The Revolution of the Quran to Human Thinking

[Arnold Yasin Mol]

Part of my new book 'The Challenge of Islam: What Islam made such a succes and why it can be again in the future'.

Translated from Dutch into English

Chapter 'Religion or System?'

The Quran challenges mankind constantly. To write a similair Surah, not only in style and beauty, but especially in result of the Laws it gives. Even the existence of Allah must be tested, it cannot be based on blind belief. It must be based on evidence and not emotion or feelings. Because of this, the Quran introduced an approach to life and God which was unfound in any Religion on earth.

2:23 (For the real skeptic We have a reason friendly offer.) If you are still in doubt concerning that which We have revealed unto Our servant (Muhammad), call and set up (a committee, commission, organization, association of the highest order) all your helpers besides Allah, and then produce just one Surah like this, if you are men of Truth.

[[Bring some chapters of comparable merit that even come close to it in magnificence, eloquence, grandeur and wisdom 10]

To bring in the Theory of the Quran into Practice was a matter of faith, after man had observed some of the claims it gives. The bringing into practice was only partially based on faith. But its difference with Religions is that the results of the Quranic Laws can be experienced immediately or over long term in this life. The reward or punishment was not completely moved unto the next life, which makes it then untestable, but the results are partially given in this life. This was a Revolution of thinking which was unheard in mankind's thinking. Because of this, people could test immediately if they followed and understood the Laws correctly.

3:191 .... "Our Lord! You have not created all this without Purpose. High Above You are from creating anything in vain! Save us, then, from being negligent in attaining knowledge and thus, getting condemned to Fire.”

Any bye-laws could be adapted in when they gave no more positive results. In this way people prevented to be stuck in tradition or following of useless laws and beliefs. All concepts of Islam are thus possible to be tested, and the correct understanding will always stick out because of its result in this life.

17:36 And you shall not follow blindly any information of which you have no direct knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception) you must verify it for yourself. In the Court of your Lord, you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning. (And so, the insane and the disabled will have their incapacities taken into account in a court of law.)

[Hassan789]

To bring in the Theory of the Quran into Practice was a matter of faith, after man had observed some of the claims it gives. The bringing into practice was only partially based on faith. But its difference with Religions is that the results of the Quranic Laws can be experienced immediately or over long term in this life. The reward or punishment was not completely moved unto the next life, which makes it then untestable, but the results are partially given in this life. This was a Revolution of thinking which was unheard in mankind's thinking. Because of this, people could test immediately if they followed and understood the Laws correctly.

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