hypocrites. Be harsh with them. They are all going to hell anyway. 73
11. Allah will afflict disbelievers with a painful doom in this world and the Hereafter. 74
12. For disbelievers there will be a painful doom. 90
13. Don't pray for idolaters (not even for your family) after it is clear they are people of hell-fire. 113
14. Fight disbelievers who are near you, and let them see the harshness in you. 123
Quran Surah 10: Jonah
1. Disbelievers will have a boiling drink and a painful doom. 4
2. Those who neglect Allah's revelations will make their home in the Fire. 7-8
3. Allah has destoyed entire generations. 13
4. Those who disbelieved will face a dreadful doom. 70
5. Allah drowned those who disbelieved his revelations. 73
6. Moses asked Allah to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they would not believe until they saw the painful doom. 88
Quran Surah 11: Hud
1. Disbelievers wil1 end up in the Fire. 17
2. Those who oppose Islam and disbelieve in the Hereafter are guilty of the greatest wrong. 18-19
3. Those in the Fire will suffer as long as the heavens and earth endure. 106-7
4. Allah will fill hell with humans and jinn. 119
Quran Surah 13: The Thunder
1. Disbelievers are the rightful owners of the Fire 5
2. Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers. 14
3. Those who do not answer Allah's call will go to hell. 18
4. Disbelievers will be tormented in this life, and suffer even more pain in the Hereafter. 33-34
5. The reward for disbelievers is the Fire. 35
Quran Surah 14: Abraham
1. Woe unto the disbelievers. Theirs will be an awful doom. 2
2. Allah sends some people astray. 4
3. Those who are in hell will be forced to drink festering water which they can hardly swallow. They will want to die, but they will not be able to. Theirs is a harsh doom. 16-17
4. Allah sends wrong-doers astray. He does whatever he likes. 27
5. Those in hell will be chained together. Their clothing will be made of pitch and fire will cover their faces. 49-50
Quran Surah 15: The Rock
1. Let the disbelievers enjoy life and let false hope beguile them. They will come to know! 2-3
2. Iblis will lead humans astray. Only perfect Muslims will be safe from him. The rest will go to hell. 39-43
3. Allah's doom is a dolorous doom. 50
Quran Surah 16: The Bee
1. Allah could have led everyone to the truth, but he chose not to. 9
2. Those who don't believe in the Hearafter are proud. 22
3. Disbelievers are evil and will dwell in hell forever. 27-29
4. Disbelievers are liars. 39
5. Allah will add doom to doom for those who disbelieve. 88
6. Those who oppose Islam will face an awful doom. 94
Quran Surah 17: The Children of Israel
1. Allah made hell to be a dungeon for disbelievers. 8
2. Allah has prepared a painful doom for those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 10
3. Allah destroyed entire towns. 16
4. How many generations Allah has destroyed since Noah! 17
5. Allah intends to burn people in hell. 18
6. Allah makes it so that unbelievers cannot understand. 45-46
7. Allah will destroy every town before the Day of Resurrection. 58
8. Allah will send disbelievers astray. Then he'll burn them in hell, increasing the flames from time to time. 97-98
Quran Surah 18: The Cave
1. Allah has prepared a Fire for the disbelievers. When they want a shower, Allah will give them a shower of molten lead to burn their faces. 29
2. Those who are condemned to the Fire know they will have no way to escape. 53
3. The worst wrong is to forget Allah's revelations. Allah covers their hearts and makes them deaf so that they will never believe the truth. 57
4. There is an appointed time in which the doomed will find no escape. 58
5. Allah has destroyed many towns. 59
6. On a certain day, Allah will present hell, in plain view, to the disbelievers. 100
7. Allah will welcome the disbelievers into hell. 102
8. Hell is the reward for disbelievers because they made a jest of Allah's revelations and messengers. 106
Quran Surah 19: Mary
1. Allah will pluck out from every sect those who should burn in hell. 69-70
2. Allah will record what disbelievers say and then prolong their torment. 77-79
3. Allah has sent the devils on the disbelievers to confuse them. 83
4. Allah has destroyed many generations. 98
Quran Surah 20: Ta Ha
1. Those who do not believe Allah's revelations will face doom in the Hereafter. 127
2. Allah has destroyed many generations. 128
Quran Surah 21: The Prophets
1. Allah destroyed entire towns, yet the people still disbelieved. 6
2. The people cried out for mercy, but Allah killed them anyway. 15
3. Disbelievers will not be able to put out the fire on their faces and backs. They will be stupefied and no one will help them. 39-40
4. Allah gave judgment and knowledge to Lot . He was a righteous man. (Genesis 19:7-38) 75
5. Every person alive at the time of the flood was evil. So Allah drowned them all. 77
6. The disbelievers will stare in terror at what Allah has in store for them. 97-99
Surah 22: The Pilgrimage
1. The devil will guide some to the punishment of the Flame. 3-4
2. Those who turn from the way of Allah will face ignominy in this world and burning in the next. 9
3. Whoever thinks that Allah will not give Muhammad victory should go hang himself. 15
4. Disbelievers will wear garments of fire, boiling fluid will be poured on their heads, their bellies and skin will be melted, they will be tormented with iron hooks, and when they try to escape they will be driven back with the taunt: Taste the doom of burning. 19-22
5. Allah will provide the disbelievers with a painful doom. 25
6. How many towns Allah has destroyed! 45
7. Those who disregard Allah's revelations are the owners of the Fire. 51
8. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will have a shameful doom. 57
9. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will burn in the Fire. 72
Quran Surah 23: The Believers
1. Allah told Noah not to bother pleading for the people he was about to drown. 27
2. Those who don't believe in the Hereafter will receive extreme punishment from Allah. 74-77
3. When fire burns their faces, they will be glum. 104
4. Disbelievers will not be successful. 117
Surah 24: The Light
1. Scourge adulterers and adulteresses with 100 stripes. Do not show them any pity. Have a party of believers watch the punishment. 2
2. Only adulterers can marry adulteresses. Believers are not to marry them. 3
3. Vile women are for vile men, and vile men for vile women. 26
4. Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves. 31
5. Disbelievers are miscreants. 55
6. Disbelievers will never escape the Fire that will be their home. 57
7. It's okay for believers to own slaves. 58
8. The only true believers are those who believe in Allah and his messenger. 62
Quran Surah 25: The Criterion
1. Those who deny the coming of the Hour will be chained together and burned with fire. They will pray for their own destruction. 11-13
2. Allah will force the evil-doers to taste great torment. 19
3. It will be a hard day for disbelievers and wrong-doers. They will gnaw on their hands and wish they had chosen Islam. 26-27
4. Those who deny Muhammad's revelations will be destroyed. 36
5. Allah drowned everyone in the flood of Noah, and has prepared a painful doom for evil-doers. 37
Quran Surah 26: The Poets
1. Allah destroyed the people in Lot 's town with a dreadful rain. 172-3
2. Many will not believe until they see the painful doom. 201
3. Those who believe in another god are doomed. 213
Quran Surah 27: The Ant
1. Allah leads those who do not believe in the Hereafter astray by making things work out OK in this life, so that he can torment them forever in the next. They will get the worst punishment and will be the greatest losers. 4-5
2. "Allah destroyed them and their people, every one." 51
3. But he "saved those who believed." 53
4. Allah sent a dreadful rain on "those who stayed behind." 58
5. Whoever does something wrong will be thrown into the Fire. 90
Quran Surah 28: The Narrative
1. Allah has completely destroyed many communities. 58
2. Allah will taunt Christians on the day of their doom, saying: Where are My partners whom ye imagined? 62-64
3. Allah caused the earth to swallow Korah. 79-81
4. Never help disbelievers. 86 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)
Quran Surah 29: The Spider
1. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah have no hope of mercy. For such there is a painful doom. 23
2. Only wrong-doers deny the revelations of Allah. 49
3. Those who disbelieve in the revelations of Allah are the losers. 52
4. The doom of hell will come upon disbelievers suddenly, when they least expect it. 53-55
Quran Surah 30: The Romans
1. Allah will tear Christians apart for ascribing partners to him. 13-14
2. Disbelievers will be brought to doom. 16
3. It's OK to own slaves. 28
4. Allah does not love disbelievers. 45
5. Allah seals the heart of disbelievers. (And then he burns them in the Fire.) 59
Quran Surah 31: Luqman
1. Those who mislead others from Allah's way and mock Islam will have a painful doom. 6-7
2. Allah will give disbelievers a little comfort for a little while, and then he'll torment them forever with a heavy doom. 23-24
Quran Surah 32: The Prostration
1. Allah will fill hell with the jinn and mankind together. 13
2. Allah: Taste the doom of immortality because of what ye used to do. 14
3. Those who used to deny the Fire will be tormented in it forever. 20
4. The worst thing you can do is to deny the revelations of Allah. 22
Quran Surah 33: The Clans
1. Don't obey disbelievers. 1 (Can Muslims in countries ruled in by non-Muslims be loyal to their country?)
2. Allah makes the deeds of unbelievers fruitless. 19
3. Allah cast panic into the hearts of the disbelievers. He killed some, and enslaved others. 25-26
4. Allah gave Zeyd’s wife, his own daughter in law to Muhammad in marriage. This was so that all Muslims would know that it's OK to marry your adopted son's ex-wife. 37
5. Ignore disbelievers and their poisonous talk. 48
6. It's OK to own slaves. 50
7. Allah says it is lawful for Muhammad to marry any women he wants. 50-51
8. It's OK to own slaves. 55
9. Those who malign Allah, Muhammad, and Muslims will be cursed by Allah in this life and with doom in the Hereafter. 57
10. Those who oppose Islam will be slain with a fierce slaughter. 60-61
11. Allah has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for them a flaming fire, wherein they will abide forever. 64-65
12. The disbelievers will be burned in the Fire with a double torment. 66-68
Quran Surah 34: Saba
1. Those who challenge the revelations of Muhammad will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve in the Hereafter will be tormented. 8
3. But some of the jinn Allah burned with flaming Fire. 12
4. Those who strive against Allah's revelations will be brought to the doom. 38
5. Those who worshipped the jinn will taste the doom of the Fire. 41
6. Allah hates those who ignore his messengers. 45
7. Those who are cast into hell be terrified when they see that they have no escape. Then they will believe. But it will be too late. 51-52
Quran Surah 35: The Angels
1. Those who disbelieve will have an awful doom. 7
2. Allah sends whoever he wants astray. 8
3. Allah hates disbelievers. 26
4. Disbelievers will burn forever in the fire of hell. Allah will keep them alive so that he can torture them forever. When they repent and ask for mercy, he will ignore them. 36-7
5. He who disbelieves, his disbelief will be on his own head. 39
6. Allah has blinded the disbelievers so that they cannot see the truth. So it don't bother warning them.
7.
