From: hra2@Lehigh.EDU (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 1)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:13:13 GMT

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The following article is taken from a booklet title "The Light of Revelation
-A Glimpse of The Meanings of The Final Divine Revelation To Humankind- The
Quran" published by Islamic Outreach-ABIM 3402 Jalan Ampang Hilir 2, 55000
Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA.  Tel: 6-03-457-4608  There is NO COPYRIGHT for this
booklet.  Any organisation or individual wishing to reproduce the booklet may
do so freely.  An acknowledgement would be appreciated.
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FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 1)

                        The Revelation

This is the Book, in it is Guidance
sure without doubt
to those who are heedful:

Who believe in the Unseen,
are steadfast in prayer,
and spend of that We have bestowed upon them;

And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee,
and that which was revealed before thee,
and in their hearts have the assurance of the Hereafter.

They are on true guidance from their Lord,
and it is these who will be successful.
                                                    (Baqarah 2: 2-5)

This is the Scripture which We revealed
unto thee Muhammad that thereby
thou may bring forth mankind
from darkness unto light.
                                                    (Ibrahim 14: 1)

O mankind!  There hath come to you
a direction from your Lord
and a healing for the diseases in your hearts,
a guidance and mercy for believers.
                                                    (Yunus 10: 57)

Will they not then ponder on the Quran?
Had it been from other than God,
they would have surely found much discrepancy.
                                                    (Nisaa 4: 82)

Say: "If the whole of Mankind and Jinns
were to gather together
to produce the like of the Quran,
they could not produce the like thereof,
even if they backed up each other
with help and support"
                                                    (Isra' 17: 88)

    God sets stringent criteria for verifying the TRUTH of His Revelation.  God
invites all mankind to use our intellect to reason out this TRUTH.  The proof
of the divine origin of the Quran is its own beauty, nature, concise and clear
message and the circumstances in which it was revealed to mankind.  The Quran
is a LIVING MIRACLE for all mankind to see.

    It is the ONLY existing divine revelation whose texts stands pure and
uncorrupted.  Muslims all over the world use exactly ONE and the SAME Quran
from the time of Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h. until today - even up to the end of
this world.

    All earlier divine revelations were orally transmitted for many
generations, resulting in interpolations, omissions and revisions.  This
resulted in the existence of a multiplicity of contradictory versions of the
same book - yet each claiming to be the original words of God.  Ponder over
your own religous belief.  Does each sect in your religion use different
versions of the same holy book?  Are there revisions?  Do the narrations
contradict scientific facts?  Are there stories that degrade the dignity of
God and mankind?  Are there irrational ideas which are unbelievable?  These
inconsistencies will be endless if we begin to trace back the history of
religion back to the early ages.  The words of God get more distorted the
further we go into history.

    The signs of the corruptions of the words of God are manifested in the
belief of superstition, myths and irrational ideas.  It resulted in
worshipping idols, fire, animals, spirits, planets, prophets or kings,
numerous gods, trinity adn an endless list of MAN-IMAGINED gods.

TO BE CONTINUED (God Willing)

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