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Originally posted by The Strangler
Almansurah, you are doing lot of interpreting of text that is not meant to be interpreted according to your and Shadow Fox's previous posts. I'm sure you don't view this as interpretation, but then again others that view the text quoted as permission to beat their wives savagely probably view their interpretation as the absolute word of Allah. This is shown by the Taliban's frequent beating and submission of women for failing to cover themselves completely and the occurances of western women having rocks and sticks thrown at them. Early commentators aside, while the exact extent of beating remains vague, the endorsement of wife beating is still in the Qur'an and quite clear.
The whole hard line of the Qur'an being absolute truth, void of wasted words and only filled with the perfected speech of Allah lends itself to these abuses. Everyone's interpretation is taken as absolute truth, and there can be NO variation or other interpretation.
At the end of your post you list a quote for the Qur'an where Allah says all should live together in peace, but you can't deny that the posts I quoted exist in the Qur'an and call for violence against disbelievers and the submission of women. Do you still think the Qur'an is devoid of contradictions?
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No I am not interpreting the text. I am just reading the Qur'an, in what context it was revealed. The Qur'an was revelead in 23 years, and different verses were related on different events, for example some of the verses you quoted about 'Killing' is related to one of the battles called Hunain.
And concerning Taliban's frequent beating of women [I dont want to really talk about politics, and enter this field, since we'll just go round in circles], but just because you've seen a few pictures on TV of that happening, doesn't mean that the whole Taliban were like that. What about their good points, 100% Peace to the areas which were in internal strife, complete wipeout of drugs....but anyway, as I said I dont want to enter this discussion, since it's about religion. But remember, there are always 2 sides to a story.
The Qur'an is devoid of any contradictions, if you think what you posted are contradictions, then i've just gotta say, that those verses dealing with 'killing' are related to war, and peace is related to when there is no war, or a need of war. Just read it up in the context the chapter is in, and you will see.