Satan's language game keeps people from understanding the Quran: telling Arabic speakers it is too difficult, pushing non-Arabs to recite Arabic they cannot understand, and discouraging translations, while God is the teacher of the Quran in any language. A parable follows of an old man who finds peace reading the Quran, and a reader explains leaving sectarian taboos and hadiths for the Quran alone.
Satan is a great deceiver.
Satan's best game to keep the people from understanding the message of
God is to keep them away from it. The Quran was revealed in Arabic but
God promised to be its teacher (55:1-2), and the One to explain it (75:19).
God told us in verse 41:44 that language is irrelevant and that only
the sincere ones will understand the Quran irrespective of their language.
On the other hand those who are not sincere or do not worship Him ALONE
will fail to understand it, even if they speak, read and write Arabic.
(See ) Satan designed his game to suit all kinds of Muslims to keep
them away from understanding the Quran. Satan knows that reading the Quran
by itself does not guarantee understanding it. Satan knows that God is
in control and that no one will understand the Quran unless God lets him
or her. The best trick that Satan can come up with is to get the people
to believe him instead of God. Once they do, they are prevented from
understanding the Quran. God does not accept any partners.
Here is the game Satan has been playing and seems effective on those
who failed to worship God ALONE or accept His book ALONE:
(1) If your mother tongue is Arabic, Satan (or his troops) teaches you
that the Quran is written in a very sophisticated Arabic so that you cannot
understand it on your own. That you need someone who is very knowledgeable
in Arabic to explain it to you. The Arabic speaking person would then
give up reading his/her Quran in Arabic waiting for the chance to find
this knowledgeable person.
If you ask your Arabic speaking friends how they find the language of
the Quran, they will tell you, DIFFICULT. Go ahead and ask them. But what
is God telling us about the Quran and the language of the Quran? (See
54:17, 22, 32, and 40). Why do they have difficulty? (See 56:79 and 41:44)
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Satan and Quran
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(2) If your mother tongue is not Arabic, Satan (or
his troops) will encourage you to read the Quran in Arabic. Why
does he do that? Because he knows that you will not understand enough
of it.
The majority of those who learn Arabic to study the Quran do not
excel enough to understand the implication or interpretation of
certain words when used in a special way in the Arabic language.
They will have a lot of shortcomings. Many Pakistani and Indian
Muslims are forced as children to read the Quran in Arabic and still
as adults read the Quran in Arabic but they do not understand a
single word of what they read.
(3) If you do not speak or read Arabic and try to read a translation
of the Quran to get the message, Satan (or his troops), will tell
you NO, NO, you have to read the Quran in Arabic. Remember what
Satan told those who know how to read the Quran in Arabic, he told
them, that the Quran is in a difficult Arabic text. Satan tells
you, you will never get the message of the Quran if you read it
in a translation.
The result is that the Arabic speaking person does not read the
Quran in Arabic because he/she believes Satan and thinks the Quran
is too difficult to read. Those who do not speak Arabic will try
to read the Quran in Arabic while not understanding it. They think
the blessings of the Quran come by just reading it (not by understanding
it and accepting its message). Those who tried to read the translation
of the Quran in their native language will fall in the same trap
of Satan if they believe that they cannot get the message of the
Quran by reading a translation. Satan would discourage them so that
they end up not reading the Quran in any language.
In all these circumstances Satan will succeed in keeping some
Muslims away from getting the message of the Quran. One simple mistake
these Muslims or non-Muslims do, they believe in the promises of
Satan instead of believing God. In that case they deserve to be
with him (Satan), where there is no Quran, no light and no guidance.
We should understand Satan’s game so that we can fight it.
We need to read the Quran to understand it, not to read it without
understanding it, like donkeys carrying valuable books. (See 62:5)
The Quran is a message, not just another beautiful language book.
