Boreal BooksThe Koran SixThe complete Koran organized and explained in a way we can all understand in six paperbacks is now available as web pages. If you found these valuable please consider buying a book. In the web edition of the Koran Six, footnotes, where appropriate, have been integrated within the text and longer paragraphs broken into smaller segments to improve readability on electronic devices. GETTING TO KNOW ALLAH(book) Insights into OmnipotenceA Conditional Type Of Mercy Terrified Into Believing 3 - Salih and The Destruction of Thamud Al-Rass A Litany of Death and Destruction 6 - Allah and the Crime of No Longer Believing The Example of Pharaoh Repentance Denied "Kill them wherever you find them" Telling Apostates and Believers Apart On Judgement Day Revealing Parables About Slavery Intriguing Comparisons and Mixed Metaphors The Patently Obvious Grave Sins - An Introduction The Greatest Sin of All The Top 40 10 Made Up Sins Tips for Avoiding the Grave Sins 9 - Allah and the Ptolemaic Universe The Near-Earth Constellations 10 - Allah and the Shape of the Earth Floating on a Sea of Mud Pointed Revelations About a Flat Earth Who Stops the Sky From Falling? Full Circle in Seven Verses The Names Of The Months Year Zero 12 - Allah and the Beginnings of Life A Fluid Beginning Bones Then Flesh Beware of the Clot It's All About the Sperm Things Which Don’t Come in Pairs Allah as Proof that Imperfection Is Pervasive The Myth and the Reality How the Jinn Heard About the Koran etc. How the Jinn Heard About the Koran Jinn and Men Together on Judgement Day Messengers to the Jinn The Jinn and the Prophet's Grandfather 14 - Allah and She Who Blows in Reeds 16 - Allah is Self-Sufficient and Without Scruples 17 - Allah Knows the Secrets Within the Breasts 20 - Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs Doomed Children at Play Hooked On Praise The Responsible Adult v. The Adolescent I AM the Greatest! Worship ME!Allah’s quid pro quos: 2:152 Remember Me (by glorifying Me) then I will remember you (by rewarding you). Give thanks to Me (by obeying Me) and do not be ungrateful (by disobeying Me). 2:186 And when my servants ask you about Me, say: I am near; I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls; so they should answer My Call (by obeying me) and believe in Me, that they might be rightly guided. Like most gods, Allah is somewhat insecure in His Omnipotence. The most visible manifestation of this insecurity is His obsession with “what they worship” apart from Himself. His pathological need for reassurance that He is better than them is reflected not only in the praise He heaps upon Himself, but in the amount of time He expects His minions to spend at worship, praise’s ultimate expression: 1) the five daily prayer sessions that consist mainly of repeating in unison verses from the Koran; 2) the greater and lesser pilgrimages—the Hajj and the Umrah respectively; 3) and the month of Ramadan. All are occasions for immersion into the Koran, along with its mass of unavoidable verses damning these other gods and those who worship them, almost all ending with self-praise for the one doing the damning. 22 - Allah vs. Alleged Associates The Largest and Heaviest of Gods Phantasmagorical Creations of God and Man “Is there, then, another god with Allah?” Goddesses and the Fathers Who Worshipped Them Children! Do Not Obey Parents Who Worship ... Judgement Day A Transcending Obsession What About the Devil? One-on-One with Allah Negotiating the Prayers The Call to Prayer Prayers in War and Peace An Answer to a Prayer The Night Too Is For Praying The Prayer of the People of Paradise The Importance of Mecca Safa and Marwa Deaths, Molestations and Managing the Hajj Safely accommodating millions more pilgrims at the Hajj Post Pilgrimage Rituals and Early Departures The Anthropological Impact of the Hajj Ramadan in the Land of the Midnight Sun If Truth Be Told!26 - Allah on the Present Life 