Updated.
27 April 2021 (1442 AH).
INDEX:
Quran chapter 18.
Quran surah 18.
Quran sura 18.
Koran chapter 18.
Koran surah 18.
Koran sura 18.
Can Saints hear prayer?
The idol worship of saints.
The idol worship of prophets.
The idol worship of angels.
The idol worship of devils.
The idol worship of Satan.
The idol worship of Shaitan.
The idol worship of the son of God.
The idol worship of the sons of God.
Son of God in Judaism.
Son of God in Christianity.
Son of God in Islam.
The son of God in the Torah.
The son of God in the Taurat.
The son of God in the Gospel.
The son of God in the Injil.
The son of God in the Koran.
The son of God in the Quran.
Son of God in the Torah, Gospel and Koran.
Son of God in the Torah, Gospel and Quran.
Son of God in the Taurat, Injil and Koran.
Son of God in the Taurat, Injil and Quran.
Son of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Only God has the power to hear prayer.
Creations that are living or dead have no power to hear prayer.
Saints can not hear prayer because that power belongs to God.
No one can hear prayer because that power belongs to God.
See Quran 18:4 – 18:6, 18:52, 18:102, 18:110
What is inscription?
What is Raqeem?
What is Er-Rakeem?
What is Er-Raqim?
What is Al-Rakim?
See Quran 18:9, 18:21 and 18:24
The story of as-hab al Kahf.
The story of ashab al Kahf.
The story of ashab al-Kahf.
The story of ashab e Kahf.
The story of the seven companions of the cave.
The story of the 7 companions of the cave.
The story of the eight companions of the cave.
The story of the 8 companions of the cave.
The story of the seven sleepers.
The story of the sleepers of the cave.
The story of the seven sleepers of the cave.
The story of the 7 sleepers of the cave.
The story of the eight sleepers of the cave.
The story of the 8 sleepers of the cave.
The Sleepers in the cave.
The people of the cave.
The seven people in the cave.
The 7 people in the cave.
The eight in the cave.
The 8 in the cave.
Seven people and a dog slept in the cave for three hundred and nine years.
7 people and a dog slept in the cave for 309 years.
How long did the people in the cave sleep?
How many people slept in the cave?
How many slept in the cave?
See Quran 18:9 – 18:26
Jewish stories in the Koran.
Jewish stories in the Quran.
Jewish rabbinical literature in the Koran.
Jewish rabbinical literature in the Quran.
See Quran 18:13 and 18:82 comments.
What is Sunni and Shai?
What is Sunni and Shai in Islam?
What sre Sunni and Shai Muslims?
Peace between Sunni and Shia.
Ending war between Sunni and Shia.
Can a human be buried in a mosque?
Can a human be buried next to a mosque?
Are shrines allowed in Islam?
Can a shrine be built next to a mosque?
Can a shrine be built inside a mosque?
Can a tomb be built next to a mosque?
Can a tomb be built inside a mosque?
Does God allow the building of a structure over a grave?
Does God allow the building of a structure over a tomb?
Does God allow the building of a house of worship over a grave?
Does God allow the building of a house of worship over a tomb?
The solution to ending war between Sunni and Shia is in Quran 18:21 InshGod.
See Quran 18:21, 18:23 and 18:24 comments.
No one can change the word of God.
See Quran 18:27
God gives humans freedom of belief.
God gives humans freedom of religion.
Islam gives humans freedom of belief.
Islam gives humans freedom of religion.
See Quran 18:29
Who is the green man?
Who is Al-Khidar?
Who is Khidar?
Who is Khidr?
Who is Khidhr?
Who is al-Khidr?
Who is al-Khidhr?
Who is Khizr?
Who is Khizar?
Who is Hizir?
The story of the green man.
The story of Al-Khidar.
The story of Khidar.
The story of Khidr.
The story of Khidhr.
The story of al-Khidr.
The story of al-Khidhr.
The story of Khizr.
The story of Khizar.
The story of Hizir.
The story of the green man and Moses.
The story of Al-Khidar and Moses.
The story of Khidar and Moses.
The story of Khidr and Moses.
The story of Khidhr and Moses.
The story of al-Khidr and Moses.
The story of al-Khidhr and Moses.
The story of Khizr and Moses.
The story of Khizar and Moses.
The story of Hizir and Moses.
The story of the green man and Musa.
The story of Al-Khidar and Musa.
The story of Khidar and Musa.
The story of Khidr and Musa.
The story of Khidhr and Musa.
The story of al-Khidr and Musa.
The story of al-Khidhr and Musa.
The story of Khizr and Musa.
The story of Khizar and Musa.
The story of Hizir and Musa.
See Quran 18:65 – 18:82
Stoning to death in Judaism.
Stoning to death in Christianity.
Stoning to death in Islam.
Stoning to death in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
See Quran 18:80 – 18:81
Who is the two horns?
Who is Dhul-Qarnain?
Who is Dhu'l-Qarneyn?
Who is Zul-qarnain?
Who is Zulqarnain?
Who is King Cyrus?
The story of the two horns.
The story of Dhul-Qarnain.
The story of Dhu'l-Qarneyn.
The story of Zul-qarnain.
The story of Zulqarnain.
The story of King Cyrus.
The story of King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Two horns is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Dhul-Qarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Dhu'l-Qarneyn is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Zul-qarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Zulqarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
See Quran 18:83 – 18:99
What is Gog and Magog?
What is Ya'juj, and Ma'juj?
What is Yajuj and Majuj?
What is Yajooj and Majooj?
What is Yagug and Magug?
Who are Gog and Magog?
Who are Ya'juj, and Ma'juj?
Who are Yajuj and Majuj?
Who are Yajooj and Majooj?
Who are Yagug and Magug?
Where is Gog and Magog?
Where is Ya'juj, and Ma'juj?
Where is Yajuj and Majuj?
Where is Yajooj and Majooj?
Where is Yagug and Magug?
The story of Gog and Magog
The story of Ya'juj, and Ma'juj.
The story of Yajuj and Majuj.
The story of Yajooj and Majooj.
The story of Yagug and Magug.
See Quran 18:92 – 18:99.
Information: The Quran chapter 18.
Order of Revelation: 69 (1 is the first revelation and 114 is the last revelation).
Place of Revelation: Mecca (Makkah, Arabia today Saudi Arabia).
Number of Verses: 110 verses.
The Quran.
Chapter 18.
The Cave (Al-Kahf).
English interpretations of the Quran.
The Quran Chapter 18 The Cave (Al-Kahf, Kahf) in English.
Chapter : Verse.
(Information in brackets is added to assist readers in the interpretation of the verse).
Quran 18:0 Koran 18:0 Verse 18:0 Ayah 18:0 Ayat 18:0 Aya 18:0 In the name of God, The Most Kind, The Most Merciful.
Quran 18:1 Koran 18:1 Verse 18:1 Ayah 18:1 Ayat 18:1 Aya 18:1 Praise is to God who has revealed the Scripture (of the Quran) to His (God’s) servant (Prophet Muhammad), and has not placed in it (the Quran) any deviation (from the truth). – (Continued Quran 18:2).
Comment 1. What is the truth?
Truth means these are not invented stories.
Truth means these are the stories inspired by belief in God.
Truth means these stories can be found in the Books of God, the Torah Taurat Jewish Bible and/or the Gospel Injil Christian Bible and/or other inspired writings.
Quran 12:111 Verse 12:111 "... It (the Quran) is not an invented story but it is a confirmation of what came before it (in the Scriptures of the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil) ..."
Quran 26:196 Verse 26:196 It (the revelations from God in the Quran) is (also) in the Scriptures of the people of the past (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil).
Quran 41:43 Verse 41:43 Nothing is said (by God) to you (Prophet Muhammad) except what has already been said to the messengers before you. Your Lord (God) is the possessor of forgiveness and severe punishment.
Comment 2.The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
A. Prophet Muhammad in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil.
See Quran 7:157 comments in Quran chapter 7.
B. Every prophet of God is “the Word of God made flesh” meaning the word of God comes out of the mouth of every prophet of God in Deuteronomy 18:18.
See Quran 5:116 comments in Quran chapter 5.
C. How did God save Jesus.
See 1. Quran 4:157 and Quran 4:158 comments in Quran chapter 4.
See 2. Quran 29:57 comments in Quran chapter 29.
D. The second coming of Jesus and every other human is on the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 79:7 comments in Quran chapter 79.
E. Examples of hadith stories which contradict the teachings of God in the Quran.
See Quran 25:30 comments in Quran chapter 25.
F. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
G. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran will be rewarded twice in the hereafter.
See Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
Quran 18:2 Koran 18:2 Verse 18:2 Ayah 18:2 Ayat 18:2 Aya 18:2 – (But has made the Quran) straight, to give warning of severe punishment from Him (God), and to bring to the believers who do good deeds the news that they shall have a good reward (in Paradise), – (Continued Quran 18:3).
Quran 18:3 Koran 18:3 Verse 18:3 Ayah 18:3 Ayat 18:3 Aya 18:3 – In which they shall live forever.
Quran 18:4 Koran 18:4 Verse 18:4 Ayah 18:4 Ayat 18:4 Aya 18:4 And to warn those (among the Christians) who say, “God has begotten (fathered) a (real biological) son” (to explain their reason for praying to creations such as Prophet Jesus Isa instead of correctly praying to God who is the creator of every creation),
Note 1. “Son of God” is not a biological relationship with God.
God has no real biological son.
“Son of God” in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil and Quran 19:93 means servant of God.
Note 2. The “only begotten son” is not a biological relationship with God.
The “only begotten son” means the servant of God with the supreme authority to speak “in the name of God” to the people in his time.
Jesus Isa was the “only begotten son” 2000 years ago in the same way as Moses Musa was the “only begotten son” 3200 years ago.
Note 3. Some Christians misunderstood son to mean a real biological son of God instead of the correct meaning which is servant of God in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil and Quran 19:93
Comment 1. The meaning of the son of God in the Torah is servant of God.
The meaning of the son of God in the Taurat is servant of God.
Torah Exodus 4:22 And you (Prophet Moses Musa) shall say to Pharaoh Firon, The Lord (God) says, “Israel is My son, My first born.” (Meaning, Israel is God’s servant because they believe in God).
Torah Exodus 4:23 And I (God) have said to you (Pharaoh Firon), “Let My son (meaning My servant) go so that he may serve Me (God) and you (Pharaoh Firon) have refused to let him go…”)
Note 1. In the Torah Taurat all the children of Israel are called the son of God meaning the servant of God because they believe in God.
Note 2. Jesus Isa is one of the children of Israel therefore Jesus Isa is a son of God meaning a servant of God because Jesus Isa believes in God.
Note 3. The Gospel Injil is the story of one of the children of Israel named Jesus Isa who is a son of God meaning a servant of God.
1a. The meaning of the son of God in the Gospel is servant of God.
The meaning of the son of God in the Injil is servant of God.
Gospel of John 14:28 "You heard how I (Jesus Isa) said to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa), 'I (Jesus Isa) am going away, and will be coming to you (the disciples of Jesus Isa).' If you (the disciples of Jesus Isa) loved me (Jesus Isa the messenger of God), you would rejoice that I (Jesus Isa) am going to the Father (God), for the Father (God) is greater than I (Jesus Isa, because God is the creator and Jesus Isa is a created human).
Note 1. Jesus is not God because God is greater than Jesus Isa.
Gospel of John 20:17 Jesus Isa said … “I (Jesus Isa) am ascending to my Father and your Father; to my God and your God.”
Note 1. Jesus Isa believes in one God.
Note 2. Jesus Isa is not God.
Note 3. The soul of every human is raised to God.
Note 4. God is raising the soul of Jesus Isa like God raises the soul of every human.
Gospel of Matthew 23:9 (Jesus Isa said) and call no one on earth (including Jesus Isa) your father (God), because there is only one father (God) for you, the heavenly one …”
Note 1. No one on the Earth is God because everything on the Earth is created by God.
God is not in one place however to make clear that Jesus Isa is not God the expression “God in heaven” is used to show that Jesus Isa who is on the Earth is not God.
Gospel of Mark 13:32 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) "But as to that day or that hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows, not even the angels in heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God), but only the Father (God who is the creator of every creation).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Son mean?
Son means servant of God.
The Quran warns against misunderstanding the meaning of son because some Christians thought that son was a real biological son instead of correctly knowing that son means servant of God.
Gospel of Matthew 24:36 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) But as for that day and hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows it except the Father (God) alone; not even the angels of heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Father mean?
Father means God.
God is the father of every creation.
See 1. Gospel of Mark. Injil of Isa by Mark.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-mark-1-5
See 2. Gospel of Matthew. Injil of Isa by Matthew.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-matthew-1-7
See 3. Gospel of Luke. Injil of Isa by Luke.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-377-signs-of-prophet-muhammad-in-the-gospel-of-luke
See 4. Gospel of John. Injil of Isa by John.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/the-gospel-of-john-chapters-1-3
1b. The meaning of the son of God in the Koran is servant of God.
The meaning of the son of God in the Quran is servant of God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Note 1. Every creation is a servant of God because God is the creator of every creation.
Note 2. God in the Quran warned the Christians against using the words son of God because when some Christians used those words they using them as if Jesus Isa was a real biological son and partner with God.
Quran 7:187 Verse 7:187 They ask you (Prophet Muhammad) about The Hour (of the Day of Resurrection) and when it shall come. Say, “Knowledge of this is with my Lord (God) only. He (God) alone shall make it happen at the proper time. It lays heavily on the heavens and the earth (because of the greatness of that event). It shall come to you suddenly. They question you as if you might be well informed of it. Say, “Knowledge of it is with God only, but most of the people do not know that (because they think others have this knowledge).”
Note 1. Only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
The Holy Spirit revealed to Muhammad that only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection therefore Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad are not God and the Holy Spirit is not God because both the humans (Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad) and the angels (the Holy Spirit of God angel Gabriel Jibril) are created by God.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 18:1 comment.
Comment 3. See Quran 18:5, 18:6, 18:52, 18:102 and 18:110.
Quran 18:5 Koran 18:5 Verse 18:5 Ayah 18:5 Ayat 18:5 Aya 18:5 They have no knowledge of it (of God having a real biological son because God created all the creations including Adam who had no mother and no father so God has no need to create a son for Himself), nor (had) their fathers (any such knowledge of God creating a real biological son for Himself). Awful is the word that comes out of their mouths (when they say God has a real biological son and then they pray to the created son instead of praying to God who created everything). They speak nothing but a lie (because everything in the Heavens and the Earth belongs to God so God has no need of a real biological son since God already owns everything and everyone that God has created).
Comment 1. Son of God means servant of God.
God in the Quran warned the Christians against using the words son of God because when some Christians used those words they used them as if Jesus Isa was a real biological son and partner with God.
Quran 19:93 verse 19:93 There is no one in the heavens and the earth who does not come to the Most Merciful (God) except as a servant.
Comment 2. Son of God in Judaism means servant of God.
Jesus was Jewish meaning Jesus was a servant of God.
My son, My first born means servant.
Torah Exodus 4:22 And you (Prophet Moses Musa) shall say to Pharaoh Firon, The Lord (God) says, “Israel is My son, My first born.”
Torah Exodus 4:23 And I (God) have said to you (Pharaoh Firon), “Let My son go so that he may serve Me (God) and you (Pharaoh Firon) have refused to let him (the children of Israel) go…”
Note 1. In Torah, Exodus 4:22, 4:23 God said that all the Children of Israel are “His son” meaning God’s servants.
Note 2. A father loves his son and a good son is obedient to his father. God uses the word “son” to mean a relationship of love by God the creator for His creation and God uses the word “son” to mean a relationship of obedience through the fear and the love of the creation to God who is its creator.
Sons of God means servants.
Torah Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons (meaning servants) of the LORD your God…”
My begotten son means servant.
Zabur Psalm 2:7 I shall tell of the decree (from God). The Lord (God) said to me (The King, the ruler), “You are My son, This day I (God) have begotten (meaning given My favour and My blessing to) you.
Note 1. In Psalm 2:7 begotten is the human to whom God has given God’s favour and God’s blessing.
Comment 3. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 18:1 comment.
Quran 18:6 Koran 18:6 Verse 18:6 Ayah 18:6 Ayat 18:6 Aya 18:6 It may be that if they (the idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia who believe God has taken Angels as God’s daughters or some among the Jews of Yathrib Arabia who believe God has taken Prophet Ezra Uzair as God’s son or the Christians who believe God has taken Prophet Jesus Isa as God’s real biological son) do not believe this revelation (in Quran 18:5) that you (Prophet Muhammad) shall worry yourself to death in grief over their (strong commitment to their false) beliefs.
Comment 1. The belief in a son of God among the Jews of Yathrib Arabia.
The belief in daughters of God among the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia.
The belief in a son of God among the Christians.
A Jew in Yathrib, Arabia today Medina Madinah Saudi Arabia who was with a gathering of other Jews said, “Prophet Ezra Uzair is the son of God” and he was not corrected by other Jews with him.
“Prophet Ezra Uzair is the son of God” was said as a way of rejecting the Jewish need for Prophet Muhammad.
