How to look for guidance when a book abounds with 'faults'

Submitted by B.N.Gururaj (India), Apr 12, 2009 at 09:20

When one reads Koran, at irregular intervals, in different surahs one comes across ayats which preach hatred towards followers of other creeds, exhorts violence against them, and preaches contempt towards women. How does one read Koran? Skip such ayats? None can find guidance in Koran, unless one embraces Islam. Asking someone to look for guidance in Koran is same as engaging in proslytization. The fact that majority of the world population is still un-Islamic shows that people have healthy skepticism about looking for 'guidance' in Koran.

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