Podcasts that mention 📚 Quran by Talal Itani

I actually believe Jesus as a prophet is quoted more in the Quran than he is in the Christian Bible fun facts

The host mentions the Quran in comparison to the Christian Bible regarding mentions of Jesus.

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I sent him a Quran you know and I was like I think you know look my have to get into some studies brother cuz you know it's so so so so anyway I sent him to karana buddy hold you down off of that

RZA mentions sending a copy of the Quran to someone who was going through a difficult time.

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but I not only the Bible but I read the Donald Potter I read the bhagavad-gita I read the Quran and I was a what you call a Seeker I guess you know looking for something

Dennis Quaid lists this as one of the texts he read while seeking spirituality.

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for example when i speak against stoning i can refer to the most sacred book outside the quran the bukhari and show that the stoning began when two monkeys were throwing rocks at each other in bukhari throwing rocks at each other and the companion of muhammad saw them and said okay so that that monkey must be a female and must have cheated on that male so he's stoning her so we must apply that and this is the most sacred book after the quran and the quran itself does not have a verse on stoning because a goat ate that verse

The Imam refers to the Quran as the most sacred book and contrasts it with Sahih al-Bukhari, noting the absence of a stoning verse in the Quran.

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so I think a certain and I I assume certain amount of sophistication has to be applied to the Quran as well there are the passages from Mecca the passages from Medina Muhammad said one thing when he was winning another thing when he's losing and so different Muslims read those passages differently and also in the in the world I mean by and large I would not feels unsafe if I walked Walked on the the Muslim streets of Indonesia the Indonesian Muslims are by and large not blowing people up I would feel a lot less safe if I were today walking let's say for example in um in Iran yeah uh they're Muslims in both countries but their their historical um their history is different right and that's where everyone gets so confused on

Dinesh D'Souza discusses the interpretation of the Quran and its passages in the context of violence and different Muslim communities.

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Now if you look at the UK's former political leaders if you look at Sir William Gladstone he held the Quran above his head he in Parliament and he said that Islam this this Quran is a violent and a cursed book and we will never be have peace on this Earth so long as we have this book

Dave Rubin quotes former UK political leader Sir William Gladstone who held up the Quran and described it as a violent and cursed book.

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there's no one definitive reading of Shakespeare there's no one definitive reading of the Bible And there's no one definitive reading of the Quran

Maajid Nawaz uses the Quran as an example of a text with no single definitive interpretation, comparing it to the Bible and Shakespeare.

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