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Prayer, warning, comfort and argument meet in a sacred text that shapes how Muslims understand faith and daily life.
The Koran, also spelled Quran, is the central book of Islam. Muslims believe it contains God's words revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Its 114 chapters, called surahs, move between worship, moral commands and stories of earlier prophets. Rather than following a single story, the text returns to questions of belief, human conduct and judgment.
Al-Fatiha, The Opening, begins with a prayer that Muslims recite throughout their daily worship. Elsewhere, Adam's story explores temptation and forgiveness. Chapters including The Women, The Table Spread and The Spoils address community life. Across these different passages, the text presents the oneness of God as its central teaching and connects faith with justice, responsibility and care for others.
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- The opening prayer Read Al-Fatiha, the brief chapter that holds a recurring place in Muslim daily prayer.
- One central belief Explore tawhid, the oneness of God, and its place at the heart of the text.
- Stories of earlier prophets Encounter Adam among the earlier messengers whose stories carry the Quran's teachings.
- Faith within community life Discover passages on marriage, inheritance, contracts and the treatment of orphans.
- Images of final judgment Meet vivid accounts of the Last Day that give human choices lasting weight within the text.
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- Sale's translation gave English readers a guided entry
- Arabia before Mohammed was a land of tribes and idols
- Mohammed's life moves from the cave to Mecca's conquest
- The Koran is a single book sent down in pieces
- Faith rests on six beliefs and four duties
- The law covers daily life, family and war
- Earlier prophets appear as warnings and as models
- Battles and doubters mark the Medina chapters
- Light, mercy and creation fill the shorter chapters
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
by Anonymous; George Sale (translator) · 632
A queen of Saba, a talking ant and a throne carried in a blink: the Koran holds scenes as vivid as its laws.
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What did a Queen of Saba, a talking ant and a night journey to a far mosque have in common? They all stand in the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, which Muslims hold to be God's word given to the Prophet Mohammed.
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Sale's translation gave English readers a guided entry
George Sale, a lawyer trained in eastern languages, published his English Koran in November 1734. He worked from the Arabic and added notes drawn from Muslim commentators such as al Beidawi and Jallalo'ddin. Before the text itself he places a Preliminary Discourse in eight sections.
Sale writes as a Christian who wants fair dealing. He faults earlier translators for carelessness and argues that Christians should answer Islam with sound reasons, not with abuse or force. A later editor adds that Sale leaned on the Latin version of Marracci more than he admitted. Sale died in 1736, only two years after his book appeared.
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What is the Koran about?
The Koran is the sacred book of Islam. It teaches belief in one God, judgment and paradise, tells the stories of prophets such as Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and sets rules for prayer, family, justice and community life.
Who was George Sale?
George Sale was an English lawyer and scholar of oriental languages. He published his translation in 1734 with a Preliminary Discourse and notes drawn from Muslim commentators, and he died in 1736.
How is the Koran arranged?
The Koran's chapters run roughly from longest to shortest rather than in the order of revelation. Scholars do not fully agree on the exact chronological position of every chapter.
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