It might be said that the Jew was arguing that since the Christians have a son of God named Prophet Jesus Isa that saves the Christians from Hell fire, then in the same way the Jews have their own son of God named Prophet Ezra Uzair who saves the Jews from Hell Fire.
This is an argument invented by Jews in Yathrib Arabia in the time that Prophet Muhammad lived in Yathrib because Jews elsewhere before that time and after that time have never said that Prophet Ezra Uzair is the son of God.
It shows how some of the Jews of Yathrib Arabia talked in the name of God with disrespect.
Such talk in the ears of the Muslims of Yathrib Arabia would have sounded the same as the talk of the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah Arabia whom the Muslims were fighting.
The stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah similarly said that angels are the daughters of God.
For the Jews to have rejected Prophet Muhammad and speak in the name of God with disrespect would have sounded to the ears of Muslims like the talk of a people that did not believe in God or like the talk of a people who were hypocrites (those that say they believe in God but they do not really believe in God).
Quran 10:104 Verse 10:104 Say (Prophet Muhammad), “O people (of Mecca Makkah), If you are in doubt of my religion then (know that) I do not worship whom you worship as partners with God (meaning, Prophet Muhammad does not pray to idols or dead people such as saints or to messengers of God such as Jesus Isa) but I (Prophet Muhammad) worship God (only because God is the one) who causes you to die (and to be resurrected) and I (Prophet Muhammad) have been commanded to be one of the believers (of God).
Quran 10:105 Verse 10:105 And, (Prophet Muhammad) make your purpose (meaning, make your life) for religion, as a righteous man and do not be like those who assign partners (to God, meaning pray only to God who created you and not to “so-called” partners of God such as idols, dead people called saints or messengers of God such as Prophet Jesus Isa because only your creator has the power to hear prayer).
Quran 10:106 Verse 10:106 And do not pray to “so-called” partners of God (such as idols, dead people called saints or messengers of God such as Prophet Jesus Isa because only your creator has the power to hear prayer and therefore these “so-called” partners of God) cannot benefit you nor harm you so if you pray to them (the things and the people that God created) then you are a wrong-doer (because you are idol worshipping by praying to the creations of God instead of praying to God who is the creator of all the creations).
Comment 2. Why do Muslims love Jews? Why do Muslims love Christians?
God loves the Jews.
God loves the Jews with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
God loves the children of Israel.
God loves the children of Israel with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
God loves the Christians.
God loves the Christians with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
Quran 28:53 Verse 28:53 And when it (the Quran) is recited to them (the Jews who truly believe the Torah Taurat and the Christians who truly believe the Gospel Injil), they (those Jews and Christians) say, “We believe in it (the Koran Quran). It is the truth from our Lord (God). Even before it (the Quran was revealed to us) we were of those (Jews and Christians) who submitted (to God. The English word submitter is the Arabic word Muslim. Islam the religion means submission and Muslim the believer means submitter. Submitter and submission for the Muslim people is in Quran 47:19 “…there is no God except God …” and submitter and submission for the Jewish people is in Torah Exodus 20:2 “.... You shall have no other gods before Me God” and submitter and submission for the Christian people is in the Gospel of Jesus Isa by Luke 4:8 “… You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” meaning God inspired the same belief of Islam which is an Arabic word meaning submission, to God in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and in others).
Quran 28:54 Verse 28:54 They (the Jews who truly believe the Torah Taurat and the Christians who truly believe the Gospel Injil and also believe the Quran) shall be given their reward twice (in Quran 28:54 meaning twofold in Quran 34:37 meaning double in Quran 57:28) because they are steadfast (in their belief in God) and they repel evil with good (deeds) and they spend (in charity) from what We (God) have provided to them. (Jews like Quran 3:113-3:115 and Christians like Quran 5:82-5:85 who follow their Book in Quran 5:68 and also believe the Quran will receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28 meaning the reward for every good deed they do will be doubled because they believed the Quran which tells the Jewish people to follow the Torah Taurat which is their eternal covenant between God and the Hebrew people forever and tells the Christian people to follow the Gospel Injil which is explained in the Quran and tells the Muslim people to follow the Quran is confirmed in Quran 2:40, Quran 2:41, Quran 2:62, Quran 2:106, Quran 3:93, Quran 4:123, Quran 5:43, Quran 5:47, Quran 5:48, Quran 5:69 and Quran 13:39).
Note 1. Jews and Christians who follow their book and also believe the Quran will receive their reward twice in the Hereafter.
The good news message from God for Jews and Christians delivered 1400 years ago by Prophet Muhammad in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
1. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran shall receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
2. Jews who follow the Tanakh Jewish scripture and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Torah Taurat.
3. Christians who follow the Gospels and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Gospel Injil.
4. Muslims who follow the Quran so that it agrees with the Tanakh Jewish scripture and the Gospel Injil are correctly observing the Quran.
Note 2. The God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims is the same God.
Note 3. The God of the Torah, Gospel and Koran is the same God.
Comment 3. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 18:1 comment.
Comment 4. Why is the life of a disbeliever very important?
God gives every human a life time to discover the meaning of life.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because the disbeliever is given a life time to discover the purpose of life.
God forgives every sin including the sin of idol worship if humans ask for God’s forgiveness.
In Islam this life is very important because this life determines what shall happen in the hereafter.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because while they have life they have the chance to find correct guidance.
Quran 5:8 Verse 5:8 “... do not let (your) hatred of a people make you act unjustly. Act justly, that is nearer to righteousness and fear God. God is aware of what you do.”
Quran 8:32 Verse 8:32 And they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) said, “O God, If this is the truth from you then rain down stones on us or bring on us some painful punishment.”
Quran 8:33 Verse 8:33 But God would not punish them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) while you (Prophet Muhammad) were with them, nor shall He (God) punish them while they (might) seek forgiveness.
Quran 18:55 Verse 18:55 And nothing prevents people from believing when the guidance (of God) comes to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord (God) unless they want the example (given in Quran 18:59 and in the Gospel Injil and in the Torah Taurat of the judgment of God) on the people of the past to be (also) put on them or if the punishment (of God) should come in front of them (in the Hereafter when it is too late to say, “Now I believe in God and I ask your forgiveness”).
Forgive disbelievers in this life like you want God to forgive you in the next life.
Quran 45:14 Verse 45:14 Say (Prophet Muhammad) to those who believe (in God that) they (should) forgive those who do not expect the Days of God (in the hereafter, meaning forgive the disbelievers, forgive the non believers, forgive the stone idol worshippers in Mecca, forgive the people who do not believe in God) so that He (God) may reward (the righteous) people for what they earn (in reward for the hereafter by obeying God’s command that the people who believe in God should forgive the people who do not believe in God so that you forgive the disbelievers in your life in the same way that you wish God to forgive you in the next life in the hereafter).
Note 1. God is the most merciful and the most forgiving.
Note 2. God teaches humans to follow the example of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the way of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the path of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the cause of God to be merciful and forgiving.
Note 3. Forgive disbelieves in this world just as you would like God to forgive you in the next world (the hereafter).
Note 4. Verses that God revealed in the Quran during a time of war with stone idol worshippers in Mecca Arabia today Makkah Saudi Arabia do not cancel the revelations God revealed earlier in the Quran just as the verses that God revealed in the Torah Taurat during a time of war with stone idol worshippers in Canaan today Israel and Palestine do not cancel the revelations God revealed earlier in the Torah Taurat.
All of God’s verses carry a message of wisdom for humankind.
Some verses give guidance in times of war and other verses give guidance in times of peace.
The correct interpretation of each verse in the Books of God gives knowledge and wisdom and guidance to whoever God wills.
Video: Everyone is a potential Muslim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGmSbug0iY
Quran 18:7 Koran 18:7 Verse 18:7 Ayah 18:7 Ayat 18:7 Aya 18:7 We (God) have put all that is on the earth as decoration (that is pleasing to humans and jinn) so that We (God) may test them (humans and jinn) to show which among them is best in deeds (behavior).
Comment 1. God tests humans to show who is best in behavior.
Quran 5:48 Verse 5:48 And to you (Prophet Muhammad) We (God) revealed the Scripture (the Quran) with the truth that confirmed the Scripture that was before it (in the Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat) and (for you Prophet Muhammad to be) a guardian over it (the Quran). So judge between them (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what God has revealed (to you Prophet Muhammad) and do not let their desires move you away from the truth that has come to you. For each (community of Jews, Christians and Muslims) We (God) have appointed a divine law and a way (of religion). If God willed He (God) could have made you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) one community. But He (God) tests you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what He (God) has given you (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show who is best in behaviour). So strive for all that is good. To God you shall all return and He (God) shall then inform you (in the Hereafter) about (the correctness of) the religious matters in which you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) argue among each other.
Note 1. God does not require humans to all be in one religion (Quran 5:48).
Note 2. God does require that every religion worship only God (Quran 3:85).
Note 3. God says if the Jews and the Christians and others worship only God like the Muslims worship only God then the Jews and the Christians and others are correctly guided by God (Quran 3:64).
Note 4. God commands the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims to do what is good according to what God has given them in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show which humans are the best in behaviour.
Note 5. God says that on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement in the hereafter every human will return to God and God shall inform them about the religious matters about which they argued.
Note 6. God protects the Torah Taurat for every Jewish generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 7. God protects the Gospel Injil for every Christian generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48) in the following way.
Prophet Jesus Isa did not write anything because everything Prophet Jesus Isa taught by his mouth was already written in the Tanakh Jewish scripture meaning Prophet Jesus Isa did not add or subtract from what is in Tanakh Jewish scripture.
The four Gospel Injil are four reports about Prophet Jesus Isa meaning Prophet Jesus Isa never wrote anything and what he said was passed by mouth until it was written many years later.
Quran 5:68 says observe the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and Quran 5:47 tells Christians to judge by the Gospel Injil (not by the other books in the Christian New Testament Bible because what Paul teaches contradicts what Jesus is teaching in the Gospel Injil and anything about fallen angels found in the Book of Enoch and in the Book of Revelation are all rejected in Judaism because in the Hebrew Tanakh scripture angels always obey God. Jewish people do not use the Christian produced Old Testament Bible because many contain wrong translations of the Hebrew Tanakh) meaning whatever in the Gospel Injil is confirmed in the Jewish Torah Taurat came from Prophet Jesus Isa and whatever contradicts the Jewish Torah Taurat came from the unknown writers who are traditionally called Mark, Matthew, Luke and John in a test from God described in 1 Kings 13:14 - 13:24 teaching that the word of God will not change and do not believe anyone or any verse in Mark, Matthew, Luke or John which contradicts the teachings in the Tanakh which Prophet Jesus Isa said is with the Jewish people forever and will never change and must be followed forever by the Jewish people in Gospel of Matthew 5:17 - 5:20 and Gospel of Matthew 23:1 - 23:3. In this way a Christian can know what came from Prophet Jesus Isa confirming Tanakh and what did not come from Prophet Jesus Isa because it contradicts the Tanakh (which is the Torah law and the prophets and the writings like the Psalms) which Jesus was teaching in Gospel of Luke 24:44.
Note 8. God protects the Koran Quran for every Muslim generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 9. Entry to Paradise the Garden of Eden the Garden of Righteousness Jannah is not based on the question of Sunni or Shia or Muslim or Jew or Christian but it is based on your good behaviour towards all humans and creatures in this world and your relationship with God (Quran 5:48).
Note 10. In the sight of humans Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are different religions.
Note 11. In the sight of God Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are “different communities of God” because they were all created by God for only one reason which is “to submit to God.”
Quran 7:129 Verse 7:129 They (the Children of Israel) said (to Prophet Moses Musa), “We suffered harm before you came to us and since you have come to us.” He (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “It may be that your Lord is going to destroy your enemy (in Egypt and in Canaan) and make you inherit the land (by punishing the Pharaoh Firon of Egypt in Quran 7:136 and by replacing the idol worshipping people in Canaan with the worship of God by the children of Israel in Quran 5:20 - 5:26, 7:137) so that He (God) may see how you (the children of Israel) behave.
Note 1. Why does God give people land?
God gives land so that God may see how humans behave.
1. Do you show mercy in the land?
2. Do you forgive in the land?
3. Do you make peace in the land?
4. Do you deal fairly and with justice in the land?
5. In the hereafter no person shall be able to deny that God’s judgement of them will be correct because they shall be shown the good and the evil that they did.
Quran 18:7 Verse 18:7 We (God) have put all that is on the earth as decoration (that is pleasing to humans and jinn) so that We (God) may test them (humans and jinn) to show which among them is best in deeds (behavior).
Quran 18:8 Koran 18:8 Verse 18:8 Ayah 18:8 Ayat 18:8 Aya 18:8 And (when the hour of the end of the Earth comes) We (God) shall make all that is on it (the earth) dust (as if nothing had existed there).
Comment 1. On the Day of Resurrection the Earth shall not exist.
On the Day of Resurrection in the Hereafter people shall be on barren ground and each person shall be judged on that Day of Judgement.
Comment 2. What happens in the grave?
The end of the Earth when all humans are dead in the grave meaning their souls are in heaven waiting for the Day of Resurrection is the beginning of the story of the seven sleepers who represent sleeping in the grave with the question "how much time passed (between your death and your resurrection)" and the answer every person will say when they wake up on the Day of Resurrection is that death feels like “staying in sleep for one day or part of one day” in Quran 18:12 and Quran 18:19 .
Quran 18:9 Koran 18:9 Verse 18:9 Ayah 18:9 Ayat 18:9 Aya 18:9 Don’t you think that the people of the cave and the inscription (Raqeem, Er-Rakeem, Er-Raqim, Al-Rakim in Ephesus Turkey) that were among Our (God’s) signs were a miracle (from God to remind humans of their resurrection)?
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is a story describing death in the grave and the Day of resurrection.
1a. Ar-Raqim is a tablet of stone on which the people of the town wrote the story of the people of the cave and placed it at the entrance of the cave.
Quran 18:10 Koran 18:10 Verse 18:10 Ayah 18:10 Ayat 18:10 Aya 18:10 (Remember the story) when the young men fled for refuge to the cave and said, “Our Lord (God), give us your mercy and bless our affairs with Your (God’s) guidance.”
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is a story confirming the concept that the source of guidance to do good and avoid evil is a belief in God the creator
Quran 18:11 Koran 18:11 Verse 18:11 Ayah 18:11 Ayat 18:11 Aya 18:11 Then We (God) closed their hearing (and they slept) in the cave for a number of years.
Comment 1. The cave represents the grave.
Quran 18:12 Koran 18:12 Verse 18:12 Ayah 18:12 Ayat 18:12 Aya 18:12 And We (God) awakened them so that We (God) might show which of the two groups (of men) would be most accurate in calculating how much time had passed (during their sleep).
Comment 1. What happens in the grave?
The story of the seven sleepers represent sleeping in the grave with the question "how much time passed (between your death and your resurrection)" and the answer every person will say when they wake up on the Day of Resurrection is that death feels like “staying in sleep for one day or part of one day” in Quran 18:19.
Quran 18:13 Koran 18:13 Verse 18:13 Ayah 18:13 Ayat 18:13 Aya 18:13 We (God) narrate their true story to you (Prophet Muhammad). They were young men who believed in their Lord (God) and We (God) increased them in (God’s) guidance.
Comment 1. What is the truth?
Truth means these are not invented stories.
Truth means these are the stories inspired by belief in God.
Truth means these stories can be found in the Books of God, the Torah Taurat Jewish Bible and/or the Gospel Injil Christian Bible and/or other inspired writings.
Quran 12:111 Verse 12:111 "... It (the Quran) is not an invented story but it is a confirmation of what came before it (in the Scriptures of the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil) ..."
Quran 26:196 Verse 26:196 It (the revelations from God in the Quran) is (also) in the Scriptures of the people of the past (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil).
Quran 41:43 Verse 41:43 Nothing is said (by God) to you (Prophet Muhammad) except what has already been said to the messengers before you. Your Lord (God) is the possessor of forgiveness and severe punishment.
1a. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.
This is a true story meaning it has not been invented.
Just as God has used Jewish stories from Rabbis in the Quran to guide the Jews to the truth of the Quran, God has done the same with this Christian story to guide the Christians to the truth of the Quran.
The story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus is in the story from humans recorded in 104 BH 521 CE 521 AD by a Christian bishop named Jacob of Serugh.
The story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus in Turkey is based on a story that had already existed meaning it was not a new invention but was based on an earlier story.
See http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/13th/papers/Horst.pdf
1b. Why does God use Jewish and Christian stories to guide Jews and Christians to the Quran?
God loves the Jews.
God loves the Jews with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
God loves the children of Israel.
God loves the children of Israel with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
God loves the Christians.
God loves the Christians with the promise of a double reward in the hereafter.
Quran 28:53 Verse 28:53 And when it (the Quran) is recited to them (the Jews who truly believe the Torah Taurat and the Christians who truly believe the Gospel Injil), they (those Jews and Christians) say, “We believe in it (the Koran Quran). It is the truth from our Lord (God). Even before it (the Quran was revealed to us) we were of those (Jews and Christians) who submitted (to God. The English word submitter is the Arabic word Muslim. Islam the religion means submission and Muslim the believer means submitter. Submitter and submission for the Muslim people is in Quran 47:19 “…there is no God except God …” and submitter and submission for the Jewish people is in Torah Exodus 20:2 “.... You shall have no other gods before Me God” and submitter and submission for the Christian people is in the Gospel of Jesus Isa by Luke 4:8 “… You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve” meaning God inspired the same belief of Islam which is an Arabic word meaning submission, to God in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and in others).
