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Reading Summary October 15
Reading Summary October 15
Islam
Professor Martin
In sura number three it starts of with what will happen if you believe or you disbelieve.
If you believe you will go to the garden but if you don’t believe you will spend the rest of
eternity in hell. And then it switches to the story of Imran. Imran was the father of Mary and
Mary is the mother of Jesus. Then in this sura it talks about the birth of Mary. How she took
care of Zachariah. And then eventually the birth of Jesus. Then in the sura it talks about when
Jesus was a kid. It tells a story of when Jesus was a kid he turned clay pigeons into real ones.
Then it starts to talk about Abraham. It says in it that he was not a Jewish or a Christians but
that he was a Muslim and that he only prayed to the one true god and he was not a polytheist.
Then it talks about Jews and christens or the people of the scripture. It says that people asked
them why they rejected the message of Muhamad. And an argument is made that because they
had won these great military battles that god must be on the side of Muhamad. At the end it
dose say that there are some Jews and Christians that believes of the messages and they will be
rewarded.
In sura number four it talks about what kinds of behaviors are allowed for Muslims. Its also
makes it clear that the Quran is an legal source that should be taken seriously. It deals with
what to do with orphan girls and how to treat them fairly. It also talks about marriage laws and
children and orphans on what you should do with them. It also talks about jihad and the
relations between the Muslim community’s and the Jewish and Christian community’s. it also
talks about Jesus. It says in this sura that the role of Jesus was that he was a prophet and not
the sun of god as the Christians believe It goes on to talk about war. And how you should fight
for the venerable people who cannot fight for themselves. It also talks about a lot of the issues
that the early Muslims faced and how they overcame them.