Quran Surah 36: Ya Sin
8. They will go to hell anyway. 8-10
9. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 31
10. If Allah feels like it, he will drown everyone. 43
11. Allah will burn the disbelievers in hell. 63-4
Quran Surah 37: Those Who Set The Ranks
1. Those who refuse to believe in Muhammad's revelations will face a painful doom. 31-38
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree with the heads of devils, and then drink boiling water. After that they return to hell. 62-68
3. Allah drowned everyone except Noah and his family in the flood. 82
4. Allah tells Abraham in a dream to sacrifice his son. (But is the son Ishmael or Isaac?) 102
5. Allah killed everyone in Sodom except for Lot and his family. 136
6. No one is against Allah, except those who burn in hell. 162-3
Quran Surah 38: Sad
1. Allah has destroyed many generations. 3
2. Those who doubt will soon taste Allah's doom. 8
3. Those who deny the messengers deserve doom. 14
4. Those who wander from the way of Allah will have an awful doom. 26
5. Those who disbelieve will burn in the Fire. 27
6. The transgressors will roast in the Fire and be forced to drink boiling liquids followed by ice cold drinks. 55-9
7. Iblis asks Allah to let him hang around and mislead humans. Allah allows him to do so, and Iblis leads all humans to hell except for the single-minded slaves. Allah agrees, and plans to fill hell with Iblis and his followers. 79-85
Quran Surah 39: The Troops
1. Tell the disbelievers to enjoy themselves now, because later they will be owners of the Fire. 8
2. The losers will be those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. They will be surrounded by fire. 15-16
3. No one will be able to help those that Allah torments in the Fire. 19
4. Woe unto those who forget Allah. They are in plain error. 22
5. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 23
6. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie against Allah. The home of disbelievers is hell. 32
7. Allah sends some people astray. For them there is no guide. 36
8. Surrender to Allah before he sends the doom upon you suddenly. 54-55
9. Those who lie about Allah will be sent to hell and will have their faces blackened. 60
10. Losers are those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah. 63
11. Those ascribe a partner to Allah (like the Christians) will be among the losers. 65
12. Those who disbelieve will be driven into hell. 71-72
Quran Surah 40: The Believer
1. Allah sent an awful punishment at the time of Noah. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 6
3. Allah greatly abhors those who disbelieve. 10
4. When the doom comes, the hearts of the doomed will choke in their throats, and no one will help them. 18
5. Those who ignore Allah's "clear proofs" will be seized and punished severely. 22
6. Those that Allah sends astray will have no helper or guide. 33
7. Allah deceives those who doubt. 34
8. The prodigals will be owners of the Fire. 43
9. The doomed will be exposed to the Fire morning and evening. 46
10. Those in hell will beg to be relieved from the Fire's torment for just a day. But the prayer of a disbeliever is in vain. 49-50
11. Those who bicker about Allah's revelations are filled with pride. 56
12. Those who scorn Allah will go to hell. 60
13. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are perverted. 63
14. Those who deny the Scripture and Allah's messengers will be dragged through boiling water and thrust into the Fire. 70-72
15. Allah will taunt the Christians in hell, saying: Where are all my partners that you used to believe in? 73
16. Thus does Allah send astray the disbelievers (in his guidance). 74
17. Those who scorn will go to hell. 76
18. When they see Allah's doom they will believe in Allah. But their faith will not save them. The disbelievers will be ruined. 84-85
Quran Surah 41: Fusilat
1. Woe unto the idolaters who disbelieve in the Hereafter. 6
2. Allah will make life miserable for those who deny his revelations and then he will torment them forever in the Hereafter. And they will not be helped. 15-16
3. The enemies of Allah will be gathered into the Fire where their skin, ears, and eyes will testify against them. 19-20
4. Allah will make those who disbelieve taste an awful doom. Their immortal home will be the Fire, since they denied Allah's revelations. 27-28
5. Those who disbelieve will taste hard punishment. 50
Quran Surah 42: The Counsel
1. While some lounge in the Garden, others will roast in the Flame. 7
2. Those who argue about Allah will have his wrath upon them. Theirs will be an awful doom. 16
3. Allah sometimes kills people for misbehaving. 34
4. Allah sends some people astray and then punishes them for it by burning them in the Fire. 44-46
5. Allah makes some people barren. (Whenever he feels like it.) 50
Quran Surah 43: Ornaments of God
1. When the Egyptians angered Allah, he drowned them all. 55
2. Those who argue and do wrong will have a painful doom that will come upon them suddenly. 65-66
3. The guilty are tormented forever in hell. Allah will not relax their punishment. 74-75
Quran Surah 44: Smoke
1. Those in torment will claim to believe and ask Allah for relief. But he will refuse since they will return to their disbelief. 11-16
2. Those in hell must eat from a tree like molten brass that burns their bellies. Then boiling water will be poured on their heads. 43-48
Quran Surah 45: Crouching
1. Those who hear and reject Allah's revelations are sinful liars. Give them tidings of a painful doom. 7-8
2. Those who joke about Allah's revelations will go to hell. Theirs will be an awful doom. 9-10
3. Those who disbelieve in Allah's revelations will have a painful doom of wrath. 11