Quran 28:54 Verse 28:54 They (the Jews who truly believe the Torah Taurat and the Christians who truly believe the Gospel Injil and also believe the Quran) shall be given their reward twice (in Quran 28:54 meaning twofold in Quran 34:37 meaning double in Quran 57:28) because they are steadfast (in their belief in God) and they repel evil with good (deeds) and they spend (in charity) from what We (God) have provided to them. (Jews like Quran 3:113-3:115 and Christians like Quran 5:82-5:85 who follow their Book in Quran 5:68 and also believe the Quran will receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28 meaning the reward for every good deed they do will be doubled because they believed the Quran which tells the Jewish people to follow the Torah Taurat which is their eternal covenant between God and the Hebrew people forever and tells the Christian people to follow the Gospel Injil which is explained in the Quran and tells the Muslim people to follow the Quran is confirmed in Quran 2:40, Quran 2:41, Quran 2:62, Quran 2:106, Quran 3:93, Quran 4:123, Quran 5:43, Quran 5:47, Quran 5:48, Quran 5:69 and Quran 13:39).
Note 1. Jews and Christians who follow their book and also believe the Quran will receive their reward twice in the Hereafter.
The good news message from God for Jews and Christians delivered 1400 years ago by Prophet Muhammad in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
1. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran shall receive a double reward in the hereafter in Quran 28:54, Quran 34:37 and Quran 57:28.
2. Jews who follow the Tanakh Jewish scripture and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Torah Taurat.
3. Christians who follow the Gospels and believe the Quran are correctly observing the Gospel Injil.
4. Muslims who follow the Quran so that it agrees with the Tanakh Jewish scripture and the Gospel Injil are correctly observing the Quran.
Note 2. The God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims is the same God.
Note 3. The God of the Torah, Gospel and Koran is the same God.
Comment 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 18:1 comment.
Comment 3. The stories of the sleepers in Greek, Jewish and Christian tradition.
See http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/13th/papers/Horst.pdf
Quran 18:14 Koran 18:14 Verse 18:14 Ayah 18:14 Ayat 18:14 Aya 18:14 And We (God) strengthened their hearts (in firm belief) so that when they stood up they said, “Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. We pray to no god except Him (God, the One who creates every creation), for (if we prayed to someone God created) then we would show complete disbelief (in God because God is not anything that is created but the creator of every creation).
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is the story of faith in the existence of one creator and the hereafter.
Quran 18:15 Koran 18:15 Verse 18:15 Ayah 18:15 Ayat 18:15 Aya 18:15 (The young men who had fled to hide in the cave said), "Our people pray (to gods) other than Him (God). Why do they not bring for them a clear authority (that shows they are allowed to pray to something that has been created)? Who does more sin than the person who invents a lie against God (by praying to creations instead of praying to God who created all the creations)?
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is the story of faith in the existence of one creator and the rejection of idol worship.
Quran 18:16 Koran 18:16 Verse 18:16 Ayah 18:16 Ayat 18:16 Aya 18:16 (The young men said to each another), "We have withdrawn from them (the idol worshippers) and what (created idols) they (mistakenly) pray to, instead of (correctly) praying to God (who is the creator of every creation) so let us take shelter in the cave. Our Lord (God) shall open a way for us from His (God’s) Mercy and make our affairs easy (God willing and God did by sending them to sleep and providing them what they needed to survive)."
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is the story of faith in God.
Quran 18:17 Koran 18:17 Verse 18:17 Ayah 18:17 Ayat 18:17 Aya 18:17 And (if you had been in the cave) you would have seen the Sun rise from the right side of their cave, and when it (the Sun) set, it moved across to the left side, while they slept inside the cave. That is one of the signs of God. The person whom God guides is rightly guided but the person whom He (God) sends astray for that person you shall find no guiding friend who is able to lead them (to the right path).
Comment 1. No one can put on the correct path a person that God has sent astray.
For example God has made Satan Shaitan go astray until the Day of Judgement therefore no one can help Satan Shaitan to correct Satan’s way.
Comment 2. God has decreed freedom of belief.
Why are humans free to decide their belief?
God has given each human a life time to find their true belief.
Humans do not know if they are correctly guided or wrongly guided because each human is made to believe that their way of belief is the correct way.
The only judge of belief in God is God in the hereafter.
Apostasy in Islam.
In the Quran God ordered freedom of religious belief 1400 years before the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However incorrect understanding of the Quran and the hadith can cause wrongful killing of people in the name of God and in the name of human hadith stories.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/apostasy-in-islam
Quran 18:18 Koran 18:18 Verse 18:18 Ayah 18:18 Ayat 18:18 Aya 18:18 And you would have thought that they were awake (when you saw how they moved) while they were asleep. And We (God) turned them on their right (side while they slept) and on their left sides (while they slept) and (made) their dog stretch his two forelegs at the entrance (of the cave like a guard dog). Had you looked at them, you would have runaway from them filled with fear of them (because the sleeping people and their dog appeared to be awake because they where being moved by God's will, but they were sleeping and could not be awakened).
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is a story confirming creation is maintained by a creator.
Quran 18:19 Koran 18:19 Verse 18:19 Ayah 18:19 Ayat 18:19 Aya 18:19 And then We (God) awakened them (from their sleep) to ask each other a question. One said, "How long have we stayed (here sleeping)?" They said, "We have stayed (maybe) a day or part of a day but only Our Lord (God) knows how long we have stayed (here sleeping).” One of you go with this money to the town and find some good food to bring back (to the cave). Be careful and do not arouse any suspicion about you (in the town because we are still hiding from our people in this cave).
Note 1. God begins the story of the seven sleepers after Quran 18:8.
Quran 18:8 Verse 18:8 And (when the hour of the end of the Earth comes) We (God) shall make all that is on it (the earth) dust (as if nothing had existed there).
Note 2. The story of the 7 sleeps who sleep and wake up after 309 years and then say "We have stayed (maybe) a day or part of a day …” teach humans that death is like a sleep that feels no more than a day or part of a day between the time of death and waking up on the Day of Resurrection to confirm the meaning of Quran 2:259, Quran 7:187, Quran 18:19, Quran 18:21, Quran 20:103, Quran 20:104, Quran 23:113, Quran 30:55, Quran 46:35 and Quran 79:46.
Note 3. God explains that the purpose of the story of the seven sleepers is to explain what happens between death represented by Quran 18:8 and the Day of Resurrection represented by waking up from what feels like a short sleep.
Quran 18:21 Verse 18:21 And We (God) caused them to be found so that they (who found them), would know that the promise of God is true and that there is no doubt about (the reality of) the Hour (of the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter on a new earth, a new land, a new ground).
Comment 1. What does God teach us about the grave?
The cave of the seven sleepers represents the grave.
The Day of Resurrection is represented by the seven sleepers waking up after 309 years of sleeping.
The story of the seven sleepers in the cave starts after Quran 18:8 where the Earth is destroyed and shows what happens between the time of death on the earth and the time of resurrection on a new earth in the hereafter.
The story of the seven sleepers describes what happens in the grave and what people will say about the grave on the Day of Resurrection when every human both the wicked and the righteous will say that the time between death and resurrection feels like nothing but sleeping for only part of one day in Quran 23:113 or like only sleeping for one evening in Quran 79:46 or like only sleeping for one morning in Quran 79:46 or like only sleeping for one hour in Quran 30:55 or like only sleeping for ten hours in Quran 20:103.
The story ends in Quran 18:21 saying that the purpose of the story of the seven sleepers in the cave is to show that there is no doubt about the coming of the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
This story also explains why the Day of Resurrection is near for every human in every generation.
This story also explains why the Day of Resurrection is near for every human in every generation.
On the Day of Resurrection every human will testify that death feels like nothing but sleeping for one day or part of one day and only God will know how much time passed between death and the Day of Resurrection.
Comment 2. There is no punishment in the grave.
The story of the seven people sleeping in the cave confirms Quran 20:103, 20:104, 30:55, 23:113 and 79:46 that resurrection from death to life on the Day of Resurrection will seem like a short sleep like sleeping for one hour or sleeping for part of a day.
See 1. Hadith punishment in the grave. Hadith torture in the grave. Hadith torment of the grave.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/hadith-punishment-in-the-grave
See 2. Quran 40:46 comments in Quran chapter 40.
Quran 18:20 Koran 18:20 Verse 18:20 Ayah 18:20 Ayat 18:20 Aya 18:20 Because if they (the idol worshippers) find out who you are they shall stone you (to death) or turn you back to their religion and then you shall never be successful (in the hereafter).
Comment 1. God has decreed freedom of belief.
No human has the right to force another human to believe or disbelieve.
No human has the right to threaten another human to believe or disbelieve.
Only God determines the belief of a human.
Only God is the judge of the belief of a human.
The only judge of belief in God is God in the hereafter.
See Quran 18:17 comments.
Quran 18:21 Koran 18:21 Verse 18:21 Ayah 18:21 Ayat 18:21 Aya 18:21 And We (God) caused them to be found so that they (who found them), would know that the promise of God is true and that there is no doubt about (the reality of) the Hour (of the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter on a new earth, a new land, a new ground). When they (the people of the town) argued among themselves about this matter (of the people in the cave who had slept for 309 years in Quran 18:25 and were then resurrected from sleep and then died in sleep), they (one group of people) said, "Construct a structure (a shrine) over them (who are inside the cave), their Lord (God) knows best about them (meaning God knows all things because everything is by the will of God InshGod as God advised in Quran 18:23 – 18:24 to show this is the correct decision)," Those who prevailed in the matter (were another group of people who) said, "We shall take (build) over them a place of worship" (and so in Ephesus in Turkey they built a House of prayer on top of the grave without saying God knows all things because everything is by the will of God InshGod as God advised in Quran 18:23 – 18:24 to show that this was the wrong decision because the building of churches on top of graves moved people away from God and resulted in millions of Christians praying to dead human saints who have no power to hear prayer as that power belongs only to God. The Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem Al-Quds in Palestine today in Israel and Palestine is an example of how a structure for the remembrance of a human and a House for the worship of God are permitted when the two structures are physically separated. When Prophet Muhammad died he was buried next to a mosque in Medina Arabia today Madinah Saudi Arabia not inside a mosque. “Masjidan” meaning “a place of worship” in Quran 18:21 is “a church.” “Masjidan” is used two times in the Quran. See Quran 9:107 which also uses the word “masjidan” meaning “a mosque” to explain the misuse of a Mosque in Yathrib Madinah which God had revealed to Prophet Muhammad. Regarding the misuse of a mosque or any place of worship God says in Quran 9:108 “Never stand in such a mosque” and in Quran 9:109 it is God in the hereafter who judges humans and punishes humans for the misuse of places of worship. No human today has the knowledge of a prophet meaning it is not for a human to judge others for their belief or to punish others for their belief instead God has ordered protection for every house of worship in Quran 2:114 and Quran 22:40 and God will be the judge on the Day of Judgement because no one except God knows what will be the belief of each human at their time of death meaning God is the true judge of belief and not humans).
Comment 1. A church was built on the site of the 7 sleepers.
Before the time of Islam a church was built on the site of the 7 sleepers.
In Ephesus in Turkey Archaeologists found that the building of a church on the spot of the cave had begun by the middle of the fifth century around 177 BH 450 CE 450 AD.
See page 17 http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/13th/papers/Horst.pdf
Comment 2. God’s sign is the cave and the inscription confirming that the group proposing a structure (a shrine) over the cave was the correctly guided group.
Quran 18:9 Verse 18:9 Don’t you think that the people of the cave and the inscription (Raqeem, Er-Rakeem, Er-Raqim, Al-Rakim in Ephesus Turkey) that were among Our (God’s) signs were a miracle (from God)?
Note 1. Ar-Raqim is a tablet of stone on which the people of the town wrote the story of the people of the cave and placed it at the entrance of the cave.
Note 2. The sign from God are the graves in a cave and an inscription at the entrance of the burial place that was written by the people of the town of Ephesus Turkey describing the miracle.
Comment 3. Why do some people kill humans and destroy mosques where humans are buried?
How much of your life have you used to teach one person the lesson in Quran 18:21?
Do you think God rewards people for killing men women and children who do not have your understanding when you have done nothing to teach the correct way to those whom you kill?
3a. A sin cannot be corrected by committing another sin.
Those who kill people by exploding bombs in mosques, churches, synagogues and public places have sinned because killing innocent people is forbidden (Quran 5:32).
Whoever kills a person it is a crime equal to killing all of mankind (Quran 5:32).
Whoever saves a life has done a deed that is equal to saving all of mankind (Quran 5:32).
Whoever kills an innocent life has committed a terrible crime in the sight of God (Quran 5:32).
Quran 5:32 Verse 5:32 Ayah 5:32 From that time (humans were warned not to murder and) We (God) decreed on the children of Israel (through the inspiration of the teachers of the Jewish Talmud and confirmed for the Muslim in Quran 6:151) that whoever kills a soul (kills a life, kills a person) it is as if he has killed all of humankind (so that humans understand the great value and preciousness of one human life and to warn humans against the great evil of killing one human soul) unless it is in retaliation for murder or for misbehaviour in the land. And whoever saves it (saves a life, saves a soul, saves a person) it is as if he has saved all of humankind (so that humans understand the great value and preciousness of one human life and to teach humans the great goodness in the saving of one human soul). Our (God’s) messengers came to them (the children of Israel) with clear arguments but still after that many of them continued to commit great crimes (by killing humans unlawfully) in the land (so this is a message from God to the human not to commit the great crime of killing human life but instead to work to save human life).
Note 1. In the Judgment of God the saving of one human life is a great deed because in the Judgment of God it is like saving every human life on the earth.
Note 2. On the Day of Judgment whoever saved a life will be rewarded with a reward fitting for a person who had saved all humankind if God wills.
Note 3. On the Day of Judgment whoever destroyed a life will be punished with a punishment fitting for a person who had destroyed all humankind if God wills.
Note 4. Human life is equal in the sight of God. Those who save all human life are among the righteous if God wills.
Note 5. Human deeds are not equal in the sight of God. Those who do good deeds to all people are among the righteous if God wills.
Note 6. The saving of one life in this world no matter if that person is Muslim or non Muslim or the saving of one life by guiding a person to goodness so that they are successful in the hereafter is a great deed of goodness in the sight of God.
Human life is equal in the eyes of God.
God’s order in Quran 5:32 to the children of Israel is based on the first murder on the earth which occurred long before the children of Israel existed.
That shows that this law of God applies to all humans in all times who believe the word of God.
This is because God has made clear that God regards one human life as equal to every human life that God has created and it is for God to judge on the Day of Judgement what each person did in the life that God gives to each person.
Human deeds are not equal in the eyes of God.
God will judge on the Day of Judgement what each person did in the life that God gives to each person.
That judgement is based on their deeds.
Quran 9:94 Verse 9:94 They (the hypocrites) shall make excuse to you (Muslims) when you return to them (after Tabouk). Say (to them) “Make no excuse because we do not believe you. God has told us news about you. God and His (God’s) Messenger shall observe your deeds and then you shall be brought back (resurrected) to Him (God) who knows the seen and the unseen and He (God) shall tell you what you used to do.
Quran 9:105 Verse 9:105 And say (to them), Do (as you will) and God shall see your deeds and (so shall) His (God’s) Messenger and the believers, and you shall be brought back to the knower of the unseen and the seen and (in the Hereafter) He (God) shall tell you what you used to do.
3b. Only a prophet of God is protected from wrong doing.
Quran 48:25 Verse 48:25 They (the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia today Saudi Arabia) are the ones who disbelieved (in God) and turned you (Prophet Muhammad) away from the Sacred Mosque (Al-Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca Makkah) and your offerings (of 70 camels to God for the feeding of the poor which) were prevented from reaching their place of sacrifice. (You would have been allowed to enter Mecca Makkah and fight for the sake of God to worship God at God’s Sacred Mosque in Mecca Makkah) if it were not that there were believing men and women who you did not know that you may have trampled (with your offerings of 70 camels that would have killed both the believers who you did not know and the non believers because of a stampede by those animals caused by fighting that God knew would occur) and so unknowingly you would have an evil deed against you, (However God stopped you from entering Mecca Makkah) so that God might bring to His (God’s) mercy whom He (God) willed (by preventing you from making sin through your actions which would have killed innocent people). If they (the believers who you did not know and the wrongdoers who had sinned against God) had been apart (so that only the wrongdoers who had sinned against God were present) then We (God) would have punished those of them who disbelieved with a painful punishment (by allowing you into Mecca Makkah and allowing the animal stampede to occur to punish the stone idol worshippers who forbid your worship of God at the Sacred Mosque Al-Masjid-al-Haram in Mecca Makkah).
3c. Why has God given life to people with different beliefs?
