05-19-2004, 04:42 PM
Bismillah
HB-
To me, the challenge is very simple. All one has to do is come up with three verses (the shortest sura is only three verses). It does not have to excel the qur'an but merely match it. Don't you think this has been attempted? People through the ages have tried to claim some new verses have been discovered or that they also received revelation like the Qur'an. Due to the FACT that it came nowhere close to the grammatical and sytactical excellence of the Qur'an, people knew immediately that they were fake.
Have you even read the Qur'an, start to finish, with an openmind? Not glimpsing through for verses that support your beliefs but actually wiping out all prejudice first? Open it with the belief that may be it is not from God but also maybe it IS. I have found that at the very least people with this openmind come away accepting that there is something special about the Qur'an. Of course, it is up to you. Nobody can force you to do anything. It is also much easier to keep the same opinion than to change.
I also find it quite amusing that you even claim that only the ignorant and the uneducated follow Islam. As a person who claims to love his history, I thought that maybe you would know about the many advances that muslims made in the sciences of medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and architecture. The first psychiatric hospital was in Baghdad while the Europeans were still claiming that devils were the causes of mental illnesses. In this instance, it seems quite clear who the ignorant were. Even so you will continue with your same train of thought. Either Allah will Guide you or He will Allow you to continue in disbelief. I will still remain a muslim even with people like you resorting to name calling and labeling.