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The Koran Arranged by Topic
Paperback, 828 pages, Comprehensive Index, 333,000+ words.
Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice, Legacy Edition is the culmination
of more than a decade of work and study
to bring order to what Thomas Carlyle [1795 – 1881] described as “a confused, jumble, crude, incondite (disorderly), endless iteration" Is it any wonder non-Muslims know so little about the
Book.
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1 - Revelations and Generalizations
Three Translations, One Interpretation
How the Bible Came To Be
How the Koran Came To Be
How Allah Communicates With Mortals
Gabriel – Messenger to the Messenger
The First Written Version
Repetitions
First Hypothesis
Second Hypothesis
Shared Prophets - The Torah
4 - Adam - Origins and the First Covenant
Adam's Dust Origins
Adam's Clay Origins
Allah's Covenant with Adam and His Progeny
Adam's Soul Mate
First in a Verse
Law of Retaliation
A Simple Storyline
The Noah Surah
The Spit of Angels, Noah's Age, and What Became of His Wife
The Answerer and the Boiling Oven
Criminals on the Ark
Noah in Hud
What became of Noah's Son
Where is al-Judi?
No Mercy for Noah's Son
Noah, Two Short Versions
Hud I - The Ramparts
Hud II - The Prophet Hud
Hud III - The Poets
The Destruction of 'Ad and the Great Calamity
A Muslim, a Friend and a Patriarch
Challenger of Idols
Isma`il
Abraham at Mecca
Abraham and His Father
Allah's Safety Argument
Abraham Uninterrupted
Lot Uninterrupted
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
12 - Jethro and the Destruction of Midian
Day of the Parasol
Was Median Destroyed by an Earthquake?
13 - Moses - The Familiar Story
A Favourite of Allah
Raising Mount Sinai
The Fire on the Mountain
The Golden Calf and Want of a Death Wish
Moses and Pharaoh’s Magicians
The Plagues
The Pathetic Tenth
Allah’s Gift to the Jews
Death of Pharaoh
Pharaoh on Judgement Day
Egypt Changes Ownership
The Ten Commandments
The Never-Ending Punishment of the Jews
The Promised Land
Moses at the Gates
The Promise and the Threat
14 - More Moses and a Familiar Story
Six Short Recapitulations
Moses Uninterrupted - Taha
Moses Uninterrupted - The Poets
15 - Moses - Strange But True!
The Hidden Believer at Pharaoh’s Court
The Psalms
David and Solomon Together
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
The Light-Footed Horses
Death and the Fate of the People of Sheba
Allah Does Not Compel People to Believe,
Except When He Does
21 - Job, Elijah, Ezekiel and Enoch
Shared Prophets - The Gospels
22 - Muhammad’s Introduction to Christianity
Allah the Protector of Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues and Mosques
The Inspiration for a New Religion
23 - The Prophet as Arbitrator of Scriptures
Advice for the Arbitrator
Deuteronomy 22:23-4 Upheld
The Prophet Jesus
If Allah had wanted a Son
A Mere Servant
Jesus Has No Power of Intercession
Was Created, Does Not Create
Jesus Will Plead for Mercy
26 - Jesus and the Virgin Mary
Jesus - Conceived
Jesus - Birth
Jesus - First Words
The Last Supper
The Crucifixion Myth
Resurrection
The True Story
29 - The Way - Jesus or Muhammad?
Love and Hate Incarnate
Getting To Know Allah
A Conditional Type Of Mercy
Terrified Into Believing
Allah’s Way of Old
Unbelievers Not by Choice
31 - Salih and The Destruction of Thamud
Al-Rass
A Litany of Death and Destruction
Allah’s Covenant with His Prophets
The World Before and After the Messengers
Why No Roofs and Stairways of Silver
Messengers to the Common People
Allah Days or the Nearer Punishment
33 - 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
34 - 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 ...
Gog and Magog
Alexander and the Wall
The True Promise
Introduction
Variations
Parables and Slaves
Mixed Metaphors
36 - Allah, Two Boys and A Dog
Grave Sins - An Introduction
The Greatest Sin of All
The Top 40
10 Made Up Sins
Tips for Avoiding the Grave Sins
38 - Allah and the Ptolemaic Universe
The Near-Earth Constellations
39 - 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
41 - 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
43 - Allah and She Who Blows in Reeds
45 - All-Sufficient Heart Reader
48 - Allah on the Present Life
49 - Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
Not Doing What is Being Asked as a Sign
Why No Signs for the Messenger
Doomed Children at Play
The Responsible Adult v. The Adolescent
More Destruction, Less Creation
Playing With Toys
Hooked On Praise
I AM the Greatest! Worship ME!
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
53 - Pilgrimages - The Hajj and the Umrah
The Importance of Mecca
Safa and Marwa
Deaths, Molestations and Managing the Hajj
Safely accommodating millions more pilgrims at the Hajj
The Anthropological Impact of the Hajj
Post Pilgrimage Rituals and Early Departures
Ramadan in the Land of the Midnight Sun
If Truth Be Told!
