The Quran, or Koran, is the central religious text of the Islamic faith. Its followers consider it to be a revelation from God. Many Muslims, or followers of Islam, refer to other religious texts, such as the Hadith, a collection of prophetic traditions. Quranists, a subset of Muslims, adhere only the Quran.
Islam, along with Judiasm and Christianity, is one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions. They are so called because they all have a common ancestor in the prophet, Abraham. This is the story of Abraham, his family, and how the three religions began. Although it is taken from the Old Testament of the JudeoChristian Bible, the story is the same for the followers of Islam. The purpose here is not to convert, but to inform.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He planned to create a home where mankind could live and He could enjoy relationships with each and every one of them. Adam and Eve were intended to live in the Garden of Eden and be the parents of all humanity. He gave them the complete freedom of Paradise; the only thing he told them they were not to do was to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
Because the first couple had disobeyed God's one and only rule, he banished them from Eden. They, and all but a tiny handful of their descendants, descended into greater depths of sin. Devastated by the disappointing outcome of His creation, God sent a flood to destroy the earth and everything in it, apart from Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. He also spared the animals, making sure that two of everything survived the deluge.
Generations later, God noticed that Abraham, one of Noah's descendants, was a righteous man. God loved him so much, that he told Abraham and his wife, Sarah, that their children would outnumber the stars. They were getting on a bit and, childless, Sarah grew impatient that God might not fulfill His promise. She arranged for Abraham to have a child with her maid, Hagar. They had a boy named Ishmael.
Then Sarah and Abraham had a son of their own, Isaac, and Sarah lost interest in the 13 year-old Ishmael. She cast them onto the street. God sent an angel to Hagar to comfort her and assure her that her son, Ishmael, would be the father of a great nation. This nation became the arabs, who established Islam.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.
Islam, along with Judiasm and Christianity, is one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions. They are so called because they all have a common ancestor in the prophet, Abraham. This is the story of Abraham, his family, and how the three religions began. Although it is taken from the Old Testament of the JudeoChristian Bible, the story is the same for the followers of Islam. The purpose here is not to convert, but to inform.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He planned to create a home where mankind could live and He could enjoy relationships with each and every one of them. Adam and Eve were intended to live in the Garden of Eden and be the parents of all humanity. He gave them the complete freedom of Paradise; the only thing he told them they were not to do was to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
Because the first couple had disobeyed God's one and only rule, he banished them from Eden. They, and all but a tiny handful of their descendants, descended into greater depths of sin. Devastated by the disappointing outcome of His creation, God sent a flood to destroy the earth and everything in it, apart from Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. He also spared the animals, making sure that two of everything survived the deluge.
Generations later, God noticed that Abraham, one of Noah's descendants, was a righteous man. God loved him so much, that he told Abraham and his wife, Sarah, that their children would outnumber the stars. They were getting on a bit and, childless, Sarah grew impatient that God might not fulfill His promise. She arranged for Abraham to have a child with her maid, Hagar. They had a boy named Ishmael.
Then Sarah and Abraham had a son of their own, Isaac, and Sarah lost interest in the 13 year-old Ishmael. She cast them onto the street. God sent an angel to Hagar to comfort her and assure her that her son, Ishmael, would be the father of a great nation. This nation became the arabs, who established Islam.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.
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