An Abridged Koran
Sunday, December 7
I HAVE previously recommended a readable version of the Qur'an, called A Simple Koran. It contains every passage in the Qur'an, written in the order the Qur'an was written (rather than the traditional way or ordering the chapters), written in plain modern English, and it even has biographical information to help you understand passages referring to events in Mohammad's life. It's a great version of the Qur'an.
But I have found something even better: An Abridged Koran, written by the same people (CSPI Publishing).
Every non-Muslim should read this book (since 61 percent of the book is about non-Muslims).
You should know its contents because your life is being influenced by it. How? Islamic supremacists are studiously attempting to fulfill its commands, and in doing so, have already changed security procedures for getting onto planes, massively influenced the economy, made what should have been a simple regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq into a bloody struggle, killed 270 million people over the last 1400 years and are still killing people every day, working hard and effectively to undermine democratic governments and freedom of the press around the world, and more is yet to come.
What does it say in their holy book? What are they trying to do? What are their goals? What methods does the book recommend to achieve those goals? Find the answer to these questions and many more in An Abridged Koran. It has all the information in A Simple Koran, but with one difference: The repetition has been removed. So when you're done with An Abridged Koran, you will have read all the information in contained in the Qur'an.
There is a tremendous amount of repetition in the Qur'an. For instance, the story of Moses and the Pharaoh is told 39 times. In An Abridged Koran that story is told only once. So you get the meaning, but without the redunancy.
When you take out all the repetition, the book is only 220 pages long. I urge you to stop taking everyone else's word for it, and read it yourself.
Learn the basic teachings of Islam right now: Why is Islam so Successful?
Find out where to get a free (mainstream) Koran, and learn more about An Abridged Koran here: Chronological Order of the Qur'an (make sure you read the comments).
2 comments:
I wanted to read the abridged version very much, however, upon closer inspection of this CSPI outfit (who apparently translated it) seem pretty darn bias. Their website is full of negativity towards the cult, so therefore I cannot trust them to give me what it says in the original koran. I'll have to pass.
I was concerned about the same thing when I first got my copy. Actually, originally, I read A Simple Koran, also by CSPI.
But I already had a standard Koran, so it was easy to compare verses. You can also do it online. There are LOTS of classic Qurans online, posted on pro-Islam web sites, and it's easy to compare since they use a numbering system.
So take random verses and compare them. You will find that CSPI is accurate. It says what the standard versions say only it says it in ordinary, modern English.
Here's more about that, and some links to online versions of the Quran:
Know the Koran
The reason CSPI's website is full of negativity about Islam is because the main author, Bill Warner, knows the Koran very well, and since he is a non-Muslim, he's not very happy about what it says about non-Muslims.
But he is scrupulously accurate. Check it out for yourself.
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