Mo on the context thing again

Submitted by Plato (United Arab Emirates), Jan 27, 2007 at 06:49

Italics your words Mo.

It is laughable the way you interpret the Quran...

Allah (s) has sent messengers and prophets to all nations and tribes throughout the ages; it is logical and rational to send people form within themselves, who understands the people, understands their ways and customs, people would rather accepts their own then an outsider telling them what to do or not. With this in mind, it is natural that the language would be the same for the Warner and the warned, for obvious reasons.

I accept Allah was behaving logically and reasonably when he sent messengers in the local languages. Why did Allah become illogical and irrational after sending Mohammed? For obvious reasons, as you nicely put it, his making Mohammed the seal of prophets should be considered an illogical and irrational act. Please give me the logical and rational reason why Allah discriminated against the vast majority of huamanity by putting an end to his messaging humankind through prophets in all the languages of his creatures.

Same query as before. Why did a logical and rational Allah before Mohammed become illogical and irrational after Mohammed?

Exactly my point. The context is the key here as you say. But then you take a giant leap of illogic (faith?) and say the Koran is for all mankind. You also admit the Koran is primarily addressing those geographically close to the prophet. And the Koran says this often and mentions the reason why it is in Arabic (the Arabs will not pay heed otherwise). Why does the wise and all-knowing Allah then decide that the Arabic version of his message will or rather should be believed by all language groups. That is the crux of the probleml, Mo. Since you are for logic and rationality please use them to think through this question, and not by just a leap of faith.

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