Quotes about Koran

In the Koran, Jesus is called Muhammad's "Lord" (Koran 89:22) and the Truth (Koran 2:91). The Koran also describes Jesus as the "Word" of God (Koran 3:45; 4:171) and a "spirit proceeding from Him" (Koran 4:171).

Ironically, while modern-day Islam rejects the Gospel accounts as corrupt, the Koran itself commands Muslims to read the Injeel—that is, the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus.

The Koran presents Allah as being forever hidden from humanity. The Bible presents Jehovah as drawing near and seeking us out.

The Koran, the revealed word of God, was the closest thing to a miracle in Mohammed's life. He had not been a poet; he had no gift of words. Yet the verses of the Koran, as he received them and recited them to the faithful, were better than any verses which the professional poets of the tribes could produce. This, to the Arabs, was a miracle. To them the gift of words was the greatest gift, the poet was all-powerful.

Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

Even the Koran, written six hundred years after Jesus, affirmed His virgin birth (see Surah 19, 19-21). This would serve Islam no self-glorifying purpose.

Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.