27 - Allah's Charity Is Not All It Seems 28 - Allah Does Not Care for Homosexuals 29 - Allah Despises the Riba-Eaters The Prophet as Borrower An Ode to Cattle Brought Down from Paradise Water, Men and Cattle Allah on the Versatility of His Cattle Slicing the Ears of Cattle A God’s Dilemma Why Slavery Cannot Simply Be Abolished Slavery and the Prophet 33 - The Babylonian Exile and the Roman Diaspora The Table Is Set Pork is for Other Gods Vegetarians are not Muslims What Do the Jews Have To Do With It! Where You May Dine Why Some Gods Go Hungry Two Once Extraordinary Verses About Tolerance The Clear Proof(s) SHARED PROPHETSBiblical Figures in the Koran - What They Said and Did(book) How the Bible Came To Be How the Koran Came To Be Repetitions The TorahParadise Lost I, II, III, IV, V, VI Adam's Dust Origins Adam's Clay Origins Allah's Covenant with Adam's Progeny Eve, First in a Verse Law of Retaliation Setting the Price of a Human Life A Simple Storyline The Noah Surah Noah's Age, and What Became of His Wife The Answerer The Boiling Oven Noah - The Shortest Version Noah - The Longest Variation Criminals on the Ark An Easy to Board Ark Hud I Hud II The Great Calamity Scare Tactics Hud the Archetypal Messenger A Friend of Allah’s and the Father of all Muslims Challenger and Buster of Idols Isma`il Abraham at Mecca Abraham and His Father Allah's Safety Argument Abraham Uninterrupted Lot Uninterrupted The Foul Act Jacob and the Breaking of Blood Ties The Vision Sold Into Slavery Joseph and the Governor's Wife Joseph in Jail Joseph and the King's Dream Appointed Treasurer A Camel's Load Joseph and the King's Drinking Cup The Other Brother All's Well That Ends Well Why the News from the Unseen? Day of the Parasol A Favourite of Allah The Fire on the Mountain The Golden Calf and Want of a Death Wish Moses and Pharaoh’s Magicians Magicians as Sorcerers Moses and the Hidden Believer The Tenth Plague Allah’s Gift to the Jews Death of Pharaoh Egypt Changes Ownership Why Forty Years in the Wilderness The Ten Commandments The Never-Ending Punishment of the Jews Fear My Presence and My Threats Moses and Pharaoh from Beginning to End Moses Uninterrupted I Moses Uninterrupted II Moses Uninterrupted – Six Short Variations 50 - Moses II The Psalms David and Solomon Together Solomon and the Queen of Sheba The Light-Footed Horses Death 54 - Job, Elijah, Ezekiel and Enoch The GospelsJesus - Conceived Jesus - Birth Jesus - First Words The Prophet Jesus If Allah had wanted a Son A Mere Servant The Last Supper The Crucifixion Myth Resurrection The Holy Spirit The True Story Muhammad’s Petition 59 - Allah and People of the Book 60 - The Way - Jesus or Muhammad? Can We Be Friends 62 - Appendices WOMEN AND THE KORAN(book) Why Muslim Men Are Always Right 65 - Who Gets What - Wills and Testaments Wills and Witnesses Husband Dies Wife Dies A Vicious Circle Women As Fields To Be Ploughed A Contractual Affair Women of the Faith Women of the Book and Slave-Girls Daughters-in-Law Widows Orphaned Girls Spinsters and Prostitutes The Suckling Imperative The Coitus Imperative Polygamy – For or Against? Divorce by Zihar A Man and His Wives In the Prophet's House A Taste of Honey A Child Bride’s Indiscretion A Lost Verse Remembered The Stoning Ritual A Prophet and a Prude The Cult of Masculinity 72 - Women and What It Means To Be Civilized Women of Islam Women of Sumer Civilization In The Balance 73 - Appendices Marital Rape India and Foreign Objects THE HEREAFTER(book) The Great Blasphemy The Punishment is Coming, the Punishment is Coming! Answering Your Questions about the Day Questions About Bones Gog and Magog On the Last Day Judgement Day Uninterrupted The Nuts and Bolts A Man's Paradise On the Wall Between Heaven and Hell 78 - Hadiths 79 - Afterword A Real Life Example of the Appeal of Scriptural Sadism JIHAD IN THE KORAN(book) War’s First Casualty48:28 It is He Who sent forth His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may exalt it above every other religion. Allah suffices as Witness. ----- 4:71 O believers, be on your guard; so march in detachments or march altogether. 