/lit/ - Literature

>>16061051
what are some beautiful passages? Or do you have to speak Arabic, in which case this thread is pointless

>>16061055
i speak arabic yes

>>16061051
Jesus Christ is the Son of YHWH who died for our sins and who rose from the dead. Denying this is denying a basic objective fact.

>>16061051
I like this section of Surah Al-Hijr.

15:2 Those are the signs of the Book and of a manifest Koran.
Perchance the unbelievers will wish that they had surrendered: leave them to eat, and to take
their joy, and to be bemused by hope; certainly they will soon know! Never a city have We
destroyed, but it had a known decree,

15:5 and no nation outstrips its term, nor do they put it back.
They say: 'Thou, upon whom the Remembrance is sent down, thou art assuredly possessed!
Why dost thou not bring the angels unto us, if thou speakest truly?'
We send not down the angels, save with truth; then they would not be respited. It is We who
have sent down the Remembrance, and We watch over it.

15:10 Indeed, We sent Messengers before thee, among the factions of the ancients, and not a
single Messenger came to them, but they mocked at him; even so We cause it to enter into
the hearts of the sinners -- they believe not in it, though the wont of the ancients is already
gone.
Though We opened to them a gate in heaven, and still they mounted through it,

15:15 yet would they say, 'Our eyes have been dazzled; nay, we are a people bewitched!'
We have set in heaven constellations and decked them out fair to the beholders, and guarded
them from every accursed Satan excepting such as listens by stealth -- and he is pursued by a
manifest flame.
And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow
therein of every thing justly weighed, and

15:20 there appointed for you livelihood, and for those you provide not for. Naught is there,
but its treasuries are with Us, and We send it not down but in a known measure. And We
loose the winds fertilising, and We send down out of heaven water, then We give it to you to
drink, and you are not its treasurers. It is We who give life, and make to die, and it is We who
are the inheritors.
We know the ones of you who press forward, and We know the laggards;

15:25 and it is thy Lord shall muster them, and He is All-wise, All-knowing.

>>16061051
I think it's specifically beautiful because the book fully understands how humans are and what they are prone to do in a very realistic way. There's not really very much a fantastical element to it other than the prophet's general canon which serves to illuminate true human nature in a much greater way. It's more of a philosophy book rather than a mythological one. I don't know if this can be applied to the Bible, probably can but meh it's great either way.

>>16061163
>Jesus Christ is the Son of YHWH who died for our sins and who rose from the dead. Denying this is denying a basic objective fact.
>Denying this is denying a basic objective fact.
Kek

>>16061051
>Why is the bible so boring in comparison?

>>16061249
explain

>>16061051
truth. beautiful. chose one.

>>16061055

>>16061163
Jesus never mentions his father being Yahweh.

>>16061318
Read Surah Al-Baqarah. Starting from verse 5, you'll see what I'm talking about

1 That is the Book, wherein is no doubt, a guidance to the godfearing who believe in the
Unseen, and perform the prayer, and expend of that We have provided them; who believe in
what has been sent down to thee and what has been sent down before thee, and have faith in
the Hereafter; those are upon guidance from their Lord, those are the ones who prosper.

5 As for the unbelievers, alike it is to them whether thou hast warned them or hast not warned
them, they do not believe. God has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and on their
eyes is a covering, and there awaits them a mighty chastisement.
And some men there are who say, 'We believe in God and the Last Day'; but they are not
believers.

They would trick God and the believers, and only themselves they deceive, and they are not
aware. In their hearts is a sickness, and God has increased their sickness, and there awaits
them a painful chastisement for that they have cried lies.

10 When it is said to them, 'Do not corruption in the land', they say, 'We are only ones that
put things right.' Truly, they are the workers of corruption but they are not aware.
When it is said to them, 'Believe as the people believe', they say, 'Shall we believe, as fools
believe?'

Truly, they are the foolish ones, but they do not know. When they meet those who beliieve,
they say, 'We believe'; but when they go privily to their Satans, they say, 'We are with you;
we were only mocking.' God shall mock them, and shall lead them on blindly wandering in
their insolence.

15 Those are they that have bought error at the price of guidance, and their commerce has not
profited them, and they are not right-guided. The likeness of them is as the likeness of a man
who kindled a fire, and when it lit all about him God took away their light, and left them in
darkness unseeing, deaf, dumb, blind -- so they shall not return; or as a cloudburst out of
heaven in which is darkness, and thunder, and lightning -- they put their fingers in their ears
against the thunderclaps, fearful of death; and God encompasses the unbelievers; the
lightning wellnigh snatches away their sight; whensoever it gives them light, they walk in it,
and when the darkness is over them, they halt; had God willed, He would have taken away
their hearing and their sight. Truly, God is powerful over everything.

O you men, serve your Lord Who created you, and those that were before you; haply so you
will be godfearing;

>>16061051
Bible is beautiful, there's a certain kind of bodily pleasure you get from reading it. But Quran is intellectually beautiful, aesthetic and ephemeral.

>>16061055
>>16061318


The aesthetic beauty of the Qur’an In English translation is less than that of the New Testament, however, the reason the Qur’an feels more beautiful overall is things like >>16061258. The Qur’an is a reflection of the universal laws as well as the soul of mankind, it clarifies the path towards righteousness in life as well as that which strays from it. The Qur’an’s beauty also lies in understanding the nature of the book, as there’s a difference between a human saying “God made the world” and God Himself speaking of His Creation to the Creation. To recognize the gravity of the Qur’anic message is sublime in itself, never mind how supernaturally beautiful it becomes one read in Arabic. The Qur’an speaks to the heart with such a unique power it’s no wonder it repeatedly challenges the reader to produce another text like it if they think it’s a fake. If you are interested in aphorisms and mystifying phrases then read the New Testament. But if you want clear, direct, and unwavering guidance you read the Qur’an.

I found it lacking in prose, and more boring than the Bible. Granted, I’m unable to read Arabic so I’m willing to concede the point that in its original language it is beautiful.
However the obvious projection due to being orphaned was an immense turn off to me.

Read the iliad