Believe In...
- philhoraia
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: May 22, 2024
In quran one is told to believe in:
S 2:4 And those who believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before you and in the hereafter do they believe.
The fearers? believe in what was sent down to Allah's boss and what was sent down before him and in the hereafter.
S 2:285 The messenger has believed in what has been sent down to him from his lord, and the believers. All have believed in Allah and his angels and his books and his messengers. We do not distinguish between any of his messengers. And they have said: We have heard and obeyed. Your forgiveness, our lord, and to you is the destiny.
The unnamed messenger, and the believers, has believed (does he still believe?) in what was sent down to him from his unnamed lord. All, whoever they are, have believed in Allah, its angels, its books and its messengers.
S 3:84 Say: We have believed in Allah and what was sent down upon us and what was sent down upon Ibrahim and Isma’il and Ishaq and Ya’qub and the tribes and what was given to Musa and Isa and the prophets from their lord. We do not distinguish between any of them and we are Muslims to him.
Muslims are to say that they have believed (what, no longer?) in Allah, that 'sent down' upon them and that 'sent down' upon Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Ya'qub and the tribes and what was given to Musa, Isa and the prophets from their unnamed lord.
S 4:136 Those who have believed, believe in Allah and his messenger and the book that he sent down upon his messenger and the Book that he sent down before. And he who disbelieves in Allah and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he has strayed far.
Those who have believed something believe in Allah, its messenger, an unnamed book that was 'sent down' and in another book, which is apparently the Bible. The guy who has disbelieved in, or has been a kafir towards, Allah, its angels, its books, its messengers and the last day has strayed.
S 4:171 People of the Book, do not exceed in your religion nor say about Allah but the truth. The Messiah Isa the son of Maryam is only a messenger of Allah’s and his word which he threw to Maryam and spirit from him. So believe in Allah and his messengers and do not say Three. Cease; it is better for you. Allah is only one god. Praise be to him that he should have a child! His is what is in the skies and what is on the Earth. And Allah was sufficient as an agent.
The People of the Book are to believe in Allah and its messengers.
S 9:86 And when a surah has been sent down: Believe in Allah and wage jihad with his messenger, the possessors of merit among them have asked you for permission and said: Leave us to be with those sitting.
Believe in Allah.
S 20:127 And thus do we recompense him who has exceeded and has not believed in his lord’s signs. And the torture of the hereafter is severer and more lasting.
Or verses. The torture of the hereafter is severer than what? Believing in these signs or verses? And it's more lasting? Which means that it has an end.
S 64:8 So believe in Allah and his messenger and the light that we have sent down. And Allah is an expert in what you do.
Believe in Allah, its messenger and a light, which supposedly means quran.
S 66:12 And Maryam daughter of Imran who fortified her private part and we blew into it from our spirit. And she believed in her lord’s words and his books. And she was of the obedient.
She believed in an unnamed 'lord's' words and books.
The Muslim is to believe in Allah, messenger(s), 'that sent down' or 'given', books, words (different from those found in its books?), a 'light' and signs (or verses) and the hereafter?
What does it mean to a Muslim to 'believe in' something? What does it mean to believe in books? If a Muslim says that he believes in the books that came before quran, doesn't he believe that they are either lost or corrupted?
If he believes in quran, in what way does he believe in that book as opposed to any other book?
If he is to believe in Allah, what should we understand? If we are to believe in Allah and its messenger, what should we understand?
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