Quran 5:48 Verse 5:48 And to you (Prophet Muhammad) We (God) revealed the Scripture (the Quran) with the truth that confirmed the Scripture that was before it (in the Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat) and (for you Prophet Muhammad to be) a guardian over it (the Quran). So judge between them (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what God has revealed (to you Prophet Muhammad) and do not let their desires move you away from the truth that has come to you. For each (community of Jews, Christians and Muslims) We (God) have appointed a divine law and a way (of religion). If God willed He (God) could have made you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) one community. But He (God) tests you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what He (God) has given you (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show who is best in behaviour). So strive for all that is good. To God you shall all return and He (God) shall then inform you (in the Hereafter) about (the correctness of) the religious matters in which you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) argue among each other.
Note 1. God does not require humans to all be in one religion (Quran 5:48).
Note 2. God does require that every religion worship only God (Quran 3:85).
Note 3. God says if the Jews and the Christians and others worship only God like the Muslims worship only God then the Jews and the Christians and others are correctly guided by God (Quran 3:64).
Note 4. God commands the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims to do what is good according to what God has given them in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show which humans are the best in behaviour.
Note 5. God says that on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement in the hereafter every human will return to God and God shall inform them about the religious matters about which they argued.
Note 6. God protects the Torah Taurat for every Jewish generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 7. God protects the Gospel Injil for every Christian generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48) in the following way.
Prophet Jesus Isa did not write anything because everything Prophet Jesus Isa taught by his mouth was already written in the Tanakh Jewish scripture meaning Prophet Jesus Isa did not add or subtract from what is in Tanakh Jewish scripture.
The four Gospel Injil are four reports about Prophet Jesus Isa meaning Prophet Jesus Isa never wrote anything and what he said was passed by mouth until it was written many years later.
Quran 5:68 says observe the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and Quran 5:47 tells Christians to judge by the Gospel Injil (not by the other books in the Christian New Testament Bible because what Paul teaches contradicts what Jesus is teaching in the Gospel Injil and anything about fallen angels found in the Book of Enoch and in the Book of Revelation are all rejected in Judaism because in the Hebrew Tanakh scripture angels always obey God. Jewish people do not use the Christian produced Old Testament Bible because many contain wrong translations of the Hebrew Tanakh) meaning whatever in the Gospel Injil is confirmed in the Jewish Torah Taurat came from Prophet Jesus Isa and whatever contradicts the Jewish Torah Taurat came from the unknown writers who are traditionally called Mark, Matthew, Luke and John in a test from God described in 1 Kings 13:14 - 13:24 teaching that the word of God will not change and do not believe anyone or any verse in Mark, Matthew, Luke or John which contradicts the teachings in the Tanakh which Prophet Jesus Isa said is with the Jewish people forever and will never change and must be followed forever by the Jewish people in Gospel of Matthew 5:17 - 5:20 and Gospel of Matthew 23:1 - 23:3. In this way a Christian can know what came from Prophet Jesus Isa confirming Tanakh and what did not come from Prophet Jesus Isa because it contradicts the Tanakh (which is the Torah law and the prophets and the writings like the Psalms) which Jesus was teaching in Gospel of Luke 24:44.
Note 8. God protects the Koran Quran for every Muslim generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 9. Entry to Paradise the Garden of Eden the Garden of Righteousness Jannah is not based on the question of Sunni or Shia or Muslim or Jew or Christian but it is based on your good behaviour towards all humans and creatures in this world and your relationship with God (Quran 5:48).
Note 10. In the sight of humans Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are different religions.
Note 11. In the sight of God Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are “different communities of God” because they were all created by God for only one reason which is “to submit to God.”
Note 12. God tests humans to show who is best in behaviour.
Quran 7:129 Verse 7:129 They (the Children of Israel) said (to Prophet Moses Musa), “We suffered harm before you came to us and since you have come to us.” He (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “It may be that your Lord is going to destroy your enemy (in Egypt and in Canaan) and make you inherit the land (by punishing the Pharaoh Firon of Egypt in Quran 7:136 and by replacing the idol worshipping people in Canaan with the worship of God by the children of Israel in Quran 5:20 - 5:26, 7:137) so that He (God) may see how you (the children of Israel) behave.
Note 1. Why does God give people land?
God gives land so that God may see how humans behave.
1. Do you show mercy in the land?
2. Do you forgive in the land?
3. Do you make peace in the land?
4. Do you deal fairly and with justice in the land?
5. In the hereafter no person shall be able to deny that God’s judgement of them will be correct because they shall be shown the good and the evil that they did.
Quran 8:33 Verse 8:33 But God would not punish them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) while you (Prophet Muhammad) were with them, nor shall He (God) punish them while they (might) seek forgiveness.
Quran 9:6 Verse 9:6 And if any of the idol worshippers asks for your protection (because they do not want to fight Muslims), then (Prophet Muhammad) protect that person (the idol worshipper) so they may hear the Word of God and afterward take that person to their place of safety (to their home which is located with their people so that they might think about God). That (introduction to the word of God) is because they are a people who do not know (God).
Note 1. Muslims must protect stone idol worshippers who do not fight against them.
Muslims must protect all people both believers and disbelievers who do not fight against them.
Muslims must protect all civilians both believers and disbelievers because they are not fighting.
Quran 18:7 Verse 18:7 We (God) have put all that is on the earth as decoration (that is pleasing to humans and jinn) so that We (God) may test them (humans and jinn) to show which among them is best in deeds (behavior).
Note 1. God tests humans to show who is best in behaviour.
Comment 3. Places of worship are a sign of God.
Quran 22:40 Verse 22:40 – "... Had it not been for God’s repelling some people by means of others then monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques in which the name of God is often mentioned would certainly have been pulled down. God helps the one who helps Him (God by protecting every monastery, church, synagogue and mosque where God is worshipped). God is strong and almighty.
Note 1. Monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques are signs of God.
God orders humans to protect every monastery, church, synagogue and mosque.
Comment 4. What are Sunni and Shia?
Sunni and Shia believe in one God who is the creator of every creation.
Sunni and Shia believe that Prophet Muhammad is the last of the Prophets of God.
Sunni and Shia believe that the Torah Taurat and Psalms Zabur and Gospel Injil and Koran Quran are the Books of God.
Sunni and Shia believe in the day of resurrection and judgement.
Sunni and Shia pray to God five times each day.
Sunni and Shia attend mosques.
Sunni and Shia go to the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca Makkah.
Sunni and Shia are two of the many traditions in Islam.
Sunni and Shia are two traditions in the same religion of Islam.
Sunni and Shia are two traditions of the many traditions of Muslims.
Sunni and Shia are two traditions of the same religion of Muslims.
Differences in Sunni and Shia are differences in tradition, not differences in religion.
Comment 5. Ending war between Sunni and Shia.
Peace between Sunni and Shia.
Understanding brings peace.
Sunni brothers and Sunni sisters and Sunni children make peace not war with your Shia brothers and Shia sisters and Shia children.
The solution to ending war between Sunni and Shia is in Quran 18:21 InshGod.
Go with love and peace in your heart and use nice words in discussing the meaning of Quran 18:21
Quran 4:114 Verse 4:114 There is no good in most of their (the people’s) private conversation except in the person who calls for charity, kindness and peace making between humans, he (the person) who does this (charity, kindness and peace making between humans) and seeks the approval of God, We (God) shall give them a great reward (in Paradise in the Hereafter).
Quran 5:8 Verse 5:8 “... do not let (your) hatred of a people make you act unjustly. Act justly, that is nearer to righteousness and fear God. God is aware of what you do.”
Quran 49:10 Verse 49:10 The believers are brothers. Therefore make peace between your brothers and fear God so that you may obtain mercy (on the Day of Judgement).
Comment 6. Do not destroy structures of remembrance such as the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem Al-Quds in Israel and Palestine.
Do not destroy structures of remembrance such as the shine and grave of Prophet Muhammad in Medina Madinah Saudi Arabia.
Do not destroy structures of remembrance that belong to other beliefs.
If you fear that future generations might become misled then put an inscription at the entrance to the structure like was done for the seven sleepers in the cave. On your inscription put Quran 18:9 to show that God blesses your action and Quran 18:21 to explain what God allows and does not allow and Quran 18:23 - 18:24 to explain Quran 18:21 further and Quran 22:40 to remind future generations that God absolutely forbids the destruction of every house of worship. This is action that is good and pure in righteousness.
Exploding bombs to destroy structures and kill innocent humans is an evil action.
Quran 18:22 Koran 18:22 Verse 18:22 Ayah 18:22 Ayat 18:22 Aya 18:22 (Some people) say there were three, the dog being the fourth among them; (other people) say there were five, the dog being the sixth, (God reveals they are) guessing at what they do not know; (and other people) say there were seven, the dog being the eighth. Say (Prophet Muhammad), "My Lord (God) knows best their number and no one (in Yathrib Arabia) knows them but a few." So do not argue (about their number) except with the clear proof (which is revealed by God in Quran 18:22). And do not ask for an opinion from any of them (the Jews of Yathrib Arabia and the Christians) about the people of the cave (because no benefit comes from speculation and conjecture especially when God has already revealed their number in Quran 18:22 but God has not mentioned them in the Torah Taurat revealed to the Jews or in the Gospel Injil revealed to the Christians).
Comment 1. How many were sleeping in the cave for 309 years?
Some people say there were three youth, the dog being the fourth among them and other people say there were five youth, the dog being the sixth among them. God reveals these people are guessing about a matter that they do not know.
Other people say there were seven youth, the dog being the eighth among them. This is the truth because everything mentioned previosly was the speculation of people who did not know. God reveals people that give this answer are correct.
God gives 3 possible answers without mentioning a fourth possibility.
God weakens the first 2 possible answers by saying they are guessing about things of which they have no knowledge.
God remains silent after the third possible answer indicating that is the correct answer.
There were seven people and the dog was the eighth in the cave.
Comment 2. Christian stories from humans confirm there were seven sleepers but there is no mention of a dog.
Quran 18:22 Verse 18:22 "... "My Lord (God) knows best their number and no one (in Yathrib Arabia) knows them but a few" ..."
See page 1 and 14 http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/13th/papers/Horst.pdf
Quran 18:23 Koran 18:23 Verse 18:23 Ayah 18:23 Ayat 18:23 Aya 18:23 Never say about anything, "I shall do it tomorrow." – (Continued Quran 18:24).
Comment 1. See Quran 18:24 comments.
Quran 18:24 Koran 18:24 Verse 18:24 Ayah 18:24 Ayat 18:24 Aya 18:24 – Except (by then saying), “If God wills InshGod.” And remember your Lord (God) when you forget (to say “If God wills InshGod”) and say, “My Lord guide me on a better course if You (God) will.”
Comment 1. Does God allow the building of a structure over a grave?
Does God allow the building of a structure over a tomb?
In the story of the seven sleepers in the cave a group of people from the town of Ephesus in Turkey argued with two opinions about what they should do; one group proposed they should build a structure over the cave (a shrine) adding God knows best about them (because everything is by the will of God InshGod). This acknowledgement of God as God has advised in Quran 18:23 – 18:24 shows that this is the correct decision.
See Quran 18:21
Note 1. God confirms this understanding in Quran 18:9 and Quran 18:21.
Quran 18:9 Verse 18:9 Verse 18:9 Don’t you think that the people of the cave and the inscription (Raqeem, Er-Rakeem, Er-Raqim, Al-Rakim in Ephesus Turkey) that were among Our (God’s) signs were a miracle (from God to remind humans of their resurrection)?
Note 2. Ar-Raqim is a tablet of stone on which the people of the town wrote the story of the people of the cave and placed it at the entrance of the cave.
Note 3. The sign from God are the graves in a cave and an inscription at the entrance of the burial place that was written by the people of the town of Ephesus Turkey describing the miracle.
Comment 2. Does God allow the building of a house of worship over a grave?
Does God allow the building of a house of worship over a tomb?
In the story of the seven sleepers in the cave a group of people from the town of Ephesus in Turkey argued with two opinions about what they should do; another group proposed they should build a place for worshipping God over their graves. They did not acknowledge God by saying God knows best about them (because everything is by the will of God InshGod) as God advised in Quran 18:23 – 18:24 showing that this was the wrong decision because the building of churches on top of graves moved people away from God and resulted in millions of Christians praying to dead human saints who have no power to hear prayer as that power belongs only to God..
See Quran 18:21
Note 1. God confirms this understanding by the absence of graves inside synagogues.
Synagogues were established before churches and mosques.
Quran 18:25 Koran 18:25 Verse 18:25 Ayah 18:25 Ayat 18:25 Aya 18:25 And they (the sleeping youth and their dog) had been in the cave for three hundred and nine years.
Comment 1. There is disagreement in Christian stories from humans about how long the 7 people sleeped.
Quran 18:22 Verse 18:22 "... "My Lord (God) knows best their number and no one (in Yathrib Arabia) knows them but a few" ..."
Note 1. Seven people slept in a cave for 309 years.
Seven people and a dog slept in a cave for 309 years.
Quran 18:26 Koran 18:26 Verse 18:26 Ayah 18:26 Ayat 18:26 Aya 18:26 Say, "God knows best how long they stayed. With Him (God) is the unseen (knowledge of all that is) in the heavens and the earth. How clearly He (God) sees and hears (everything). They (the humans) have no protecting friend other than Him (God), and He (God) does not share His (God’s) rule (decision making) with any partner."
Comment 1. The story of the people who slept in the cave is a story confirming that all knowledge of the past and present and future is with the creator of the creation.
Comment 2. God has no son or daughter or wife or partners with whom God shares decisions.
Only creations need off-springs and partners.
God the creator has no need for off-springs and partners because God is the creator of every creation.
When God uses words such as son its meaning is servant.
When God uses words such as son of God its meaning is servant of God.
When God uses words such as begotten son its meaning is to give God’s favour and blessing to a servant of God.
When God uses words such as only begotten son its meaning is to give favour, blessing and grace to the only servant of God who has supreme authority to speak on the Earth as a prophet or messenger in the name of God to the people in his time.
Comment 3. The story of the people who slept in the cave is a story confirming that there is some knowledge that no one knows except God.
Gospel of Mark 13:32 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) "But as to that day or that hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows, not even the angels in heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God), but only the Father (God who is the creator of every creation).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Son mean?
Son means servant of God.
The Quran warns against misunderstanding the meaning of son because some Christians thought that son was a real biological son instead of correctly knowing that son means servant of God.
Gospel of Matthew 24:36 (Jesus Isa who was the prophet and messenger of God 2000 years ago said) But as for that day and hour (of the Day of Resurrection), no one knows it except the Father (God) alone; not even the angels of heaven (the Holy Spirit and the other angels who are servants of God), not even the Son (Jesus Isa who is a servant of God).
Note 1. If God is one then the Gospel would teach that Jesus does not know the hour.
Note 2. If God is three in one then the Gospel would teach both Jesus and God know the hour.
Note 3. In the Gospel Jesus is not God because Jesus does not know the hour meaning the teaching that Jesus is God or part of God contradicts the Gospel meaning Trinity was invented after the time of Jesus and after the writing of the Gospels.
Note 4. There is only one God because no one is equal to God not Jesus and not the angels.
Note 5. Jesus is like the angels and other creations meaning Jesus is not like God.
In the Gospel Jesus is not God or part of God because Jesus does not know “the hour” because only God knows “the hour” meaning “God is one’ not three in one.
Note 6. What does Father mean?
Father means God.
God is the father of every creation.
Quran 7:187 Verse 7:187 They ask you (Prophet Muhammad) about The Hour of the Day of Resurrection) and when it shall come. Say, “Knowledge of this is with my Lord (God) only. He (God) alone shall make it happen at the proper time. It lays heavily on the heavens and the earth (because of the greatness of that event). It shall come to you suddenly. They question you as if you might be well informed of it. Say, “Knowledge of it is with God only, but most of the people do not know that (because they think others have this knowledge).”
Note 1. Only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection.
The Holy Spirit revealed to Muhammad that only God knows the hour of the Day of Resurrection therefore Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad are not God and the Holy Spirit is not God because both the humans (Moses Musa and Jesus Isa and Muhammad) and the angels (the Holy Spirit of God angel Gabriel Jibril) are created by God.
Quran 18:27 Koran 18:27 Verse 18:27 Ayah 18:27 Ayat 18:27 Aya 18:27 And recite (Prophet Muhammad) what has been revealed to you of the Book (the Quran) of your Lord (God). No one can change His (God’s) Words and you will find no refuge (in the hereafter) other than with Him (God).
Comment 1. The Books of God.
Stories claiming the Torah Taurat is corrupted contradict all the teachings in the Quran telling us that the Jewish people have the Torah and telling us that the Torah is from God and telling us that no one can change the word of God because that is the proof that God is real for every human until the Day of Judgement.
The Jewish people judge scripture as true if it confirms the Torah Taurat.
Many Muslims say the Quran does not agree with the Torah Taurat and therefore to a Jew it means the Quran cannot be from God.
If Muslims said the Quran confirms the Torah Taurat it would mean the Quran is from God but this is not what many Muslims are telling the Jewish people today.
1400 years ago Prophet Muhammad said the Quran confirms the Torah Taurat meaning confirms the Torah Taurat is correct as proof the Quran is from God but this is not the message many Muslims say to Jewish people today.
