listen miss x....regarding ur post of killing the disbilevers.....u have posted some verses of quran...just go thru them carefully and u will find the order of killing disbelivers conditional...that is....fight them ONLY if they start fighting u..BUT BEGING NOT HOSTILITIES...how do u interpret this?....secondly each verse of the quran has a relation with verses before and following it...in oredr to understand the exact meaning and aviod misinterpretation u HAVE TO read it in conjuction with those before and following it....for example u read a sentence that says "a father askd his son not to go to school"...and u interpret it that way,but then u read the whole thing and it says"a father askd his son not to go to school if he is sick" now the whole scenario changes...

platao36....Allah has taken the responsibilty to protect the Quran from amendments....i qoute the verse for u...Verily, We, it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e. the Quran) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption)(15:9)...and u know that Allah never breaks his promise...so how can u say that the holy book suffered some changes....

coelacanth...regarding ur post" What would you gain if you read the book and do nothing? Do you think God will commend you because you've memorized the book, verse by verse?"...dear u are misinterpreting it....EVEN MUSLIMS who do bad deeds will be punished ...thats why Allah says to enter islam as a whole and obey quran completely not only a part of it...those who do bad deeds will be punished and the punishment amounting to their bad deeds...and when justice is done then only they will enter the heaven...

For all....why do u compare God with a human by giving example of father and his love for his children....God is the creator and human is the creature...and even if u do that still u are wrong in ur own perception...how can a father have equal likeness for his sons if one of them always obeys him and the other do the opposite what his father says...look around ur own family and friends and u will find many