4. Allah sends some people astray, making it impossible for them to hear or see. 23
5. Those who disbelieve are guilty folk. 31
Quran Surah 46: The Wind-Curved Sandals
1. Disbelievers will be rewarded with the ignominious doom of the Fire. 20
2. The guilty will face a wind with a painful torment. 25
3. Allah has destroyed entire towns. 27
4. Allah will taunt the disbelievers that he torments in the fire, saying: "Taste the doom for that ye disbelieved." 34
Quran Surah 47: Muhammad
1. Allah makes the works of disbelievers vain. 1
2. Those who disbelieve follow falsehood. 3
3. Smite the necks of the disbelievers whenever you fight against them. Those who die fighting for Allah will be rewarded. 4
4. Allah will damn the disbelievers and make all their actions fruitless. 8-9
5. Disbelievers may eat and be happy now, but the Fire will be their final home. 12
6. Those in the Garden will drink delicious wine, while those in the Fire will drink boiling water that will tear apart their intestines. 15
7. Allah curses people by making them deaf and blind. 23
8. Angels will gather them together and smite their faces and backs. 27
9. Allah will make the actions those who disbelieve fruitless. 32
10. Those who disbelieve will never be pardoned by Allah. 34-35
Quran Surah 48: Victory
1. Those who think an evil thought concerning Allah will be cursed and sent to hell by him. 6
2. Allah has prepared a flame for the disbelievers. 13
3. If you refuse to fight for Allah, he will punish you with a painful doom. 16-17
4. But if you're willing to fight for Allah, he will provide you with lots of booty. 19-20
5. Allah punished those who disbelieved with a painful punishment. 25
6. Those with Muhammad are ruthless toward disbelievers and merciful toward themselves. 29
Quran Surah 49: The Private Apartments
1. Do not lift your voice when in Muhammad's presence. Those who subdue their voices are righteous and will receive an immense reward from Allah. 1-3
Quran Surah 50: Oaf
1. Allah has destroyed many entire generations. 36
Quran Surah 51: The Winnowing Winds
1. Accursed are the conjecturers who ask: When is the Day of Judgment? It is the day they will be tormented by the Fire. 10-14
2. Woe to the disbelievers. 60
Quran Surah 52: The Mount
1. Those who deny the existence of hell will be thrust into its Fire. 11-16
2. Those who disbelieve are trapped. 42
Quran Surah 54: The Moon
1. Allah sent a storm of stones on Lot's folk, killing all but Lot 's family. 34
2. The suffering in hell will be more wretched and bitter than anything experienced on earth. 46-48
3. Allah destroyed many people, but does anyone remember anymore? 51
Quran Surah 55: The Beneficent
1. The guilty deny hell. But after they die they go circling between it and fierce, boiling water. 43-44
Quran Surah 56: The Event
1. But those on his left hand will face scorching wind, scalding water, and black smoke. 42-43
2. Those who deny Allah and the Hereafter will eat from the Zaqqum tree and drink boiling water. 51-54
3. Allah will welcome the rejecters and erring with boiling water and a roasting in the hell fire. 92-94
Quran Surah 57: Iron
1. The home of disbelievers is the Fire, a hapless journey's end. 15
2. Those who disbelieve and deny Allah's revelations are the owners of the fire. 19
Quran Surah 58: She That Disputeth
1. For disbelievers is a painful doom. 4
2. For disbelievers is a shameful doom. 5
3. Don't make friends with Allah's enemies. For those who do so, Allah has prepared a dreadful doom. 14-15
4. Those who turn others away from the way of Allah will have a shameful doom. They are rightful owners of the Fire. 16-17
5. Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the lowest. 20
6. On the Last Day good Muslims will not love their non-Muslim friends and family members, not even their fathers, sons, or brothers (or their mothers, daughters, or sisters). 22
Quran Surah 59: Exile
1. Allah cast fear into the hearts of the disbelieving People of the Scripture. Their home in the Hereafter will be the Fire. 2-3
2. The disbelieving people of the Scripture are liars. 11
3. The devil and disbelievers will be in the Fire. 16-17
4. The owners of the Garden and the owners of the Fire are not equal. 20
Quran Surah 60: She That is to be Examined
1. Don't be friends with disbelievers. They are your (and Allah's) enemy. 1
2. Don't be friends with those who have warred against you because of religion. Whoever makes friends with them is a wrong-doer. 9
3. Don't be friends with those who disbelieve in the Hereafter. They are Allah's enemies. 13
Quran Surah 61: The Ranks
1. Allah loves those who fight for him. 4
2. Allah leads some people astray. 5
3. The worst thing you can do is tell a lie about Allah. 7
Quran Surah 62: The Congregation
1. A hypocritical Jew looks like an ass carrying books. Those who deny the revelations of Allah are ugly. 5
Quran Surah 63: The Hypocrites
1. Allah seals the hearts of those who believe and then disbelieve so that they can understand nothing. 3
2. Disbelievers are perverted. They are the enemy, confounded by Allah. 4
3. Don't bother to ask Allah to forgive the disbelievers. He will never forgive them. 6
Quran Surah 64: Mutual Disillusion
1. Those who disbelieve will have a painful doom. 5
2. Those who disbelieve are the owners of the Fire. 10
Quran Surah 66: Banning
1. Muhammad's wives need to be careful. If they criticize their husband, Allah will replace them with better ones. 5
2. The fuel of the Fire is men and stones. 6
3. Be stern with disbelievers. They are going to Hell anyway. 9
4. The wives of Noah and Lot (who were both righteous) betrayed their husbands and are now in the Fire. 10
Quran Surah67: The Sovereignty
