What fascinated me most about my reading in Approaching The Qur'an is that when the children are in a Quran learning school they are taught to read it, in it's original Arabic form, from the end to the beginning. The Quran is composed up of stories detailing what, prophet, Muhammad saw and learned about during his time on earth but also includes Suras. These Suras explain Muhammad's life on earth and majority of them are placed at the end of the Quran while the beginning of the Quran foretells the meaning of life and jumps right into the teachings. (pages 11-13)
It's interesting to compare how the Quran is read and taught versus other religions like Christianity. The Bible is taught in a sort of chronological order starting from Genesis (Old Testament) The birth of Christ and then ending with Revelations which speaks of the second coming and end of times. The Bible has many different translations and rarely do you find bibles with the original language included, it's mostly been translated some much that some of the original intent maybe lost amongst translation. But for the Qur'an they are taught to study and read it in its original Arabic format; so they can truly understand the teachings that are placed within and because they deem it more sacred.
"The message of the Qur'an is more explicitly fitted into a prophetic lineage beginning with the creation of Adam, the first prohpet in Islam, extending through the stories of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, John the Baptist, and ending with Muhammad." (page 14)
This stood out the most to me because you see a lot of similarities that are overlapped or included in the bible as well. The same stories told in a different context with its original language and out of order but still with such great significance. It makes me wonder if reading the bible in its original language or languages would change the meaning or context of some of the stories? Makes me wonder if the bible was taught from end to beginning to middle, if we would receive a different message all together.
It's interesting to compare how the Quran is read and taught versus other religions like Christianity. The Bible is taught in a sort of chronological order starting from Genesis (Old Testament) The birth of Christ and then ending with Revelations which speaks of the second coming and end of times. The Bible has many different translations and rarely do you find bibles with the original language included, it's mostly been translated some much that some of the original intent maybe lost amongst translation. But for the Qur'an they are taught to study and read it in its original Arabic format; so they can truly understand the teachings that are placed within and because they deem it more sacred.
"The message of the Qur'an is more explicitly fitted into a prophetic lineage beginning with the creation of Adam, the first prohpet in Islam, extending through the stories of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, John the Baptist, and ending with Muhammad." (page 14)
This stood out the most to me because you see a lot of similarities that are overlapped or included in the bible as well. The same stories told in a different context with its original language and out of order but still with such great significance. It makes me wonder if reading the bible in its original language or languages would change the meaning or context of some of the stories? Makes me wonder if the bible was taught from end to beginning to middle, if we would receive a different message all together.
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