Quaranism is a branch of the Islamic faith, of which the Quran is the central religious text. Followers of Islam believe the Quran is a revelation from God. While many followers of Islam use other texts apart from the Quran for guidance, Quranists, on the other hand, use the Quran as their sole source of philosophy.
Islam, along with Judiasm and Christianity, is one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions. They are so called because they all have a common ancestor in the prophet, Abraham. This is the story of Abraham, his family, and how the three religions began. Although it is taken from the Old Testament of the JudeoChristian Bible, the story is the same for the followers of Islam. The purpose here is not to convert, but to inform.
The story begins in the Garden of Eden. Prior to the Creation, God had been bored and lonely. He made the Earth and everything in it with the intention of creating Man. His intention was for Man to procreate and multiply. This way, He would have an unlimited pool of individuals with whom he could form close relationships. He created Adam and Eve to be the father and mother of all mankind. God gave them only one rule, and that was not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
When God discovered that his beloved creatures had disobeyed is only rule, he cast them out of Eden. Mankind fell deeper and deeper into sin, breaking God's heart. He decided to destroy the world and all its inhabitants, apart from a man named Noah and his family. He commanded Noah to build an ark, a giant ship, and to save his family and a breeding pair of each of the animals.
Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives, survived the ordeal of the flood and carried on repopulating the planet. It wasn't long, however, before their descendants fell into sin and moral decay. God found a man named Abraham who lived according to God's principles. He made a promise to Abraham that he would father a great nation. After years went by without giving birth, Sarah, Abraham's wife, allowed her maid, Hagar, to have a child by Abraham. The boy's name was Ishmael, and the family lived in harmony for many years.
That was until Sarah finally had a son, whom they named Isaac, by Abraham. At this point, Ishmael was 13 years old. Sarah had no further interest in Ishmael, and sent him and his mother packing. God promised Hagar that Ishmael would father a great nation. He did, and that nation became the Arab nation, out of which grew the Islamic faith.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.
Islam, along with Judiasm and Christianity, is one of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions. They are so called because they all have a common ancestor in the prophet, Abraham. This is the story of Abraham, his family, and how the three religions began. Although it is taken from the Old Testament of the JudeoChristian Bible, the story is the same for the followers of Islam. The purpose here is not to convert, but to inform.
The story begins in the Garden of Eden. Prior to the Creation, God had been bored and lonely. He made the Earth and everything in it with the intention of creating Man. His intention was for Man to procreate and multiply. This way, He would have an unlimited pool of individuals with whom he could form close relationships. He created Adam and Eve to be the father and mother of all mankind. God gave them only one rule, and that was not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Satan, or Lucifer, as he was known before he was thrown out of Heaven, had been one of God's three senior archangels. He was insanely jealous of Man and had a burning hatred for Adam and Eve. He came across Eve in the Garden of Eden one day, and managed to talk her into eating the fruit off the forbidden tree and to share it with Adam.
When God discovered that his beloved creatures had disobeyed is only rule, he cast them out of Eden. Mankind fell deeper and deeper into sin, breaking God's heart. He decided to destroy the world and all its inhabitants, apart from a man named Noah and his family. He commanded Noah to build an ark, a giant ship, and to save his family and a breeding pair of each of the animals.
Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives, survived the ordeal of the flood and carried on repopulating the planet. It wasn't long, however, before their descendants fell into sin and moral decay. God found a man named Abraham who lived according to God's principles. He made a promise to Abraham that he would father a great nation. After years went by without giving birth, Sarah, Abraham's wife, allowed her maid, Hagar, to have a child by Abraham. The boy's name was Ishmael, and the family lived in harmony for many years.
That was until Sarah finally had a son, whom they named Isaac, by Abraham. At this point, Ishmael was 13 years old. Sarah had no further interest in Ishmael, and sent him and his mother packing. God promised Hagar that Ishmael would father a great nation. He did, and that nation became the Arab nation, out of which grew the Islamic faith.
Ishmael was the father of the followers of Islam, Isaac the father of the Jews and the Christians. With a common origin, the three faiths actually have more in common than the things that divide them. We all worship the same God.