[Coach]

> Coach claims his
>kooran challenges anyone to write a better verse......i mean
>how low and stupid can one get, it just reeks of self-egotism.
>If i know i am the truth why would i wanna challenge
>anything???? And to make matters worse, who will be the judge
>of that? Where on this earth will you ever find a muslim who
>will claim, yes, indeed here is another verse better than the
>one in our kooran.......This is a bait.....whoever has tried
>to do so has either been killed or doesn't exist in the
>open...maybe in hiding...ask salman rushdie.


satjas,
This is one of your better contributions where you have made your views clear without much condescending remarks about others' faith. But you didn't manage to do it without some insults brought about by the lack of knowledge in Islam. Allah tells us that the Qur'an is His words and for those who disbelieve, He invites them to look into the Qur'an and find any scientific fault in it or even try and write anything similar to it. This is not "self-egotism" as you have understood it but an open challenge to humanity, those who don't believe should try and produce something like it (not even better, but something like it in magnitude). Let's say (hypothetically) that when Microsoft developed Windows 95, they claimed that it was the best software ever and none like it or better shall ever exist and no one would even have the need to develop new software. What would happen? Of course software companies and entrepreneurs would try their best to prove them wrong and provide PC-users with better software that would put Windows 95 to shame. Now in reality, Windows 95 was great, but since it isn't the "best", they have improved it to Windows 98, 2000 and now XP. If Microsoft had thought that nothing could EVER compare or come close to Windows 95, they'd challenge those who don't believe to come up with something better and prove them wrong. I know this analogy sounds a bit daft, but I'm just trying to show you the point was with Allah inviting humanity to try and write JUST THREE LINES like the Qur'an. It isn't egotism but evidence that what you read are inded His words.

You talk about Salman Rushdie and it is apparent that you haven't read (or understood) his book "The Satanic Verses". This was not an attempt to write something like the Qur'an but a cheap shot insulting the beliefs of Muslims all over the world and mocking them. He might be endowed with deep archaic English but he is no more talented than the other writers out there. The fatwa by Khomeini made him famous and very few people had heard of him before that.


TM,
>Since you have no intention of getting informed, I rest for now.

Did you even read what I posted above? I read it through and know excatly what they were talking about. I even quoted a paragraph from the link you gave me, did you miss that? I then gave you a response that refutes their claims but it is apparent that you didn't even bother to "get informed" and correct the misonceptions you have about the Qur'an.