Rabbi Tovia Singer has studied the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil and Quran and explains that the Jews have the scripture and therefore whenever anyone claims they also have the scripture the Jewish person compares their scripture to all other scriptures and if another scripture agrees with the Jewish scripture the Jew will applaud it in other words Jews are not asking if someone is or is not a prophet but a Jew asks do scriptures like the Gospel and the Quran which both say they confirm the Torah Taurat agree or disagree with the Jewish scripture.
When a Jew reads in the Quran that God is only one the Jew applauds it meaning it agrees with the Torah.
When a Jew reads some Christian opinions that God is a Trinity the Jew does not applaud it meaning it disagrees with the Torah Taurat.
See 1. Quran 28:52 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 2. Quran 28:53 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 3. Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
See 4. Quran 4:162 comments in Quran chapter 4.
Comment 2. Evidence for the truth is the Quran confirming the Torah Taurat is correct.
Quran 3:93 Ayah 3:93 “… Say (Prophet Muhammad, to the Jews of Yathrib), "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
Note 1. The proof of truth according to the Quran is the Torah Taurat meaning no one changed the Torah Taurat.
Note 2. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat is with the Jewish people and the Quran confirms no one can change the word of God.
Note 3. God tells the Jews to recite the Torah Taurat meaning the Jews have the Torah Taurat and no one changed it.
Note 4. If anyone can prove the Torah Taurat was changed then they have found the proof that God does not exist.
Note 5. God says the proof of truth is the Quran confirming what is with the Jewish people in the Torah Taurat meaning there are no contradictions between the Quran which is with the Muslim people and the Torah Taurat which is with the Jewish people.
Quran 2:41 Ayah 2:41 And believe in what I (God) have revealed (in the Quran) confirming that which is with you (the Jewish people in the Torah Taurat as proof to the stone idol worshipers of Makkah in Quran 6:114, Quran 46:10 and Quran 10:94 that the Quran is not an invented story) ..."
Note 1. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat which is with the Jewish people forever.
Quran 4:136 Ayah 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … His (God’s) Books, … then he has strayed far away (from God).
Comment 3. Why can humans not change the Torah Taurat?
Quran 28:47 Verse 28:47 And if We (God) had not sent you Prophet Muhammad to the stone idol worshippers of Mecca Makkah Arabia then) if a disaster came to them because of their deeds, they might say (in the Hereafter), "Our Lord (God), Why did You (God) not send a messenger to us so that we might have followed Your (God’s) revelations and become believers?”
Note 1. The Torah Taurat are the words revealed by God therefore humans do not have the power to change them.
If the words in the Torah Taurat have been changed then humans in the hereafter could say they were misled by a Book that was not protected.
If the Torah Taurat is not protected then anyone with a Torah Taurat would reject the other books of God because they were different to what was revealed in the Torah Taurat.
Comment 4. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
A. Prophet Muhammad in the Torah Taurat and Gospel Injil.
See Quran 7:157 comments in Quran chapter 7.
B. Every prophet of God is “the Word of God made flesh” meaning the word of God comes out of the mouth of every prophet of God in Deuteronomy 18:18.
See Quran 5:116 comments in Quran chapter 5.
C. How did God save Jesus.
See 1. Quran 4:157 and Quran 4:158 comments in Quran chapter 4.
See 2. Quran 29:57 comments in Quran chapter 29.
D. The second coming of Jesus and every other human is on the Day of Resurrection.
See Quran 79:7 comments in Quran chapter 79.
E. Examples of hadith stories which contradict the teachings of God in the Quran.
See Quran 25:30 comments in Quran chapter 25.
F. God protects the Quran, Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat as proof God is real.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/god-protects-the-torah-gospel-and-koran
G. Jews and Christians who follow their Book and also believe the Quran will be rewarded twice in the hereafter.
See Quran 28:54 comments in Quran chapter 28.
Quran 18:28 Koran 18:28 Verse 18:28 Ayah 18:28 Ayat 18:28 Aya 18:28 And keep yourself (Prophet Muhammad) with those who pray to their Lord (God) in the morning and evening, seeking His (God’s) approval and do not let your eyes overlook them by a desire for the attractions of the life of the world and do not obey those whose heart We (God) have made not to think about remembering Us (God) and who follow their own desires and who break the law.
Comment 1. Muslims pray to God five times a day.
One example might be:
The Fajr prayer before sunrise 5 am.
The Zuhr prayer after the midday sun 12.30 pm.
The Asr prayer near 3.30 pm.
The Maghrib prayer after sunset 5.45 pm.
The Isha prayer near 7.30 pm.
Quran 18:29 Koran 18:29 Verse 18:29 Ayah 18:29 Ayat 18:29 Aya 18:29 And say, “The truth (of the Quran) is from your Lord (God)" so whoever wishes let them believe and whoever wishes let them disbelieve. We (God) have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire whose walls shall surround them (in the Hereafter). And if they ask for relief they shall be granted boiling water that scalds their faces. Awful is the drink and an evil place to live (is Hell, the home for evildoers).
Note 1. Quran 17:60 Verse 17:60 “.... We (God) warn (people to do what is good and avoid what is evil) and make them afraid (of God by describing the home for evil doers in Hell Fire in the Hereafter) but it only increases them (some of the humans) in nothing but greater disobedience against God (and the commandment to do what is good and avoid what is evil).
Comment 1. God gives humans freedom of belief.
God gives humans freedom of religion.
Islam gives humans freedom of belief.
Islam gives humans freedom of religion.
Quran 18:29, Verse 18:29 “…whoever wishes let them believe and whoever wishes let them disbelieve ….”
See 1. Apostasy in Islam.
In the Quran God ordered freedom of religious belief 1400 years before the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However incorrect understanding of the Quran and the hadith can cause wrongful killing of people in the name of God and in the name of human hadith stories.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/apostasy-in-islam
Quran 18:30 Koran 18:30 Verse 18:30 Ayah 18:30 Ayat 18:30 Aya 18:30 For those who believe and do good work We (God) do not allow the reward of their good deeds to become lost. – (Continued Quran 18:31).
Quran 18:31 Koran 18:31 Verse 18:31 Ayah 18:31 Ayat 18:31 Aya 18:31 For them shall be Gardens of Eden under which rivers flow as their eternal residence (in Paradise) and they shall be adorned with gold bracelets and green clothes of fine silk and gold embroidery, (and they shall be) reclining on raised couches. Excellent is this reward, as a resting place for the good (doers).
Quran 18:32 Koran 18:32 Verse 18:32 Ayah 18:32 Ayat 18:32 Aya 18:32 (Prophet Muhammad) give them (the people) an example of two men; We (God) granted to one of them two gardens of grapes and We (God) surrounded them with date palm trees and put between them (fields of) crops.
Quran 18:33 Koran 18:33 Verse 18:33 Ayah 18:33 Ayat 18:33 Aya 18:33 Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and was not lacking in anything and We (God) caused a river to flow within them.
Quran 18:34 Koran 18:34 Verse 18:34 Ayah 18:34 Ayat 18:34 Aya 18:34 And after harvesting an abundant amount of fruit, he said to his companion, “I have more wealth than you and (I am) stronger in (the number) of my followers (of children)."
Quran 18:35 Koran 18:35 Verse 18:35 Ayah 18:35 Ayat 18:35 Aya 18:35 And while he had wronged himself (by being arrogant and ungrateful to God) he entered his garden (admiring it) and said, “I do not think that all this (wealth) shall ever perish.”
Quran 18:36 Koran 18:36 Verse 18:36 Ayah 18:36 Ayat 18:36 Aya 18:36 (The one who was arrogant and ungrateful to God continued speaking) "And I do not think that the Hour (of the Day of Resurrection in the hereafter) shall ever occur but if (it does and) I am brought back to my Lord (God) then I shall surely be in a place that is better than this (place).”
Quran 18:37 Koran 18:37 Verse 18:37 Ayah 18:37 Ayat 18:37 Aya 18:37 His companion said to him, “Do you disbelieve in Him (God) who created you out of dust (through Prophet Adam the father of humans) and then out of a semen drop (mixed between your father and your mother) and then He (God) formed you into a man (in your mother’s womb)?”
Quran 18:38 Koran 18:38 Verse 18:38 Ayah 18:38 Ayat 18:38 Aya 18:38 (His companion continued talking saying, “You might not believe) but for me He (my Lord) is God and I do not associate my Lord (God) with (the worship of) others (by praying to creations that are created by God)."
Comment 1. God is the creator and the ruler of all creation.
God does not share God’s power to hear prayer with anyone.
Idols, sons, saints, angels, daughters, Satan Shaitan, prophets, messengers are all created by God and have no power to hear prayer.
Prayer to the creations of God is called idol worship because such prayer assigns a partner to God but God has no need for any partners.
Prayer to the creations of God is called idol worship because such prayer associates others with God but God has no need for associates.
God has no partners and no associates because only God has the power to hear and answer prayer.
It is only creations who have a need for partners or associates in their relationships.
Quran 18:39 Koran 18:39 Verse 18:39 Ayah 18:39 Ayat 18:39 Aya 18:39 (His companion continued talking saying), And when you entered your garden, why did you not say, “What God wills (shall happen, to show you are grateful to God).” Certainly there is no power except with God, though you see me as less than you in wealth and children.
Quran 18:40 Koran 18:40 Verse 18:40 Ayah 18:40 Ayat 18:40 Aya 18:40 (His companion continued talking saying), it may be that my Lord (God) shall give me something better than your garden and that He (God) shall send thunderbolts from heaven on your garden and it shall become a smooth ground (without any vegetation),
Quran 18:41 Koran 18:41 Verse 18:41 Ayah 18:41 Ayat 18:41 Aya 18:41 Or the water (in the garden) shall disappear underground so that you cannot find it.
Quran 18:42 Koran 18:42 Verse 18:42 Ayah 18:42 Ayat 18:42 Aya 18:42 (And so it happened that) his fruits were ruined and he gestured his hands in sorrow over what he had spent (of his time and wealth) on it (his garden) with its destroyed trellises and he could only say, “I wish I had not associated my Lord (God) with (the worship of) others (by praying to creations that are created by God)."
Comment 1. See Quran 18:38 comments.
Quran 18:43 Koran 18:43 Verse 18:43 Ayah 18:43 Ayat 18:43 Aya 18:43 And he had no group of men that could help him against (what) God (had willed) nor could he defend himself (against the will of God).
Quran 18:44 Koran 18:44 Verse 18:44 Ayah 18:44 Ayat 18:44 Aya 18:44 There (on the Day of Judgement), the power to protect (a person against receiving punishment) shall be with God alone (who is) the True God (and all others to whom people pray such as idols, sons, saints, angels, daughters, Satan Shaitan, prophets, messengers shall all deny that they have the power to hear prayer). He (God) is best in rewarding (the righteous) and the best (for those with faith who believe that God determines every) outcome.
Quran 18:45 Koran 18:45 Verse 18:45 Ayah 18:45 Ayat 18:45 Aya 18:45 And (Prophet Muhammad) give them (the people) the example of the life of this world as being like the rain which We (God) send down from the sky and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it (the wet soil) but (later) it (the vegitation) becomes dry broken pieces that are scattered by the wind. God is able to do everything.
Quran 18:46 Koran 18:46 Verse 18:46 Ayah 18:46 Ayat 18:46 Aya 18:46 Wealth and children are adornments in the life of this world. But the good deeds that last, are better to your Lord (God) for reward and better for (one’s) hope (of a good outcome in the Hereafter).
Quran 18:47 Koran 18:47 Verse 18:47 Ayah 18:47 Ayat 18:47 Aya 18:47 And (warn of) the (Last) Day (of the Earth) when We (God) shall remove the mountains and (in the hereafter) you shall see the earth (the ground) as a flat plain (of land) and We (God) shall gather them (humans) all together (in their resurrection to life after they had died) and not leave anyone behind.
Quran 18:48 Koran 18:48 Verse 18:48 Ayah 18:48 Ayat 18:48 Aya 18:48 And they (all humankind) shall be in front of your Lord (God) in rows (and God shall say), "Now you have come to Us (God, after your death) as We (God) first created you (in your first life with the promise that the Day of Resurrection is true). But you did not (all) believe that We (God) had appointed a meeting for you (with God in the hereafter)."
Note 1. Quran 27:82 Verse 27:82 And when the word (of God that decrees who shall be misguided because they have chosen to follow evil) is fulfilled against them (they are made deaf to God and blind to God in their hearts) then We (God) bring to them a creature from the Earth (a human messenger of God) telling them (the warning that is delivered by every messenger of God which God tells us is) "That (all) people did not believe Our (God's) revelations with certainty (as they should)."
Quran 18:49 Koran 18:49 Verse 18:49 Ayah 18:49 Ayat 18:49 Aya 18:49 And the record of their deeds shall be placed (in the hand of each person), and you shall see the sinful in fear of what is (recorded) there. They shall say, “What kind of Book is this that leaves out nothing small or great, but takes account of everything (we did in our life)." And they shall find all that they did (in their life) placed before them (in the Hereafter) and your Lord (God) shall treat no one with injustice (on the Day of Judgement).
Quran 18:50 Koran 18:50 Verse 18:50 Ayah 18:50 Ayat 18:50 Aya 18:50 And (mention) when We (God) said to the angels, “Prostrate (bow down) in front of Adam,” and they all prostrated (bowed down), except Iblis. He (Iblis) was a jinn who rebelled against his Lord's (God’s) command (and became known as Satan Shaitan the one who is cursed by God by having lost the mercy of God). Shall you choose him (Satan Shaitan) and his (rebellious) descendants (the Devils) for your allies instead of Me (God) when they (Satan Shaitan and his devils) are your enemy? It is a disaster (for you) to exchange (the help of God) for (the help of) evil-doers.
Comment 1. Prostrating is a sign of respect.
God teaches angels to respect humans.
God teaches angels to serve humans under the guidance of God.
Comment 2. Satan Shaitan is the first jinn.
Adam is the first human.
Quran 18:51 Koran 18:51 Verse 18:51 Ayah 18:51 Ayat 18:51 Aya 18:51 I (God) did not make them (Iblis Satan Shaitan and his rebellious descendants the devils) a witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth nor (were they witness) to their own creation, nor would I (God) have taken the misguided (Iblis Satan and his rebellious descendants the devils) as helpers (in creating the creation).
Comment 1. Satan Shaitan is the first jinn.
Adam is the first human.
1a. The Hebrew Bible. The Jewish Bible, The Tanakh.
Job 38:4 Where were you when I (God) laid the foundations of the Earth? Say, if you know.
Job 38:5 Who determined the dimensions of it (the Earth, say), if you know? Or who stretched the line on it (as a base line from where the first construction of the Earth began)?
Job 38:6 Where on it were the foundations of it (the Earth) secured? Or who laid the corner-stone (that started the construction) of it (the Earth),
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together (meaning when the stars came into creation), and all the sons of God (meaning servants of God who are the angels) shouted for joy?
Note 1. The Hebrew Bible and the Quran confirm that Iblis Satan Shaitan was not a witness to the creation.
When the angels witnessed the creation of the stars Iblis Satan Shaitan had not been created.
When the angels witnessed the creation of the stars jinn and humans had not been created.
Quran 18:52 Koran 18:52 Verse 18:52 Ayah 18:52 Ayat 18:52 Aya 18:52 And (mention) the Day (of Judgement) when He (God) shall say, "Pray (for help to) those (so-called) partners of Mine (God’s so called partners) whom you prayed to (such as the angels, sons, daughters, saints, idols, Satan Shaitan, devils and other creations that you used to pray to for help during your life)." Then they (who prayed to what God created instead of praying to God) shall pray to them (angels, sons, daughters, saints, idols, Satan Shaitan, devils and other creations), but they shall not answer them (because only God the creator has the power to hear prayer), and We (God) shall put a barrier between them (between those who mistakenly prayed to what God created and those who correctly prayed only to God).
Comment 1. Praying to the creations of God is called idol worship.
Praying to anything God has created is called idol worship.
Praying to anyone God has created is called idol worship.
See 18:4 – 18:6, 18:102, 18:110.
Quran 18:53 Koran 18:53 Verse 18:53 Ayah 18:53 Ayat 18:53 Aya 18:53 And the guilty (who used to pray to what God created instead of praying to God the creator) shall see the Fire (of Hell in the hereafter) and they shall know that they are about to fall into it and they shall find no way of escape from there.
Quran 18:54 Koran 18:54 Verse 18:54 Ayah 18:54 Ayat 18:54 Aya 18:54 And We (God) have shown to humans in this Quran all kinds of examples but people (who disbelieve) have always been inclined to dispute (the word of God).
Quran 18:55 Koran 18:55 Verse 18:55 Ayah 18:55 Ayat 18:55 Aya 18:55 And nothing prevents people from believing when the guidance (of God) comes to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord (God) unless they want the example (given in Quran 18:59 and in the Gospel Injil and in the Torah Taurat of the judgment of God) on the people of the past to be (also) put on them or if the punishment (of God) should come in front of them (in the Hereafter when it is too late to say, “Now I believe in God and I ask your forgiveness”).
Comment 1. God will forgive any sin if the human asks for forgiveness.
Comment 2. Why is the life of a disbeliever very important?