55 - Allah Does Not Care for Homosexuals
The Foul Act
Crime and Punishment
Where Homosexuals Go When They Die
56 - Allah Despises the Riba-Eaters
57 - Allah Loves His Messenger Perhaps More Than He Loves Orphans
58 - Allah Loves His Cattle; Dogs, Not So Much
An Ode to Cattle
Domesticated in Paradise
Water, Men and Cattle
Allah on the Versatility of His Cattle
Slicing the Ears of Cattle
Dogs in a Cattle World
59 - Allah's Charity Is Not All It Seems
61 - Immutable Truths About Slavery
A God’s Dilemma
Why Slavery Cannot Simply Be Abolished
Slavery and the Prophet
62 - 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
Women and the Koran
Sex, and When Resistance is Futile
Maid-servants, slave-girls and pre-pubescent females
Why Men Are Always Right
On the road and no bookkeeper can be found
68 - Who Gets What - Wills and Testaments
The Invisible Woman
Wills and Witnesses
Husband Dies
Wife Dies
A Vicious Circle
69 - Marriage
Women As Fields To Be Ploughed
A Contractual Affair, Polygamy
Women of the Book and Slave-Girls
Daughters-in-Law, Widows, Orphaned Girls
Divorce by Zihar
71 - Spinsters, Prostitutes and Suckling
Spinsters and Prostitutes
The Suckling Imperative
Making a Male a Close Relation by Suckling Him
A Man and His Wives
A Taste of Honey
In the Prophet's House
73 - A Child Bride’s Indiscretion
Seclusion of the Wives
Dress Code Exceptions
A Lost Verse Remembered
Speculation About the Lost Verse
A Prophet and a Prude
The Cult of Masculinity
The Hereafter
77 - The Living Dead - Life in the Grave
The Great Blasphemy
The Punishment is Coming, the Punishment is Coming!
A Descent Into Madness
Answering Your Questions about the Day
You're Making That Up, The Charmer, The Driver, Children Scared White, Location
Answering Your Questions ... (continued)
The Trick Question, Blue-Eyed With Terror
Answering Your Questions ... (continued)
No Excuses, Witnesses for the Prosecution, Losing It, The Naked Ones
Questions About Bones
Partners in Crime
Earth and the End of Eternity
Eternity May Not Be Forever
Uninterrupted Madness
The Dispatched Ones, The Cleaving Asunder, The Rending Asunder, The Earthquake, The Chargers, The Clatterer
The Nuts and Bolts
Location and Construction, Distance from Hell, Gardens and Springs, Buildings
Food and Refreshments
Clothing etc.
The Tracks of Heaven
A Man's Paradise
An Eyewitness Account
On the Wall Between Heaven and Hell
The Bridge Over Hell
An Eyewitness Account
Women on Fire
Jihad - The Enemy
88 - Vanquished Enemies of Old
The Meccans Who Should Have Emigrated
The Meccans and their Allies Who Fought...
The Arab Hypocrites and Apostates
The Jews of the Hejaz
The Antagonizers
Unbelievers of Yore
Jews
The Perverted
Christians
Polytheists
Reformers
The True Unbelievers
Atheists
Jihad - Rules and Rewards
90 - Killing Unbelievers Haram
Idolaters
Christians and Jews
91 - Killing Unbelievers Halal
92 - Killing During The Sacred Months
The Murder of Amr-ben-al Hadra’mi
94 - Stay-at-Home Warriors and Female Jihadists
95 - Emigrating in the Cause of Allah
Someone’s Gotta Die
Sex and the Booty
Greetings and the Booty
Sedition, A New Definition
Jihad - Genesis
Kinsmen, Parents and Children
Women Choose Sides
Sparrows at War
Spoils of War
Who's to Blame for the Defeat
The Jews of Medina
Battle of the Ditch
105 - The Massacre of the Banu Qurayzah
The Broken Covenant
A Change of Direction - The Qibla Revelations
106 - The Treaty of Hudaibiyah
The Bedouins Learn Their Lesson
Mecca Surrenders
Spend Freely and Spend Wisely
Jihad - Expansion
110 - Announcing a Universal War
War's First Casualty
The Destruction of the Christian Mosque of Medina
The Three Sincere Believers Who Lied
113 - The Religion of Peace in Persia
Who First Destroyed the Birthplace of Zoroaster
Jihad - Children
A Very Special School
Lessons In Cruelty
Willing Executioners
From Merchant to Messenger
Allegations of Plagiarism and Fabrication
Trading in Revelations
Punishment for Misrepresenting Allah's Book
Not Worthy
An Object of Curiosity
Sorcery
Laughing Stock
A Gullible Man
A Poet Possessed
A Man Bewitched
A Madman
120 - Allah's Response to the Mocking
A Tradition of Mocking and Punishment
Powerless to Stop the Mocking
No Angels Intervene and Why
The Jinn Believe In You
Put Up With It, Help Is On the Way
More Questions than Answers
Nothing But Rhetoric
Who Will Have the Last Laugh
About a Foreign Messenger
About a Foreign Koran
123 - Not His Brother's Keeper
Paying for the Message
125 - A Teacher and His Star Pupil
The Pupil Admonished
127 - The Seal of the Prophets
The End is Near
A Matter of Time
A Disagreement Among Scholars
Show me Hell or Give Me Death
128 - If You Can't Believe God ...
Ephemeral Revelations On Etiquette
Paying for an Audience
Man on a Mission
129 - Revenge and An Extraordinary Accomplishment
A Prophet on His Own
No Jesus-like Miracles
For the Love of a Father
130 - Conceit and the Damning of Innovation
Witnesses
132 - Mughirah - Enemy of the Prophet
What Mughirah Heard
What Mughirah May Not Have Heard
Abu Jahl
What Aisha Saw
Rockin the Ka’ba
135 - Thirteen Wives and a Concubine
Khadijah, Sauda, Aisha, Hafsa, Zaynab b. Khuzayma, Umm Salama, Zaynab b. Jahsh, Juwayriyya, Rayhanah, Umm Habida, Safiyya, Mariya, Maymuna, Asma
The Last Sermon
136 - The Prophet's Last Sermon
Women and What It Means To Be Civilized
139 - Civilization In The Balance
It Wasn’t Always Like That
143 - Two Once Extraordinary Verses About Tolerance
Revelation 2:62
Revelation 109:6
Afterword
145 - The Skimper, the Profligate and the Pious
Postscript
Stopping the Draining of the Light