Originally Posted by
renuka
"Time is running out..better finish Quran too before Imam Mahadi comes."
Response by zebra 16:
"Hadith after Quran......?"
Dear zebra16:
Fret not.
The Koran can be mastered in the twinkling of an eye, as I have done. No hearsay, but first-person eye-witness truth. It contains pearls such as:-
The Cow 2:224 - Women are your fields! Go, then into your fields whenever you please.
The Cow 2:190-193 - Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you. Slay them wherever you find them. Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme.
Sad 38.51 - The righteous shall return to a blessed retreat: the Garden of Eden, whose gates shall open wide to receive them. Reclining there with bashful virgins for companions, they will call for abundant fruit and drink.
The Merciful 55.52-68 - (For those who fear the majesty of the Lord) there shall be (in Heaven) couches lined with thick brocade and within reach hang fruits. Therein are bashful virgins whom neither man nor jinn have touched before. Virgins as fair as corals and rubies. There shall be two gardens of darkest green. In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair. Dark-eyed HOURIS sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor jinn have touched before. They shall recline on green cushions and fine carpets. Which of your Lord's blessings would you deny (i.e. refuse)?
The Confederate Tribes 33:26 - He brought down from their strongholds those who had supported them (the unbelievers) from among the People of the Book (i.e. the Jews of Bani Qurayzah) so that some you slew (all males) and others you took captive (all women and girls).
The Dhammapada will take a bit longer. In it you will find aphorisms such as:-
na braahmana pakareyya naassa muncheta
braahmano dhee braahmanassa hanthaaram
thatho dhee y'assa munchathi
(a brahmana would not attack a brahmana, nor let loose wrath upon him. Shame on one who strikes a brahmana, and greater shame on one who lets loose wrath upon him.)
Mastering
the Torah and the Tanukh will take a couple of days. In them you will find God (Jehovah)'s order to Moses from behind the burning bush:
Exodus 3.5 - Remove thy shoes from off they feet, for thou standest on holy ground.
The Apocrypha will take a minute to master. In it you will find in "The History of Susanna: The Elders" a curious account of the stoning to death under Jewish law of an adulteress based on the testimony of a couple of old men whose blandishments she rejected.
The Christian Bible (not quite the same as the Jewish Torah and Tanukh but longer) will take about a week. Itrelates the origin of the Jewish custom of the younger brother sleeping with his dead elder brother's widow to "raise up seed" to the dead man (Genesis 38.8); plus the curious conception of Moab and of Ammon (Genesis 19.30-38); and prohibition of homosexuality and bestiality by men and women (Leviticus 18.23).
The
Four Gospels by Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (also called
The Life of Christ) will take less than an hour. Theymention Jesus Christ's mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and his brothers and sisters "standing without" and desiring to speak with sermonising Jesus (Matthew 13.46-49, 14.55-56), (Luke 8.19-20). He disowns them.
Seriously studying
the Nit-nem and the Sacred Sukhmani of the Sikhs will take another couple of days.
No study of the Koran will be complete without the study, at least in parallel, of
"The Shia Revival" by Vali Nasr (describing the great Battle of Karbala in 680 CE, the martyrdom of Husayn, son of the Caliph Ali, and grandson of the Prophet),
"Baha'u'llah and the New Order" by J E Esselmont,
"Muhammad" by Martin Lings, and
"The Sword of The Prophet" by Serge Trifkovic.
For supplementary reading, you might wish to peruse
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietsche.
S Narayanaswamy Iyer