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>>13984233
some useful Qur'anic advice for anyone who takes Schopenhauer seriously

>>13715652
Nope. Islam unequivocally teaches the opposite (Qur'an 2:75, 79, 159, 174, 3:78, 187, 4:46, 5:13-15, 6:91, 7:162, not to mention the several hadith to this effect, e.g. al-Bukhari, 65.4485, 96.90, etc.). Countless academics have attested to the Qur'ans accusation of distortion (tahrif). Your Christian interpretation holds no basis. Q. 5:43-47 is referring to the hypocrisy of the Jews and Christians, who have come to the Prophet for judgments in spite of possessing their own scriptures, and how they do not even judge by their own scriptures. Q. 5:42 gives the Prophet the choice to either judge among them or to leave them to themselves, and the text continues in Q. 5:43, rhetorically asking, "[H]ow is it that they come to you for judgment while they have the Torah, in which is the judgement of Allah? Then they turn away, [even] after that; but those are not believers." Why would it say that if they apparently had the true scripture and believed in it? Furthermore, Q. 5:44 explicitly warns, "do not exchange My verses for a small price" and reiterates what is said in Q. 5:43, "whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed—then it is those who are the disbelievers," and it explicitly noted the Jews as being "not believers" in Q. 5:43. Continuing on, Q. 5:45 sheds some light on the context for this entire passage: "And We ordained for them a life for a life [...] And whoever does not judge," etc., etc. This is obviously referring to some dispute between the Jews which was relevant to this law, and we know from the hadith that the Prophet had on another occasion reproved the Jews for not implementing the punishment of stoning an adulterer (al-Bukhari 86.48), that is, not judging by what God had revealed. Q. 5:43-47 should thus be read in light of these considerations. Anything else is just eisegesis. My advice, christcuck, stop listening to James White and learn to read.