Monday, July 30, 2007

Qur'an for Christians

Surah 20: 105-112

And if they ask you about the mountains. Say: My Lord will carry them away from the roots.
Then leave it a plain, smooth level;
You shall not see therein any crookedness or unevenness.
On that day they shall follow the inviter, there is no crookedness in him, and the voices shall be low before the Beneficent God so that you shall not hear aught but a soft sound.
On that day shall no intercession avail except of him whom the Beneficent God allows and whose word He is pleased with.
He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not comprehend it in knowledge.
And the faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent God, and he who bears iniquity is indeed a failure.
And whoever does good works and he is a believer, he shall have no fear of injustice nor of the withholding of his due.


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In the previous post where St Paul speaks of God providing his own oath, and as an anchor of the soul, there is very similar imagery in this passage from the Qur'an about the smoothness and lack of crookedness of God. Look and check in the Bible too where Elijah describes that the Lord speaks in "a small still voice" [1 Kings 19:12] and see it is virtually identical to "a soft sound." And notice how the last line is a clear statement of a familiar concept to Catholics, "works" and "believer" (faith, grace.)

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