1. Disbelievers will go to hell where they will hear its roaring and boiling. 6-7
2. Who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom? (Nobody) 28
Quran Surah 69: The Reality
1. Those who do not believe in Allah will be chained up and cast into hell-fire where they will eat filth. 30-35
Quran Surah 71: Noah
1. Those that Allah drowned in Noah's flood were then tortured forever in the Fire. 25
2. Noah asked Allah to drown all the disbelievers. 26
Quran Surah 72: The Jinn
1. The fires of hell will be fueled with the bodies of idolators and unbelievers. They will experience an ever-greater torment. 15-17
2. Those who disobey Allah and his messenger will dwell forever in the fire of hell. 23
Quran Surah 73: The Enshrouded One
1. Allah will take care of the deniers. He will tie them up, burn them in a raging fire, and feed them food that chokes them. 11-13
Quran Surah 74: The Cloaked One
1. The last day will be a day of anguish for disbelievers. 9-10
2. Those who are stubborn to Allah's revelations will face a fearful doom. 16-17
3. The fire of hell shrivels humans and spares nothing. 27-29
4. Allah has appointed angels to tend the Fire and has prepared stumbling blocks for those who disbelieve. He sends some people (whoever he wants) astray. 31
5. Allah is the font of fear. 56
Quran Surah 76: "Time" or "Man"
1. Allah has prepared chains, manacles, and a raging fire for the disbelievers. 4
2. Don't obey disbelievers. 24
Quran Surah 77: The Emissaries
1. Allah destroyed "the former folk." 16
2. Woe unto the repudiators on that day! 19, 24, 28, 34, 40, 45, 49
Quran Surah 79: "Those Who Drag Forth"
Those who rebel will go to hell. 37-39
Quran Surah 80: "He Frowned"
1. Disbelievers are wicked people. On the last day they will be in darkness and have dust on their faces. 40-42
Quran Surah 82: The Cleaving
1. The wicked will burn in hell forever. 82
Quran Surah 84: The Sundering
1. Some folks will be thrown into a scorching fire. 11-12
2. Disbelievers will be given a painful doom. 22-24
Quran Surah 87: The Most High
1. Those who are flung into the great Fire will neither live nor die. 12-13
Quran Surah 88: The Overwhelming
1. On that day many will be sad and weary. Scorched by the fire, drinking boiling water, with only bitter thorn-fruit to eat. 2-7
2. Allah will punish disbelievers with the direst punishment. 23-24
Quran Surah 89: The Dawn
1. Allah poured on them the disaster of His punishment. 13
Quran Surah 90: The City
1. Those who disbelieve Allah's revelations will have the Fire placed over them like an awning. 19-20
Quran Surah92: The Night
1. Those who deny Allah's revelations must endure the flaming fire. 14-16
Syed K. Mirza
August 25, 2007 7:26 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 25, 2007 19:26
Dear Karen,
I admire your books as they speak I think, with a very profound understanding of God/The Absolute in religion.
I like one key Buddhist prayer which enjoins us all to wish that all beings may be free of suffering and pain and be happy and at peace. Since so many in the world are touched profoundly by suffering, surely one of the best ways to enter into a concious awareness of the Absolute is by having compassion for others and other beings, whatever one's faith or lack thereof.
August 17, 2007 1:45 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 17, 2007 13:45
Dear Karen,
I am praying for you.
In the Orthodox Church, prayer is considered to be the human respond to an invitation from God for a love conversation. A pure prayer doesn’t involve a request of favors by human but rather it is dialog between two lovers.
The Bible says in John 3:16: “For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
Love is the only thing that gives meaning and purpose to humanity. There is no other road to God except through His love.
Love
Salah
August 7, 2007 1:44 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 7, 2007 13:44
to whom does karen armstrong "pray", given her view of "God"? to herself or to some unknown entity i cannot find in any of her writings?
am being serious.........
August 6, 2007 6:14 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 6, 2007 18:14
Dear Ms Karen Armstrong,
Islam as a believe system is "Adab" or "attitude" of "'Abd" in the front of Unknowability about Absolut Reality Itself or we labeled as "Allah". For Allah itself, Shalat (prayer), or "dua" or others ritual is not important. To "proof" that "we or everything" are 'Abd Allah' and "Believe" that Allah, YHWH or whatever you call it is "Exist" with "All Possible Expression" we need to be "Aslim and Islam" and doing Shalat or dua or other activities (not only ritual but daily activities) on the coridor of Islam as believe system. Coridor of believe in Islam is Shirathaal Mustaqiim. Shirathaal Mustaqiim is Knowledge (actually KNOW-L-EDGE is MONK-L-Edge, Monk on the edge of Maia Reality and Absolute reality) about “me and You and You and me” (‘abd Allh). Implementation of Knowledge according “me as a Moslem” is Tauhid Base Society or Knowledge Base Society or as a member of knowledable communitty. Practical aspects of Know-L-Edge in Islam as Tauhid Base Society, as Ukhuwah Islamiyah, as Ummah, as Rahmaatan Lil aalamin etc…etc are syahadah, shalat, zakat, ramadhan, and the last but "not must" is Hajj as finishing point that we are really 'Abd Allah and believe “True Knowledge about Allah(Tauhid or Shibghatallahi in Qur'an, see QS 2:138)”. (Beside those 5 Pillar Of Islam as al-Mukminun and then to be a Mukmin need also to believe on 6 pillar of Iman. In this case, I define a Mukmin is a person who pray, dua, and doing other life activies within coridor of Islam and believe that the method to pray or to do something according Islam is the optimal method.)
