the Koran

The day before, he had brought over a copy of the Koran and bags of vegetables that he said he would not be able to eat.

We'd sit down, read a few verses of the Koran, translate or discuss how it should be interpreted, and many points of view would be offered.

She asked my dad, and he just told her to read a small prayer from the Koran.

Throughout the Koran the belief in Allah as one and universal is emphasized, as distinct from the Christian concept of the Trinity.

Mufti, Abdulla Mansur: After the disaster, every night I would teach the children to recite the Koran. My house is much livelier now.

He dictated a book of injunctions and expositions, the Koran, which he declared was communicated to him from God.

Ms. Rice said disrespect for the Koran is abhorrent, and will not be tolerated by the United States.

His mother, dressed head to toe in black, reads the Koran silently over him, weeping.

A generation ago it was rare to hear the Koran recited, except on formal occasions such as funerals or during the fasting month of Ramadan.

Handed down by Allah, many believe the Koran must be read only in the classical mode in which it was written.

The president made a number of references to the Koran and called on all faiths to live together in peace.

If they did not use the Koran burning as an excuse, they would have a different excuse.

Intricate artwork, poetry, prose, and a passage from the Koran decorate columns in the Friday mosque in Herat, Afghanistan.

The king replied that the box contained a fragment of the Koran and he was swearing his translator to secrecy on pain of death.

Saddam Hussein once had a 600-page copy of the Koran hand-written in his own blood.

"With respect to books like the Bible and the Koran, whatever, just get over it, " Mr Stewart said in the footage.

But that sentence will be doubled if his Koranic recitation classes fail to make him a "hafez" , someone who knows the Koran by heart.

This is water made by writing a verse of the Koran on a board and then washing it off; the inky water is thought to protect the child.

The Taliban said they shot the Americans in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Koran by soldiers at a US base last week.

She has urged Muslims to resist calls for violence, saying any disrespect to the Koran would never by tolerated by the United States.

Turkey's pious producers like the bits in the Koran that favour honest trading.

I left about five minutes later, mounting my bicycle while delivering insincere promises to read the Koran as soon as I could.

Hazrat Ali: They first call us to the mosque and preach to us. Then they take us to a madrassa and teach us things from the Koran.

Palestinian woman reads the Koran on the first Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin.

And last September a young Pakistani Christian was accused of throwing part of the Koran down a drain.

The group invites men as well as women to discussions on the Koran's teachings about the equality of the sexes.

But there is a specific problem with Islam. Islamic law (though not the Koran) has often mandated death for people leaving the faith.

Islamic law (though not the Koran) has often mandated death for people leaving the faith.

In Shariah, advocated the teaching side from the triviality of the "Koran" and "Hadith" direct creation.

Through our subconscious, in your dreams, which the Koran calls, our state of sleep, the lesser death, the temporary death.

I will swear on the Koran that I did not kill any of them.

A millennium later, regulations on the conduct of war drawn from the Koran by the Saracens forbade poisoning.

If the Koran is a revelation of God, then its prescriptions cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant or outdated.

This year's anniversary is fraught, overshadowed by Pastor Terry Jones's threat to burn copies of the Koran.

"They permit beauty pageants but ban recitals of the Koran, " moans a Liberation Party leader.

On all those fronts, Mr Obama was eloquently sensible, frequently quoting the Koran to reinforce his message of peace.

Mr Obama courted his audience by speaking the odd Arabic word and by quoting from the Koran and emphasising his links to Islam.

s speech was peppered with a plethora of quotations from the Koran.

The ultimate political goal of Islamists is to set up Islamic countries based on the Koran, the Prophet's Sunna and the Islamic law.

Palestinian girl studies the Koran during a Hamas Sponsored memorization program in Gaza City.

In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud.

Muhammad was a merchant, and the Koran is full of praise for commerce.

Each member of a family usually reads from the Koran and then all embrace each other and say, "May you live 100 years. "

Saudi oil wealth is supercharging the distribution of the Koran.

And the Koran is the scripture of Islamite, just like Christianism with Bible or Buddhism with Sutra.

Representatives of religious foundations tell journalists they want a mainly secular constitution, not one based on the Koran.

Despite some countries' oil wealth, the Koran's heartland is relatively poor.

He devoted many hours to the study of the Koran, and to other religious sayings and teachings.

Knowing this, who dares worship the false gods of the Koran and bible?

As the Koran says: "Perhaps you dislike something, but in it there is much good. "

"He was taking verses from the Koran to support his arguments, " Magid said.

A Dutch MP who called the Koran a "fascist book" has been sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK.

Then there's a group that believes the Koran is a living, breathing document.

It includes a written declaration of spiritual faith from the Koran.

Non-violence I read in the Hindu scriptures, in the Bible, in the Koran.

Or that the Bible rather than the Koran is the revelation of God's own words?

Reciting the Koran is the backbone of Muslim education.

Women's status in Islam in the "Koran" and "Hadith" clearly there.

There is the knowledge of the so-called sacred books, the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bible, the Koran and the Hebrew Scriptures.

It is painfully acquired through hours of poring over grammar textbooks and memorising the Koran.

Inside, the Mosque is decorated with words from the Koran.

"THERE is a devil in every berry of the grape, " says the Koran.

The second is that the Bible and the Koran will continue to exercise a dramatic influence over human events, for both good and ill.

The viewpoint in the Koran should be more persuasive and more authoritative.

Mr Wilders, who last year released a film, "Fitna" , which attacked the Koran, said it was a black day for freedom of speech.

It's well defined in the Koran whom we are supposed to fight.

When the bell goes in mid-afternoon, most pupils head straight to a madrassa to learn the Koran.

When the pro-Soviet regime in the fall of 1992, the "Koran" and other Islamic curriculum has accounted for 30% of all hours.

Is it true that when Obama was sworn into office he used the Koran (Qur'an) instead of the Bible?

For the Koran always urges us to remember, to remind each other, because the knowledge of truth is within every human being.

So roll the dice and make Mr Wilders foreign minister: for how long could he keep telling the world to ban the Koran?

I'd like to study Arabic, it is the language of the Koran.

and students of Muslim colleges have taken part with great success in competitions for recitation of the Koran held both at home and abroad

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