CONTENTS OF HOLY QURANDR. MUHAMMAD WASIE FASIH BUTT

Subjects of the QuranFour Main headings1. Beliefs2. Commandments3. Stories4. Examples or Parables

Beliefs in quran

Prophet hood

Hereafter

Oneness

Supporting Arguments for the beliefs

1.Logical Argumentsسوي بنانه ى ان ن ��بلى قدرين ع ل

“Why (can We) not (do so), while We are able to reset

(even) his fingertips perfectly?” (75:4)

• He who can restore complex, unmatched, unique finger prints , will logically restore decayed bones as well

Recorded Argumentsه لفي زبر االولين وان

“And of course, it is (mentioned)in the scriptures of

the former people.” (26:196)

“He came from Sinai, and rose from the shair and shone his lights from the mountain of

faran .He came with ten thousand pious persons and in his right hand was a fiery code

of life for them”(bible, Deuteronomy, chapter 33)

Observational Arguments

Logical arguments are useful for for literate group only.Things described in connection with human body, universe,

astronomy, vegetation, geophysics, mostly follow this line of arguments.

Experimental Arguments بطرت معيشته ا�و كم اهلكنا من قري �� ةفتلك مسكنهم لم تسكن م بعدهم ن

ا نحن الورثين و كن اال قليال7“And how many a town have

We destroyed that were over-proud of their means of living. Now, those are their

habitations, which were never inhabited after them except a few, and We alone were the inheritors.”(28:58)

Belief (Negating Aspect)1. Polytheist idolaters2. Christians3. Jews4. Hypocrites

2.COMANDMENTS OF QURAN

Three Kinds Of Quranic CommandsLaws pertaining exclusively to the rights of ALLAH. we

call this worship. These include purification, salat, zakah, fasting, sacrifice and hajj..

Laws pertaining exclusively to the rights of people which are called mutual dealings, for example, trade, justice, witness, trust, eating of slaughtered animals, use of different drinks and inheritance.

Laws which are act of worship in some respect and mutual dealings in other respects, like marriage, divorce, criminal laws, honesty, jihad, oaths and partnership.

Addressing souls gradually Arabs were so addicted to alcohol that they had two hundred and fifty

names for it in their language

لونك عن الخمر و الميسر اس و ١يسـ ل� قل فيهم اثم كبير و منافع للنفعهما ل�اثمهم اكبر من ن

“They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, “In both there is great sin, and some benefits for people. And their sin is

greater than their benefit.”(2;219)

ذين امنوا ال تقربوا الصلوة و انتم سكرى ها ال ��اي ل“O you who believe! Do not go near

Salah when you are intoxicated”(4:43

ما الخمر و الميسر و االنصاب و االزالم رجس ا ان ذين امن ها ال اي ل �� لكم تفلحون يطن فاجتنبوه لعل من عمل الش

“O you who believe! Wine,gambling, altars and divining arrows

are filth, made up by Satan. Therefore,refrain from it, so that you may be

successful”(5:90)

it was immediately with the announcement that wine had become unlawful that everyone who had a cup of wine reaching close to his lips was electrified and threw it away right there. That day, wine was flowing down the streets of Medina like a stream of rainwater

prohibition of alcohol in the USA in the 1920’shttp://www.history.com/topics/prohibitionWomen played a strong role in the temperance movement, as

alcohol was seen as a destructive force in families and marriages. In 1906, a new wave of attacks began on the sale of liquor, led by the Anti-Saloon League (established in 1893) and driven by its view of saloon culture as corrupt and ungodly. In addition, many factory owners supported prohibition in their desire to prevent accidents and increase the efficiency of their workers

In 1917 Congress submitted the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors

Both federal and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition over the course of the 1920s

those who wanted to keep drinking found ever-more inventive ways to do it. The illegal manufacturing and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”) went on throughout the decade, along with the operation of “speakeasies” (stores or nightclubs selling alcohol), the smuggling of alcohol across state lines and the informal production of liquor in private homes.

In addition, the Prohibition era encouraged the rise of criminal activity associated with bootlegging. The most notorious example was the Chicago gangster Al Capone, who earned a staggering $60 million annually from bootleg operations and speakeasies.

Even as costs for law enforcement, jails and prisons spiraled upward, support for Prohibition was declining by the end of the 1920s.

in February 1933 Congress adopted a resolution proposing a 21st Amendment to the Constitution that would repeal the 18th

3.Stories of holy QuranEvents of twenty seven prophetsRise and fall of seven nationsSequence is missed because the aim of

quranic stories is not to record history but to give moral lessons.

Stories are repeated because listening again and again tries the ear

These stories are evidence of prophet hood as the happening of the previous nations were being recited by one who was unlettered and had never been in the company of anyone who could teach him.

4.Examples or parables

264. O you who believe, do not nullifyyour acts of charity by boasting about(doing people a) favor and by causing(them) hurt, like the one who spendshis wealth to show off before peopleand does not believe in Allah and inthe Last Day. So, his example is like arock on which there is dust, then aheavy rain came over it and left itbarren. They have no ability to gainanything out of what they have done,and Allah does not give guidance tothe people who disbelieve.

41. The example of those who have adopted patrons other than Allah is like the spider that has made a house, while indeed the weakest of houses is the house of the spider. If only they know.