If you, as a religions Researcher still have questions like this :
“If God knows everything and is, as the Qur’an says, closer to me than my jugular vein, why did he need to hear my requests?
Why should God answer my prayers, when he so clearly fails to heed the prayers of many hopeless people throughout the world?
Or others similar questions .
I think, until now you did not know anything about religions as a reality and as a part of our civilization (and of couse as a one of economic megamachine in the World beside science and technology), you didn’t know about Knowledge of The God or Monoteism Religions or the path to be know the Face of The God. In my view you still look like "blind LITERATUR TAILOR", a Homer like story teller with a thousand assumptions and references, and all your books still did not reach truly and really understanding about Religion , or a TRUE KNOWLEDGE of The Truth, or Knowledge Of The God or everything you call it.
That my comments, I'm very sorry for my bad English. I’m not native English writer or speaker. I’am Indonesian.
Thx. Atmonadi
(pls note that the opini of Islam as belive system in this comment is on my view as Muslim. So, don't look to any islamic literatur except on Qur'an, may be you cant found it).
August 3, 2007 12:49 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 3, 2007 00:49
Dear Ms Karen Armstrong,
Islam as a believe system is "Adab" or "attitude" of "'Abd" in the front of Unknowability about Absolut Reality Itself or we labeled as "Allah". For Allah itself, Shalat (prayer), or "dua" or others ritual is not important. To "proof" that "we or everything" are 'Abd Allah' and "Believe" that Allah, YHWH or whatever you call it is "Exist" with "All Possible Expression" we need to be "Aslim and Islam" and doing Shalat or dua or other activities (not only ritual but daily activities) on the coridor of Islam as believe system. Coridor of believe in Islam is Shirathaal Mustaqiim. Shirathaal Mustaqiim is Knowledge (actually KNOW-L-EDGE is MONK-L-Edge, Monk on the edge of Maia Reality and Absolute reality) about “me and You and You and me” (‘abd Allh). Implementation of Knowledge according “me as a Moslem” is Tauhid Base Society or Knowledge Base Society or as a member of knowledable communitty. Practical aspects of Know-L-Edge in Islam as Tauhid Base Society, as Ukhuwah Islamiyah, as Ummah, as Rahmaatan Lil aalamin etc…etc are syahadah, shalat, zakat, ramadhan, and the last but "not must" is Hajj as finishing point that we are really 'Abd Allah and believe “True Knowledge about Allah(Tauhid or Shibghatallahi in Qur'an, see QS 2:138)”. (Beside those 5 Pillar Of Islam as al-Mukminun and then to be a Mukmin need also to believe on 6 pillar of Iman. In this case, I define a Mukmin is a person who pray, dua, and doing other life activies within coridor of Islam and believe that the method to pray or to do something according Islam is the optimal method.)
If you, as a religions Researcher still have questions like this :
“If God knows everything and is, as the Qur’an says, closer to me than my jugular vein, why did he need to hear my requests?
Why should God answer my prayers, when he so clearly fails to heed the prayers of many hopeless people throughout the world?
Or others similar questions .
I think, until now you did not know anything about religions as a reality and as a part of our civilization (and of couse as a one of economic megamachine in the World beside science and technology), you didn’t know about Knowledge of The God or Monoteism Religions or the path to be know the Face of The God. In my view you still look like "blind LITERATUR TAILOR", a Homer like story teller with a thousand assumptions and references, and all your books still did not reach truly and really understanding about Religion , or a TRUE KNOWLEDGE of The Truth, or Knowledge Of The God or everything you call it.
That my comments, I'm very sorry for my bad English. I’m not native English writer or speaker. I’am Indonesian.
Thx. Atmonadi
(pls note that the opini of Islam as belive system in this comment is on my view as Muslim. So, don't look to any islamic literatur except on Qur'an, may be you cant found it).
August 3, 2007 12:46 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 3, 2007 00:46
Well Said Karen.Keep up the good works.
Sincerely, I admire your thinking of honesty and courage.
August 2, 2007 4:25 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 2, 2007 16:25
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July 30, 2007 5:45 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on July 30, 2007 05:45
Ms. Karen Armstrong:
I am looking for the possibility of your reviewing my book The Quran & Modern Science.
It is a small book but loaded with interesting analysis. Please respond to my email if you decide to review or edit this book.
Mohamed Tawfik
July 23, 2007 5:31 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on July 23, 2007 17:31
Ms. Karen Armstrong:
I am looking for the possibility of your reviewing my book The Quran & Modern Science.
It is a small book but loaded with interesting analysis. Please respond to my email if you decide to review or edit this book.
Mohamed Tawfik
July 23, 2007 5:31 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on July 23, 2007 17:31
You are a third rate thinker, a fictional historian, and a poorly developed human being. That you pass for someone with influence is so sad I weep for us all. But I weep mostly for you. Please, do not write or speak in public about Buddha. Please?
July 14, 2007 9:06 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on July 14, 2007 21:06
dear all my friends...peace be upon u...
read Surah Al-Ikhlas....than u will find it thru your heart.
