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Author:	Adley	Created:	Friday, August 21, 2009 6:59 PM
My take on qur'anic teachings mostly can be summed up like this: non-ritualistic and (almost) non-physical. My focus is now to try to read and treat the qur'an as human as possible, meaning that I treat it as a secular book. While personally I am still holding the opinion that the qur'an is a God-inspired piece of literature, I want to focus on the idea that the qur'an can be safely treated as a work of human to other fellow human beings. I realize that this might be a "turn off" to a lot of people, but in this ever secular world, where "arguments from/using God" is the least and last thing that would work to convince others, we need to go back to our roots -- we are just human beings.

Whose Word Is It Anyway?

By Adley on Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:54 PM

Probably the most basic tenet of any sacred religious scripture is that it is God's word ad verbatim, at least in its original language of revelation and whatever definition of the "God" might be in each case. By maintaining this tenet, the immediate consequences are that the scripture should be flawless in every possible aspect and it should also be perpetually relevant to human conditions or problems. The qur'an, being one of the books that is held to be sacred by more than a billion people on Earth as Allah's words ad verbatim, inevitably share these characteristics as well. But should it? Should the qur'an be flawless in every possible aspect? And should the qur'an be perpetually relevant to human conditions or problems? This article tries to anwer those questions in one of the multitude of possible answers that could be given.

Another Attempt

By Adley on Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:10 PM

Peace to all,

This is my first blog post in DRC -- thanks a lot to brother Arnold for giving me a spot. I am still preparing an actual entry for this blog, so this introductory post will not be too specific. If you happen to have read my short bio, I would be dealing mostly with how the qur'an can relate to us in a human way. What is that supposed to mean anyway?

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