God gives every human a life time to discover the meaning of life.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because the disbeliever is given a life time to discover the purpose of life.
God forgives every sin including the sin of idol worship if humans ask for God’s forgiveness.
In Islam this life is very important because this life determines what shall happen in the hereafter.
The life of a disbeliever is very important because while they have life they have the chance to find correct guidance.
Quran 5:8 Verse 5:8 “... do not let (your) hatred of a people make you act unjustly. Act justly, that is nearer to righteousness and fear God. God is aware of what you do.”
Quran 8:32 Verse 8:32 And they (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) said, “O God, If this is the truth from you then rain down stones on us or bring on us some painful punishment.”
Quran 8:33 Verse 8:33 But God would not punish them (the stone idol worshippers in Mecca Makkah) while you (Prophet Muhammad) were with them, nor shall He (God) punish them while they (might) seek forgiveness.
Quran 18:55 Verse 18:55 And nothing prevents people from believing when the guidance (of God) comes to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord (God) unless they want the example (given in Quran 18:59 and in the Gospel Injil and in the Torah Taurat of the judgment of God) on the people of the past to be (also) put on them or if the punishment (of God) should come in front of them (in the Hereafter when it is too late to say, “Now I believe in God and I ask your forgiveness”).
Video: Everyone is a potential Muslim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGmSbug0iY
Forgive disbelievers in this life like you want God to forgive you in the next life.
Quran 45:14 Verse 45:14 Say (Prophet Muhammad) to those who believe (in God that) they (should) forgive those who do not expect the Days of God (in the hereafter, meaning forgive the disbelievers, forgive the non believers, forgive the stone idol worshippers in Mecca, forgive the people who do not believe in God) so that He (God) may reward (the righteous) people for what they earn (in reward for the hereafter by obeying God’s command that the people who believe in God should forgive the people who do not believe in God so that you forgive the disbelievers in your life in the same way that you wish God to forgive you in the next life in the hereafter).
Note 1. God is the most merciful and the most forgiving.
Note 2. God teaches humans to follow the example of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the way of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the path of God to be merciful and forgiving.
God teaches humans to follow the cause of God to be merciful and forgiving.
Note 3. Forgive disbelieves in this world just as you would like God to forgive you in the next world (the hereafter).
Note 4. Verses that God revealed in the Quran during a time of war with stone idol worshippers in Mecca Arabia today Makkah Saudi Arabia do not cancel the revelations God revealed earlier in the Quran just as the verses that God revealed in the Torah Taurat during a time of war with stone idol worshippers in Canaan today Israel and Palestine do not cancel the revelations God revealed earlier in the Torah Taurat.
All of God’s verses carry a message of wisdom for humankind.
Some verses give guidance in times of war and other verses give guidance in times of peace.
The correct interpretation of each verse in the Books of God gives knowledge and wisdom and guidance to whoever God wills.
What is the purpose of life?
See Quran 44:38 comments in Quran chapter 44.
Quran 18:56 Koran 18:56 Verse 18:56 Ayah 18:56 Ayat 18:56 Aya 18:56 And We (God) did not send messengers except to deliver the good news (of the reward of Paradise in the Hereafter for the righteous) and to give warning (of punishment in Hell in the Hereafter for evildoers). But those who disbelieve, dispute with false argument to make the truth seem untrue. And they treat My (God’s) verses and warnings as a thing to ridicule.
Quran 18:57 Koran 18:57 Verse 18:57 Ayah 18:57 Ayat 18:57 Aya 18:57 And who does more wrong than the person who is reminded of the verses of His Lord (God) but turns away from them (the verses of God) and forgets what (deeds) their hands have made. We (God) have placed a covering to close their hearts incase they should understand it (the Quran), and deafness in their ears. And if you (Prophet Muhammad) invite them to guidance, even then they shall never be guided (because God has willed that they be among the misguided).
Comment 1. God gives humans freedom of religion.
Islam gives humans freedom of belief.
Islam gives humans freedom of religion.
Quran 18:29, Verse 18:29 “…whoever wishes let them believe and whoever wishes let them disbelieve ….”
1a. God tests humans to show who is best in behavior.
Quran 5:48 Verse 5:48 And to you (Prophet Muhammad) We (God) revealed the Scripture (the Quran) with the truth that confirmed the Scripture that was before it (in the Gospel Injil and the Torah Taurat) and (for you Prophet Muhammad to be) a guardian over it (the Quran). So judge between them (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what God has revealed (to you Prophet Muhammad) and do not let their desires move you away from the truth that has come to you. For each (community of Jews, Christians and Muslims) We (God) have appointed a divine law and a way (of religion). If God willed He (God) could have made you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) one community. But He (God) tests you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) by what He (God) has given you (in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show who is best in behaviour). So strive for all that is good. To God you shall all return and He (God) shall then inform you (in the Hereafter) about (the correctness of) the religious matters in which you (the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims) argue among each other.
Note 1. God does not require humans to all be in one religion (Quran 5:48).
Note 2. God does require that every religion worship only God (Quran 3:85).
Note 3. God says if the Jews and the Christians and others worship only God like the Muslims worship only God then the Jews and the Christians and others are correctly guided by God (Quran 3:64).
Note 4. God commands the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims to do what is good according to what God has given them in the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran to show which humans are the best in behaviour.
Note 5. God says that on the Day of Resurrection and Judgement in the hereafter every human will return to God and God shall inform them about the religious matters about which they argued.
Note 6. God protects the Torah Taurat for every Jewish generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 7. God protects the Gospel Injil for every Christian generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48) in the following way.
Prophet Jesus Isa did not write anything because everything Prophet Jesus Isa taught by his mouth was already written in the Tanakh Jewish scripture meaning Prophet Jesus Isa did not add or subtract from what is in Tanakh Jewish scripture.
The four Gospel Injil are four reports about Prophet Jesus Isa meaning Prophet Jesus Isa never wrote anything and what he said was passed by mouth until it was written many years later.
Quran 5:68 says observe the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil and Quran 5:47 tells Christians to judge by the Gospel Injil (not by the other books in the Christian New Testament Bible because what Paul teaches contradicts what Jesus is teaching in the Gospel Injil and anything about fallen angels found in the Book of Enoch and in the Book of Revelation are all rejected in Judaism because in the Hebrew Tanakh scripture angels always obey God. Jewish people do not use the Christian produced Old Testament Bible because many contain wrong translations of the Hebrew Tanakh) meaning whatever in the Gospel Injil is confirmed in the Jewish Torah Taurat came from Prophet Jesus Isa and whatever contradicts the Jewish Torah Taurat came from the unknown writers who are traditionally called Mark, Matthew, Luke and John in a test from God described in 1 Kings 13:14 - 13:24 teaching that the word of God will not change and do not believe anyone or any verse in Mark, Matthew, Luke or John which contradicts the teachings in the Tanakh which Prophet Jesus Isa said is with the Jewish people forever and will never change and must be followed forever by the Jewish people in Gospel of Matthew 5:17 - 5:20 and Gospel of Matthew 23:1 - 23:3. In this way a Christian can know what came from Prophet Jesus Isa confirming Tanakh and what did not come from Prophet Jesus Isa because it contradicts the Tanakh (which is the Torah law and the prophets and the writings like the Psalms) which Jesus was teaching in Gospel of Luke 24:44.
Note 8. God protects the Koran Quran for every Muslim generation until the Day of Judgement (Quran 5:48).
Note 9. Entry to Paradise the Garden of Eden the Garden of Righteousness Jannah is not based on the question of Sunni or Shia or Muslim or Jew or Christian but it is based on your good behaviour towards all humans and creatures in this world and your relationship with God (Quran 5:48).
Note 10. In the sight of humans Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are different religions.
Note 11. In the sight of God Judaism and Christianity and Sabians and Islam are “different communities of God” because they were all created by God for only one reason which is “to submit to God.”
See 1. Apostasy in Islam.
In the Quran God ordered freedom of religious belief 1400 years before the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However incorrect understanding of the Quran and the hadith can cause wrongful killing of people in the name of God and in the name of human hadith stories.
https://sites.google.com/view/islamandthekoran/apostasy-in-islam
Quran 18:58 Koran 18:58 Verse 18:58 Ayah 18:58 Ayat 18:58 Aya 18:58 Your Lord (God) is forgiving and full of mercy. If He (God) imposed blame for what they have done in (sin in) their life (by immediately giving punishment) then He (God) would have hastened their punishment. But they have their appointed (life) time, after which (it shall be too late to say, “Now I believe in God and I ask your forgiveness” because) they shall find no escape (in the Hereafter for the evil they did in their life).
Comment 1. Why is it too late to say sorry in the hereafter?
To say sorry in the hereafter is not the same as saying sorry in your first life.
To say sorry in the hereafter is to be sorry for yourself.
To say sorry on the Earth is to say sorry to those you have wronged.
Quran 18:59 Koran 18:59 Verse 18:59 Ayah 18:59 Ayat 18:59 Aya 18:59 And We (God) destroyed those towns (the people in the time of Prophet Noah Nuh in a great flood, the people of A’ad in a great wind in the time of Prophet Eber Hud, the people of Thamud Samood in a great earthquke in the time of Prophet Saleh Salih, the people of Sodom in a great rain of volcanic stones in the time of Prophet Lot Lut, the people of Midian Madyan in a great earthquake in the time of Prophet Jethro Shoaib, the Pharaoh Firon of Egypt and his Army drowned in the Red Sea in the time of Prophet Moses Musa) when they did wrong and We (God) had appointed a fixed time for their destruction.
Quran 18:60 Koran 18:60 Verse 18:60 Ayah 18:60 Ayat 18:60 Aya 18:60 And (mention) when Prophet Moses Musa said to his servant, "I shall not give up (travelling and searching for knowledge) until I reach the junction of the two waters or even if it takes a long time (to find that knowledge)."
Comment 1. Quran 18:60 describes the search for knowledge by Prophet Moses Musa no matter how far he must travel to find that knowledge and no matter how much time it takes for him to find that knowledge.
Quran 18:61 Koran 18:61 Verse 18:61 Ayah 18:61 Ayat 18:61 Aya 18:61 And when they reach the junction (of the two waters) between them they forgot about their fish and it (the fish escaped from the basket that they were carrying and) slipped into the water and got away.
Comment 1. In Quran 18:61 the fish is a symbol for the correct path to knowledge. Prophet Moses Musa continued travelling but now he was on the wrong path.
Quran 18:62 Koran 18:62 Verse 18:62 Ayah 18:62 Ayat 18:62 Aya 18:62 And when they had gone further, he Prophet Moses Musa said to his servant, “Bring us our breakfast. This has been a very tiring journey.”
Comment 1. In Quran 18:62 the fish represents the path to the knowledge that Prophet Moses Musa is seeking.
Quran 18:63 Koran 18:63 Verse 18:63 Ayah 18:63 Ayat 18:63 Aya 18:63 He (the servant) replied, “Did you see (what happened) when we rested on the rock? I forgot the fish (there). No one but Satan Shaitan caused me to forget to mention it to you (when we were there), it (the fish) swam through the water in an amazing way.
Comment 1. In Quran 18:63 the fish represents the knowledge that Prophet Moses Musa is seeking and we are told that Satan Shaitan had moved Prophet Moses Musa’s away from the correct path to that knowledge.
Quran 18:64 Koran 18:64 Verse 18:64 Ayah 18:64 Ayat 18:64 Aya 18:64 He (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “That (path to knowledge that is shown to us by that fish) is what we have been seeking. So they turned back and walked along the path from where they had come.”
Comment 1. In Quran 18:64 Prophet Moses Musa returns to the path of knowledge that is indicated by the fish.
Quran 18:65 Koran 18:65 Verse 18:65 Ayah 18:65 Ayat 18:65 Aya 18:65 Then they found one of Our (God’s) servants (The Green one al-Khidar) to whom We (God) had given Our (God’s) mercy and had taught him knowledge (of future events) from Us (God’s).
Quran 18:66 Koran 18:66 Verse 18:66 Ayah 18:66 Ayat 18:66 Aya 18:66 Prophet Moses Musa said to him (the man with knowledge of God’s existence, al-Khidar) “May I follow you so that you may teach me the knowledge that you have been taught?”
Quran 18:67 Koran 18:67 Verse 18:67 Ayah 18:67 Ayat 18:67 Aya 18:67 He (Al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events) said, "You shall not be able to be patient with me.”
Quran 18:68 Koran 18:68 Verse 18:68 Ayah 18:68 Ayat 18:68 Aya 18:68 "And how can you have patience about things for which you have no knowledge.”
Comment 1. Patience is the main lesson in this story.
Only patience can overcome a lack of human knowledge.
Quran 18:69 Koran 18:69 Verse 18:69 Ayah 18:69 Ayat 18:69 Aya 18:69 Prophet Moses Musa said, "If God wills then you shall find me patient and I shall not disobey you in anything."
Comment 1. Here the will of God is contrasted with the disobedience of humans.
Quran 18:68 tells us that only patience can overcome a lack of human knowledge and this shall be shown in the story that follows.
Quran 18:70 Koran 18:70 Verse 18:70 Ayah 18:70 Ayat 18:70 Aya 18:70 He (Al-Khidar) said, “If you (Prophet Moses Musa) go with me then do not ask me about anything until I (first) mention it to you.”
Quran 18:71 Koran 18:71 Verse 18:71 Ayah 18:71 Ayat 18:71 Aya 18:71 So they both proceeded until they were in the ship and then he (Al-Khidar) made a hole in it. (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “Have you made a hole to drown the people that are here (on this ship)? You have done a dreadful thing.”
Quran 18:72 Koran 18:72 Verse 18:72 Ayah 18:72 Ayat 18:72 Aya 18:72 He (Al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events) answered, “Did I not tell you (Prophet Moses Musa) that you shall not be able to be patient with me?”
Quran 18:73 Koran 18:73 Verse 18:73 Ayah 18:73 Ayat 18:73 Aya 18:73 (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “Do not blame me for what I forgot and do not be hard on me for my mistake.”
Quran 18:74 Koran 18:74 Verse 18:74 Ayah 18:74 Ayat 18:74 Aya 18:74 So they both proceeded until they met a boy and he (Al-Khidar) killed him. (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “Why have you killed an innocent person who has not killed anyone? You have done a terrible thing.”
Quran 18:75 Koran 18:75 Verse 18:75 Ayah 18:75 Ayat 18:75 Aya 18:75 He (al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events) answered, “Did I not tell you (Prophet Moses Musa) that you shall not be able to be patient with me?”
Quran 18:76 Koran 18:76 Verse 18:76 Ayah 18:75 Ayat 18:76 Aya 18:76 (Prophet Moses Musa) said, "If I ask you anything after this then do not keep me with you. Forgive me (one more time).”
Quran 18:77 Koran 18:77 Verse 18:77 Ayah 18:77 Ayat 18:77 Aya 18:77 So they both proceeded until they came to a town’s people whom they asked for food but they refused to treat them as guests. And they found there a wall that was about to collapse and he (al-Khidar) repaired it. (Prophet Moses Musa) said, “If you wished then you could have taken payment for (repairing) it.”
Quran 18:78 Koran 18:78 Verse 18:78 Ayah 18:78 Ayat 18:78 Aya 18:78 (Al-Khidar) said, "This is the (time for the) separation between you and me, I shall tell you the interpretation of (those) things over which you were unable to hold your patience.
Quran 18:79 Koran 18:79 Verse 18:79 Ayah 18:79 Ayat 18:79 Aya 18:79 (Al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events said), “Regarding the ship, it belonged to (poor people) working in the sea. I wished to damage it because following them was a king who seized every ship by force.”
Quran 18:80 Koran 18:80 Verse 18:80 Ayah 18:80 Ayat 18:80 Aya 18:80 (Al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events said), “Regarding the boy, his parents were believers and we feared that he would burden them by transgression (through his misbehavior and rebellion) and his disbelief (in God that caused him to do what was evil).” – (Continued Quran 18:81).
Quran 18:81 Koran 18:81 Verse 18:81 Ayah 18:81 Ayat 18:81 Aya 18:81 – “And we intended that their Lord (God) should change him for them for one who is better in righteousness and near to (God’s) mercy.”
Comment 1. Quran 18:80 and Quran 18:81 describe a punishment that Prophet Moses Musa revealed in Torah Deuteronomy 21:18 – 21:21.
Comment 2. Quran 18:80 and Quran 18:81 are confirmed in Torah Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21:21.
Deuteronomy 21:18 (In the Laws revealed by Prophet Moses Musa) if a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, that shall not listen to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother and although they punish him, (still he) shall not listen to them.
Deuteronomy 21:19 Then his mother and his father shall bring him (the son) to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, “This is our son who is stubborn and rebellious, he does not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones until he is dead, this is how you shall take away the evil from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
The command in Deuteronomy 21:18-21:21 is a command for the Jewish people in the Torah.
Commands in the Torah involving the death penalty are a warning to help people avoid bad behaviour and are not placed in the Torah except to help people return to good behaviour and this is why the death penalty is rare in Judaism.
