Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:43 pm
Oeditor wrote:[derail]I asked *whether* there are Muslims who have Korans that they can't read. It seems that the literacy rate in Afghanistan is 28% and in Bangladesh 52.5% - both countries with predominantly Muslim populations. Is it customary for the illiterate members of those countries to possess copies of the Koran? I don't know. I don't suppose many people in mediaeval Europe had copies of the Bible when it was only available in Latin or Greek - they used to chain them up the the churches to stop people stealing them. [/derail]Aurlito wrote:Oeditor wrote:Developing country doesn't mean "a place full of stupid superstitious people" anymore. they've focused on their education and improved level of education in their country probably enough to avoid being compared to medieval Christians.
muslims in south east asia learn to read the quran without understanding it.they are taught to follow religious teachers rather than to interpret the religious texts themselves.they do learn arabic in school though but that wont help them to understand the quran until they have completed school,possibly never if they suck at it(i think the language of the quran differs anyway from modern arabic).
doesn't it say in the quran that the miracle of the quran lies in that it never has been and will be changed over time,if even one letter changed there is no miracle and that's the end of it.
