Quran An Easy Book.
There’s no problem in understanding anything differently. For as long as there shall be humans on this planet, there shall be differences of opinion. Differing opinions is what makes this world go around – it’s God’s mechanism for the advancement of knowledge in this world. As per the Quran we’re only responsible to practice what we have honestly understood. Besides, barring the prophets of God, there’s no one else in the whole wide world who can or could ever have claimed to know the entire truth. What matters is our attitude towards the truth. If we believe in one thing today, and tomorrow we find really strong evidence that we were wrong. What do we do? Do we accept the new truth (extremely hard), or we cling to what we now know to be the falsehood? That’s the test. From the story of satan to the story of prophet Muhammad SAW and every story in the middle – that’s the message of the Quran.
Yes absolutely, I was referring to attitude towards the truth by every individual – regardless of their belief system. I consider myself a Muslim and I still face this challenge on a constant basis. This is a lifelong attitude and it has nothing to do with religion specifically.
Yes, that is absolutely correct, and I find no reason to be skeptical about that. The test that we are in, otherwise known as life, is first and foremost about the recognition of truth and our attitude towards it. The reward and punishment is not solely based on wrong and right – it’s based on whether a person rejected right after knowing it was right, or accepted wrong after knowing it was wrong. As I stated before, knowledge is never static – it gets refined with time. Newton’s Universal Gravitation was his truth that he reached after his best and sincere effort, but Einstein presented a better truth called the General Theory of Relativity that completely contradicts the version presented by Newton. And now they’re even questioning Einstein and will probably come up with an even better explanation for gravity. The evolution of knowledge is all but natural. If today I reject Einstein in favor of Newton, knowing well that Einstein has the current version of truth, then I’m guilty of kufr – and that God will never accept from me.