The Qur'an - C4
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- Khurram0
yeah it was aiight. I cancelled a night out for this, not sure if it was worth it for someone like me.
I had several issues with it tho, cos i'm so learned on the subject.
Its Catholic/Protestant analogy of the Sunni/Shia divide wasn't very accurate. And using that as a metaphor is more confusing on what's goin on than revealing noffink, so to speak.
Also, I know the West are all loved up about Suffism, with their transending the ego talk etc.. But those fuckers can be just as doctrinaire and ideological as the rest of em. The programme seemed to be all up in em like they were awesome.
And also it went all Da Vinci Code in the last quarter for some reason. Surely it wuda been better to go into the context and "biography" of the book as it was compiled over 25 years through oral recitation etc., and chopped and changed rather than be all like "hidden meanings" and "carbon dated fragments found in a secret lost cave..." like wot??
Also there were a lot of inaccuracies in it, especially referring to the "72 virgins" thing - the Qu'ran actually only talks about it as a metaphor of "72 companions" and what it actually says is that peple are gonna be stuck in heaven with their husband/wife for all eternity.
But what the programme actually did reveal is that no one actually knows what the fuck the words in that book mean and people just make it up as they go. LOL
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- i had you in mind when I thought it would have nothing new for people...********
- I know..Khurram
- i had you in mind when I thought it would have nothing new for people...