Friday, May 25, 2012

Sacred Texts


Quran
  • The holy scripture of Islam
  • Divinely created, not divinely inspired like the Bible or Torah
  • Was not authored by Muhammad
    • Muhammad was just the one that presented it to mankind
  • Written in Arabic and cannot be translated as message will be lost in translation
  • Not chronologically in order but written based on passage length
    • Goes from longest passages to shortest passages
  • Gives the rules of Islam and how one should perform the actions 
Hadiths
  • The sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad
  • Made up of stories and fables
  • Tell how one is supposed to live their life
    • Similar to the sayings of Jesus in Christianity
  • Important in Islam although not as important as the Quran since the hadiths were created by man and not God
  • Had to be tested for authenticity since people could have made some of the hadiths up

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