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Reasons for Misinterpreting the Qur'an

Qur'an as a threat that would limit their so-called freedom, alter
their simple lifestyles or expectations, and the order to which they
are accustomed. Therefore, they try to oppose the Qur'an with
their primitive logic.
Members of this group make the same comments about the
Qur'an that they have heard from others, ideas originally not their
own. They usually make unreasonable and ignorant remarks about

the Qur'an using sentences that begin with such words as, "In the
21st century…", "In our day and age…", "In the space age….", "In
the West…." , and so on.
They propose that the lifestyle described in the Qur'an and
that of our own time are incompatible, and that the former is in
fact outdated. From that perspective they subsequently make false
claims concerning the Qur'an. For example, they claim that such
things as fasting and prayer interfere with the pace of the modern
lifestyle, that the Islamic ban on interest cannot be practiced under
current economic conditions and even that the prohibition of
adultery in this day and age is evidence of the impossibility of
applying the Qur'an to our daily lives.
They apply superficial logic and display great ignorance when
addressing the topics of the prayers, commands, and prohibitions
in the Qur'an. They introduce arguments about the wisdom in

some commands which they do not understand or the verses that
they cannot comprehend. Worse still, they defend their illogical
claims with great ferocity. This stems in part from the fact that
what they are defending with such eagerness is based on the ideas
of the majority, rather than on logic or reason.
They accept society's general lifestyle and world-view, which
they refer to as "the facts of life," as the absolute truth and seek
errors and discrepancies in the Qur'an by taking them as a point

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