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...thought to be a splendid investment, but usually only a very few institutions or individuals can afford one. "What can you do with the damn thing?" asked one irreverent book dealer. "These days the Arabs could buy it, but it would be easier to sell them a 10th century Koran than a 15th century Bible...
Members of ISKCON believe the absolute truth is included in the Bible, Koran, Torah and all the other great scriptures of the world. However, the 5000-year-old Bhagavad-Gita is most important because it is an account of Krishna's actions and words...
...faith in and fear of God are what they think Christianity preaches, I hasten to remind them that so too do all other religions. If the Bible is divine, then so too are the Gita and the Koran; any other conclusion would imply that God discriminates. He doesn...
...night during the whole year, for this practice is not limited to the period of the pilgrimage. During the night the crowds thin out and the worshipper can pray in close vicinity to the Ka'ba. Moslems sit under the endless arches of the mosque reading the Koran, but starting with dawn, the mosque fills up with worshippers flocking in for morning prayers, the first of the required daily five prayers. Then everybody faces the walls of the Ka'ba and prays towards it. The Ka'ba functions as the focal point toward which Moslems all over the world stand...
...this valley, according to the Koran, Adam first met Eve after their separate descent from Eden. In the midst of this valley is the Mount of Mercy, where Mohammed delivered a sermon to his companions during their return from the "farewell-pilgrimage." There he transmitted to them the final revelation of the Koran that had been delivered to him thoughout a period of 23 years: "This day I [God] perfected your religion for you, and completed My favor unto you, and decreed Islam as your faith." The message of Islam was delivered totally; less than a year later Mohammed died...