If you cannot read it in Arabic, do not wait until the day you excel
in your Arabic language, because this day may never come. Trust
God and know that He is the teacher of the Quran. He will teach
it in any language and to any nationality. He knows our innermost
thoughts and convictions. He created all things. Do not wait any
longer. Read your Quran today, in any language that you can understand
and master and leave the rest to God.
41:44 If we made it a non-Arabic Quran they would
have said, “Why did it come down in that language?”
Whether it is Arabic or non-Arabic, say, “For those who believe,
it is a guide and healing. As for those who disbelieve, they will
be deaf and blind to it, as if they are being addressed from faraway.”
54:17 We made the Quran easy to learn. Does any
of you wish to learn?
62:5 The example of those who were given the Torah,
then failed to uphold it, is like the donkey carrying great works
of literature. Miserable indeed is the example of people who rejected
God’s revelations. God does not guide the wicked people.
The “Champeen* Baloney Buster”
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A grizzled and shabby man, his gnarled hands worn with work and
his face creased by a life of hard times and tough breaks, allowed
curiosity to draw him to the edge of a crowd. A soapbox orator was
expounding on his view of “truth.” The old man listened
with growing amazement as the soapbox orator led the crowd through
idea after twisted idea:
“Good and evil, right and wrong, are relative”
“You are free to do what you want—God is a myth”
“The bottom line is does it feel good; does it help your
self-fulfillment?”
“Swinging is ‘in’—faithfulness to a spouse is
old-fashioned and no fun”
“You deserve the best—the measure of your success is your
bank account, your sex appeal, your wardrobe, your popularity and
power”
And on and on the orator went, spinning a web of sugar-coated trash.
The old man was stunned by the cold evil impact of these lies on
his soul. Unable to bear it any longer, he drew back from the edge
of the crowd, and then suddenly turned and ran. Down the street
he sprinted, muttering unhappily to himself: “What a crock
of lies! It’s baloney—yes sir, that’s what it
is. Big Time Baloney!”
As he was running he noticed a book store, he slowed down and his
gaze was drawn to a large book in its window. Without knowing quite
why, he impulsively entered the store and bought the book.
When he found a quiet, secluded spot in which to explore its pages,
he gently pried the pages apart and began to read. The book began
“In the name of the One God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.”
The title was one he couldn’t pronounce, “QURAN.”
His eyebrows went up, and curious, he continued to read. Sometimes
he thumbed his way through many pages, sometimes he stopped to read
a particularly compelling part. And he read and read until the sun
began to sink behind the hills, and the words were clear no longer.
With a peaceful smile adorning his face, and a feeling of great
relief, he slowly got up and started toward his humble home.
“By golly, it’s a baloney-buster,” he muttered
happily to himself, clutching his prized book tightly. “An
honest-to-goodness champeen baloney buster!”
(There’s nothing like the truth to bring peace to the soul.)
Maria Abdin
* (Champeen = champion)
Comments on the Internet
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Hello there. I stumbled onto your website a while back, and was deeply
impressed by all the information your site provided. Not only do you do
just give the information, but you actually support everything you provide
with documentation from the Quran. That was the most important thing to
me.
Everything you said I would look up in the Quran I keep in front of me
when I read your website. You always stress the importance of looking
the information up on our own and not to just accept what someone says
without referring to the Quran. Thank you so much.
I was born a submitter, alhamdulilah, and raised I guess you could say
a Sunni. Since I found your site, I have denounced that whole notion of
Sunni and Shiite and all the other supposedly Islamic sects. I never really
understood much of the things that as a Sunni, I was supposed to believe.
However, since my whole family and everyone else around me said it was
the way, I would just accept it. Much of what they said was like taboo.
For instance, saying that using your left hand to eat was sinful; if you
didn’t do things a certain way, then something bad would happen
to you; a black cat was a jinn and if you didn’t say a certain thing
when it passed by you, then something bad would happen etc. Most importantly
was the hadiths. I have now stopped referring to the hadiths for guidance.
If the Quran says it is complete and fully detailed, than that is what
I will only use to learn to be and act as a submitter…
A Reader
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