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I was asked by one of our friends on our email list, "How well do Muslims know their Qur'an?" I thought perhaps my response would help others get a Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription better grasp on this question, too.

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One final note about the Qur'an is Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription that even literate, Arabic-speaking Muslims often cannot read the Qur'an for understanding. The Arabic of the Qur'an is Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription so archaic that it is unintelligible to all but the Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription most educated Muslims. The Qur'an hasn't changed since the Othmanic Recension (the edict mentioned above) which happened in the Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription 7th century. Imagine the difficulty Christians would have reading the Anglo-Saxon Bible of the Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription 7th century. This is comparable to the struggle that native Arabic speakers have Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription in understanding the Qur'an.

So, yes, Muslims "read" the Qur'an often, but this is more accurately described as "reciting." Very few Muslims can read the Qur'an for Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription understanding. Even so, most Muslims have a very good understanding of the Buy Antabuse Online No Prescription extended traditions of Islam through their culture.

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