02-17-2005, 03:30 PM
Bismillah,
I have to pick something out from what you wrote, so I choose this,
''When I say things are contradictory, that does NOT simply mean the Quran contradicting itself. That could mean the Quran contradicts earlier revelations yet claims to be essentially the same message or from the same God. It could mean that there are contradictions between Quranic teachings and Hadith; it could mean that there are contradictions between the Quran and history or archaeology, it could be all of these or more.''
I just wonder, if you have done all this research, I understand that you must have put a LOT of time and effort into this, since what you count up takes time to go through: reading the Qur'an, and I assume the tafsir to be able to fully understand the Words of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, all the ahadith (I have not been able yet to read them all, and I have been a Muslimah now for some years) comparing to earlier scriptures, digging into history - WHY?
Let's say I am curious, since to me this kind of effort means two things, you are doing all this because you are truly interested in finding out the truth about Islam, to be able to embrace Islam OR you do it for some other reason.
I think doing this kind of deep digging ONLY out of curiosity, is not reasonable. The work and time it takes, well it does not make any sense to me.
Any ideas?