Quran 2:106 Verse 2:106 Ayah 2:106 (God says in 1 Samuel 15:29 God does not change His mind promises covenants agreements because only humans change their mind promises covenants agreements so the Jews asked Prophet Muhammad about the Torah and the Quran. God reveals) We (God) do not abolish a verse (in the Torah for the Jewish people) or let it be forgotten (by the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement as God promised in Quran 2:40-2:41, Quran 2:62, Quran 3:113 - 3:115, Quran 5:69, Exodus 2:24, Leviticus 26:44-26:45, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:31, Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 7:7-7:8, Deuteronomy 12:1, Deuteronomy 29:28 in Jewish Tanakh or Deuteronomy 29:29 in a Christian Bible, 2 King 13:23, Psalm 19:8-19:12 in Jewish Tanakh or Psalm 19:7-19:11 in Christian Old Testament Bible, Psalm 111:7 - 111:9, Hosea 3:4-3:5, Daniel 12:2, Isaiah 59:21 is the promise to the Jewish people mentioned in Isaiah 36:11 and Isaiah 36:13 and Gospel of Matthew 5:17-5:20). We (God) bring (to the Muslims in the Quran) something better than it or similar to it (confirming the Torah which is in the hands of the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement in Quran 2:40-2:41 and explaining the story of Jesus which is in the four reports that are in the hands of the Christian people until the Day of Judgement in Quran 5:46-5:47 and God told the Jewish people to observe the Torah Taurat and told the Christians to observe the Gospel Injil in Quran 5:68. God reminded the Jewish people in the Quran to observe the Sabbath and confirmed Prophet Ezra is a human servant of God like every human is a willing or unwilling servant of God. God reminded the Christian people in the Quran that Prophet Jesus is a human servant of God like every human is a willing or unwilling servant of God). Do you not know that God is capable of everything? (including protecting the Jewish Scriptures that are with the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement as shown in the story of the vision dream of the sacrifice of the son of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim in Quran chapter 37 where God only blesses Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and his son Prophet Isaac Ishaq and leaves no other blessings in the story of the sacrifice and this famous vision dream is remembered in the next chapter Quran chapter 38 where God blesses Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and Prophet Isaac Ishaq with the vision dream in Quran 38:45 – 38:47 and shows in the next verse that Prophet Ishmael Ismail was not the son in the vision dream and Prophet Ishmael Ismail was not living with his father during the vision dream by blessing Prophet Ishmael Ismail without his father and without the blessing of the vision dream in Quran 38:48. This is confirmed in Quran 12:6 and in Torah Genesis 22:2 “And God said: Take now your son, your only son” who still lives with you, reminding him that God had earlier taken Ishmael Ismail and Hagar Hajar away from him into God’s care in the desert, “whom you love” God makes the test very hard by demanding his second son and reminding him that this is his only remaining son and reminding him that he already gave God one son and reminding him of his love for these sons, “even” namely, that is “Isaac Ishaq and go into the land of Moriah” today in the Temple and Al-Aqsa mosque area in Jerusalem Al-Quds in Israel and Palestine; “and offer him there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I God will tell you of.” The proof God is real is the Quran confirming the Torah Taurat is correct in Quran 2:41 “And believe in what I God have revealed” in the Quran “that confirms what you already have” in the Torah Taurat and in Quran 3:93 “… Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it as evidence if what you say is true" and in Quran 5:43 “How is it that they come to you for judgment when they have the Torah Taurat in which God has already revealed to them judgment …” and Quran 5:68 “… You the Jewish people have nothing until you observe the Torah Taurat …” as explained in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3o3ybc-KA so hold tightly to what God is teaching in the Quran and beware of stories which contradict the Books of God. God explains the story of Jesus which is in the hands of the Christian people by explaining in the Quran what the human eye could not see without adding anything to the story in the Gospel of what the human eye saw in the story of Prophet Jesus Isa in Quran 3:144 see Quran 5:75, Quran 4:157, Quran 4:158 see Quran 39:42, Quran 5:75 see Quran 3:144, Quran 5:117 see Quran 7:6, Quran 7:6 see Quran 5:117, Quran 21:95 see Quran 23:99 – 23:100, Quran 33:40 see Gospel of Jesus Isa by Mark 13:5 – 13:6, 13:21 – 13:22 and Quran 39:42 see Quran 4:158. In Quran 3:144 and Quran 5:75 see “passed away” in the Quran always means died see in Quran 2:134 and Quran 2:141 and Quran 7:38 and Quran 13:30 and Quran 41:25 and Quran 46:17. The Quran gives humans freedom to find their religion).
Note 1. In Quran 2:106 God says the Quran is similar to what is with the Jewish people or better and this is explained in Quran 13:39 where God does not include in the Quran some laws that are binding only on the Jewish people.
Comment 3. God replaced Torah Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21:21 with freedom of belief in the Quran.
Quran 13:39 Verse 13:39 Ayah 13:39 (In 1 Samuel 15:29 God does not change His mind promises covenants agreements because only humans change their mind promises covenants agreements so the Jews asked Prophet Muhammad about the Torah and the Quran. God revealed that God confirms His covenant with the Jewish people in Quran 2:40-2:41 which is the Torah Taurat until the Day of Judgement as God promised in Quran 2:40-2:41, Quran 2:62, Quran 3:113 - 3:115, Quran 5:69, Exodus 2:24, Leviticus 26:44-26:45, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:31, Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 7:7-7:8, Deuteronomy 12:1, Deuteronomy 29:28 in Jewish Tanakh or Deuteronomy 29:29, 2 King 13:23, Psalm 19:8-19:12 in Jewish Tanakh or Psalm 19:7-19:11 in Christian Old Testament Bible, Psalm 111:7 - 111:9, Hosea 3:4-3:5, Daniel 12:2, Isaiah 59:21 is the promise to the Jewish people mentioned in Isaiah 36:11 and Isaiah 36:13 and Gospel of Matthew 5:17-5:20 and God revealed that) God eliminates (from the Quran the laws which are only binding on the Jewish people such as the Sabbath Day) and confirms what He (God) wills (in the Quran which confirms the Torah which is in the hands of the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement in Quran 2:40-2:41 and explaining the story of Jesus which is in the four reports that are in the hands of the Christian people until the Day of Judgement in Quran 5:46-5:47 and God told the Jewish people to observe the Torah Taurat and told the Christians to observe the Gospel Injil in Quran 5:68. God reminded the Jewish people in the Quran to observe the Sabbath and confirmed Prophet Ezra is a human servant of God like every human is a willing or unwilling servant of God. God reminded the Christian people in the Quran that Prophet Jesus is a human servant of God like every human is a willing or unwilling servant of God) and with Him (God) is the Mother of the Book (the Preserved Tablet, Al-Lauh al-Mahfuz which contains the basis of each Scripture as God intended in the Torah Taurat for the Jews and the four reports about Jesus Isa in the Gospel of Jesus Isa by Mark, Matthew, Luke and John which are with the Christians and the Quran which is with the Muslims as explained in Quran 2:106, Quran 5:48 and Quran 7:170. God protects the Jewish Scriptures that are with the Jewish people until the Day of Judgement as shown in the story of the vision dream of the sacrifice of the son of Prophet Abraham Ibrahim in Quran chapter 37 where God only blesses Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and his son Prophet Isaac Ishaq and leaves no other blessings in the story of the sacrifice and this famous vision dream is remembered in the next chapter Quran chapter 38 where God blesses Prophet Abraham Ibrahim and Prophet Isaac Ishaq with the vision dream in Quran 38:45 – 38:47 and shows in the next verse that Prophet Ishmael Ismail was not the son in the vision dream and Prophet Ishmael Ismail was not living with his father during the vision dream by blessing Prophet Ishmael Ismail without his father and without the blessing of the vision dream in Quran 38:48. This is confirmed in Quran 12:6 and in Torah Genesis 22:2 “And God said: Take now your son, your only son” who still lives with you, reminding him that God had earlier taken Ishmael Ismail and Hagar Hajar away from him into God’s care in the desert, “whom you love” God makes the test very hard by demanding his second son and reminding him that this is his only remaining son and reminding him that he already gave God one son and reminding him of his love for these sons, “even” namely, that is “Isaac Ishaq and go into the land of Moriah” today in the Temple and Al-Aqsa mosque area in Jerusalem Al-Quds in Israel and Palestine; “and offer him there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I God will tell you of.” The proof God is real is the Quran confirming the Torah Taurat is correct in Quran 2:41 “And believe in what I God have revealed” in the Quran “that confirms what you already have” in the Torah Taurat and in Quran 3:93 “… Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it as evidence if what you say is true" and in Quran 5:43 “How is it that they come to you for judgment when they have the Torah Taurat in which God has already revealed to them judgment …” and Quran 5:68 “… You the Jewish people have nothing until you observe the Torah Taurat …” as explained in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3o3ybc-KA so hold tightly to what God is teaching in the Quran and beware of stories which contradict the Books of God. God explains the story of Jesus which is in the hands of the Christian people by explaining in the Quran what the human eye could not see without adding anything to the story in the Gospel of what the human eye saw in the story of Prophet Jesus Isa in Quran 3:144 see Quran 5:75, Quran 4:157, Quran 4:158 see Quran 39:42, Quran 5:75 see Quran 3:144, Quran 5:117 see Quran 7:6, Quran 7:6 see Quran 5:117, Quran 21:95 see Quran 23:99 – 23:100, Quran 33:40 see Gospel of Jesus Isa by Mark 13:5 – 13:6, 13:21 – 13:22 and Quran 39:42 see Quran 4:158. In Quran 3:144 and Quran 5:75 see “passed away” in the Quran always means died see in Quran 2:134 and Quran 2:141 and Quran 7:38 and Quran 13:30 and Quran 41:25 and Quran 46:17. The Quran gives humans freedom to find their religion).
Note 1. In Quran 2:106 God says the Quran is similar to what is with the Jewish people or better and this is explained in Quran 13:39 where God does not include in the Quran some laws that are binding only on the Jewish people.
Comment 4. God replaced stoning to death in the Torah Taurat with the mercy of life in the Koran Quran.
See. Quran chapter 24 comments in Quran chapter 24.
Quran 18:82 Koran 18:82 Verse 18:82 Ayah 18:82 Ayat 18:82 Aya 18:82 (Al-Khidar who had knowledge of future events said), regarding the wall (that was in ruin), it belonged to two orphan boys in the town, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them and their father had been a righteous man. So your Lord (God) intended that they (the orphan boys) should reach the age of their full strength (the age of maturity) and receive their treasure as a mercy from their Lord (God) and so I did not do it (repair the collapsing wall) on my own accord (but I repaired it so that the treasure under the wall would remain hidden as God had willed me to do). This is the interpretation of what you (Prophet Moses Musa) could not (patiently) bear.
Comment 1. Quran 18:78-18:82 shows that the man called Al-Khidar is teaching Moses the lesson of patience meaning do not be quick to judge but listen and learn from Al-Khidar who is a messenger of God who speaks the words of God meaning Al-Khidar speaks and does the judgements of God as described in Deuteronomy 18:18 which Moses will be doing.
This story is teaching the lesson that no one has the knowledge to judge the judgements of God meaning when God has decreed things that are beyond human control or understanding you should be patient while striving for wisdom.
Comment 2. God revealed to Prophet Muhammad corrections to some Rabbinic Jewish literature.
Some Jewish stories from Rabbis had major errors in their lessons and in their commentary about God.
God’s revelation is correct in God’s Torah Taurat but was faulty in some Rabbinic Jewish literature which are stories from humans.
2a. In the Quran, God corrected errors in some Rabbinic Jewish literature.
The correction of some Jewish stories from Rabbis in the Quran showed the Jews in Yathrib Arabia the correct way to tell that story.
Quran 2:102 Verse 2:102 And they (some of the Jews of Yathrib in Arabia today in Medina Saudi Arabia) believe what the evil ones said about the special powers of Prophet Solomon Suleiman during the time of his kingdom (they said Solomon's power was magic from evil ones as is written in Jewish rabbinic literature). (The truth is) Prophet Solomon Suleiman had faith (and all his powers were from God). It was the evil ones who were disbelievers who taught magic that had been revealed to Angel Harut and Angel Marut in Babylon. These Angels (when they taught the first humans this knowledge) first said “We are a test for your faith, do not disbelieve in God (by learning magic from us) and to those who disbelieved they taught the magic that caused dispute between husband and wife and caused harm only with God’s permission. They (the disbelievers) learned what harmed them (by learning what was evil) and not what profited them (by having faith in God and doing what was good) and they knew (because they were warned) that buyers of it (magic) would have no happiness in the Hereafter. If they only knew how terrible the price was (for learning the magic of doing evil) for which they sold their souls (for a place in fire in the hereafter).
Note 1. In Quran 2:102 God corrected a faulty story in Jewish rabbinic literature which was well known to the Jews of Yathrib in Arabia.
Note 2. See more about why God put Rabbinic Jewish literature in the Koran in Quran 34:12 – 34:14 comments.
Comment 3. God revealed to Prophet Muhammad confirmation of some Rabbinic Jewish literature.
The story of Al-Khidar and Prophet Moses Musa is a confirmation for the Jews of a similar story that was part of the Jewish Rabbinical literature in Yathrib Arabia that existed at the time of Prophet Muhammad.
This story is told as a confirmation to the Jews of Yathrib that the God of the Torah Taurat and the Koran Quran are the same God.
3a. The following story is a Jewish story written by Rabbi Joshua ben Levi around 435 BH – 383 BH 200 – 250 CE using characters in the Torah Taurat to teach a lesson in righteousness.
The rabbi who was a friend of Prophet Elijah Elias was asked what favor he might wish.
The rabbi answered only that he be able to join Prophet Elijah Elias in his wanderings.
Prophet Elijah Elias granted his wish only if he refrained from asking any questions about any of the prophet’s actions.
He agreed and they began their journey.
The first place they came to was the house of an elderly couple who were so poor they had only one old cow.
The old couple gave of their hospitality as best they could.
The next morning, as the travelers left, Prophet Elijah Elias prayed that the old cow would die and it did.
The second place they came to was the home of a wealthy man.
He had no patience for his visitors and chased them away with the reprimand that they should get jobs and not beg from honest people.
As they were leaving, they passed the man’s wall and saw that it was crumbling.
Prophet Elijah Elias prayed that the wall be repaired and it was (repaired).
Next, they came to a wealthy synagogue.
They were allowed to spend the night with only the smallest of provisions.
When they left, Prophet Elijah Elias prayed that every member of the synagogue might become a leader.
Finally, they came to a very poor synagogue.
Here they were treated with great courtesy and hospitality.
When they left, Prophet Elijah Elias prayed that God might give them a single wise leader.
At this Rabbi Joshua could no longer hold back.
He demanded of Prophet Elijah Elias an explanation of his actions.
At the house of the old couple, Prophet Elijah Elias knew that the Angel of Death was coming for the old woman. So he prayed that God might have the angel take the cow instead.
At the house of the wealthy man, there was a great treasure hidden in the crumbling wall. Prophet Elijah Elias prayed that the wall be restored thus keeping the treasure away from the miser.
The story ends with a moral: A synagogue with many leaders will be ruined by many arguments. A town with a single wise leader will be guided to success and prosperity.
“Know then, that if you see an evil-doer prosper, it is not always to their advantage, and if a righteous person suffers need and distress, do not think that God is unjust.”
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah#Rabbi_Joshua_ben_Levi
3b. Some Jews in Arabia today Saudi Arabia were confused by the similarity of these two stories because instead of Prophet Elijah Elias and Rabbi Joshua ben Levi, the Quran had revealed Prophet Moses Musa and Joshua Yusha the assistant to Prophet Moses Musa in the Muslim story.
Since Rabbinic Jewish literature are stories from humans that use the names of the people in the Torah Taurat to teach lessons in righteousness it is the lesson and not the names of the people that are important in Jewish stories from Rabbis.
So when God reveals a story in the Quran to correct a faulty Jewish story from a Rabbi by correcting it in Quran 2:102 Verse 2:102 or approving of a well told Jewish story from a Rabbi by revealing a similar style that confirm lessons in the Rabbinic Jewish literature from humans such as in Quran 18:60 – 18:82 it is a blessing from God confirming the teaching of that lesson.
Prophet Moses Musa and Prophet Elijah Elias are both righteous leaders.
Joshua Yusha and Rabbi Joshua ben Levi are both righteous followers.
God has not copied the story in Rabbinic Jewish literature and then made an error in their names in the Quran.
This is clear in Quran 18:80 and Quran 18:81 where what Prophet Moses Musa has learned is confirmed by God in Torah Deuteronomy 21:18 – 21:21.
The stories were similar enough to be a confirmation to the Jews in Arabia that their story was a good story but the story was also sufficiently different to present new lessons in the style that Jews recognized from their human stories in their Rabbinic Jewish literature.
To teach patience in the Quran God uses the example of Prophet Moses Musa and his assistant Joshua who were well known to the new Arab Muslim instead of the less known or unknown Rabbi Joshua and Prophet Elijah Elias.
The Jews of Yathrib would know that in story telling by Rabbis it is the lesson that is important and not the famous names they have borrowed from the stories of God in the Jewish Bible.
Jews in Arabia who believed in God recognized both the difference and similarities between what was in Jewish human stories and what was in God’s Quran and that strengthened their faith because they had understanding of its meaning and God’s lesson.
