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Summary: Excellent! I learned a lot--and I'm a Muslim.
Review: I had previously been impressed by Yahiya Emerick's "Complete Idiot's Guide (CIG) to Understanding Islam," so when I saw the CIG for the Qur'an, I had to pick it up. Like all CIGs, it's an easy read. You'll find yourself browsing through the book many times--seeing what catches your eye, as well as reading it all the way through. I'd recommend this book for all--both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. I think pretty much anybody will learn something from going through it. It would also be a great dawa tool, along with the CIG to Understanding Islam.
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Summary: Easy to Read
Review: It is much as Moses taking the name of God in vain by the very act of writing 'His' ten commandments. Another discourse on how to do what it is impossible for a human being not to do ("the will of God"). The Koran seems (I have not read the Koran, but only the first nine and a half chapters of this book for idiots-I'm still reading) poetic. It seems at once to have better and worse expressions of God than does the Bible (to be totally inclusive and totally exclusive, both at the same time; a man's desire).
The Iliad is the best paradigm concerning God that has ever been written, and then even in Odysseus it seems that we find the creeping in of such phrases as "whether it be the will of God, or some man's will...."
Old Testament-The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
New Testament-Do not take for doctrine the commandments of men.God cannot be objectified. Allahu Akbar. Assalamu Alaikum.
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