The Baha'i Studies Listserv If you believe a book is the very speech of God, of course you are going to say that no other book written is like it, even if it has similarities in style, prose and language to other works. The uniqueness of the Book is who the Author is, not whether it has a similar line to some Arab poem or the like.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Stephen Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > > > > Yes, but that's what not what most Muslims believe. They say no book ever > written is like it. The prbolem with that is that the Quran compres itself > to other scriptures like the Sefer Yetzirah, Torah, Psalms, Gospels, etc. > They also say since noone will ever bring any more surahs, Islam is final. > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > > > In several places God, Gabriel, Muhammad, etc. challenge people to bring > a > > book, surahs, a surah, verses, lines, etc. like it. > > There aren't any rules. The point is that the Qur'an is immitable. > What makes the Qur'an the Word of God is that when we hear it our > hearts our moved in such a way that we hear God speak. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto: > [email protected] > > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > [email protected] > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] > > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