4:72 Indeed, among you is one who will stay behind, so that if a disaster befalls you, he will say: “Allah has favoured me, since I have not been a martyr with them.” 4:73 If, however, a bounty from God comes to you, he will say, as though there was no friendship between you and him: “Would that I had been with them; then I would have won a great victory.” The Antagonizers The Meccans and their allies Hypocrites and Apostates The Reluctant Immigrants The Jews Christians Polytheists Reformers The True Believers Conscientious Objectors Atheists The Niggardly Your Flesh and Blood Rules and RewardsNarrated Abu Huraira: A man came to Allah's Apostle and said, "Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward)." He replied, "I do not find such a deed." Bukhari 52.44 81 - Killing Unbelievers Haram Idolaters Christians and Jews 82 - Killing Unbelievers Halal 83 - Killing During The Sacred Months The Murder of Amr-ben-al Hadra’mi 85 - Stay-at-Home Warriors and Female Jihadists 86 - Emigrating in the Cause of Allah Someone’s Gotta Die Sex and the Booty Greetings and the Booty Sedition, A New Definition GenesisSparrows at War Spoils of War Who's to Blame for the Defeat The Jews of Medina Battle of the Ditch The Massacre of the Banu Qurayzah An Avoidable Tragedy The Broken Covenant The Bedouins Learn Their Lesson Spend Freely and Spend Wisely Expansion99 - Announcing a Universal War War's First Casualty The Destruction of the Christian Mosque of Medina The Three Sincere Believers Who Lied 101 - The Religion of Peace in Persia Who First Destroyed the Birthplace of Zoroaster War and FantasiesAfterwordSpecialLessons In Cruelty 107 -A Woman Who Slept Around Confronts the Conqueror FROM MERCHANT TO MESSENGERMuhammad's struggle for legitimacy as revealed in the Koran(book) 109 - Introduction to the Second Edition The Enwrapped The Koran Is Not the Work of the Devil What Does Grammar Have To Do With It? 113 - Christianity as a Reason Not to Believe He Made It Up Accusations of Plagiarism Sorcerer Laughing Stock Madman Gullible A Poet Possessed Liar A Man Bewitched Not Worthy An Object of Curiosity A Poor Man Allah Mocked 115 - Allah's Response to the Mocking Not a Soothsayer, Nor a Madman, Nor a Fabricator A Retribution Double Standard You Are Not the First to be Mocked! Bear With It Be Patient Take a break It’s Not Your Fault The Last Laugh Angels Would Make No Difference The Jinn Believe in Muhammad 116 - Muhammad’s Duty and His Fate if He Lied A Variation on the Socratic Method A Twist on Hypophora Say, Say, Say! 118 - You Are Not Their Keeper, Guardian or Overseer 119 - The Medium and the Messenger What About a Foreign Messenger? What About a Foreign Koran? Angels as Messengers? 120 - A Teacher and His Star Pupil The Pupil Admonished A Question of Wages 123 - When in the Presence of the Prophet Muhammad Held Harmless Deuteronomy 22:23-4 Upheld The End is Near The Seal of the Prophets The Happy Ending Muhammad and the Reckoning 126 - For the Love of a Father? 127 - The World Before and After the Messengers Why No Roofs and Stairways of Silver Allah’s Covenant with His Prophets 128 - Iteration Upon Iteration The Official Cause of Death A Hundred Years of Nothing The Antichrist in Palestine Three Murders and Two Desecrations Arabs: Before and After The Cartoon Protest Competing Worldviews The Damning of Innovation The Skimper, the Profligate and the Pious Appendices133 - Mughirah - Enemy of the Prophet Abu Jahl 134 - Muhammad’s Introduction to Christianity 135 - The Prophet's Last Sermon Khadijah, Sauda, Aisha, Hafsa, Zaynab b. Khuzayma, Umm Salama, Zaynab b. Jahsh, Juwayriyya, Rayhanah, Umm Habiba, Safiyya, Mariya, Maymuna, Asma 138 - Majid Fakhry vs. Yusuf Ali and Others
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