A Basic Guide to Understanding the Qur'an: Based on Direct Interpretation of Verses from the Qur'an

“A Basic Guide to Understanding the Qur’an” is a complete guide that makes the Qur’an accessible, clear and easy to understand by all. This new guide will: 1) help the reader make an intelligent and well-educated judgment about the religion of Islam, based on the personal knowledge gained from reading the direct interpretations of verses from the Qur’an, 2) help the reader understand how and why Islam is a way of living and, 3) show the common areas between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The book is the first guide of its kind. Readers interested in a variety of topics, from faith and culture to politics and current events, will find much to learn from “A Basic Guide to Understanding the Qur’an,” giving them the content and the context needed to reevaluate preconceptions or gain a newfound understanding of subjects that may have been unfamiliar or foreign to them.

Some of the subjects included: Creation of heavens and earth, the purpose of life & death, creation of Adam & Eve, Noah and the flood, Abraham, Moses & the Israelites, virgin Mary’s birth, Jesus’ birth, life and death, destruction of Jerusalem, family law, treatment of women, marriage & divorce, inheritance law, social & moral commands, Jihad, treatment of prisoners of war, apocalypse events, paradise, hell, and science in the Qur’an.