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Islam is one of the world’s major religions. It shares with Judaism and Christianity a belief in a single god. The Arabic name for God is Allah. The word Islam means “surrender (to God).”. The followers of Islam are called Muslims, which in Arabic means “one who surrenders to God.”. While Islam is mainly associated with the Middle ...
- What Is The Quran?
- The History of The Quran
- Teachings of The Quran
- Scriptural Response to The Quran
- Christianity’s Response to Islam’s Holy Book
The Quran is divided into sections or Juz and contains 114 chapters or surahs. Verses in the Quran are referred to as ayatsand are often cited in a similar fashion to Bible verses, with numbers for chapters with a colon separating verses. However, there are no “books” in the Quran like the Bible. Instead, it is typically divided into thirty section...
Followers of Islam believe that the Quranis the received word of Allah. According to Muslims, Muhammad received the teachings of the Quran from the angel Gabriel. Over the course of 23 years, the “Quran was collected during the 7th-century C.E.” Muhammad first encountered Gabriel in a cave in A.D. 610, when the angel forced him to the ground demand...
While the entire teaching of the Quran could not fit in this article, I will include a few sections of importance. 1. Jesus. The Quran teaches that Jesus (Isa) was a great prophet of Allah. Islam’s holy book denies that Jesus is God (Quran 4:171; 5:116). Furthermore, it claims that Jesus never died on the cross, but that someone took his place for ...
The Quran conflicts with many teachings of the Bible. Most significantly, Scripture is clear that Jesus is God (John 8:58; Titus 2:13). He died for the sins of humankind and rose to life on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Christ alone is the Light of the world and the Way (John 8:12; 14:6). In Him, all people, both men, and women, are seen as...
The best way that Christians can enter gospel-centered conversations with Muslims is to study the Quran. Many Muslims do not know what their holy book teaches. Nabeel Qureshi, a former Muslim who converted to Christianity, stated, “Muslims do not usually engage in systematically studying their teachings. This is true even of those Muslims who have ...