Jews in Arabia who had doubt in God also recognized both the difference and similarities between what was in Jewish human stories and what was in God’s Quran but that only strengthened their doubt in God because they did not understand that God’s purpose in this story was to reach out to both the new Arab Muslim and the Jews.
See http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8919-joshua-b-levi
Comment 4. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat and explains the story of Jesus in the Gospel Injil.
See Quran 18:1 comments.
Quran 18:83 Koran 18:83 Verse 18:83 Ayah 18:83 Ayat 18:83 Aya 18:83 They (the people) ask you (Prophet Muhammad) concerning King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain. Say, "I shall recite to you some of his story."
Comment 1. Who is the two horns?
Who is Dhul-Qarnain?
Who is Dhu'l-Qarneyn?
Who is Zul-qarnain?
Who is Zulqarnain?
Dhul-Qarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Dhu'l-Qarneyn is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Zul-qarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
Zulqarnain is King Cyrus or Alexander the Great?
See. Alexander the Great encounters the High Priest in Jerusalem: History or myth? (feat. Dr. Ory Amitay). Kedem.
Daniel 8:20 The ram which you saw having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
1. Both Alexander the Great and the messiah King Cyrus can be called two horns meaning they were both the kings of Media and Persia however it is Cyrus who is described in Tanakh as God’s anointed meaning God’s messiah in Isaiah 45:1 and as the King who is guided by God in Isaiah 45:1-13 meaning the righteous two horned one who is guided by God in Quran 18:83 – 18:99 is the messiah king Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1-13.
2. Quran 18:83-84 is Isaiah 45:1.
3. Quran 18:84 and Quran 18:93-98 is Isaiah 45:2.
4. Iron in Isaiah 45:2 is Quran 18:93-98.
5. Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:3.
6. Quran 18:83 is Isaiah 45:4.
7. Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:5.
8. Quran 18:85-86 and Quran 18:89-90 is Isaiah 45:6.
9. Quran 18:86-88 is Isaiah 45:7.
10. Quran 18:88 is Isaiah 45:8 and Isaiah 45:22.
11. Quran 18:87 is Isaiah 45:9.
12. Quran 18:91 is Isaiah 45:12.
13. Quran 18:91 is Isaiah 45:13.
14. Quran 3:93 “… Say, "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
15. God tells the Jews to bring the Torah Taurat and recite from the Torah Taurat as evidence of the truth meaning the Jews have the Torah Taurat and no one changed it.
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1. Quran 3:3 Koran 3:3 “… He (God) revealed the Torah Taurat …”
2. Quran 4:136 Koran 4:136 “... and whoever has no faith in … God's Books … then he has strayed far away (from God).”
3. Quran 6:34 Koran 6:34 “… no one can change the words of God…”
Quran 6:115 Koran 6:115 The Word of your Lord (God) is fulfilled in truth and justice. No one can change His (God’s) Words. He (God) hears and knows (all things).
4. Quran 10:64 Koran 10:64 “…There is no change in the Words of God …”
5. Quran 18:27 Koran 18:27 And recite (Prophet Muhammad) what has been revealed to you of the Book (the Quran) of your Lord (God). No one can change His (God’s) Words and you will find no refuge (in the hereafter) other than with Him (God).
6. Quran 30:30 Koran 30:30 So direct yourself (Prophet Muhammad) towards the true (“upright”) nature (“fitra”) of religion (the belief in one creator) for which He (God who is the one and only creator) has created (religion for) humans. No one can alter what God has created (in religion, in the Torah Taurat, the Gospel Injil and the Koran Quran). That is the right religion (belief), but most people do not know (this).
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1. Quran 28:51 Koran 28:51 And We (God through the holy spirit angel Gabriel Jibril and revealed to Prophet Muhammad) have made the Word (of God in the Quran) to reach them (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia) so that they might be reminded (of God, their creator).
2. Quran 28:48 Koran 28:48 But when the truth came to them (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia) from Us (God through the holy spirit angel Gabriel Jibril and revealed to Prophet Muhammad), they said, “Why is he (Prophet Muhammad M Mim م M-uhammad م-uhammad) not given (signs) like what was given to Prophet Moses Musa (represented by Mount Sinai S’ Sin س Sin-ai س-ai)? But did they (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia) not disbelieve in what was given to Prophet Moses Musa in the past? (Because) they say, “(They are both only books about magic) two magic (books the Torah Taurat T Ta ط Ta-urat ط-urat given by God to Prophet Moses Musa and the Quran Q Qaf ق Qaf-uran ق-uran given by God to Prophet Muhammad) supporting each other” and they (the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia) say, “In all (that is in the Torah Taurat and the Quran) we do not believe.”
3. Quran 28:49 Koran 28:49 Say (Prophet Muhammad to the stone idol worshippers of Makkah Arabia), “Then bring a Book from God that gives better guidance than these two (the Torah Taurat and the Quran) so that I (Prophet Muhammad) may follow it, if you are telling the truth.”
4. The best guidance is the Quran and the Torah Taurat meaning both are correctly understood when they confirm and explain each other.
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1. Quran 4:82 Koran 4:82 Do they not think about the Quran (and where it came from)? Had it (the Quran) been (revealed) from someone other than God surely they would have found in it (the Quran) much contradiction (within it and between it and the Torah Taurat and the Gospel Injil).
2. If humans could change the word of God it would be proof that God does not exist.
3. Quran 2:41 Koran 2:41 And believe in what I (God) have revealed (in the Quran) confirming that which is with you (the Jewish people in the Torah Taurat as proof to the stone idol worshipers of Makkah in Quran 6:114, Quran 46:10 and Quran 10:94 that the Quran is not an invented story) ..."
4. The Quran confirms the Torah Taurat which is with the Jewish people forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2miiFbDuJIU
Comment 2. The Quran says the Torah confirms the truth.
Quran 3:93 Koran 3:93 “… Say, "Bring the Torah Taurat here and recite it (to me as evidence) if what you say is true."
1. In Tanakh horns represent kings.
2. The two horns on the ram (male sheep) in Daniel 8:20 represents the kings of Media and Persia
3. The great horn that is between the eyes of the male goat represents the first king who is Alexander the Great, Alexander of Macedon, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon in Daniel 8:21.
Daniel 8:20 The ram which you saw having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
Daniel 8:21 And the rough male-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king (Alexander of Macedon also known as Alexander the Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon).
4. Both Alexander the Great and the messiah King Cyrus can be called two horns meaning they were both the kings of Media and Persia.
5. However only Cyrus is described in Tanakh as God’s anointed meaning God’s messiah in Isaiah 45:1 and as the King who is guided by God in Isaiah 45:1-13 meaning the righteous two horned one who is guided by God in Quran 18:83 – 18:99 is the messiah king Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1-13.
6. The messiah king Cyrus did not know God In Isaiah 45:4-5 however God inspired in the heart of the messiah King Cyrus the following.
Quran 2:256 There is no compulsion in religion
Quran 60:8 “... God loves those who act justly”
Quran 109:-6 For you is your religion and for me is my religion.
This inspiration of God made the messiah King Cyrus benevolent toward the conquered, support their freedom of belief, and correct the injustices done to them by their previous rulers.
The messiah king Cyrus restored the different Babylonian religions and their temples, reconstructed temples that had been neglected, and returned exiles to their homes.
His policy toward the Babylonians and the Jews in Ezra 1:2–4, Ezra 6:3–5 and 2 Chronicles 36:23 was similar.
Quran 2:256 There is no compulsion in religion (meaning, religion must come voluntarily from the human heart and not from the fear of humans or by force).
Quran 60:8 Koran 60:8 “... God loves those who act justly.”
Quran 109:1 Koran 109:1 Say (to the), “Disbelievers (in God).”
Quran 109:2 Koran 109:2 “I do not worship what you worship.”
Quran 109:3 Koran 109:3 “Nor do you worship what I worship.”
Quran 109:4 Koran 109:4 “And I shall not worship what you worship.”
Quran 109:5 Koran 109:5 “Nor shall you worship what I worship.”
Quran 109:6 Koran 109:6 “For you is your religion and for me is my religion.”
7. The story of the messiah king Cyrus shows how God makes righteousness known in Isaiah 45:13 to a person who did not know God in Isaiah 45:4-5 and this is the lesson in Quran 18:83 – 18:99 which shows how a leader correctly applies the teachings of God which are in the Quran and in the Tanakh.
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Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind (among you) but My servant (Israel)? Or deaf (among you) as My messenger (messiah King Cyrus) that I will send? He (the Israelite) who was blind (to God) is like he who received his payment (meaning his punishment through the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem and his exile to Babylon has cleaned him of sin), and he (the messiah King Cyrus) who was blind (to God, had his eyes open to God so that messiah King Cyrus) is like the (willing) servant of God.
Quran 18:83-84 is Isaiah 45:1.
Isaiah 45:1 So said the Lord (God) to His (God’s) anointed one (anointed means messiah), to (messiah King) Cyrus, whose right hand I (God) held (meaning guided), to flatten nations before him, and the loins of kings I (God) will loosen, to open portals before him, and gates shall not be closed.
Quran 18:84 and Quran 18:93-98 is Isaiah 45:2.
Iron in Isaiah 45:2 is Quran 18:93-98.
Isaiah 45:2 I (God) will go before you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1), and make the crooked places (the difficult things) straight (easy to achieve); I (God) will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut off bars of iron (in Quran 18:93-98);
Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:3.
Isaiah 45:3 And I (God) will give you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1) the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places so that you may know that I am the Lord (God), who call you (Cyrus) by your name, even (as I am) the God of Israel.
Quran 18:83 is Isaiah 45:4.
Isaiah 45:4 For the sake of Jacob My servant, and Israel My chosen one (Jacob “the servant” is the father of the children of Israel who are “the chosen one”), I (God) have called you by your name (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1), I (God) gave you your surnamed, though you (Cyrus) had not known Me (God).
Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:5.
Isaiah 45:5 I am the Lord (God), and there is none else, beside Me there is no God; I have strengthened you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1), though you have not known Me (God);
Quran 18:85-86 and Quran 18:89-90 is Isaiah 45:6.
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun (in the East in Quran 18:89-90), and from the West (in Quran 18:85-86), that there is none beside Me; I am the Lord (God); and there is none else;
Quran 18:86-88 is Isaiah 45:7.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light (of day and the light of guidance for the righteous and treat them with kindness in Quran 18:86 and Quran 18:88), and create darkness (of night and misguidance for the wicked and punish them in Quran 18:86-87); I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD that does all these things.
Quran 18:88 is Isaiah 45:8 and Isaiah 45:22.
Isaiah 45:8 And cause the heavens above to drip, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open (with vegetation like it will be on the Day of Resurrection), and let salvation and righteousness be fruitful (in Quran 18:88); let it cause them to sprout together (in this world and in the hereafter); I, the Lord, have created it.
Isaiah 45:22 Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other.
Quran 18:87 is Isaiah 45:9.
Isaiah 45:9 Woe (misfortune is) to him who contends with his Creator (in Quran 18:87) …”
Quran 18:91 is Isaiah 45:12.
Isaiah 45:12 I made the earth, and I created man on it; as for Me-My hands stretched out the heavens (God is the expander of the sky which is stretched from horizon to horizon), and I ordained (decreed) their host (their life in Quran 18:91).
Quran 18:91 is Isaiah 45:13.
Isaiah 45:13 I aroused him (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1) with righteousness, and all his ways I will straighten out (in Quran 18:91). He shall build My city (and the second temple in Jerusalem) and free My exiles (the children of Israel who are in Babylon), neither for a price nor for a bribe," said the Lord of Hosts.
Comment 3. Who was King Cyrus?
Who was Dhul-Qarnain?
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain of Persia, today Iran 1200 – 1152 BH (600 BCE – 530 BCE, 600 BC – 530 BC) or 1198 – 1152 BH (576 BCE – 530 BCE, 576 BC – 530 BC).
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain established the Persian empire and ruled from 1281 – 1152 BH (559 – 530 BCE, 559 – 530 BC).
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain was known as King of Aryavarta, King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the World.
Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had seen up to that time.
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain conquered most of southwest Asia and much of central Asia, parts of Europe and the Caucasus.
In 1169 – 1168 BH (547 – 546 BCE, 547 – 546 BC) King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain overthrew King Croesus of Lydia in western Asia.
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain took Babylon today Iraq and freed the Jews who had been taken there when Jerusalem Al-Quds and the first Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount had been destroyed.
King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain made a royal decree allowing the Jews to return to their homeland and to rebuild the Temple, the second Temple in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
Comment 4. Dhul-Qarnain means two horns. What are the two horns?
Daniel 8:20 The ram which you saw having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
Daniel 8:21 And the rough male-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king (Alexander of Macedon also known as Alexander the Great, king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon).
Daniel 8:22 And as for that which was broken (after the death of Alexander the Great), in the place where four stood up, represents four kingdoms that shall rise up from a nation, but not with his power.
Daniel 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom (near the end of the second temple period), when the transgressors have completed their transgression, there shall arise a brazen-faced king (Roman emperor Titus) who understands riddles.
Daniel 8:24 And his power will become strong, but not through his strength, and he will destroy wondrously (the second temple in Jerusalem), and he will prosper and accomplish, and he will destroy the mighty and the people of the holy ones (who follow Torah in Jerusalem).
Quran 18:84 Koran 18:84 Verse 18:84 Ayah 18:84 Ayat 18:84 Aya 18:84 We (God) gave him (King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain) a high position in the earth, and We (God) gave him of everything a means (to achieve it).
Comment 1. King Cyrus.
Quran 18:83-84 is Isaiah 45:1.
Isaiah 45:1 So said the Lord (God) to His (God’s) anointed one (anointed means messiah), to (messiah King) Cyrus, whose right hand I (God) held (meaning guided), to flatten nations before him, and the loins of kings I (God) will loosen, to open portals before him, and gates shall not be closed.
Quran 18:84 and Quran 18:93-98 is Isaiah 45:2.
Iron in Isaiah 45:2 is Quran 18:93-98.
Isaiah 45:2 I (God) will go before you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1), and make the crooked places (the difficult things) straight (easy to achieve); I (God) will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut off bars of iron (in Quran 18:93-98);
Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:3.
Isaiah 45:3 And I (God) will give you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1) the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places so that you may know that I am the Lord (God), who call you (Cyrus) by your name, even (as I am) the God of Israel.
Quran 18:84 is Isaiah 45:5.
Isaiah 45:5 I am the Lord (God), and there is none else, beside Me there is no God; I have strengthened you (the messiah King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:1), though you have not known Me (God);
Comment 2. King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain in Ezra 1:1 – 1:4, 1:7 – 1:11.
Tanakh Jewish scripture Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain king of Persia, that the word of the Lord (God) by the mouth of Prophet Jeremiah Irmiya might be accomplished, the Lord (God) stirred up the spirit of Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying:
Ezra 1:2 Cyrus (Dhul-Qarnain) king of Persia says: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord (God), the God of heaven has given to me; and He (God) has charged me to build Him (God) a house in Jerusalem Al-Quds, which is in Judah (today Israel and Palestine).
Ezra 1:3 Whosoever there is among you of all His (God’s) people- his God be with him -let him go up to Jerusalem Al-Quds, which is in Judah (today Israel and Palestine), and build the house of the Lord, the God of Israel, He is the God who (whose House) is in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
Ezra 1:4 And whoever is left, in any place where he travels, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem Al-Quds.'
Ezra 1:7 Also Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain the king brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord (God), which (Former King) Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of Jerusalem Al-Quds, (when that former King had destroyed the city and the first Jewish Temple), and had put them in the house of his (idol) gods (in Babylon today in Iraq);
Ezra 1:8 even those did Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain king of Persia bring out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah (today Israel and Palestine).
Ezra 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty (920) knives;
Ezra 1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Ezra 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred (5400). All these did Sheshbazzar (the prince of Judah, today Israel and Palestine) bring up, when they who had been in captivity were brought up from Babylon (today Iraq) to Jerusalem Al-Quds (today Israel and Palestine).
Quran 18:85 Koran 18:85 Verse 18:85 Ayah 18:85 Ayat 18:85 Aya 18:85 So he (King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain) followed a course.
Quran 18:86 Koran 18:86 Verse 18:86 Ayah 18:86 Ayat 18:86 Aya 18:86 Until, when he (King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain) reached the place where the sun set (the west coast of Lydia in the kingdom in Lydia, today in Turkey), he found it (the sun) setting on dark muddy water (the Black Sea). And he (King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain) found a people near it (the west coast of Lydia on the Black Sea). We (God) said "O King Cyrus Dhul-Qarnain, Either punish them or treat them with kindness."
Comment 1. King Cyrus.
Quran 18:85-86 and Quran 18:89-90 is Isaiah 45:6.
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun (in the East in Quran 18:89-90), and from the West (in Quran 18:85-86), that there is none beside Me; I am the Lord (God); and there is none else;
Quran 18:86-88 is Isaiah 45:7.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light (of day and the light of guidance for the righteous and treat them with kindness in Quran 18:86 and Quran 18:88), and create darkness (of night and misguidance for the wicked and punish them in Quran 18:86-87); I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD that does all these things.