Salam
July 12, 2007 2:04 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on July 12, 2007 02:04
Yes, Quran gives me a touching feeling, a very touching that I even feel the sharp sword touch my neck.
If you see this verse as a non muslim:
9:5 And so, when the sacred months are over [6] , slay those who ascribe divinity to aught beside God wherever you may come upon them, [7] and take them captive, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every conceivable place [8] ! Yet if they repent, and take to prayer, and render the purifying dues, let them go their way: for, behold, God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace.
http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/
you don't know the heart at all and the heart shouldn't submit to a tyrannical ruler and cruel master, but you seem to fall for that.
And I am not quoting from hadiths. Directly from Quran.
Fox
June 22, 2007 2:12 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on June 22, 2007 02:12
Hi Everybody,
Whatevery you write, think or say against Islam, its prophet and Quran, you can not change the fact that Quran, a random part from it, even its translation, creates a touching feeling in you and you just tend to listen to it and can not stop yourself from listening to it. I am so sure that the same effect has occured in your hearts and because of those interesting feelings, which make your soul and hearts soften, you get
convinced and affected and got frightened of that it would harm your faith in Christanity, Judaism or what you believe. That is why you started reading a lot about Islam, its prophet and the biggest miracle Quran, to find a cure to demolish the "satanic" and "magical" feelings in your souls created by Quran, to convince yourself that it could not be true.. Sorry, your soul, subconcious already confessed to itself that Islam and Quran is the right path to God (Allah, or whatever you call the only One Creator) and completes some bricks, which you always thought and realized to be missing until now..
What is admitted by your hearts, is not admitetd your brains.. With time, you will overcome it hopefully, as many did. Or you will live teh fight between your heart and brain forever and die in a sad manner.
That is why you are attacing Islam, its prophet and Quran by using so called hadiths (always not possible to prove to be true %100) and by reflecting some verses as samples of violence. (If there is a battle, or risk for battle, it is a human right to fight back. It is a very basic the strategy in military or business to be proactive, to decrease the risk factors.
That is one of the reasons why the Crusaders also attacked Muslims.)
I just laugh at the bad descriptions and swears
for Muhammed (SAV) (in fact all 1,2 billion muslims in his name). It reflects your desperate situation.
What we suffer and have suffered until now, is the results of that the muslims really got far away from the real message, we just heard it but not listened to it and did not live. I am a little pessimistic about the future for the current muslim population because we are still missing (forgot to read and see it) the real message. However, our trasure the Quran is there, and what we should do is just to hug it and feel it in our hearts again. I hope we do it.
However, after i read the messages here, i am more optimistic for the western countries, which contain people seeking real faith and solid belief and read Quran for this. In the next years , hopefully, there will be more and more muslims in western countries and that will add
power to Islam and its message.
Regards,
A Circassian believer
June 11, 2007 3:17 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on June 11, 2007 03:17
Ms Armstrong,
Please respond to Ali Sina.
Your interpretation of Islam misleads people who lack knowledge of Islam and approach Islam from your rose-tinted perspective, determined to fit the history into a worldview of tolerance, multiculturalism, pluralism and cultural relativism.
Sir Winston Churchill identified two of the greatest threats to your freedom today - Nazism and communism, although the appeasers of his time called him a fool. He was right on both occasions, and is considered one of the greatest leaders of all time by the British and Americans. He worked in Muslim countries prior to becoming Prime Minster. He won a Nobel prize for his literary scholarship. This great man identified Islam as an ideology more dangerous than the ideology of Nazism.
What you need to understand is that Muhammad's ideology is the exact opposite of your own, and Muhammad's ideology requires the complete destruction of all other belief systems, just as Nazism requires the destruction of all other belief systems.
Somehow I doubt that your knowledge, wisdom, education, scholarship or track record is in anyway comparable to that of Sir Winston Churchill. Unlike you, Churchill wasn't blinded to reality by his own ideology.
The sad truth is as Churchill understood it. Muhammad was a gangster godfather type character who ordered the assassination of anyone who spoke out against him, who kept slaves for his own pleasure, who kept a harem of wives for his own pleasure, who encouraged his men to rape female captives in order to bring shame on his enemies, who had sex with children for his own pleasure, who had people tortured to death by cutting off their limbs and then holding heated nails in front of their eyes until they went blind, and then left them in this condition in the heat of the sun and refused them water when they pleaded as they died.
Only the most foolish person would attempt to defend the ideology and belief system of such a man when people are being murdered all around the world by people who study the life of this killer, dress like him, follow his ideology and use his terror tactics to strike terror into the hearts of today’s unbelievers.
"Remember your Lord inspired the angels with the message: ‘I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.’" (8:12)
"Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah. Whatever you spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid to you and you shall not be treated unjustly." (8:60)
"When We decide to destroy a population, We send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then We destroy them utterly." (17:16)
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM:
"After the fall of Khartoum and the retreat of the British armies the Mahdi became the absolute master of the Soudan (Sudan). Whatever pleasures he desired he could command, and, following the example of the founder of the Mohammedan faith, he indulged in what would seem to Western minds gross excesses. He established an extensive harem for his own peculiar use, and immured (imprisoned) therein the fairest captives of the war. The conduct of the ruler was imitated by his subjects."
