By M Abu-Hamdiyyah
This new paintings provides a concise and available advent to the Qur'an. Muhammad Abu-Hamdiyyah first explores the idea that of deity, together with the Christian and Jewish knowing of God, and moment discusses the Qur'anic message from the viewpoint of contemporary wisdom. this is often a fantastic textbook for college kids without earlier wisdom of the complexities of the Qur'an's message.
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This religion looks upon life in a very pessimistic manner. In fact life is looked upon as if an error was committed which must be rectified by separating the soul and spirit from the body (matter), the latter taken to represent evil. Since the two contending principles are irreducible and coeval, the concept of One God as the Ultimate in this world is not clear. It is of interest to note that in this religion the concept of light as a seed, as in the Greek term ‘Spermaticosa Logos’, was adopted and put into practice literally in the Manichaeism mythology.
When you get acquainted with yourselves ... 53 Christianity as it is known today is based on the Christ of faith and not the Jesus of history. 54 Possible origins of Christology Christianity was born when Paul (a Jewish rabbi with the Hebrew name Saul) adapted the message of Jesus by shifting the emphasis from preaching to the Jews to preaching to the non-Jews (the gentiles, mainly 9 T H E Q U E S T F O R U N D E R S TA N D I N G the non-Jewish Semitic elements forming the major part of the population in the area), and by developing Christology.
However, the human being is the seeker in all fields of knowledge, and it is him or her that strives to attain understanding. If some revelations of the Scriptures seem crude, not worthy of being attributed to God, or they are ambiguous, they are so because of their human origin; the inspirations have been affected by human socio-political considerations or by some other human reason. Before leaving revelation or inspiration, it is of interest to note that the Qur’an uses the same expression, ‘God-inspiring’, as the driving force for other living beings in their life activities.