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My Second Favorite Quran Verse

Sorry to disappoint but no, I'm still not a muslim. But at this point I do feel that this should be inconsequential, at least with regards to what I wanna talk about now. It shouldn't matter what you are, it should matter what the book says, because when you're right, you're right, as the saying goes. As such, there's no reason why the Quran should an exception... I already wrote an article about my favorite, and I guess more personal verse, the intricacies of which I can't at this present time recall in great detail, though I fully remember the moment in my life that made me appreciate said verse in the first place, and I likewise remember the time in my life during which I wrote that brief article on what I perceived to be a beautiful sense of religious stoicism. And so today, because it is a similar day, and because this has been on my mind a lot lately, I figured I'd ponder a bit about my second favorite Quran verse, which would be the sixth and final v...

My Favorite Quran Verse

I am not a muslim. I'm not even religious. But I suppose I have slowly come to realize that old books have some wisdom in them. If anything, just the sheer size of the literature alone, both in terms of the divinely inspired or revealed texts themselves, as well as the various exegesis and philosophies written afterwards, some of it is bound to be insightful. And as such, in recent years I've started to take a more charitable approach towards religion, and while islam doesn't particularly appeal to me, there was a while when, in my second year of college, I'd read the Quran out of a semi-academic interest and I'd try to pick up on some arabic words. The book did seem eloquent, always telling old stories, revealing bits of wisdom, establishing rules and regulations and so on, all through constant verse and rhyme, something which people tend to find less exhausting than the storytelling style of the Bible. As far as arabic itself goes, it was a nice feeling to make ou...