"the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund (declining), Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome." [Churchill understood that only superior technology had protected Europe from Islam. In the past 50 years, ignorant politicians who’d never studied Islam then opened up our defences and invited Islam into the West with open arms, bypassing that technology]
"the Mein Kampf of war" [Referring to the Qur’an. Churchill considered that the teachings of the Qur’an represented a form of Nazism, yet today’s politicians, in their wisdom, consider that a combination of appeasement, lying to the public about Islam being a “religion of peace”, and criminalizing the truth is the most effective way to prevent genocide in the future. Based on his statements concerning both Islam and appeasement, I do not believe that Sir Winston Churchill would ever have supported such a dangerously misguided strategy]
"All the warlike operations of Mohammedan peoples are characterised by fanaticism"
"What the horn is to the rhinoceros, what the sting is to the wasp, the Mohammedan faith was to the Arabs" [Churchill believed that the Islamic faith was itself a formidable weapon of war]
"degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity." [Churchill saw that followers of the prophet engaged little 9 year old girls in sexual relationships, as they sort to emulate his ‘perfect example’]
Your understanding of Islam is completely and utterly wrong. Please listen to people who have much deeper knowledge and understanding of Islam, such as Ali Sina (an apostate), and please remember two words, the next time you are tempted to appease Islam again: "Winston Churchill."
April 11, 2007 4:58 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 11, 2007 04:58
HERE IS THE CONTEXT
During the reign of the Prophet in the city/state of Medina early 7th century, every one was a full citizen with full civic and religious rights: the new Muslims, Christians, the Jews and the Pagans of Arabia. The Quran states unequivocally that " No Compulsion in Religion.")The Prophet who had just established the first Islamic city/state in Medina, had signed a treaty with-among others-the Jewish tribe of Banu Qorizah-to defend the new state and where the treaty stipulated that the members of this tribe being citizens of the new Islamic city-state agreed never to ally themselves with the enemies of the infant Islamic state nor to carry arms against it in exchange for granting them-the Jewish tribe- the aforementioned full citizenship rights including guarantying their protection and security. However the Jewish tribe conspired with enemies of the Islamic state and committed treason, treachery and violated the treaty. The Islamic state, lead by the Prophet defatted the aggressors on the battlefield; thereafter the Prophet and the leaders of the Jewish tribe mutually agreed to appointing an acceptable and neutral arbitrator/Judge to rule on the violation of the treaty which the Jewish tribe violated and the Judge ruled that the Jewish tribe was guilty of both joint military aggression with the enemies of the infant state as well as treason as they were citizen of Islamic state. The judge ordered the death penalty to be carried out against the treacherous members of the tribe who committed treason and aggression-as any state would do in self-defense. The numbers of those deserving the death penalty is exaggerated by Jewish sources as usual.
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Victoria,
You're starting to think wrong then. All you have to do is to read the tafsirs to get the historical context and then work it out for yourself.
I was always told that 9:5 and 9:29 were revealed in times of war when the Muslims were being attacked or the pagans were treacherous to them by breaking the treaties. That was what I was told for a long time, and this is what I see is still being propagated to people like you.
But then I read the tafsirs for myself and found out that surah 9 was revealed in Zil-Qa'adah 9 AH. http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/maududi/mau9.html
This is not the only evidence since other tafsirs also say this.
However, it is common knowledge that Muhammad conquered Mecca in Ramadan 8AH. Thus, 9:5 and 9:29 cannot be revealed before the conquest of Mecca but after.
If you read the sira and hadiths, you'd know that by 9AH the entire Arabian peninsula had fallen sway to the Muslims. There was no more wars. Muhammad had won. There were no pagan opposition left. For Westerners read Mubarakpuri's Ar-Raheem al-Makhtum or Haykal's history of Muhammad.
By 9AH Muhammad had felt confident enough to take his war-mongering outside Arabia - i.e. to Tabuk in Syria (deep in Byzantine terrority).
So in this context if you read 9:1-4 you'd see it is Muhammad who 'abrogated' or 'cancelled' all the treaties he had with the remaining pagans and then let loose his men to hunt them down and kill them if they don't convert to Islam or if they're people of the book to pay jizyah with humiliation.
The treaty of Hudaibiyya which is often trumpeted as the context was long past and broken by Muhammad when he conquered Mecca.
So please don't fall for the line that surah 9 was revealed in the context of war when the Muslims were on the defensive. The history does not support this but the entirely opposite case.
Salaam,
Ahmed
February 23, 2007 9:45 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 23, 2007 21:45
ahmed- im starting to think youre getting this from a website- provide the text with your knowledge of history as i find your contention historically innaccurate-
February 22, 2007 3:14 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on February 22, 2007 03:14
Victoria wrote:
even ahmed can tell you that the ayats (verses) youre referring to about violence toward non-believers are those who were actively engage in treachery against the muslim community at that time-
Ahmed replies:
Not true. If one examines the historical context of Surah 9 one is left in no doubt that violence towards non-believers had nothing to do with the treachery by non-Muslims against Muslims but the other way round.
I know it is an oft-repeated mantra that the violent verses in the Quran were only in the context of war or treachery against the Muslims. However, the historical context is against this belief. If anything Muhammad was the treacherous one while the non-Muslims were the honorable party.
Evidence for Ahmed's bold assertion?
The timing of the revelation of 9:5 and 9:29 and the sahih hadiths in which Muhammad told his followers to apply 9:29 outside Arabia.
Salaam,
Ahmed
February 21, 2007 7:43 PM | Report Offensive Comments
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