Unbiased Reading on Islam
February 19th 2007 17:50
www.tafsir.com
I’m one of the first people to caution against reading about groups of people online since the internet lies, and it lies a lot.
To that end I must be crazy linking to a foreign website, crazy I say. Tafsir.com is supposedly the online collection of the English translated books by Ibn Kathir (pronounced ‘e-bin Kay-Theer’) on the interpretation of the Quran.
The Quran is an extremely dense piece of work, like all great literature one line in it takes anywhere from one hundred to one thousand pages to properly explain and in depth. To that end Tafsir Ibn Kathir does an extremely good job of squeezing the interpretations into a volume of ten books. To its detriment it is the abridged version… so many books… so little time.
So basically 'Tafsir Ibn Kathir' is all about the Quran, the source of Islam, of the so-called hate (which apparently not many people believe is the reason for all this hate). I encourage people to read it, of course I'm not the kind that will force anyone to read it or anything. Just sharing my beliefs openly with those who are at all curious in them.
Like I said though, I have a habit of not trusting websites like these, for instance there is another website claiming to hold the entire collection of Hadeeths that have been collected by Al-Bukhari which has proven to (at least in part) be fabricated.
I am relatively sure of this sites authenticity because I have back checked a bit of the text with my printed collection and it is word for word the same thing.
A big thank you to all extremist conservative nut cases for inspring this post, you know who you are and guess what? I actually know who I am, so why try to say otherwise?
I’m one of the first people to caution against reading about groups of people online since the internet lies, and it lies a lot.
To that end I must be crazy linking to a foreign website, crazy I say. Tafsir.com is supposedly the online collection of the English translated books by Ibn Kathir (pronounced ‘e-bin Kay-Theer’) on the interpretation of the Quran.
The Quran is an extremely dense piece of work, like all great literature one line in it takes anywhere from one hundred to one thousand pages to properly explain and in depth. To that end Tafsir Ibn Kathir does an extremely good job of squeezing the interpretations into a volume of ten books. To its detriment it is the abridged version… so many books… so little time.
So basically 'Tafsir Ibn Kathir' is all about the Quran, the source of Islam, of the so-called hate (which apparently not many people believe is the reason for all this hate). I encourage people to read it, of course I'm not the kind that will force anyone to read it or anything. Just sharing my beliefs openly with those who are at all curious in them.
Like I said though, I have a habit of not trusting websites like these, for instance there is another website claiming to hold the entire collection of Hadeeths that have been collected by Al-Bukhari which has proven to (at least in part) be fabricated.
I am relatively sure of this sites authenticity because I have back checked a bit of the text with my printed collection and it is word for word the same thing.
A big thank you to all extremist conservative nut cases for inspring this post, you know who you are and guess what? I actually know who I am, so why try to say otherwise?
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Hadeeth is basically what the prophet said, they aren't written in the Quran but are part of our religion all the same. The authenticity of some hadeeths are in question so not all are 100% accurate and some are just plain fabricated.
So simply put, if a hadeeth sounds exaggerated, it probably is.