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Qur’an (Koran)

( ca. 610–632 )

Essential Quotes

“They are infidels, who say, Verily God is Christ the son of Mary.”

“O true believers, take not the Jews or Christians for your friends; they are friends the one to the other; but whoso among you taketh them for his friends, he is surely one of them.”

“They are certainly infidels, who say, God is the third of three: for there is no God besides one God; and if they refrain not from what they say, a painful torment shall surely be inflicted on such of them as are unbelievers.”

“God shall say, O Jesus son of Mary, remember my favour towards thee, and towards thy mother;…when I taught thee the scripture, and wisdom, and the law and the gospel; and when thou didst create of clay as it were the figure of a bird, by my permission, and didst breathe thereon, and it became a bird by my permission.”

“Praise be unto him, who transported his servant by night, from the sacred temple of Mecca to the farther temple of Jerusalem, the circuit of which we have blessed, that we might show him some of our signs; for God is he who heareth, and seeth.”

“And they say, We will by no means believe on thee, until thou … ascend by a ladder to heaven: neither will we believe thy ascending thither alone, until thou cause a book to descend unto us, bearing witness of thee, which we may read.”

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Interior of al-Aqsa Mosque (Library of Congress)

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